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- A caveat is in order
- Editorial
The Statesman
- March 10, 1998
>>>The country is slowly coming round to the view that a minority
government that no one is interested in upsetting may well be the
answer. The BJP will not have the numbers for an absolute
majority of the House but with outside support which will be
issue based and firm, to the satisfaction of the President, it
...
- A fossilised conservatism shatters
- Sandhya Jain
The Pioneer
- March 20, 1998
>>>Even as political pundits prophesy further instability as a
result of the electorates' fractured verdict, a discerning eye
can observe. some positive trends beneath the surface. To me, it
is significant that while the Congress has declined as an allIndia party and the Bharatiya Janata Party has not yet fully
y
...
- A handy whipping boy
- Kuldip Nayar
The Times of India
- March 4, 1998
>>>The governments at New Delhi had been following the policy
projected by the BJP. If the latter assumed power, the mask will
be off." This was the burden of the discussion on Indian
elections at a seminar sponsored by the Institute of Regional
Studies in Islamabad recently. Participants included Pakistan
...
- A power vacuum cleaner
- VNN
Hindustan Times
- March 8, 1998
>>>Power, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Democracy, on the other
hand, tries to keep areas of vacuum in the power structure so
that authority has restraints and the vacant space is occupied by
persons and institutions which would hold' rulers accountable to
them and answerable to the nation.
- A promising start
- The Editorial
The Indian Express
- March 19, 1998
>>>The national agenda released by the BJP and its allies provides a
rationale for the coalition government to be sworn in today. It
is proof that given the necessary political will, a coalition of
disparate parties is able to sink their differences on major
national issues and evolve a common programme. The credit must
...
- A Vjpayee Doctrine
- Swapan Dasgupta
India Today
- March 30, 1998
>>>Flanked by Jayalalitha on one side and L.K. Advani on the other,
Atal Bihari Vajpayee didn't quite look the man India was
anxiously awaiting. At the release of the National Agenda for
Governance, grandly billed as the programme that would succeed in
"closing the gap between people's aspirations and the
...
- All about displacement
- Smita Deshmukh
The Times Of India
- March 15, 1998
>>>When the Maharashtra government asked Rajiv Shah to make a
documentary film on the rehabilitation of adivasis displaced by
the construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam in the Narmada valley
two years ago, he didn't realise that the film would turn out to
be much more than government propaganda. The 20 minute
...
- An Indian Marxist's moment of truth
- Rajendra Prabhu
Observer
- March 16, 1998
>>>The disarming frankness of CPI leader and agriculture minister
Chaturanan Mishra (The Observer of Business and Politics, March
7) encourages the belief that even diehard Marxits can finally
admit that social reality is far beyond the framework of class
struggle.
- Antipathy towards Congress may force TDP to back BJP
- Mahendra Ved
The Times of India
- March 4, 1998
>>>Winners and losers converged here to engage in parleys for
forming the next government. A subdued BJP leadership anxiously
awaited more results to get to the dominant position that would
guarantee an invitation from the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Its
candidate for prime ministership candidate Atal Behari Vajpayee
...
- Bachelor boy's date with destiny
- The Editorial
The Pioneer
- March 16, 1998
>>>It will be the second date with destiny for the bachelor boy of
Indian politics who, Jawaharlal Nehru had long ago prophesied,
would hold the high office.
Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the astute parliamentarian- poet
...
- Balayogi's bio-data is not the issue
- Neerja Chowdhury
The Indian Express
- March 30, 1998
>>>A telephone call jangled a thousand raw nerves in Parliament last
week over the Lok Sabha Speaker's election. But for Madanlal
Khurana's Monday-morning call to, P.A.Sangma informing him that
he had the BJP's approval as a consensus candidate, so much
acrimony need not have been generated.
- Basking in the Lantern's Light
- N R Mohanty
The Times Of India
- March 16, 1998
>>>The Lok Sabha election results in Bihar have proved many poll
predictions and analyses wrong. Several pre-poll surveys had
indicated that the BJP-Samata combine would notch up somewhere
between 35 to 42 seats whereas the Rastriya Janata Dal would not
touch the double digit figure. Poll analyses, barring a few
...
