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The saffron blitz krieg - Rajiv Bajaj
- The Daily
- December 21, 1997
>>>The BJP is on a roll, and no mistake. This time the strategy has
been planned out systematically like a proper military campaign.
As it should be. From its bastion in Uttar Pradesh in the North
to the huge swathe of saffron that extends from Himachal Pradesh
to parts of Punjab to Haryana to Rajasthan to Delhi to Madhya
...
Saffron tide rising? (Part III of III) - D L Singh
- The Economic Times
- December 30, 1997
>>>There is no doubt that before the first round of pre-electoral
politics is over, the advantage has clearly gone to the BJP.
This is not because of any surge in popular support for the BJP.
There is no indication yet that equations at the ground level,
formed since the 1989 elections, between communities, local
...
Saffron tide rising? (Part II of III) - C P Bhambri
- The Economic Times
- December 30, 1997
>>>The 11th Lok Sabha elections held in the summer of 1996, provided
an opportunity to the BJP to form its government and mobilise the
support of some political groups to substantiate the claim of its
parliamentary majority. It was shocked to see that none of the
many political groups decided to support it. The Atal Bihari
...
Saffron tide rising? (Part I of III) - K R Malkani
- The Economic Times
- December 30, 1997
>>>In May 1996, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed the
government. However, it could not put together a majority and so
it went out. The question arises: Why did BJP fail to attract
regional parties?
...
Hindutva a way of life - UNI
- The Pioneer
- December 27, 1997
>>>Mr R Kumaramangalam said here on Friday that the entry of Ms
Sonia Gandhi into active politics would not help the Congress and
its leaders would be interested only in exploiting her.
He was replying to a question from newspersons at the state BJP
...
BJP sees over 300 lotuses bloom in Lok Sabha - Sudesh K Verma, Bhubaneshwar
- The Business Standard
- December 22, 1997
>>>The three-day session of the Bharatiya Janata Party's national
executive ended on an optimistic note yesterday, with senior
office bearers predicting that the party and its allies would win
308 of the 544 Lok Sabha seats, against just 193 seats in the
recently dissolved 11th Lok Sabha.
BJP gets all too touchable - S. Rajagopalan
- The Hindustan Times
- December 21, 1997
>>>=93Dilli chalo". At any cost. It's a no-holds-barred pursuit of
power that the Bharatiya Janata Party has embarked upon in the
run-up to the 12th Lok Sabha polls. Much to the chagrin of its
detractors, who are a dime a dozen, the party today is willing to
go to any length, striking deals and making compromises.
What's the ruckus about the BJP? - Lal Krishna Advani
- The Economic Times
- December 28, 1997
>>>The most important thing that strikes me about the last year
(1997) is that the Bharatiya Janata Party's evaluation of the
consequences of the mandateless United Front government has come
true. Right from day one, from the very start, we had been
saying that this will not and could not last.
The next government will pay for United Front mistakes - M. K. Narayanan
- The Asian Age
- December 29, 1997
>>>>From a political and economic standpoint, 1997 was India's annushorribilis. Unfortunately, if one tends to the view that
consciousness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom, then there
is little hope of things improving during the next couple of
months as key members of the caretaker government still refuse to
o
...
Vajpayee confident of nationwide saffron sweep
And the winner is Bharatiya Janata Congress! - M. J. Akbar
- The Asian Age
- December 28, 1997
>>>How many Bengalis does it take to change a light bulb? Five. The
scene: Flight 263 at Calcutta airport on a dawn consumed by haze
in Calcutta and fog in Delhi. There was encouragement in the
captain's flawless-diction view that she would take off soon in
the hope that the Delhi darkness would clear in midnight. As a
...
=93There is no level playing field for Muslims in Congress - Angana Parekh
- The Indian Express
- December 27, 1997
>>>After scoring goals for the Indian hockey team and shooting for
the Congress, Aslam Sher Khan has now taken up a new position in
the Bharatiya Janata Party. On the side-lines since he lost the
Lok Sabha elections in 1996, the former Union minister from
Madhya Pradesh came out openly against Congress President Sitaram
...
UK Muslims object to film on Prophet
Surjeet pooh-poohs BJP's claim of forming govt.
(no subject) - Rizwan Salim
- Hindustan Times
- December 28,1997
>>>On the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition (December 6, 1992), it
is important for Hindus (and Muslims) to understand the importance of
the event in the context of Hindustan's history, past and recent,
present and the future.
