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...appearance of change without concrete results may not be enough. Yashwant Deshmukh, who runs the independent polling firm Team Cvoter in New Delhi, says that the one thing that young voters have in common is their pragmatism. They look for what he calls "visible development" - a tangible sign of effectiveness - and will reward it at the polls. That was the powerful lesson of local elections held last Nov. 29 in New Delhi. The polls opened while the siege of Mumbai was still going on, and many political observers expected that the BJP, which had relentlessly portrayed Congress as "soft...
...hinted at a conspiracy by the ruling government to frame the accused for political gains. "A terrorist is a terrorist irrespective of his religion or caste. The BJP objects to the term 'Hindu terrorists'. By condemning the majority, one seeks to gain the minority vote," BJP vice president Yashwant Sinha said at a press conference in New Delhi on October 24, after the first set of arrests...
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