- Basu raps media for bias against Left Front
- Sankar Ray
The Observer
- March 13, 1998
>>>West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu on Wednesday flayed the
media "for pampering the Trinamool Congress and its accomplice in
the State, the Bharatiya Janata Party" at the first meeting here
of the Left Front after the 12th Lok Sabha elections.
...
- Big Brother's next move
- Yubaraj Ghimire
The Indian Express
- March 27, 1998
>>>The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has admitted that it had
been consulted in the process of the formation of the Atal Behari
Vajpayee led ministry. A silence or denial on the part of the
Sangh would not have meant otherwise. After all, like the BJP,
there are nearly a hundred other orgnisations affiliated to and
...
- BJP government is good for India, say Canadian academics
- Ajit Jain
The Pioneer
- March 11, 1998
>>>There seems to be a consensus among Canadian scholars that a
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition government will he
good for India. The BJP "has new ideas on nuclear policy, on
Pakistan," said Ashok Kapoor, head of the Department of Political
Science at the University of Waterloo, Ontario.
- BJP unlikely to give in to Jaya's demands
- N Sathiya Moorthy
The Observer
- March 13, 1998
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party will rather forgo its dream of
capturing power in New Delhi than yield to the ALADMK pressures
for the immediate dismissal of the Dravida Munnetra kazhagam
Government m Tamil Nadu.
...
- BJP will have a moderate Govt, say US experts
- Aziz Hanifa
The Pioneer
- March 10, 1998
>>>As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and allies edged closer to
forming a new government in India, the feeling among Clinton
Administration officials and South Asian experts was this would
be a "moderate and responsible" government.
...
- BJP's allies will fall in line, otherwise everybody will be exposed
- Pamela Philipose
The Indian Express
- March 8, 1998
>>>Revenge couldn't have been sweeter for Karnataka leader
Ramakrishna Dodamane Hegde. With the Lok Shakti-BJP front having
swept Karnataka in the recent Lok Sabha elections and the Janata
Dal virtually decimated, it was his moment in the sun once more.
For one thing, the election results had proved his bete noire,
...
- BJP's rise is a barometer of Hindu awakening
- Gurumukh Singh
The Times Of India
- March 26, 1998
>>>The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the activist component of the
Sangh Parivar which spearheaded the Ayodhya movement in the
eighties and was banned for its role in the demolition of the
Babri Masjid, does not expect the new BJP-led government to
pursue its agenda of building temples at Ayodhya, Kashi and
...
- Bow to the voter
- Editorial
The Indian Express
- March 4, 1998
>>>Whatever the other ambiguities. of the 1998 elections - and there
are many -- the Congress cannot complain of a lack of clarity
about its own verdict. The party has improved its tally from
1996, but the message clearly is for it to sit in opposition for
the term of this Lok Sabha. Any attempt to deny that and make
...
- Brinkmanship Politics
- The Editorial
The Times Of India
- March 16, 1998
>>>In seemingly unrelated developments, two phenomenally powerful
women have emerged as arbiters of the country's destiny at a time
of extreme political uncertainty. One of them, Ms J Jayalalitha,
caused the BJP agonising moments of tension before finally
allowing herself to be coaxed and cajoled into participating in a
...
- Change of protective gear
- Aabha Dixit
Telegraph
- March 19, 1998
>>>Unique situations demand unique solutions. The 12th Lok Sabha
elections threw up results which did not give a working majority
to any single political combine. In peculiar circumstances, the
right wing Bharatiya Janata Party is to form a tenuously placed
government. In the art of building and working coalitions,
...
- Come one, come all, says ally-hunting Cong
- Observer Political Bureau
The Observer
- March 5, 1998
>>>National politics has apparently hit the fast track and the
proverbial public memory is getting even shorter with the
"chameleon-like" transformation in the attitudes and utterances
of politicians almost being regarded as the norm.