...
Kalyan sees change in Muslims view - J. P. Shukla
- The Hindu
- December 23, 1997
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party intends to befriend the minority
community through interaction and by allaying the suspicion
deliberately created in its psyche during the past 50 years. The
party would not take recourse to any artificial means to woo the
community but would treat them at par with any other section of
...
Congress is its own enemy - M V Kamath
- The Free Press Journal
- December 11, 1997
>>>So, after a lot of turmoil, the die is finally cast. None of the
three major groups, the United Front, the Congress and the BJP
could form a stable government. The United Front - quite rightly
- refused to kow-tow to the Congress just to stay in power. It
declined to ditch the DMK. The BJP tried to inveigle some of the
...
Naib Imam sends saffron message - Milap Chand Dandia
- The Asian Age
- December 26, 1997
>>>The Naib Imam of Jama Masjid of Delhi surprised everyone here on
Wednesday when he said that Muslims were quite safe and had
nothing to worry about their well-being in the BJP-ruled states.
The son of Syed Abdullah Bukhari, Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid,
...
Miracles not included - Editorial
- The Indian Express
- December 26, 1997
>>>Tariq Anwar's repeated assertions that Sonia Gandhi can deliver
results if she leads from the front shows that the collective
Congress mind has suffered terminal calcification. He has said
this is possible because "India is a very emotional nation". In
other words, he has stopped short of calling the electorate a
...
Karunakaran irked by sanyasi's hunger strike
"I will be a decisive PM" - Prabhu Chawla and Swapan Dasgupta
- India Today
- December 29, 1997
>>>For a man who is at his natural best before crowds, Atal Bihari
Vajpayee has suddenly become cautious and taciturn. With a long
and exhausting election campaign before him, Vajpayee seems
anxious not to give an anything away. In an interview to
Executive Editor Prabhu Chawla and Deputy Editor Swapan Dasgupta,
...
Little people do big things
Party without a difference - Swapan Dasgupta
- India Today
- December 29, 1997
>>>The BJP must reassure middle India that there is a Lakshman rekha
which will not be crossed.
Many years ago, when saffron was the colour of political
innocence, the BJP was a strange animal. Blessed with leaders
...
BJP is wise and secular - Dina Nath Mishra
- The Observer
- December 25, 1997
>>>The BJP is an untouchable party by birth for all its opponents.
Former Jana Sangha members and others had to form the BJP after
they were practically hounded out of Janata Party by all non-Jana
Sangha groups on the question of dual membership, i e their
simultaneous association with RSS, a Hindu organisation. In
...
A new strategy for BJP in Bihar - Mohan Mishra
- The Times of India
- December 25, 1997
>>>When Mr Cassam Uteem, the President of Mauritius decided to go to
Azamgarh in search of his roots, he thought he was going to
Bihar. If a person has to leave his land in order to put up hard
physical labour elsewhere, such a person must inevitably be
presumed to come from Bihar. Nor has the pattern changed over
...
Waiting for Sonia - Editorial
- The Observer
- December 25, 1997
>>>Congress' strength was that it was the only political party with
a countrywide presence. This has been particularly true for the
last half a decade when the party has been tragically deprived of
the charisma of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. But this advantage is
fast becoming an unbankable factor for t]4e party. The rash of
...
This time, V P Singh's 'Quarantine Strategy' fails - M D Nalapat
- The Times of India
- December 25, 1997
>>>If Teflon has a human face, it must belong to Viswanath Pratap
Singh. Promoted within the Congress Party in the 197a as an
acolyte of Sanjay Gandhi, he fell out with Rajiv by 1986 and
three years later became Prime Minister with BJP support. Today
neither the dynasty tag nor the saffron sticker is associated
...
Crusade against cow slaughter planned - Vimal Jhanjari
- The Times of India
- December 25, 1997
>>>For the first time since independence, heads of various religions
and faiths have combined to evolve a common cause crusade against
cattle slaughter and meat exports. At a month-long camp to be
held at Allahabad in January 1998, distinguished religious heads
will demand, a ban on cow slaughter.
Hindu-Muslim ties are a-changing - Firoz Bakht Ahmed
- The Indian Express
- December 25, 1997
>>>The demolition of the Babri masjid, however barbaric, was not
without its blessings as it initiated in Muslims a silent process
of stock-taking, self-appraisal and introspection. Besides this,
it made Hindus feel a sense of guilt and made them realise the
hollowness of communal politics. Today's Muslims are enlightened
...
