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How to hate Hindus and incite Muslims: A Primer by Prof Tahir Mahmood - Kanchan Gupta
- Rediff on the Net
- March 29, 1999
>>> I have before me a three-page note headlined Inducement
by Law for Being a Hindu, authored and circulated by
Professor Tahir Mahmood, chairman of the National
Commission for Minorities. The content of this note is
unadulterated verjuice and the purpose of the author is
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Sonia playing casteist politics, says Thakre
Congress part of a deep conspiracy in violence against Christians: BJP - PTI
- Indian Express
- March 25, 1999
>>> BHUBANESWAR: The BJP today accused the
ruling Congress in Orissa of being part of
a deep-rooted conspiracy leading to a
chain of recent attacks on Christians in
the state. The Congress is squarely behind
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Congress plan to topple BJP govt a 'pipe dream': Advani - Bharti Jain
- economic Times
- March 25, 1999
>>> SHIMLA 24 MARCH
UNION home minister L K Advani has dismissed
the Congress' reported moves to topple the BJP
government in the current session as a ''pipe
dream'' and invoked the threat of a mid-term
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BJP asks Sonia to break 'dubious silence' on Bihar
Cong move to topple Govt will fail: BJP
Like Banquo's ghost, Bihar's dead will come to haunt our secular politicians - Kanchan Gupta
- Rediff on the Net
- March 22, 199
>>> Yet another massacre has been reported from Bihar's
Jehanabad district. The details are the same: The
messengers of death descended on the cursed village in
the dead of night, slaughtered men, women and children
deep in sleep, and snuffed out 35 human lives. The only
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Keep House in order, PM tells Congress
The Congress leadership is worried by the three Bs -- Bus, Bihar and the Budget - Virendra Kapoor
- Rediff on the Net
- March 20, 1999
>>> The financial integrity of Vajpayee, Home
Minister L K Advani and other senior ministers remains
beyond reproach. This government has not fathered the
bank-stock scam a la Narasimha Rao-Manmohan Singh which
had left the State exchequer poorer by over Rs 100
...
A mixed year of Vajpayee government: fine initiatives marred by allies - Virender Kapoor
- Rediff on the Net
- March 20, 1999
>>> The Vajpayee government has completed one year
in office. That, like it or not, is an achievement by
itself. For, a year ago hardly anyone, barring the most
optimistic of its supporters, gave it even a year.
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Cong trying to forcibly capture power: Vajpayee
Power-hungry Cong has become irrational: Advani - News Agencies
- The Pioneer
- March 21, 1999
>>> Thiruvananthapuram
Union Home Minister L K Advani on Saturday said that the
Bihar Government "itself protects, promotes and patronises
crime" and the Congress had taken a "confused" and
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Vajpayee celebrates govt's first anniversary - Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - The Pioneer
- March 20, 1999
>>> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee could not have chosen a
more apt manner to celebrate the first anniversary of his
Government. Putting his best foot forward, he broke bread
with the residents of Sikheda, a village in UP's Ghaziabad
district; visited a Dalit household and accepted the Quran
...
Hindu era enters 52nd century
"I am not at Congress' Mercy": Vajpayee - Prabhu Chawla
- India Today
- March 22, 1999
>>> Even before he became Prime Minister, Atal
Bihari Vajpayee combined formidable eloquence in
public speaking with colossal reticence during interviews.
Things haven't really changed. Vajpayee remains economical
with his words and observations. A year in office has,
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A candle for BJP
Christians attacked Hindus first: Orissa CM - TIO News Service
- Times of India
- March 19, 1999
>>> BHUBANESWAR: Orissa chief minister Giridhar
Gomang on Thursday described the communal
violence at Ranalai village in Gajapati district
as a fallout of an attack on Hindus by Christians
earlier in the day.
Buddha, Gandhi, Jehangir under the Bodhi tree, celebration BJP style - Nikhat Kazmi
- Times of India
- March 19, 1999
>>> NEW DELHI: Five hundred actors, five festooned
elephants, fifty thousand square feet of prime
land, five thousand years of Indian history, a
monumental budget of Rs 1.5 crore along with
Sada-e-Sarhad, the famous bus to Lahore,
...