...
- Constitutional delinquency
- Prabhu Chawla
India Today
- March 9, 1998
>>>It has all the trappings of a high-powered political
confrontation. With the Head of State poised for a head-on
collision with a lame-duck prime minister, the stage was set last
week for some more rewriting of constitutional conventions. After
a brief spell, during which he seemed to follow the dictum "live
...
- Convent schools VS state govt
- Suhas Phadke
The Times Of India
- March 20, 1998
>>>A long battle between the state government and the churchcontrolled convent schools in the city looks all too likely with
the Sana BJP alliance pressing for the implementation of its
ambitious reforms in primary education in these schools. And the
state Congress criticism that the move is ant-minority has given
n
...
- Corruption complaints had last breath at Gujaral's door
- Sushil Kumar Singh
Jansatta
- March 19, 1998
>>>New Delhi 18th March. The complaints of serious nature of
corruption against the several Central Ministers and bureaucrats
had last breath at the door of Prime Minister, Shri Inder Kumar
Gujaral. The most talked "Anti Corruption Cell" at Prime
Minister's office had disfate. The number of complaints which
...
- CPM to Cong: Wel help if BJP fails
- Kamil Zaheer
The Economic Times
- March 4, 1998
>>>CPI(M) support to the Congress bid for government is based on the
assumption that the BJP will get the first call from the
President to form a government at the Centre.
The Marxists are well aware that the BJP and allies will cry
...
- Deepak Chopra finds way of expressing truth
- P. K. Kutty
The Times of India
- March 11, 1998
>>>It was indeed an enchanting evening at the, India Habitat Centre
as promised in the invitation for a Deepak Chopra evening jointly
organised on Monday by the Heart Care foundation and the India
Habitat Centre.
...
- Desperate Acts of Faith
- Ruben Banerjee
India Today
- March 30, 1998
>>>He is poor landless many others in the underdeveloped interiors
of Orissa. Jeeban Majhi, a villager in Gumma, Gajapati district,
has no avenues to change the course of his life. All he has done
in the past five years is change his religion twice. Born a
Hindu, he embraced Christianity and became Joseph. Last year,
...
- Did she or didn she: Experts differ on Sonia effect
- Election 98 - Party Position
- Electoral report card
- Report
The Economic Times
- March 19, 1998
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------------Total Votes Polled: 37.2 crores
Total Invalid -Votes: 68.69 lakh
---------------------------------------------------------------------
...
- Fir for prime minister?
- S L Rao
The Economic Times
- March 2, 1998
>>>Indians more than many others appear to believe that as a person
ages, he develops wisdom and integrity. There is no empirical
evidence for this. One can think of at least as many examples
among our leadership about whom this is not true.
...
- George not keen on joining BJP Govt
- Suresh Nautiyal
The Observer
- March 5, 1998
>>>Samata Party president George Fernandes on Wednesday said he was
not keen to join the BJP-led 'coalition' Government at the
Centre. He, however, foretold a role for his party colleagues In
the new Government headed by Atal Behari Vajpayee and guided by a
mutually agreed common minimum programme - essential in the
...
- Gujral begins hunt for a house
- Inder Sawhney
The Times Of India
- March 7,1998
>>>Prime Minister I.K. Gujral has started hunting for a house,
despite his earlier statement that he is keeping his Maharani
Bagh bungalow vacant so that he can occupy it when he vacates 7,
Race Course, which is now the official residence of the Prime
Minister.
- I am not anti-MNC but pro-swadeshi, says George Fernandes
- I was excommunicated without an inquiry
- Tissa Balasuriya
The Times Of India
- March 16, 1998
>>>Sri Lankan Roman Catholic theologian Fr Tissa Balasuriya drew
worldwide attention last year when he was excommunicated by the
Vatican for his controversial book, Mary and Human Liberation. In
the book, Fr Balasuriya says that a baby is born without
"original sin". This is contrary to the Catholic belief that all
...