Communism's left luggage - Ravi Kapoor
- The Indian Express
- December 25, 1997
>>>Once upon a time, almost every intellectual was a leftist - and
every leftist could pass himself off as an intellectual. The
Berlin Wall came down, the Soviet Union collapsed; at home, the
economy was opened up. Socialism was out, bag and baggage. And
since the leftist intellectual was part of the baggage, he too
...
Shadow over the subcontinent - Kuldip Nayar
- The Indian Express
- December 23, 1997
>>>Even after 50 years, Pakistan has not realised that with partition it
snapped its relations with Indian Muslims. For better or worse, they have
more or less merged with the mainstream. After a great deal of trouble and
hardships, they haste been able to carve a place of dignity in society. A
strong wind of fundamentalism blowing within the country and from abroad
...
Kumaramangalam, Aslam, Ayub set to sign up
Subcontinent's fascist nightmare - Shekhar Gupta
- The Indian Express
- December 24, 1997
>>>For decades, Pakistani liberals have claimed special rights on discussing
and dissecting Indian politics. "Indian politics," the Lahore chatterati
often claims after some spiritual assistance from Messrs Johnnie and
Walker, "is our internal affair".
...
"Principled" politics (a letter) - N. Harihara Subramaniyan, Chennai
- The Hindu
- December 23, 1997
>>>Sir, - If the BJP-AIADMK tie-up is an unprincipled alliance, can anyone
truthfully, say what the principles of Indian politics are? Have not our
politicians let them go a long time ago'?
Thirteen parties, very different in their ideologies, without any pre-poll
...
Of conduct unbecoming - Anmol Sajjan
- The Indian Express
- December 23, 1997
>>>What's common between Newt Gingrich and Majrooh Sultanpuri? A great deal.
They're men who go into massive sulks at perceived 'insults' and who've
once again proved that the earth is round. Two years ago, Gingrich
paralysed America because once Clinton had not invited him into his cabin
on Air Force One thus 'insulting' him.
Hegde and Mamata being courted - Observer Political Bureau
- The Observer
- December 24, 1997
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party and its ally Samata Party have stepped up their
efforts to forge an electoral alliance with Lok Shakti president
Ramakrishna Hegde in Karnataka and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata
Banerjee in West Bengal.
...
Ray of Hope (a letter) - N. Narasimhan, Vivekananda Kendra, Bangalore
- The Times of India
- December 24, 1997
>>>A recent experience showed me that goodness can still be found amidst the
despairful darkness we see almost everywhere. A group of us was travelling
by the Bangalore Guwahati Express to participate in the All India Well
Wisher Meet of Vivekananda Kendra, at Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh. The
train journey to Guwahati took 70 hours. The train has a reputation of
...
"Principled" politics (a letter) - D. Anjaneyulu, Chennai
- The Hindu
- December 23, 1997
>>>Sir, - Your Editorial. "An unprincipled alliance" (Dec. 18) raises a
number of vital issues of socio-political significance that need to be
discussed in a rational manner and with a degree of depth as well as
consistency. While the AIADMK's decision to go in for an alliance with the
BJP in the coming Lok Sabha elections has been denounced as
...
Spare a tear for Mother India - M V Kamath
- Organiser
- December 14, 1997
>>>What keeps a party together-in one piece? An ideal, for one, or
a clear goal (independence, nationalisation, privatisation), a
charismatic leader (Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi), a sense of
being under .siege (the BJP during its Jana Sangh phase). When a
party ceases to have an ideal and has nothing to fight for, it
...
Hindustan's revenge - Rajiv K Bajaj
- The Daily
- December 7, 1997
>>>Five years ago the Babri Masjid came down just the day before.
And with it an illusion was shattered. The illusion of a
civilised democracy, evolving towards emulating the western model
it was derived from. Instead the demolition of the Babri Masjid
brought us all down to the Indian reality. The Indian reality
...
Reforms to go ahead with checks - K V Lakshmana / Imran Khan
- The Observer
- December 22, 1997
>>>Promising stability at the Centre and good governance, Bharatiya
Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Atal Bihari Vajpayee on
Sunday asserted that the economic reform programme would be
carried forward but with modifications to protect the domestic
big and small industry.
