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- BJP Today
- HINDU JAGRITI KENDRA
- India Today
- Unholy bills M.G. Radhakrishnan
- January 26, 1998
>>>To the audience at the Kumaraswami Hall in Thiruvananthapuram the
scene was as dramatic as it was unfamiliar. A tough-looking
sanyasi thundered in Sanskrit-laden Hindustani: "Hey, nastik
Nayanar, kholo tere nayan and see for yourself that the Himalayas
have come down to the Indian Ocean! When it happened last time,
...
- Beg, Borrow or ...... Harish Gupta
- January 19, 1998
>>>A bankrupt party now finds donors playing elusive
Congress are eternal optimists; but Ahmed Patel, the party's
treasurer, may be stretching the definition a little too far.
Patel, who took charge of the Congress' finances in October 1996,
...
- I only have a widow Harinder Baweja (Associate Editor)
- January 19, 1998
>>>He is 80 years old and he is conscious of that. His hold on tire
party is slipping and he is aware of that. Congress President
Sitaram Kesri is under pressure and it is showing. In an
interview with Associate Editor Harinder Baweja, he was
introspective, forthright and on a short fuse. Excerpts:
...
- Riddle of out times Editorial
- January 12, 1998
>>>The buoyant mood in the Congress following Sonia Gandhi's
decision to campaign for the party is understandable. Since
political communication in India is disproportionately dependent
on a party's ability to sell imagery, the Congress naturally
feels it is on to a good thing. The party is still not the odds-
...
- Left luggage Swapan Dasgupa
- January 12, 1998
>>>Neither Rome nor Ram, today's issue is stability. The
construction of the temple is no longer a BJP issue; today, it is
the last refuge of the secular forces.
The BJP President, L. K. Advani, is understandably angry that a
...
- BJP's Early Surge (INDIA TODAY-ORG-MARG POLL) By Swapan Dasgupta
- January 5, 1998
>>>On December 4, the President flagged off the campaign for the 12th
general election by dissolving the Lok Sabha. Having produced a
fractured mandate in 1996, the question uppermost in the minds of voters
is: will 1998 also result in the same uncertainty? To gauge the popular
mood at the outset of the campaign, INDIA TODAY commissioned ORG-MARG to
...
- Organiser
- Ideology and alliance Shyam Khosla
- January 11, 1998
>>>Bharatiya Janata Party is a national party seeking a decisive
mandate from the electorate in the '98 elections on its distinct
ideology, policies and programmes no less than on the quality of
its leadership and performance. While it is confident of securing
a majority in the 12th Lok Sabha, it is aware of the ground
...
- Nationalists will come to power Pramod Kumar
- January 20, 1998
>>>Working President of Vishwa Hindu Parishad [VHP] Shri Ashok
Singhal describing the election '98 as the historic has expressed
the hope that the pseudo-secular forces would be defeated and the
nationalist forces would come to power so as to give a new
direction to the nation. Talking to the Organiser representative,
...
- Distinctly democratic dynasty Satiricus
- January 18, 1998
>>>Like all Indians Satiricus is at heart a hero worshipper. So he
likes to read the lives of great men. Such reading improves his
small mind with its ennobling influence. It is therefore quite
natural that Justice Jain's biography of Shri Rajiv Gandhi should
profoundly affect him. It has also disabused his mind ..of so
...
- As Pakistan sees us M.V. Kamath
- January 18, 1998
>>>On the night of August 14, 1997, several hundred Indians, led by,
among others, Shri Kuldip Nayar, a close friend and confidant of
Shri Inder Kumar Gujral, gathered at the Wagah border, in the
hope of shaking hands with Pakistanis across the divide in
celebration of 50 years of Independence. On the Indian side,
...
- Sunday
- The Asian Age
- Let's give BJP a chance Sudheendra Kulkarni
- January 26, 1998
>>>It took the collapse of the Congress party on the one hand and
the collapse of the Babri structure on the other to effect a
qualitative change in the BJP-Indian Muslim relationship. It is
not generally recognised by political pundits, but the
unmistakable consequence of these two developments has been the
...