- Ifs and Buts, Pros and Cons
- Editorial
The Asian Age
- March 5, 1998
>>>The fun and games have begun. The politicians have begun
converging on Delhi to strike post-poll alliances and just about
everyone is meeting everybody. The CPM general secretary, Mr
Harkishen Singh Surjeet, was the first to propose a Congress-led
government with United Front support. He even suggested the
...
- Implacable foes, skittish allies
- Inder Malhotra
The Observer
- March 18, 1998
>>>Jayalalitha made the length of the BJP rule in Delhi dependent
on the height of the Periyar dam.
With Atal Behari Vajpayee duly designated as Prime Minister, the
rather long delay in the swearing-in may be due to astrological
...
- India's delicate passage
- Editorial (New York Times)
The Afternoon
- March 7, 1998
>>>India is once again entering a delicate and dangerous political
period After another tumultuous campaign, the main Hindu
nationalist party has fallen just short of a parliamentary
majority, but it still won more seats than any other party.
...
- Indian army and human rights
- N K Pant
The Observer
- March 14, 1998
>>>The gory massacre of 26 innocent persons in Kashmir valley by
mercenaries and subsequent firing on a violent mob by the troops
in Kishtwar resulting in loss of 11 civilian lives in January
this year revealed two aspects of gross violation of human rights
by insurgents and security forces alike.
- Indian Muslims and reforms
- Asghar Ali Engineer
The Hindu
- March 25, 1998
>>>It is usually maintained that Indian Muslims resist all attempts
at social reform due to their conservative nature and also
because Islam is considered a 'rigid religion. Such ideas, to
say the least, are superficial and do not go to the heart of the
matter. Nor do they look at the deeper causes of lesser
...
- Industry, R & D together may increases local share in global market
- Shivaji Sarkar
The Financial Express
- March 23, 1998
>>>Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) director
general R A Mashelkar in an exclusive interview said that the
nation needed to do a proper networking of universities,
laboratories and industry to become a technological giant with a
view to capturing the major share of the world market. The
...
The Indian Express
- March 19, 1998
>>>A fine opportunity is at hand for the new government to correct a
dangerous and foolish subversion perpetrated by successive
governments. This refers to the systematic emaciation of the once
all-powerful Ministry of Home Affairs which, in better days,
boasted a Sardar Patel at its helm. That was a long time ago.
Now, let the house decide
- Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar
The Economic Times
- March 4, 1998
>>>What procedure should the President follow, now that Parliament
is hung? If we regard pre-election combines as the ones that
matter, the BJP and its allies form the biggest group. But, if we
consider post-electoral combines, the Congress and most of the
United Front may form the biggest group. Which of the two should
...
Observer, and their unalloyed drivel
- Arun Shourie's
The Observer
- March 27,1998
>>>"And what about the pogroms that go on from time to time ?," the
caller asked. Late at night, an editorial writer with one of the
world's best-known papers was calling from the USA. It was
becoming evident that the BJP would form the Government, he was
gathering background information.
Of parties, politics and people
- M.V. Kamath
The Free press Journal
- March 12, 1998
>>>In many ways the 1998 election has become a watershed. The BJP
has emerged as a force to be reckoned with. It many soften its
stand on some issues as the situation demands but in a clear way
it indicates a break with the Nehruvian past where secularism,
howsoever it was understood, was the watchword.
Omak Apang cuts his hair
- Reshmi R Dasgupta
Economic Times
- March 22, 1998
>>>After his first TV interview as the youngest minister in Prime
Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's government, his friends back home
in Arunachal Pradesh rang him up and asked the same question.
"Why did you cut your hair?"
...
Once again to the fray
- S Venkitaramanan
The Economics Times
- March 30, 1998
>>>It is on predictable lines. Mr Yashwant Sinha has presented his
interim budget to Parliament. At the time of writing, it appears
almost certain that he will present the full budget also and last
a full term. I had the privilege of working with him in 1991 when
he was finance minister and I was governor, RBI. I am confident
...