Advani is happy with govt's performance - UNI
- Rediff on the Net
- March 18, 1999
>>> Union Home Minister L K Advani is a happy man
-- happy at the resilience and performance of the
government at the Centre, led by the Bharatiya Janata
Party, in the first year of its existence.
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Vajpayee releases stamp on Hedgewar - UNI
- Rediff on the Net
- March 18, 1999
>>> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today
deplored the increasing tendency of intolerance in
accepting divergent views and said one should have
respect for the other person's views.
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'There is no alternative to our government': PM - UNI
- Rediff on the Net
- March 18, 1999
>>> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Thursday asserted that there was no alternative to the
18-party Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition at the
Centre, even as he charged the Congress with playing a
''dangerous game'' to pin down his government at any
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OFBJP Congratulates Vajpayee Govt at its Anniversary - OFBJP
- (no publication) - March 18, 1999
>>>Today, the BJP led coalition government completes one year in the office.
It is a matter of great satisfaction and joy that despite numerous
obstacles, adverse circumstances and constant attacks from all sides, the
government has performed well and made several historical achievements.
Prime Minister Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee has provided a strong,
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Cong unnerved by Govt's achievements: Vajpayee - HT Correspondent
- Hindustan Times
- March 18, 1999
>>> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today attributed the
Congress's all-out offensive in Parliament to a panic
reaction to the BJP-led Government's "series of
achievements" over the last one year.
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CPM flaunts Varsity stranglehold - Staff Reporter
- The Telegraph, Calcutta
- march 17, 1999
>>>Surabhi Banerjee may yet find her place in history. Not for writing Jyoti
Basu's biography, but for being the catalyst in bringing out in the open
what has so far been in the realm of suspicion. In an honest admission,
CPM's West Bengal secretary Anil Biswas has put it beyond doubt that his
party has colonised institutions of learning and that Banerjee's
...
BJP not a communal party: Arif Mohammed Khan - Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - Organiser
- March 21, 1999
>>>Intellectuals, scholars and leaders of various
political parties, assembled at a book release
function in New Delhi, welcomed the recent Lahore
bus trip of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee
and described it as a major milestone in
...
Body-counts have become big, compelling business - Arun Shourie
- India Connect
- March 16, 1999
>>>The Church had but to get established and it became obsessed with numbers -with the number of souls it had, to use the term so favoured by churchmen,
"harvested" for Jesus. Numbers remain its singular obsession today. The
impulse is not just its own history in this regard. The impulse is not just
its character -- it is, after all, primarily an organization, and therefore
e
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Recall the Goa Inquisition to stop the Church from crying foul - Kanchan Gupta
- Rediff on the Net
- March 16, 1999
>>> His Majesty the king has ordered that there shall be no
Brahmins in his land and that they should be banished.'
'In the name of his Majesty I order that no Hindu can or
shall perform marriages'
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BJP stabilises at a time of uncertainties - Arun Nehru
- The Pioneer
- March 16, 1999
>>> The BJP has undoubtedly consolidated its position with
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee negotiating a fairly
peaceful week and Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha accepting
favourable comments on a job well done. Meanwhile, the
Congress party has baffled everyone with its position on
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Nail the canard of Guruswamy - Virendra Kapoor
- The Pioneer
- March 14, 1999
>>> It is a strange paradox: The Vajpayee Government is doomed
if it performs. It is also doomed if it performs badly. In
either case, the main Opposition party will try and pull
the plug on it with the help of malcontents in the
present-day polity. Given the precarious numbers backing
...
Amnesty charges militants with targeting Hindus in J & K
Gujarat minister blames Christian missionaries for trouble in state - Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - The Times of India
- Mar 12, 1999
>>>GANDHINAGAR: Minister of state for home Haren Pandya came down heavily on
the Christians on the floor of the state assembly on Thursday for provoking
conversions, attacking the December 25 Hindu Jagran Manch rally at Ahwa and
also for being the main reason behind the Bible-burning incident in Rajkot
last year. "By blowing small incidents out of proportion, the opposition
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RSS body condemns 'false Christian propaganda' - UNI
- Rediff on the Net
- March 13, 1999
>>> The Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha, the
apex body of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, has
strongly condemned the 'false propaganda' of Christian
missionaries to malign Hindu organisations and termed as
partisan the role of the media, particularly that of the
...