- Another massacre Editorial
- January 28, 1998
>>>The latest massacre in Kashmir is yet another proof of the
desperation across the border to jeopardise the peace process in
the Valley. Words are not strong enough to condemn the mowing
down of Kashmiri pandits who had refused to leave their village
and the only solace, if it can indeed be called that, is that the
...
- Stalin and Hitler: Equals among firsts Paul Johnson
- January 19, 1998
>>>It is already horribly clear that, in important moral respects,
the new Labour government is no improvement on its lamentable
predecessor. As the Formula One and Robinson cases show, it can
neither avoid sleaze nor, when it is exposed, deal with it
promptly. There are, I predict, much bigger scandals ahead. It is
...
- The Business Standard
- Industry sways to BJP's mantra Mayank Mishra
- January 15, 1998
>>>The three-day partnership summit organised by the Confederation
of Indian Industry (CH) in Chennai last week saw business
confidence on the upswing largely due to the growing anticipation
of a stable, Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre.
...
- The Daily
- Sonia's Italian passport R. K. Bajaj
- January 15, 1998
>>>When part of the Congress says that they are not
utilising Sonia Gandhi's appeal properly I tend to agree. Till
today no one in the Congress has made even an attempt to project
Sonic Gandhi's commitment to India or the fact that of the 51
...
- The Economic Times
- Barking up the wrong tree again Diwakar
- January 25, 1998
>>>Election not only galvanise politicians but also the members of
the ,secularist' intelligentsia. After a 18-mouth period of
inaction coinciding wit h the UF's rule during which they
focussed more on themes of globalisation, nuclear disarmament and
the depleting ozone layer, these intelligentsia have turned their
...
- The Financial Express
- Manoeuvring took the centrestage Devsagar Singh
- December 31, 1997
>>>It has been a roller coaster drive through 1997 for major
political parties, thanks to a fractured verdict of the
electorate in 1996. Congress was on the run, BJP was in the thick
of an untouchability syndrome till the end of the year, and the
motley group of regional formations, better known as the United
...
- The Free Press Journal
- Gearing up for the battle M. V. Kamath
- December 25, 1997
>>>No two elections are alike. In the very nature of things they
can't be. Situations change. The political scenario does not
remain the same. Fresh parties come into being. New alignments
take place. As they say about a river that one can't put one's
finger in the same river twice, so it can be said about politics
...
- The Hindu
- The Hindustan Times
- Anarchy in Assam Editorial
- January 16, 1998
>>>ULFA and Bodo extremists appear to be vying with each other in
grabbing newspaper headlines through sheer terror and banditry.
This week the two have struck ferociously. While suspected ULFA
militants gunned down a senior Army officer in Guwahati on
Wednesday and earlier made an attempt on the life of the IGP,
...
- The India Express
- That dynastic subversion of the Navy Satyindra Singh
- January 30, 1998
>>>When the emergency was clamped on the nation in June '75, most of
the instruments of the state had been debauched. Indira Gandhi
had pretty much killed the Congress party, which was one vehicle,
especially under her father, Nehru, of ensuring that a vast
country like India was ruled by consensus. She destroyed the
...
- The India Today
- A problem called Sonia Swapan Dasgupta
- January 19, 1998
>>>There is always a ready market in India for conspiracy theoriesthe more outrageous the better. As such, it is curious that no
statement-issuing politician thought it fit to link last week's
visit of Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi-ostensibly to
promote "economic and political" cooperation-with Sonia Gandhi's
s
...
- The Indian Express
- Massacre at Wandhama Editorial
- January 28, 1998
>>>There was a method in the massacre of 23 Kashmiri pandits at
Wandhama on Sunday night. The idea was to drive home the
Message, on the eve of the country's Republic Day, that Kashmir
is still very much a disturbed territory, no matter how many
tricolours are unfurled in Srinagar; no matter if the state's
...
- The mother of all apologies T.J.S. George
- January 21, 1998
>>>Why only Bluestar, Dr Singh? The scions of the Nehru-Gandhi
dynasty must shoulder the responsibility for the most destructive
decisions taken in India since Independence.
Manmohan Singh is rapidly developing the politician's trademark
...
