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• 'Name Pak. terrorist State': Vajpayee
• Sarabjit Pandher - The Hindu - August 8, 1999
  >>>LUDHIANA, AUG. 7. The Prime Minister, Mr. Atal BehariVajpayee, today demanded that the United States declarePakistan a ``terrorist State''. He also ruled outimmediate resumption of peace talks with Islamabad aslong as violation of the international border.....

• 'Sonia's running scared of losing in Amethi'
• Amberish K Diwanji - Rediff - August 18, 1999
  >>>So what was all that drama about Congress presidentSonia Gandhi contesting from this, that and the otherconstituency?Ask Congress leaders and you get nothing satisfactory.Try again, ask them why Gandhi went for Bellary when.....

• 'The Islamised Pak army believes Jihad is the military salvation to
• Major General Ashok K Mehta - Rediff - August 15, 1999
  >>>There is no difference between the best and worst oftimes in the context of military to military relationsbetween India and Pakistan. At one level, it is a ratherstrange relationship when senior retired militaryofficers of both countries who studied in the former.....

• 'This is an election to fight for national pride': Swaraj
• George Iype - Rediff - August 22, 1999
  >>>On Wednesday morning at 0200 hours, theBharatiya Janata Party's most prominentwoman politician, Sushma Swaraj woke to attend atelephone call. Party general secretary M Venkaiah Naiduwas at the other end. "You are the candidate from.....

• A sanyasin campaigns against Sonia Gandhi
• PTI - Daily Excelsior - August 29, 1999
  >>>BELLARY, Aug 28: A new angle to electioneering in this high profile Lok Sabhaconstituency has been added by ’ÄòMahajagadguru’Äô Mata Mahadevi, a Sanyasinand popular religious head of the powerful lingayat sect in Karnataka who hasgiven a call against Congress president Sonia Gandhi saying do not allowforeigners to rule India. Lingayats, who are followers of 14th century.....

• Advani challenges Sonia on Bofors
• The Times of India News Service - Times of India - August 23, 1999
  >>>BANGALORE: Union home minister L K Advani onSunday lashed out at Congress president SoniaGandhi on the Bofors payoffs issue, questioningher ``sudden silence'' following the release ofdocuments by the BJP on the alleged involvement.....

• Advani dares Sonia for a debate with Sushma
• EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE - Indian Express - August 20, 1999
  >>>LATUR, AUG 19: Taking pot shots at Congresspresident Sonia Gandhi for trying to sneakthrough public attention to file hernomination papers from a `safe' Lok Sabhaconstituency in Karnataka, BJP leader L K.....

• Advani unveils Jaya's plot to topple DMK Govt
• Swati Das - Times of India - August 18, 1999
  >>>MADURAI: The choc-a-bloc Mel Masistreet in thistemple town suddenly became a beehive of activityon Tuesday when Union home minister and BJPstalwart L.K. Advani chose the venue to kick off.....

• Ahluwalia joins BJP
• Special Correspondent - The Hindu - August 31, 1999
  >>>NEW DELHI, AUG. 30. Mr. S.S.Ahluwalia, former UnionMinister and Congress (I) Rajya Sabha member, todayjoined the BJP, saying it ``is the party of today andtomorrow.'' A member of Rajiv Gandhi's ``ShoutingBrigade'', Mr. Ahluwalia was presented at the regular.....

• Arun Nehru raises Sonia's 'un-Indianness'
• UNI - Rediff - August 14, 1999
  >>>Former Union minister Arun Nehru has calledfor a nationwide referendum on whether a person offoreign origin can become prime minister.Participating in a TV programme, Nehru, when askedwhether the Bharatiya Janata Party picked him as.....

• BJP accuses Cong of false propaganda
• Pioneer News Service / New Delhi - The Pioneer - August 7, 1999
  >>>The Justice D P Wadhwa Commission's inquiry report on thekilling of the Australian missionary Graham Stewart Stainesand his sons, has clearly exposed Congress' communalcanard. The Bharatiya Janata Party general secretaryNarendra Modi on Friday said, the report has established.....

• BJP announces pact with JD(U), TDP
• The Times of India News Service - Times of India - August 12, 1999
  >>>NEW DELHI: After weeks of hard bargaining andprotests from its state units, the BJP onWednesday announced that it would contestelections in alliance with the Janata Dal(United) in Karnataka and Bihar and the Telugu.....

• BJP coalition heading for majority: Opinion Poll
• Posted by Dinesh Agrawal dxa4@psu.edu - Outlook - August 8, 1999
  >>>* BJP AND ALLIES HEADING FOR A THIN MAJORITY; CONGRESS APOOR SECOND* KARGIL AND VAJPAYEE ARE THE STARS* BJP ON ITS OWN WILL GET 200 SEATS TO OVERTAKE CONGRESSAS SINGLE LARGEST PARTY IN TERMS OF VOTE SHARE.....

