Ayodhya backlash: the BJP plans to force early elections
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An agitation campaign to force Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao's Congress party into an early general election has been initiated by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The impetus behind this move was the demolition of the long-disputed Ayodhya mosque. The political situation becomes more acute with the perceived factional disputes within the Congress. The BJP aims at further crippling government efforts by attacking budgetary measures while trying to gain credit for the Ayodhya issue.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1993
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Demolitions zealot: civil servant's mandate is to raze corruption
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KJ Alphons has made a career and a plethora of enemies by attacking corruption and favoritism in India's govt. As the Delhi Development Authority's commissioner for land and projects, he relishes destroying the buildings private people - many of them wealthy and powerful - put up on public land. He also helped create the Jana Shakti movement promoting power for the masses. As a district magistrate he launched programs giving his state India's highest literacy rate and lowest birth rate.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1995
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Saffron nationalism: minorities fear upsurge of Hindu revivalists
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The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) stepped up campaign to win power in India has raised the alarming specter of an ultra-nationalist and bigoted government. TheBJP seeks to draw a sharp line in Indian society between an indigenous Hindu community and unwelcome Muslim intruders. The party also propagates the myth that Muslims are given preferential treatment over Hindus.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1993
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