- The Kathmandu connection Swati Chaturvedi
- January 17, 1998
>>>Anyone looking at Pakistan with suspicion will find the job easy
in Kathmandu. For, Nepal, thanks to a liberal immigration policy
and a porous border with India, is serving not only as a transit
for those on the run but also as a haven for Pak-sponsored
terrorist activity.
- Such a must spectacle T.V.R. Shenoy
- January 17, 1998
>>>er campaigning shall definitely make a difference," P.
Chidambaram mused aloud at a press conference. Before the
assembled media's raised eyebrows had time to drop, he grinned
and continued, "in other states." I don't need to spell out the
identity of that enigmatic 'Her', do I? But I must say the
...
- Ram temple will be built once the BJP comes to power Neeraj Mishra
- December 4, 1997
>>>On the face of it, BJP MP Uma Bharti, 37, has changed. But, on
second thoughts, she has changed only, in her tone, which is less
direct. She says much the same things as of yore. After raising
the bogey of defiance in Madhya Pradesh, when she along with her
followers threatened to resign from the party, she quietly
...
- Questions for the Sphinx T.V.R. Shenoy
- January 3, 1998
>>>hat walks on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and
on three legs at dusk?" was the famous question posed by the
Sphinx. The answer, as Oedipus figured out, was Man. A modem
Sphinx may pose a more contemporary question: "What stands on its
feet in the morning, sinks to its knees by noon, and crawls
...
- Secular enough to be divisive Sultan Shahin
- January 5, 1998
>>>So the secular balloon has finally burst. When Naresh Aggarwal
split the ecular UP Congress legislative Party and took away
more than half of its members to help the 'communal' BJP form a
government, it was dismissed by many a secularist as a flash in
the pan. But the same pattern has been repeated in the length and
...
- CPM to go soft on Congress, the lesser evil N P Chekkutty
- January 4, 1998
>>>Indicating a softer approach to the Congress in the forthcoming
Lok Sabha elections, CPM general secretary Harkishen Singh
Surjeet today said the Left forces must demarcate the crucial
difference between the BJP - a communal force threatening
national unity - and the Congress - a bourgeois party which has
...
- The Mid-Day
- The Observer
- Clutching at a straw Dina Nath Mishra
- January 29, 1998
>>>For the last fortnight, Sonia Gandhi is getting prominence on the
front pages of newspapers. Magazines have devoted cover stories
to her. Electronic media too is treating her as if she is already
the Prime Minister. Even on the occasion of the Republic day
speech of President K R Narayanan, Doordarshan gave the first
...
- Calculated madness Editorial
- January 28, 1998
>>>The burst of gunfire that drowned the Ramzan prayers on Sunday
night in Wandhama village on the outskirts of Srinagar has
mischief written across it. That it was calculated to wipe out
the last four families of Kashmiri Pandits comprising 23 people,
including 10 women and four children, is obvious enough. But
...
- Campaigning with monumental lies Dina Nath Mishra
- January 22, 1998
>>>he media has been extraordinarily excitable, more than willing
to do business on our terms. Frankly, it has been eating out of
our hand. No hard questions have been asked... It has no option
but to fall in for glamour/charisma themes... So far, only the
junior reporters have travelled to Sriperumbudur, Bangalore,
...
- Ascendant BJP has LF worried Dina Nath Mishra
- January 15, 1998
>>>Even while having the outside support of Congress for the UF
government, the Left Front, specially the CPM, still treated the
Congress as a political untouchable. So much so that it did not
allow the apex coordination committee to be formed, as promised
to the President of India by Congress president Sitaram Kesri
...
- BJP set to swear by 'Swadeshi' Srinand Jha
- January 7, 1998
>>>In continuance of the Sangh Parivar's plans of having the
Bharatiya Janata Party make the Swadeshi issue as its major poll
plank in the coming general elections, the Swadeshi Jagran Manch
(SJM) has released a document seeking a national consensus on the
Swadeshi concept of development.
- Banking on versatile skills E. Jayakrishnan
- January 3, 1998
>>>For the Kumaramangalam clan, the circle has been squared. With
Rangarajan Kumaramangalam joining the BJP, the family has now
been part of all the three political formations in the country
today, the Left, the right and the Centrist parties.
...