Vajpayee warns rivals to play by rules of game
Reclaiming Ram's Birthplace - M V Kamath
- The Times of India
- December 22, 1997
>>>Reading Mr Siddharth Varadarajan's commentary "Ayodhya and After"
(December 6) one bows down to the futility of arguing with people
with a one-track mind. Like a sleep-walker entirely oblivious of
the world around him, the author speaks about "an ancient
monument" (the reference is to the Babri Masjid standing on
...
VHP(A) wants space for Hindus in Holocaust museum - Biju Mathew
- Communalism Combat
- December 1997
>>>The VHPA, the flagship organisation of Hindutva in North America
works silently in the shadows of multi-culturalism in the US,
rarely, if ever, emerging into public spotlight. On the rare
occasion that the VHPA emerges in public spaces it appears
appropriately dressed in the garb of a 'cultural" organisation
...
Questions for Bangladesh - Chanchal Sarkar
- The Pioneer
- December 17, 1997
>>>One journeys to Bangladesh with a satchelful of brow-furrowing
questions, hoping to stitch answers together. Here are some: What
is the influence of Islam on people of various levels and how
different is Bangladesh's Islam from that of other countries?
What do the military think today and how stable are civil-
...
Pak keeps denigrating India, so how will Gujral doctrine work? - M. V. Kamath
- The Free Press Journal
- December 18, 1997
>>>Prime Minister Inder Gujral wants to he friendly with all of
India's neighbours. And they include Sri Lanka and Maldives in
the South, Bangladesh in the East, Nepal and Bhutan in the North
and Pakistan in the West. It is a perfectly commendable wish. We
need to live in peace with each other and with ourselves. India
...
Dilli chalo!
Friend in need? - Sreedhar Pillai, Trivandrum
- Sunday
- December 21-27, 1997
>>>Namboodiripad seeks an electoral ally in the Muslim League
The CPI(M) veteran, E.M.S. Namboodiripad, has again made a
surprise move on the eve of the parliamentary election. He has
invited the second-largest constituent of the Opposition United
...
The empire strikes back - Suma Varghese
- The Free Press Journal
- December 5, 1997
>>>I know this is a slightly delayed reaction, but I cannot resist
making it. I refer to the much-publicised British Golden Jubilee
Banquet held in London a few weeks back. It was here that Cherie
Blair, the PM's wife, stole all our hearts by turning up in a
sari. But I refer to a more momentous event than that. Namely,
...
India is no Bosnia - Kuldip Nayar
- The Hindustan Times
- December 13, 1997
>>>Kuldip Nayar on Clinton's myopia
President Bill Clinton's comparison of India to Bosnia is unfair
and sweeping. The fracas between the White and the Black in the
US does not make it Bosnia. Nor do the killings of children in
...
Games that ISI plays - Tara Kartha
- The Observer
- December 20, 1997
>>>Intelligence agencies, and the ISI in particular, have begun to
function like a state within a state.
The cloak and Kalashnikov boys at the ISI (Inter Services
Intelligence) and various other allied outfits in Pakistan are
...
Departures from Congress turn into cavalcade - Observer Political Bureau
- The Observer
- December 19, 1997
>>>The departures from the Congress have turned into a cavalcade.
The latest to desert the its ranks are Mr Mani Shankar Aiyer and
former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Bhaskara Rao, both of whom
announced their dissociation with the party on Thursday.
...
Manmohan, Chidambaram's knuckles to be rapped - K V Lakshmana
- The Observer
- December 20, 1997
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party will come out with a chargesheet
against two former Finance Ministers, Dr Manmohan Singh and Mr P
Chidambaram, accusing them of landing the country into an
economic mess.
...
Congress, JD, SP face nemesis: Advani - Imran Khan
- The Observer
- December 20, 1997
>>>Pepped up by the party's internal assessment of a certain victory
in the coming hustings, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday
began Its crucial election-eve national executive meet, with its
president L K Advani predicting "big surprises" in virgin areas
like Tamil Nadu, Orissa, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.
IUML flexes muscles, but sticks with Cong
Taciturn Gujral Front's new albatross - Monobina Gupta
- The Telegraph
- December 19, 1997
>>>Throughout his tenure as Prime Minister, Mr I.K. Gujral never
deigned to heed his party's advice and as a caretaker Prime
Minister now, he cares even less.
His continuing disregard for his party is making him a liability
...