Pak going ahead with Ghauri missile test
- The Editorial
Hindu Times
- March 23, 1998
>>>Pakistan is planning to go ahead with a secret test firing of a
new 1,500 km range surface-to-surface missile "Ghauri" from a
base on the Baluchistan coast.
"Secret preparations are underway at Gawadar base, on the coast
...
Pakistan goes hawkish on Kashmir
- Indrani Bagchi
The Economic Times
- March 19, 1998
>>>Pakistan's verbal sabreattling about the nuclear option and its
aggressive stance on India poses the first diplomatic challenge
to the new BJP government hi New Delhi.
The hardliner foreign minister of Pakistan, Gohar Ayub Khan, will
...
Peers vote to protect Churches from secular litigation
- Editorial
Renovacao
- March 15, 1998
>>>Members of the House of Lords won a temporary victory for the
Churches last week when they amended the Human Rights Bill to
protect the freedom of religious organisations.
The Bill, which is due to come before the House of Commons for
...
Persona non-grata
- Narendra kaushik
Mid - Day
- March 16, 1998
>>>If there is one person who the Bharatiya Janata Party would wish
to keep at an arm's length, it is Janata Party chieftain
Subramanian Swamy. Swamy is known to change colours faster than a
chameleon. True to form, the former finance minister on Sunday
morning lashed out at Ramakrishna Hegde telling him ot to
...
Pondering the poll
- M.V. Kamath
Mid Day
- March 7, 1998
>>>Now that the elections are over and the results are in, I am
taking the liberty to make some observations. All my own work, as
my friend Behram contractor would say.
The exit polls-all of them a have proved to be grievously wrong
...
Pornography of death
- Manvendra Singh
The Indian Express
- March 26, 1998
>>>The widow gave the crowds her brief on grief, and in return
wanted their votes. The message, at every such heliborne meeting,
was grief, grief, and more grief
would today have been a Major in the Army. He can never become
...
President is exceeding powers, say CPM, others
- Posted By Krishnakant Udavant The Asian Age
- February 26, 1998
>>>CPI(M) general secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet on Wednesday
accused President K.R. Narayanan of "transgressing his powers"
in the Uttar Pradesh crisis. Several other political leaders
attacked the President for reportedly urging Prime Minister I.K.
Gujral to recall Uttar Pradesh governor Romesh Bhandari.
President situation and the role of the Left
- Chaturanan Mishra
The Observer
- March 7, 1998
>>>The election manifesto of the Communist Party of India in 1996
rightly assessed that a situation had developed in India when the
Left could be a partner in power at the Centre. Despite a big
setback in the elections this year, this assessment still remains
valid, but this does not mean that the Left should immediately
...
Priyanka's saffron burden: Vadra farm hosts RSS school,shakhas
- Bhavna Vij
The Indian Express
- March 9, 1998
>>>This is one connection Priyanka Gandhi will not be proud of The
Vadra family farm m Bagarpur, 12 km from Moradabad, hosts a
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-run school and occasional shakhas.
Sanjay Manu Vadera Farm, the favourite retreat of the Vadras, has
...
Retreat to advance
- Mohit Sen
The Indian Express
- March 25, 1998
>>>The election results have been good for the BJP, but not good
enough. It is ironic that when for the first time it comes to
having its leader as a Prime Minister who need not be a
caricature of a person in power, it is hamstrung by alliances.
...
Right to be secularist
- Sushant Sareen
The Pioneer
- February 27, 1998
>>>With the BJP emerging as the odds on favourite for forming the
next government, the shrillness in rhetoric of so-called
secularists has gone up. It is almost as though they do not want
the BJP to moderate its hardline ideology. Indeed, the greatest
irony of contemporary politics is that while the BJP is trying to
...
Row over Anglican Blair's bid to become Catholic
- L.K. Sharma
The Times Of India
- March 15, 1998
>>>London as Prime Minister Tony Blair tries to capture Britain's
soul, some others have launched a battle for his soul. It all
started when Blair was spotted attending Mass alone at
Westminster Cathedral.