My govt has been effective both at home and abroad: Vajpayee - UNI
- Rediff on the Net
- March 13, 1999
>>> ''My government has been effective both at
home and abroad. It is just that foreign policy
successes get more media coverage. Domestic successes do
not,'' Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said in an
interview to India Today.
Sonia's entry into politics foreign-inspired: RSS - PTI
- Indian Express
- March 13, 1999
>>> LUCKNOW: The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh
(RSS) today alleged that "the sudden entry
of Sonia Gandhi into active politics just
ahead of the last general elections was
guided by certain foreign powers which did
...
Sonia's commitment to Dalits is a sham: PM - Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - The Times of India
- Mar 13, 1999
>>>NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has questioned
Congress president Sonia Gandhi's commitment to the cause of Dalits,
and said her party opposed ratification of President's rule in Bihar
merely to ``embarrass'' his government.
...
RSS goes on the offensive, calls Hindus to fight back - Biswajeet Banerjee
- The Times of India
- Mar 13, 1999
>>>LUCKNOW: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on
Friday gave a strident call to Hindus to fight back the
conspiracy to malign and marginalise them. Adopting a
resolution on the second day of the three-day meeting of its
national executive, the RSS exhorted the Hindus to take a
...
RSS begins paper-work on conversions, WTO pact
NRI Intellectuals conference denounces religious conversion in India - Narain kataria
- (no publication) - March 11, 1999
>>> Large scale organized conversions of poor and
illiterate,
either by force, or fraud or allurement, engineered by missionaries and
financially supported by Western nations under the guise of social service,
with an Evangelical zeal, destroy indigenous civilizations and cultures, are
...
BJP to hold countrywide meetings from March 19
Firm Stand - Editorial
- Daily Excelsior
- Mar 11, 1999
>>>Prime Minister AB Vajpayee has made it amply clear that Pakistan has to stop
killings of innocent people in Jammu & Kashmir State by ceasing export of
mercenaries and extending all other material help to them. Mentioning Lahore
Declaration, he reminds Pakistan of the commitment of fight terrorism jointly
wherever it takes place. But some statements emanating from Islamabad reflect
...
Friendship only if Pak stops J&K war: PM - Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - The Pioneer
- March 11, 1999
>>> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday made it
clear to Islamabad that it would be very difficult to
normalise Indo-Pak relations if it continued to wage a
proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the
country.
The law of the land vs their singular focus - Arun Shourie
- India Connect
- march 10, 1999
>>>Now that they have moved out of the headlines, events relating to
missionaries can be considered without histrionics.
There were seven sets of incidents. The first -- the one that most blackened
the name of the country -- was the rape of four nuns in Jhabua, Madhya
...
New millennium begins next week : RSS
Jyoti Basu 's Arrogance born out of nothing in particular - Swapan Dasgupta
- India Today
- March 15, 1999
>>> There is nothing more infuriating than a smugness born of
decadence. Jyoti Basu may be the longest serving chief
minister and a fit candidate for a national award next
Republic Day but he is increasingly coming to resemble the
arrogant zamindar in Satyajit Ray's Jalsaghar. Like the
...
Vajpayee turns adversities into strengths - Prabhu Chawla
- India Today
- March 15, 1999
>>> The Chinese phrase for crisis incorporates the characters
of both "danger" and "opportunity". Worldwide, leaders
appreciate this duality. So does Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee it seems. After faltering and floundering for over
11 months, the prime minister is slowly learning the tricks
...
BJP plans campaign against Congress stand on Bihar - UNI
- Rediff on the Net
- March 9, 1999
>>> The Bharatiya Janata Party Tuesday said it
would launch a nation-wide campaign against the Congress
for ''hoisting misrule'' in Bihar by opposing the
ratification of the President's rule.
...
Advani rules out referendum in Kashmir - UNI
- Rediff on the Net
- March 9, 1999
>>> Union Home Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani told
the Lok Sabha today that Jammu and Kashmir's integration
with India is an "article of faith" for the government,
which cannot, therefore, agree to any referendum on the
status of the state.