And PM in trouble for Akali flirtation - Kay Benedict
- The Asian Age
- December 18, 1997
>>>Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral is in trouble with the United
Front leaders for his readiness to contest the Jalandhar
parliamentary seat with Akali support, his unwillingness to drop
the three Rashtriya Janata Dal ministers from the Cabinet, his
breakfast with Mr Laloo Prasad Yadav and tea party with Mr Kanshi
...
Sharif's son on =91secret visit to Delhi, dines with Gujral
Vajpayee or power brokers? - Dina Nath Mishra
- The Observer
- December 18, 1997
>>>To avoid repeating historic blunders, it is time to recall the
way H D Deve Gowda of Karnataka was chosen as Prime Minister of
the United Front.
A front that did not exist before the elections and a candidate
...
Haryana's Apni Beti Apna Dhan scheme starts paying off
Saffron romance of Cong MPs leaves them out in cold - Pramod Pagedar
- The Economic Times
- December 18, 1997
>>>A brief spell of 'saffron romance' enjoyed by certain Congress
members from Maharashtra in the recently dissolved Lok Sabha may
eventually lead to their being left out in the cold when the
party's, official list of candidates for the mid-term poll is
released sometime in mid-January.
BJP has won first round of polls: Naidu - Press Trust of India
- The Observer
- December 15, 1997
>>>The BJP was ahead of other parties in identifying poll issues,
formulating campaign strategies and projecting prime ministerial
candidate and has thus won the 'first round' in the run up to
snap polls, its General Secretary M Venkaiah Naidu claimed on
Sunday.
BJP - from a 'sign board party' to JD's bed-fellow - Imran Khan
- The Observer
- December 15, 1997
>>>Bharatiya Janata Party was described as a 'sign board party' in
Orissa by the late Biju Patnaik in the 90s. But had he been
alive today, he must have been ruing over his statement, because
it is his Janata Dal, widely known as 'Biju Dal', which is
fatally attracted towards the saffron brigade, which has become a
...
Advani's goodwill to aid BJP for exploring South - Observer Political Bureau
- The Observer
- December 15, 1997
>>>The BJP's Southward drive will be powered by a high-intensity
campaign by its President L K Advani, who will be concentrating
on the four major Southern states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil
Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh which have already accorded good to
tumultous receptions to the BJP veteran on his Swarn Jayanti Rath
...
India to track but needs to step up the pace: Barnevik - Arindam Sengupta and Nandini Sengupta
- The Economic Times
- December 12, 1997
>>>He has always been bullish on India. It's for that reason, Mr Perey
Barnevik - the famed ex-chief executive of ABB, now chairman of
Investor AB, which is the principal owner of the Wallenberg
companies that owns ABB, Ericsson, Saab, Sandvik rarely misses
a chance to visit the country. And so he was here for the World
...
BJP confident of majority, will be cautious on globalisation - Observer Political Bureau
- The Observer
- December 12, 1997
>>>Bharatiya Janata Party president L K Advani on Thursday
declared that bringing the economy back on rails would be the top
most priority of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government, which was
certain to be installed after mid-term elections early next year.
...
Mulayam's firm 'no' to Cong; Mishra, Bangarappa revolt - Observer Political Bureau
- The Observer
- December 12, 1997
>>>The Samajwadi Party on Thursday reiterated its commitment to
the United Front and ruled out the possibility of any electoral
understanding with the Congress or the Bahujan Samaj Party in the
coming elections. At the same time, the SP said that it would not
do anything that would help the Bharatiya Janata Party.
What does 'dynamic instability' mean? - Sunil Sethi
- The Times of India
- December 12, 1997
>>>When John Kenneth Galbraith, the modern messiah of economic
health in the 1970s and a dedicated India hand, called India a
"functioning anarchy" he invented one of those smart phrases that
stuck for decades with the persistence of a designer label. It
lingered because, in its time, the witticism had the ring of truth. It
...
We are a pre-eminent nation in space research - G. Indira
- Vande Mataram
- December, 1997
>>>Prajna Bharati A.P celebrated its VI anniversary by felicitating the
most dynamic and successful scientist, the Chairman of the Indian
Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Dr. K. Kasturi Rangan with
the S.B.I. - Prajna Puraskar - 1997 award on 12th December, 1997
at Hyderabad.
Ultimate Cure and Real Cure - T N Kaul (New Delhi)
- The Times of India
- December 4, 1997
>>>Sir, - I agree with Mr H K Dua's front page editorial, "The Ultimate
Cure" (November 30) that 'the ultimate clue lies wills the people'.
