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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
...
Mr speaker, Sir! - The Editorial
- Statesman
- March 25, 1998
>>>Yet again, the BJP have exposed the bankruptcy of thought and
action in the Congress, now under new management, and in the
United Front, under no management at all. P A Sangma, the Speaker
of the dissolved Lok Sabha, agreed to serve again if, but only
if, he were the consensus choice of the Congress, the United
...
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
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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
...
Let hawks remain hawks - Ranjan Gupta
- The Indian Express
- March 27, 1998
>>>The coming of the BJP marks a political watershed in India,
between the old and the new. It is not just change of parties but
a clear ideological switch with the old guard, former
Congressmen, present Congressmen, communists, socialists and
others of various familiar hues making way for a new right-of-
...
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.
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
...
Longer innings for Vajpayee this time - Virendra Kapoor
- Free Press Journal
- March 25, 1998
>>>Mulayam Singh Yadav and other professional secularists
notwithstanding, Atal Behari Vajpayee's second innings as Prime
Minister will be much longer than his first in June 1996. That is
one prediction which is least likely to go wrong in these
politically uncertain times. For to repeat the thirteen- day
...
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
...
Malaysia seals Hindu temple - The Editor
- Asian Age
- March 24, 1998
>>>The Malaysian police in the northern state of Penang on Monday
sealed off a 50-year old Hindu temple in an attempt to defuse
tension between people of different religions.
n the past few days , tension been rising in the area around
...
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,
...
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
...
My victory is a turning point for Congress - Sant Kumar Sharma
- The Times Of India
- March 21, 1998
>>>Mufti Mohammed Sayeed has remained implacably opposed to
Kashmir's number one political family, the Abdullahs. He was one
of the few Congress leaders willing to take on Sheikh Mohammed
Abdullah during the Sher-e-Kashmir's heyday. And he has had a
running feud with Farooq Abdullah who blames him for the
...
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
...
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
...
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.
...
Trail to Pakistan
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
...
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
...
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
...
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,
...
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
...
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.
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
...
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
...
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.
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.
...
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 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
...
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
...
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.
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.
Needed: Marriage Counselors, Not Common Programmes - Arun Shouries
- The Observer
- March 13, 1998
>>>Thirty years of our experience shows that no coalition government
has fallen apart because of disagreements over any issue or
policy. Quite the contrary: Issues have been fabricated to push
partners into a corner, it is in the resulting pushing and
shoving that the government has fallen - another pedestrian
...
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.
...
Learn to patent products the US way - Anju Ghangurde
- Financial Express
- March 23, 1998
>>>Tough the signing of the WTO agreement makes it obligatory for
India to usher in the product patent regime by 2005 for
pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, the new government should
ensure that domestic industry is well-supported to get its act
together on the R&D ,front in the interim. Besides, India could
...
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
...
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.
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.
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.
...
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?"
...
Is the CPM a waning party? - Dina Nath Mishra
- The Observer
- March 19, 1998
>>>For long, the adjective reserved for the CPM has been 'stagnant'.
It has been stagnant politically. Its performance in the
elections underlined it. It has been a stagnant force
geographically also. It could not cross the borders of Kerala,
West Bengal and tiny Tripura. Intellectual stagnation was too
...
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
...
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.
Electoral report card - Report
- The Economic Times
- March 19, 1998
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------------Total Votes Polled: 37.2 crores
Total Invalid -Votes: 68.69 lakh
---------------------------------------------------------------------
...
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
...
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
...
North Block's havenot - The Editorial
- 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.
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
...
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
...
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.
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
...
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
...
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
...
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
...
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
...
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.
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.
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
...
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
...
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.
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.
...
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.
Jaya episode an embarrassment to BJP-led coalition: Hegde - Press Trust India
- The Financial Express
- March 16, 1998
>>>Lok Shakti leader Ramakrishna Hegde has admitted that the
Jayalalitha episode was a setback and an "embarrassment" to the
BJP-led coalition and said the AIADMK supremo had demanded a
"specific portfolio" for a "specific person=94.
...
