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...than in the past. We can never forget the events of 9/11, but we should put terrorism on the back burner and let the government worry about it. I'm tired of staring at pictures of guys with turbans and beards in your magazine. Shift your focus. MIHIR UPADHYAYA La Mirada, Calif...
INDIA Growing Tensions As the train puffed out of tiny Jaun-pur, southeast of New Delhi, Deendayal Upadhyaya waved cheerily to his supporters. A few hours later, some 40 miles from Jaunpur, the 50-year-old president of India's second largest political party - the Jana Sangh - was found dead by the side of the tracks, with a crushed skull and fractures of eight ribs, an ankle and an arm. Authorities said that Upadhyaya may have fallen from the train, but the Jana Sangh party called his death "a politically motivated, cold-blooded murder...
...matter how Upadhyaya died, the case pointed up the growing tensions between the Jana Sangh party and its opponents. In India's bitterly divisive political life, the Jana Sangh is one of the few success stories. Organized 17 years ago by the remnants of a militant pro-Hindu party that had been outlawed, the Jana Sangh started out as an archconservative, urban-based organization. Over the years, the leadership turned more moderate and began wooing voters in the countryside and in non-Hindu states of the south. In an attempt to win over Indians of all language communities...
...replace Upadhyaya, a longtime politician and one of the original founders of the Jana Sangh, party members met last week and picked another moderate of the same stripe: Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 41, an ex-newspaper editor who served as party leader in the lower house of Parliament. After Upadhya-ya's death, which was followed by an emotional funeral and ritual burning of the body in New Delhi, the new party leader will need all of his political skills to keep his party extremists in line...
Died. Deendayal Upadhyaya, 50, newly elected leader of India's rightist Jana Sangh Party (see THE WORLD...
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