But how can they administer this cure? One way is through the
President who represents indirectly the will of the people. This is of
immediate value. But in the long iron the remedy lies in the voter
...
Stability is the imperative - Dina Nath Mishra
- The Observer
- December 11, 1997
>>>The Indian electorate is very scared of political instability at the
Centre, and rightfully so. If there is political turmoil in a state due to
any reason, it's the people who feel bad about it.
People want stable government in their respective states: but if
...
BJP wants to rope in Mamata - Observer
- The observer
- December 10, 1997
>>>The BJP is baking on the disgruntled elements in the Congress
and the Janata Dal to make a meaningful entry into West Bengal
and Orissa respectively. While Sushma Swaraj has been deputed
by the Central leadership to rope in firebrand dissenting Congress
leader Mamata Banerjee, local leaders from Orissa unit have
...
Congress may propose and Mulayam may dispose - Observer Political Bureau
- The Observer
- December 10, 1997
>>>The Congress is foreseeing its role in Uttar Pradesh as sort of a
coupling device between the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan
Samaj Party, which do not see eye-to-eye with each other.
For this purpose, the Congress strategists have devised a formula
...
Making leaders, the ISI way - M Ilyas Khan
- The Observer
- December 11, 1997
>>>Leaders are born, not manufactured. They are thrown up by
people spontaneously. And it is the people who decide whether
any of their leaders has overstepped his mandate. No college
degrees are needed to practice this simple human function. Some
nations have attained greatness by acknowledging this truth.
...
Dhasal gets enigmatic with new-found friendship with Sena - Vidyadhar Date
- The Times of India
- December 11, 1997
>>>The decision of Namdeo Dhasal, the once-radical Dalit Panther
leader and gifted poet, to join hands with the Shiv Sena has come
'!m a surprise to observers. He has invited Sena leader Uddhav
Thackeray to attend a function in Pune on Friday to mark the 25
years of the Dalit Panther organisation.
O bad new world - Clinton gets it wrong: India is not Bosnia - Editorial
- The Indian Express
- December 10, 1997
>>>Then it was the Great Communicator. Capitalism's smartest
cowboy, Ronald Reagan took upon himself the historic
responsibility of raffling the Evil Empire. With Reagan at the helm.
Americans had a great sense of domestic well being, matched by
Pax Americana's global confidence. Reagan was the feel-good
...
Notions of Nations - Building on an historical inheritance - Mohit Sen
- The Times of India
- December 10, 1997
>>>The national state is under unprecedented assault. It would be
one-sided to blame only the government for its incapacity and
ineptitude, though it must also be blamed. There are others who
are far more guilty. They are those who are doing the assaulting.
...
Our 'Hindu' identity: A vision for the millennium
End internal feud, Basu tells partymen
India's quest for stability - M.H. Askari
- Dawn, Karachi
- Dec 10, 1997.
>>>A SURVEY conducted by a team of political analysts presented on an
Indian television channel the other day revealed that the mid-term
elections due to be held there in March will fail to produce a national
party strong enough to bring stability to the country - a matter which
is of direct concern to Pakistan.
...
The Muslim question - C. P. Bhambhri
- The Hindustan Times
- December 4, 1997
>>>The dominant sections of the Indian political class have always
believed that diverse cultural groups deserve not only
Constitutional and legal protection for their specific cultural,
linguistic and religious needs, they also require a concrete policy
and programmatic interventions to take care of their perceived
...
Left suspicious of Mulayam stance - Correspondent
- The Asian Age
- December 8, 1997
>>>Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav is likely to be
questioned on his soft stance towards the Congress by the Left
parties in the steering committee meeting of the United Front to be
held on Monday.
...
Seat-sharing may sour Congress, RJD Bihar pact - J. P. Yadav
- The Asian Age
- December 8, 1997
>>>The seat-sharing between the ruling Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar
and the Congress may run into rough weather following a
declaration by the former that it will give only four out of the total 54
Lok Sabha seats in the state to the Congress.
...
Congress personifies corruption: Vajpayee - Observer Political Bureau / Agencies
- The Observer
- December 8, 1997
>>>In a scathing attack on the Congress, which was "now trying to
inject a moral tone into its political immorality," former Prime
Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Atal Behari Vajpayee
said, "After pulling down the second United Front Government
within six months of pulling down the first one and failing to install
...