Modern education in a urukul environment - Hubert Vaz
- The Afternoon Despatch and Courier
- March 11, 1998
>>>One of the ambitious service projects of the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in the country is the Keshav Shrushti
Complex, near Bhayander, which incorporates three main activities
- education, agriculture and herbal medicine. Of these
activities, the Ram Ratna Vidya Mandir residential school Is
...
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.
...
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
...
Islamic radicals sprouted under CPM, DMK rule - K V Lakshmana and Suresh Unnithan
- The Observer
- March 12, 1998
>>>BJP's deputy leader in Rajya Sabha 0 Rajagopal, a hardcore RSS
adherent, was confident of breaking into the Dravidian bastion
even though psephologists and political pundits scoffed at the
idea two months ago. The strategic alliance with Jayalalitha and
the attempt on L K Advani's life in the serial bomb blasts in
...
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.
Spirituality is the only succour for today's youth
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.
...
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
...
Saffron across the seven seas
Modernise Muslim education - P.V. Indiresan
- The Hindu
- February 26,1998
>>>Aseries of bomb explosions in Coimbatore have killed many people.
The same day, a bomb went off in Wuhan in China killing a similar
number of people. Both the explosions were ascribed to Islamic
extremists. Every right thinking Muslim should be concerned that
in many parts of the world, acts of terrorism are routinely
...
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
...
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.
...
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 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-
...
Muslim in the RSS :'loyalty to India is loyalty to Islam' - Pratap Thorat
- The Asian Age
- January 13, 1998
>>>It is said that the number of Muslim swayamsevks, who
participated in the last week's Vidarbha regional camp of the
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh held near Nagpur was 100.
Sangh authorities refuse to give official figures, saying : "The
...
I am not anti-MNC but pro-swadeshi, says George Fernandes
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
...
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,
...
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.
...
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.
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
...
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
...
Kerala CPM against supporting Cong-led Govt - T K Devasla
- The Observer
- March 7, 1998
>>>THE Kerala unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is
overwhelmingly against the idea of supporting the Congress to
form a non-Bharatiya Janata Party Government at the Centre.
The idea, put forth by party general secretary Harkishan Singh
...
Did she or didn she: Experts differ on Sonia effect
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
...
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.
Election 98 - Party Position
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
...
No intrigues, please - Editorial
- The Asian Age
- March 4, 1998
>>>The electorate has just now told the world that it does not
consider the Bharatiya Janata Party an untouchable anymore. In
this essential respect, let its adversaries - and their number
may actually decrease, as the distinctive whiff of power travels
towards the saffron brigade - will do well to learn the difficult
...
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.
...
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
...
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
...
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
...
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
...
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
...
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
...
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 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
...
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
...
Naidu admits UF's failure, goes soft on BJP - Express News Services
- The Indian Express
- March 4, 1998
>>>Retracting from his earlier statement that the Lok Sabha
elections were a referendum on his government, Andhra Pradesh
Chief Minister N Chandrahabu Naidu said he has kept his options
open on extending the Telugu Desam Party's (TDP) support to
either the Congress or BJP at the Centre.
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
...
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
...
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
...
Learning by undoing - Editorial
- The Economic Times
- March 4, 1998
>>>The principle of learning, rather than catch-phrases like antiincumbency, swings and indices of unity, might explain the 1998
election results. Political lessons have two components. One,
learning from the electorate: voters punish under-performing
representatives. Performance, measured by nuts-and-bolts local
l
...
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
...
Left, SP will decide future of UF - Smita Gupta
- The Times of India
- March 4, 1998
>>>The Left parties which have emerged as the largest block in the
United Front (UF) and Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party (SP)
will play a prominent role in the future of the front, apart from
the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which has done reasonably well in
Andhra Pradesh.
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
...
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.
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
...
Muslims prefer secular over identity politics - Taran N Khan
- The Times of India
- March 2, 1998
>>>The BJP's claim that the minorities have begun ethinking' is
correct, but that they have also started gravitating towards the
party on the eve of the polls is inaccurate. On February 7, a
meeting of Muslim intellectuals in Delhi was held under the
auspices of Minorities Forum, to discuss the current political
...
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.
...
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