...
RSS attacks missionaries for iding Mizo rebels
- Venkatesh Kesari
Asian Age
- March 22, 1998
>>>The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has charged mission aries in
Mizoram and the Mizoram armed constabulary with backing militant
organisations who raped and killed Hindu Reang women because the
community members refused to convert to Christianity.
...
Saffron across the seven seas
- Sanjay Suri (London) and Narayan D. Keshavan (New York)
Outlook
- March 16, 1998
>>>As the BJP made an all-out bid for power this year, it was not
just the Sangh parivar in India that did the ground work. Its
international family came to the aid of the party too. In a wellorchestrated campaign, many in India received messages from
friends and relatives abroad to exercise their franchise to
o
...
Saffron Burden
- Harinder Baweja
India Today
- March 30, 1998
>>>The saraswati vandana rings out twice a day. At 9.30 a.m. and at
sunset when children-aged between four and 14 gather on the lawns
of the Sanjay Manu Vadera Saraswati Shishu Vidya Mandir in
Moradabad. The school is 160 km from the Delhi border or a little
over that from 10 janpath where Sonia Gandhi, the samdhan of the
...
Season for rethink
- Editorial
The Financial Express
- March 19, 1998
>>>Business expectations that the BJP-led coalition government will
revise import duty rates have also created fears in certain
circles that this will mean a reversal of reform. The
apprehension is incorrect, and is based on the dogma that import
duty reduction per se is what the Indian economy needs. It is
...
Shunted Out
- Bhaskar Paul
India Today
- March 30, 1998
>>>Jyotirmoy Mondal's transfer order last week would have been seen
as a routine exercise, were it not for the fact that he is the
principal accountant general who last year initiated the probe
into unauthorised holding of personal ledger accounts (PLAS) in
the state. It had upset the West Bengal Government's tall claims
...
Singhal firm of Ram temple
- Habib Beary
The Sunday Observer
- March 22-28, 1998
>>>The ational agenda of
Atal Behari Vajpayee's government has dropped the contentious
issues of the Ram temple , Article 370 and the uniform civil
code. But the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a frontal organization of
the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, says it will continue with its
...
Slap to status quo
- Editorial
The Times of India
- March 4, 1998
>>>Complaints of biases notwithstanding, the national level
predictions of the TIMES poll - both opinion and exit - have
proved fairly accurate. The BJP and its allies are clearly in the
lead bagging about 250 seats, though still short of a simple
majority; the runner-up is the Congress group with close to 170
...
So near, yet so far?
- Inder Malhotra
The Observer
- March 4, 1998
>>>The outcome of the poll portends instability not only the Centre
but also in a number of states
The 12th Lok Sabha is well and truly hung. Indeed, even more so
than the previous one was. More important, whichever government
...
Socialite standing
- Swapan Dasgupta
India Today
- March 9, 1998
>>>Forget that they have operated as extension counters of some of
the most barbaric regimes-Stalin, Pol Pot and Nicolae Ceausescu
come to mind readily. Forget that socialism has been responsible
for keeping India trapped in a maze of stifling bureaucratic
controls. When it comes to that nebulous commodity called
...
Sonia camp looks to UF to break impasse (part I of II)
- Janak Singh
The Times of India
- March 6, 1998
>>>Mulayam, Moopanar favoured for PM's post
With Congress hopes of forming the next government fading fast in
view of the divisions within the party, the Sonia Gandhi camp on
Thursday was toying with the idea of installing a United Front-
...
Sonia camp looks to UF to break impasse (part II of II)
- Askari H. Zaidi
The Times of India
- March 6, 1998
>>>Cautious CWC decides to ait and watch
The Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Thursday decided to adopt
a "wait and watch" approach to government formation, apparently
because of the opposition from some United Front constituents to
...