- Goal saver on different turf K V Lakshmana
- January 3, 1998
>>>Aslam Sher Khan, former Narasimha Rao aide in the Prime
Minister's Office as a junior minister, represents a new trend
among minority leaders - that of embracing Hindutva forces with a
hope it will protect and promote interests of the Muslims.
...
- From khakhi to saffron K V Lakshmana
- January 3, 1998
>>>Former IPS officer Anadi Charan Sahu came into contact with the
BJP during the November-December crisis that consumed the Inder
Kumar Gujral Government.
New in politics, Sahu was among the Congress members who were in
...
- Chidambaram praises Manmohan D N Mishra
- January 5, 1998
>>>Recently, a book on former finance minister Manmohan Singh was
released in New Delhi. Speaking on the occasion. finance minister
P Chidambaram praised his predecessor sky high. He said that he
had the honour of working with Singh and also gave full credit to
him for the liberalisation process. Moreover, Chidambaram
...
- Decisive opinion polls D N Mishra
- January 5, 1998
>>>It is understood that Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi had
entrusted a reputed pollster to conduct an extensive opinion poll
in the state. He has decided that the results of the survey
would be published by the daily owned by DMK. But when the
results came, he just stopped the publication. Why,? Because
...
- Exhausting the Sonia card Dina Nath Mishra
- January 1, 1998
>>>Would election campaign by Sonia Gandhi mean a fortune for the
Congress in the impending mid-term poll? This question is
presently foremost in the minds of all concerned. To my mind, it
would have three-fold impact as far as Congress is concerned.
Sonia Gandhi's related announcement has come at the time when
...
- The Pioneer
- It's time for a changed agenda Naseem Naqvi
- January 21, 1998
>>>We as a nation have a unique quality. We take simple facts and
turn them into something new. That this tendency has crept into
the body politic proves its versatility and significance. What
are these facts? Expediency. for one, which after conversion is
called blackmail. Whenever it is resorted to without any
...
- In the name of national interest (a letter) RK Mani
- January 2, 1998
>>>It is in the national interest that the UF Government has
crumbled under internal contradictions. The only common manifesto
which united the disparate and bitterly fighting parties was to
prevent the BJP from coming to power. The Congress supported the
disunited UF solely to protect its leaders from being prosecuted.
- Qualifying norm Editorial
- January 2, 1998
>>>Recently BJP spokesperson Sushma Swaraj attacked the Congress
saying that in the US a person had to be an American citizen by
birth to qualify to become the president. Now Soniaji's blessings
have electrified the Congress party and even the normally
unflappable Congress spokesperson V N Gadgil has adopted a tough
...
- It's time the Sphinx called it a day Sandhya Jain
- December 29, 1997
>>>Even as the possibility of Ms Sonia Gandhi hitting the campaign
trail waxes and wanes over the Congress party, astute politicians
and observers know that like the moon. Ms Gandhi may be alluring,
but she lacks inner luminosity. In other words, she merely
reflects the glory of an illustrious family with which she
...
- The Sunday Oberver
- The Sunday Observer
- Advantage Advani Varsha Bhosle
- January 11-17, 1998
>>>He lives in middling government quarters. In the twilight, the
street looks deserted, there's no sign of the Black Cats. It's a
simple house, unexpectedly middle elms - dunlop sofas, Ganpati
icons, beaded torans... A wife, a son, a daughter: Chhota
parivar, sukhi parivar. No, not that parivar. The son, a
...
- Saffron, khaki and Reds Varsha Bhosle
- January 4-10, 1998
>>>In December, Chief Election Commissioner M S Gill wrote to Prime
Minister I K Gujral, urging the promulgation of an ordinance to
permit defence personnel to cast their votes by proxy, instead of
through the usual postal ballots. Apparently, postal ballots
invariably reach too late, often after the counting of votes is
...
- The Telegraph
- To Russia with love K.P.Nayar
- January 14, 1998
>>>Prime minister I.K. Gujral had an unexpected visitor in Chennai
last week. For Gujral, the visitor was not o unexpected but also
very important. The prime minister considered his unscheduled
meeting with the Russian ambassador, Albert S. Chernyshev, on the
fringes of the Confederation of Indian Industry's partnership
...