Picture this Nirad - Kanchan Gupta
- The Pioneer
- November 22, 1997
>>>This Sunday an Indian unknown to most of his countrymen will
enter the one hundred and first year of his life far away from Indian
shores at his semi-detached house on Lathbury Road in Oxford. If
he was unknown in 1951 when his first book, Autobiography of an
Unknown Indian, was published to critical acclaim abroad and
...
Samajwadis to project Mulayam as future PM - Correspondent
- The Asian Age
- December 8, 1997
>>>The Samajwadi Party president of Bihar and MP Pappu Yadav
declared on Sunday that his party will carry out its election
campaign in Bihar by projecting their chief, Mr Mulayam Singh
Yadav, as the future Prime Minister of the country.
...
BJP is filling the Congress space - C P Bhambhri
- The Pioneer
- November 25, 1997
>>>The BJP must have been pleasantly surprised when 21 MLAs of
the Congress in UP opted t6 support and share power with its
State Government. Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Mr LK Advani, on
the basis of some hard information, openly invited the Lok Sabha
MPs of the Congress to follow the example set in UP and support
...
'The people of India need a reprieve from political instability' - President of India
- The Asian Age
- December 5, 1997
>>>The following is the text of the presidential communique on
dissolution of the Lok Sabha:
1. Shri Sitaram Kesri, President, All India Congress Committee
and leader, Congress Parliamentary Party informed the President
...
India, a Rashtra misconstrued as Nation - MM Sankhdher
- The Pioneer
- December 2, 1997
>>>Perhaps it is never too late to learn from the mistakes of the past
and begin afresh. I think it would now he appropriate, after 50
years of Independence, in the midst of turmoil, to assess where
we have gone wrong. No doubt. it is difficult to identify a single
cause for the decline on all fronts: Social, economic, educational,
...
Tokenism is all - Firoz Bakht Ahmed
- The Pioneer
- November 22, 1997
>>>Even half a century after Independence, Muslim institutions of
learning remain neglected and cut off from the mainstream
producing students who are misfits in the modern world of the
information boom. The community remains backward in so far as
strides in education, economy and development are concerned.
Watch Gujral in the run up to elections! - C R Irani
- The Statesman
- December 2, 1997
>>>Anyone watching the antics of Sitaram Kesri and Pranab
Mukherjee these last few days must be sick to the point of disgust.
Even Arjun Singh and Jitendra Prasada, Sonia Gandhi's foot
soldiers, have fallen silent. It was seven weeks ago that Prasada
fired the first salvo asking that the DMK be removed from
...
UF Govt's common minimum performance - Pamela Philipose
- The Indian Express
- December 7, 1997
>>>Could do better. This expression, favoured by many school
teachers, should find a place in a report card on the United Front's
performance in the social welfare sector.
At the end of the day, the Common Minimum Programme (CMP),
...
DD's new despot - Coomi Kapoor
- The Indian Express
- December 7, 1997
>>>Doordarshan's new CEO is certainly making waves. Within days
of taking over, he has hired a former DD correspondent, Prabhat
Dabral, for a phenomenal Rs 2,000 a day -working out to Rs
60,000 a month, which is twice Gill's own salary and some four
times more than the take-home pay of senior DD supervisory
...
Front unlikely to project Gujral as coalition leader
Archbishop plea for greater tolerance - Associated Press
- The Asian Age
- December 7, 1997
>>>Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey had made a plea for
greater unity and understanding between Muslims and Christians
while on a visit to Pakistan.
In a speech to Pakistan's Islamic University the Archbishop called
...
Religion as convenience - Editorial
- Mid-Day
- December 3, 1997
>>>How convenient for Saifee Nadeem Akhtar that he has suddenly discovered
that he is a Muslim. It was obviously not on the top of his mind until a
clever
defence lawyer pointed out to him that it would be -a useful way of quashing
the extradition request -made by the Indian Government in connection with the
...
Sunni Muslims boycott ijtema congregation - Dharmesh Thakkar
- The Asian Age
- December 4, 1997
>>>The Tablighi Ijtema Jamaat-sponsored two-day ijtema (congregation) at the
Bandra Kurla complex which ended on Monday, was boycotted by members
of the Sunni sect as various religious bodies urged them to stay away from
the gathering.
...
Autonomous Airwaves - Getting the big picture right - M D Nalapat
- The Times of India
- December 3, 1997
>>>Have any colour car you like, so long as it is black", said Henry Ford to
customers' of his Model T. So long as the company had a monopoly in its
price-quality range, sales were brisk. Once competition revved up, they
crashed. Some civil servants resemble Henry Ford. Steeped in memories of
the Imperial Civil Service, when there were no pesky legislators or irreverent
...