Sonia prods Cong on to front foot
- Political Bureau
The Economic Times
- March 4, 1998
>>>A turnaround in the Congress party's stand coincided with the
hasty summoning of party spokespersons, Mr Gulam Nabi Azad and Ms
Ambika Soni to 10 Janpath in the morning.
In fact, the exit of joint secretary Jairam Ramesh from a panel
...
Space radar finds lost civilisation in Cambodia
- Michael Sheridan
The Times of India
- March 14, 1998
>>>Hidden by the jungle, the remains of a 10th-century city around
the legendary temples of Angkor in Cambodia have been discovered
by researchers using a sophisticated Nasa radar system.
Dr Elizabeth Moore, an archeologist from the University of
...
Spirituality is the only succour for today's youth
Star suspect
- Editorial
The Indian Express
- March 2, 1998
>>>Doing business also involves some values, Mr Murdoch
The more competition there is in any field, the better for the
consumer and, eventually, for the industry itself, right? So this
newspaper has argued, maintaining that competition empowers
...
TDP majority against support to Congress
- K Sreedhar Rao
The Observer
- March 6, 1998
>>>Majority of the newly-elected Telugu Desam Party MPs, at a
meeting convened by party leader N Chandrababu Naidu here on
Thursday evening, endorsed the party's decision not to support
the Congress.
...
Text of Rashtrapati Bhavan communique
- Press Communique
The Hindu
- March 16, 1998
>>>The following is the text of the press communique issued by
Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday night.
In the identification and appointment of a Prime Minister, the
President exercises full discretion. He does, however, have
...
The BJP and stability
- Asghar Ali Engineer
The Hindu Times
- March 18, 1998
>>>The Lok Sabha elections are over and the BJP is forming the
government in Delhi. The self-styled "party with a difference"
could not make it to the magic number of 272 even with the
support of its, pre-poll allies. It is having problems with its
allies, some are dictating terms. The BJP Campaigned on the
...
The BJP can speak the RSS language
- Rajesh Joshi
Out look
- March 16, 1998
>>>How do you justify the BJP joining hands with scam-tainted
politicians like Sukh Ram and Jayalalitha?
Everyone agrees that politics should be free of criminals. But
practically everyone indulges in the politics of booth-capturing.
The canard of indu Rate of Growth debunked slur on the Indian People
- The Economist
The Organiser
- March 22, 1998
>>>Free India will have to settle its scores with the London School
of Economics one day, said the inimitable Nirad C. Chaudhuri in
his Passage to England. The reason of this urge to 'settle the
scores', which in effect means repudiation of the Left-Libber
hegemony imposed on us Indians by the Marxist-oriented LSE may be
...
The crown she thrice refused not
- Sandhya Jain
The Pioneer
- January 26, 1998
>>>Ms Sonia Gandhi has clearly decided not to repeat the
mistakes of her ancient compatriot, Julius Caesar. Indeed,
the alacrity with which she has accepted the Congress
crown brings to mind the wisdom of another Italian notable
and his rather acute observation: en more readily
...
The Divine Lovers
- Gaurav Raina
The Observer
- March 21, 1998
>>>Who is Radha? Why does she hold such an exalted place among
the Vaishnavas? What is Her relationship with Krishna who many
consider to be God? The conjugal passtimes of God - the rasa lila
and the significance of Radha and the gopis is an easily
misunderstood subject.
The Front is exposed
- Editorial
The Indian Express
- March 17, 1998
>>>After losing power, UF may lose even political leverage
Outside support is something that vitally affects the United
Front, both as a giver and a taker. It remained in power only as
long as it received such support from a reluctant Congress. Its
...
The President can invite only Vajpayee
- H. K. Dua
The Times of India
- March 5, 1998
>>>A worried nation's search for stability has proved to be elusive.
As feared, it has turned out to be a hung Parliament with no
single party in a position to form a government on its own.
The voters, undecided and uncertain, have virtually placed their
...