BJP to shift blame on Congress for Rabri's return - Tara Shankar Sahay
- Rediff on the Net
- March 8, 1999
>>> With Union Home Minister L K Advani announcing the
Vajpayee government's decision to revoke President's
rule in Bihar, the ruling coalition at the Centre is
poised to squarely blame the Congress for the
restoration of the Rashtriya Janata Dal government
...
BJP plans sound and light show at Siri Fort to celebrate first anniversary - Shekhar Iyer
- The Hindustan Times
- Mar 07, 1999
>>>A night-long cricket match to be telecast on a new Doordarshan sports channel
is among the events on the anvil to celebrate Prime Minister Atal Behari
Vajpayee's completion of one year in office.
Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Minister Pramod Mahajan is
writing the main script.
Govt's stability not in doubt: Advani - PTI
- Daily Excelsior
- Mar 07, 1999
>>>KHASA (AMRITSAR), Mar 6: Union Home Minister L K Advani today said the
Vajpayee Government's success in getting the statutory resolution on
Presidential Rule in Bihar passed in the Lok Sabha coupled with Vajpayee's
historic bus ride to Pakistan and presentation of Union budget have erased
doubts about decisiveness and stability of the BJP-led Government.
How Pakistan scuttled plebiscite issue in Kashmir - K. Brahma Singh Major (Retd)
- Daily Excelsior
- Mar 07, 1999
>>>It is ironical that inspite of the high idealism, bordering on the ridiculous,
displayed by India with regard to the issue of self-determination in Kashmir,
Pakistan, through the medium of viscious propaganda, has been able to create a
strong feeling among the Kashmiris that it is India which is responsible for
denying to them, what they consider to be, their right. So strong has, in
...
The Congress should back Vajpayee's Pakistan Policy . - Tavleen Singh
- India Today
- March 8, 1999
>>> How typical of the Congress to put its trivial political
interests above those of the country. This is one area in
which the party has a long and impressive record. So before
we have had time to savour or even fully understand the
importance of the bus ride to Wagah, the party has dragged
...
A giant step towards self-reliance: BJP - Posted By Dinesh Agrawal - Times of India
- Mar 1, 1999
>>>Patna: Top BJP leaders including its national vice-president
Kailashpati Mishra said that the Union budget presented by Union
Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha in the Parliament on Saturday was a
giant step taken by the BJP led coalition to make the country
self-reliant apart from taking care of the poor and down trodden.
Holi high - Editorial
- Times of India
- Mar 3, 1999
>>>>From shaky Friday to comeback Monday, the BJP-led government has
traversed a psychological distance that should spread cheer both in
bureaucratic and party circles. The weekend had begun ominously for
the BJP coalition, a gloomy economic forecast combining with looming
parliamentary uncertainties to place a question mark on its
...
BJP open to pact with Congress on Bihar issue - Sudha G. Tilak
- Times of India
- Mar 3, 1999
>>>CHENNAI: BJP general secretary M. Venkiah Naidu on Tuesday reeled
out a host of statistics to prove that the BJP-led government at the
Centre had taken the right step to sack the Bihar government,
accusing Laloo Prasad Yadav of entering into a
'I'll-ruin-Bihar-and-you-ruin-India' pact with Sonia Gandhi.
We will not lose any more territory, says PM - PTI
- The Hindu
- March 1, 1999
>>> NEW DELHI, Feb. 28.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, today said that
India and Pakistan would have to make efforts to ensure that
the agreements signed between the two countries in Lahore
...
500 CPI activists join BJP - PTI
- Indian Enpress
- March 1, 1999
>>> PATNA: Around 500 CPI activists of Gaya
district led by Krishna Deo Yadav today
joined BJP after resigning from primary
membership of their party, a BJP release
said. The release by BJP state
...
Joshi charges Basu with `opportunism'
Cong.(I), Left's hypocrisy exposed: Thakre
Study: Fears Trigger Religious Attacks - Krishnan Guruswamy
- Associated Press
- 02-25-1999
>>>NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Recent Hindu-Christians attacks in
western India were triggered by fears about the area's changing
religious demographics and fueled by exaggerated media reports, a
research institute said Thursday.
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