Follow the divine verses - Sultan Shahin
- The Indian Express
- December 2, 1997
>>>Salman Rushdie's Muslim critics have reason to celebrate. Now the
defenders of Rushdie in the Western Press are themselves talking of his
'Satanic ways', 'shocking, bad taste', etc. in the wake of his comments on what
he called in a New Yorker article "the pornography of Diana Spencer's
death" in a "sublimated sex assault". The Christian West that was not
...
Flesh trade under 'official' patronage! - Suresh Kumar Unnithan
- The Observer
- December 4, 1997
>>>For long, Kerala has been projected as a role model of development and
social revolution. The same state has now been reduced to a showpiece of
decadence and sexual deviance. The recent cases of organised flesh trade
with the blessings of politicians and the police have exposed the state as an
emerging centre of sleaze.
Congress' Judas from MP tries to lure leader - Special Correspondent
- The Asian Age
- December 4, 1997
>>>Deputy leader of the Congress party in the Lok Sabha G. Venkatswamy was
offered the home ministry in a non-Congress government. The offer was
made to him by a senior member of the Congress from Madhya Pradesh on
last Tuesday.
...
Marxist Muzzle - Newsnotes
- India Today
- December 8, 1997
>>>In the good old days, the flow of information from the Marxist headquarters
was tightly controlled. But 20 years is enough time for a breakdown. Angered
at the detailed reports appearing in the "bourgeois" press on the wrangling in
the CPI(M)'s ongoing organisational elections, Central Committee leader
Biman Bose first threatened action against those comrades suspected of
...
Dubious moves - M. G. Radhakrishnan
- India Today
- December 8, 1997
>>>The withdrawal of the all India Democratic Women's Association and the
Democratic Youth Federation of India from the all-party joint Action Committee
(JAC)-formed to pressure the Government into speedy investigation of the
Kozhikode sex racket case-has led to accusations that the CPI(M)-led ruling
LDF was trying to shield the guilty. The two organisations have alleged that
...
Behmai 'widows' will forgive Phoolan if given party ticket - Tilak Sharma
- The Times of India
- December 3, 1997
>>>So, finally it seems the residents of Behmai village in Kanpur Dehat district,
where 20 people were allegedly gunned down by Phoolan-led gang on
February 14, 1981, have decided to relent, if not offer an "olive branch"
altogether. But not without a "rider" to their offer, according to reports
received here.
A failure to active nationalism: Advani - Staff reporter
- The Hindu
- November 12, 1997
>>>In his "Integral Humanism" thesis, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya analysed
the root of all our problems to be the "Neglect of the National Self." He wrote
:
"It is essential we think about our national identity. Under alien rule, this
identity is suppressed. That is why nations wish to remain independent so
...
Tide turns against Nayanar - D Jose
- Rediff On Net
- December 3, 1997
>>>Kerala Chief Minster E K Nayanar has reason to worry since the trade
union group to which he belongs and which is led by bosses of the Centre
for Indian Trade Unions, seems to have lost its clout, getting drubbed
in the Communist Party of India-Marxist organisational election.
Nayanar is even uneasier because he was once a member of the other side,
...
Opinion polls
Bihar Today: CM leads the anarchists - J. P. Yadav
- The Asian Age
- November 30, 1997
>>>Has anarchy gripped Bihar? The question looms large, as unrest on
all fronts oozes out throwing the system out of gear. Here are a
few instances to gauge the chaotic situation.
The policemen storm into the courtroom of Bhagalpur civil court
...
"Economy of country in jeopardy" - K. Vaidiyanathan
- The Hindustan Times
- November 23, 1997
>>>Yashwant Sinha finds a place of prominence among the former
bureaucrats turned politicians. This IAS officer from Bihar was
the blue-eyed boy of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narain and former Bihar
Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur. His forays into politics were
through the Janata Party under Chandrashekhar for whom Sinha
...
New Delhi - Sheela Reddy
- The Asian Age
- November 19, 1997
>>>Surprisingly, it is the Hindutva parivar which has taken to
computarisation with all the adroitness of a duck to water. There
are, for instance, at least half-a-dozen websites on Internet,
including overseas friends of the BJP, emblazoned in the
predictable saffron hue, carrying among other gems, an article
...
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