The rightful claimant
- Editorial
The Indian Express
- March 4, 1998
>>>If any party can claim to have the mandate to form a government
at the Centre, it is the Bharatiya Janata Party. It has not only
emerged as the single largest party but, together with its
allies, it needs the support of a little less than 30 more MPs
whereas the next party, the Congress, requires thrice that
...
The Silence of the sphinxes
- M V Kamath
Organiser
- March 8, 1998
>>>Isn the public entitled to know the names of six suspected
militants who were killed while trying to throw bombs at a police
party? Who is hiding the truth and to what purpose?
When Muslim revanchists sought to reduce Mumbai to ashes and dust
...
Time ripe for introspection
- Tavleen singh
The Afternoon Despatch and Courier
- March 16, 1998
>>>Let me begin by recommending to you an interesting little
exercise. Before you sell last month's newspapers to the
'kabadiwallah', just scan through the front page headlines. You
will notice that the only political leader whose speeches were
reported nearly every day on page one was Mrs. sonia Gandhi.
To revive the Cong, Sonia needs to kill its sycophancy culture.
- Tavleen Singh
India Today
- March 30, 1998
>>>This past week, an imperious missive from the palazzo at 10
janpath marked Sonia Gandhi's transition from purdah politics to
real politics. I am going to reproduce it fully because it is
also the first policy statement from the lady who now officially
controls India's largest and oldest political party.
Trail to Pakistan
Triumph of democracy
- M V Kamath
The Daily
- March 17, 1998
>>>The election which nobody wanted are over. Nobody but
nobody wants another election for a long time. Tiredness as
set in and it is a sage bet that the government now in
power can hope to have a longer tenure than the United
Front government that has now passed into history.
Vajpayee government may last full term
- David Devadas
Business Standard
- March 12, 1998
>>>I wouldn't be surprised if Mr Vajpayee's government lasts its
full term. Almost 400 of the new members were not in the last
House, and there's no guarantee that as many would not be
replaced next time. The wife of one member says her husband
borrowed Rs 40 lakh to win, and he is surely not the only one.
We are proud of you, Shri Narayanan
- Posted By Krishnakant Udavant Organiser
- March 8, 1998
>>>The President has merely drawn the Prime Minister's attention to
the constitutional improprieties in UP and sought his views on
the subject. Where I failed to disturb the Prime Minister's
evening walk, the President has tried to wake him from his
slumber.
We can send missiles to all Indian cities: Pak expert
- Muhammad Najeeb
The Economic Times
- March 19, 1998
>>>Pakistan's top nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan has said his
country's missiles were capable of targeting every Indian city 'm
case of a war.
In an interview with the Jeddah-based Urdu News, the scientist
...
What's in a name
- Editorial
The Indian Express
- March 7, 1998
>>>The concept of working majority may be alien to the Constitution
but it does suggest a solution to the present political deadlock
at the Centre. To obtain a simple majority, the BJP needs the
support of about 20 more MPs. Half the party's problem is over
if the 12-member Telugu Desam Party decides to support its claim
...
What's wrong with ational_culture
- Rajendra Prabhu
Observer
- March 17, 1998
>>>An academic observer of Indian drama, Arend Lijphart of the
University of California, wrote a paper in The American Political
Science Review in June 1996 where he characterised the puzzle of
Indian democracy as a 'consociational' rather than a 'consensus'
one.
When valets catch ambition
- T. V. R. Shenoy
The Indian Express
- March 14, 1998
>>>Wanted: A president for the Indian National Congress. Excellent
pay. Free housing for life. Corruption and Communism no bar.
Experience as a doormat absolutely essential." No, I haven't
(yet) seen such an advertisement in the employment pages. But
everybody knows that there is a vacancy in Akbar Road.
Yes, Prime Minister
- The Editorial
The Statesman
- March 22, 1998
>>>In her customary, if somewhat better deserved, front-row seat at
the swearing-in ceremony, Congress president and CPP leader Sonia
Gandhi was spotted presenting a freezing shoulder to Prime
Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, who promised that the Bofors probe
will be expedited. Perhaps the Congress president was more
...
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