- The Times of India
- Challenge in Kashmir Editorial
- January 28, 1998
>>>If this Republic Day was distinguished by the posthumous
conferring of Ashok Chakra, the highest gallantry award, on 2nd
Lieutenant Punit Datta for his exceptional heroism in fighting
the terrorists in Kashmir, it was also the day 23 pundits,
including women and children, fell to terrorism. This is more
...
- Muslims should test us, we are their friends Anil Saxena
- January 26, 1998
>>>The maverick BJP chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh
hopes to steer his party to victory in UP during the Lok Sabha
poll. According to him the entrance of Sonia Gandhi in politics
will have no effects on BJP's fortunes in the state. Mr Singh's
agenda appears to be to send a record number of BJP MPs from UP
...
- Trial by secularists Prakash Nanda
- January 22, 1998
>>>There is a story that when apartheid was alive and kicking in
Rhodesia -present-day Zimbabwe -a white truck driver passed a
group of idle natives and muttered, "They are lazy brutes". A few
hours later, he saw natives loading 200 pound sacks of grain onto
a truck, singing in rhythm to their work. "Savages", he grumbled,
...
- SP leaders debunk Sonia's claim Times of India News Service
- January 18, 1998
>>>In an unusually hard-hitting attack on Sonia Gandhi on Saturday,
the Samajwadi Party virtually called her a liar and declared that
her statement on Babri Masjid demolition was a pack of lies.
Leader of the Opposition in the UP Legislative Council Ahmad
Hasan said that Sonia Gandhi's statement that her late husband
...
- We should have on overt N-weapons programme Dinesh Kumar
- January 19, 1998
>>>As chief of staff, of Eastern Command in 1971, Lt Gen J R F Jacob
was among the architects of India's victory in the 1971 Indo-Pak
war which led, to the creation of Bangladesh. His account of the
war as published in his book Surrender at Dhaka: Birth of a
Nation last year came as an eye opener and exploded several myths
...
- It's not compromise, but practical idealism Inder Sawhney
- January 12, 1998
>>>Kodipakkam Neelameghacharya Govindacharya, general secretary of
the Bharatiya Janata Party, came to the BJP from the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on "loan" before the parliamentary
elections in 1989 when the party had just two seats in the Lok
Sabha. reputed to be a high-powered think-tank, Mr Govindacharya
...
- 'No one challenges our secular credentials any more' Janak Singh
- January 7, 1998
>>>Will Bharatiya Janata Party leader Atal Behari Vajpayee form the
government after the elections? The various opinion polls
conducted so far seem to indicate the Vajpayee-led BJP's victory
in the polls. Whether it gets a simple majority of 274 Lok Sabha
seats on its own or cobbles up this magic number along with its
...
- Atal Bihari is today's Syama Prasad L. K. Advani
- December 25, 1997
>>>Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee entered Parliament for the first time
in 1957, after the second general elections. Addressing party MPs
recently at a training camp organised for them at Jhinjholi in
Haryana, Atalji quipped that elections was for him a three-in-one
experience! The Jana Sangh had set up Shri Vajpayee from three
...
- "I dream of a strong, prosperous India" Kanchan Gupta
- December 25, 1997
>>>At a political rally addressed by Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, as the
veteran leader took the mike, somebody from the audience shouted,
"Desh ka pradhan mantri kaisa ho?" and the other responded with
"Atal Bihari jaisa ho!" Mr. Vajpayee, in his inimitable style,
began his speech by saying, "Sawal yeh nahin hai ki pradhan
...
- Secularism : The Indian concept Dr Rajendra Prasad
- December 25, 1997
>>>There was unanimous opinion in the Constituent assembly as indeed
allover the country, that the State should be secular in the
sense that there would be no State religion nor would there be
any discrimination of its citizens on the basis of religion. The
question now arises as to why do we have this sharp controversy
...
- Swayamsevak with a poet's heart Rajendrasinhaji
- December 25, 1997
>>>The first time I saw Atalji was in 1944. I was a lecturer in
Allahabad University when I attended a debate competition. As the
debate was going to close, a young man entered the hall and told
the judges that he was late because the train that carried him
>from Lucknow had arrived behind schedule. Since he had come all
...
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