• BJP dares Sonia for debate on corruption
• Pioneer News Service / New Delhi - The Pioneer - August 6, 1999
  >>>The Bharatiya Janata Party has challenged Congresspresident Sonia Gandhi for a nation wide debate oncorruption issues, saying that while the Congressrepresents corruption raj, the BJP has nothing to hideabout its clean rule......

• BJP gives Kargil widow poll ticket
• Chander Suta Dogra) - Hindustan Times - August 12, 1999
  >>>How Would a Kargil widow be coping with the tragedy and grief of losing herhusband? Most would be looking for jobs and the help of friends andrelatives. But if she is Dr Sudha Yadav, she plunges headlong into politics‘to forget her grief’, and gets a BJP ticket to contest election.Last evening when the BJP informed Sudha Yadav, wife of Commandant Sukhbir.....

• BJP pulls out all stops against Sonia
• Srinivasa Prasad - Times of India - August 29, 1999
  >>>BELLARY: The Sangh Parivar has virtually gone onthe offensive campaigning for BJP candidateSushma Swaraj against Congress president SoniaGandhi here even as the Congress leaders hopethat the Gandhi family's charisma will do the.....

• BJP releases 139 names, steers of trouble spots
• Pioneer News Service / New Delhi - Pioneer - August 4, 1999
  >>>Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Lucknow), HomeMinister L K Advani (Gandhinagar) and several ministersfigure in the first list of 139 candidates released by theBJP's Central Election Committee (CEC) for the Lok Sabhaelections. Of these, 79 are sitting MPs......

• BJP slogan: Tried, tested and trusted
• Asian Age reporter - Asian Age - August 5, 1999
  >>>New Delhi: "Tried, Tested and Trusted," is the themesong of the BJP for the coming Lok Sabha elections,centring around the 13-month rule of Prime Minister AtalBehari Vajpayee.Huge posters of Mr Vajpayee addressing rallies have been.....

• BJP will nurture coalition culture: Advani
• Agencies - Times of India - August 26, 1999
  >>>JAIPUR: Union home minister L.K. Advani said hereon Wednesday that the BJP would establish astrong coalition culture in the country'spolitics as one-party governments were no morerelevant. After arriving here for his two-day Lok.....

• Christians organizations get lion's share of foreign funds
• Inder Sawhney - Times of India - August 16, 1999
  >>>NEW DELHI: Christian missionaries and alliedgroups continue to be largest recipients offoreign funds. They received Rs 15.88 crore(75.69 per cent of the total foreign funds) inApril-June this year compared with Rs 11.41 crore.....

• Commission gives clean chit to Hindu Organizations in Steins murder
• Agencies / New Delhi - The Pioneer - August 6, 1999
  >>>The Wadhwa Commission, which probed the gruesome murder ofAustralian missionary Graham Steins and his two sons inOrissa in January, is understood to have ruled out theinvolvement of any Hindu outfit in the crime.The commission, headed by Justice D P Wadhwa of the Supreme.....

• Congress jitters over Vajpayee vs Sonia
• Political Bureau - Asian Age - August 11, 1999
  >>>New Delhi: Congress leaders are worried that the BJP is cleverlymaking "Prime Minister Vajpayee versus Prime Minister Gandhi" thethrust of its election campaign. They are trying their best to turnthe campaign into a Congress versus BJP plank.Congressmen admit that they are failing in their effort as Kargil and.....

• DMK set to ride Vajpayee wave in TN
• Swati Das - Times of India - August 29, 1999
  >>>MADURAI: If there is one singular factor that hasmade Tamil Nadu, the Dravidian heartland in thesouth, a fertile ground for the BJP to reap richpolitical harvest, it is Atal Behari Vajpayee.Far removed from the days when the BJP was a sort.....

• Election, a referendum on Vajpayee govt's performance, says Advani
• Political Bureau - Economic Times - August 14, 1999
  >>>THE BJP on Friday formally converted thecoming parliamentary polls into a presidentialcontest when the party's chief strategist L KAdvani projected the coming electoral bout asa referendum on the leadership of Atal Bihari.....

• Fundamentalist Pak can't change: hence US tilt towards India
• MV Kamath - Free Press Journal - August 6, 1999
  >>>What kind of understanding can one have with Pakistan, now that we have theKargil war behind us?When a nation is obsessed with religion, when everything it does isreflective of a certain religious mind-set, one can't expect it to functionrationally. It has to be isolated. Pakistan, as A. D. Moddie, formerly of.....

• Gandhi's granddaughter joins BJP to fight Sonia
• The Times of India News Service - Times of India - August 28, 1999
  >>>BANGALORE: The BJP has roped in Sumitra GandhiKulkarni, the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, tocounter Congress president Sonia Gandhi inBellary.Ms Kulkarni, who formally joined the party in.....

• In Kargil's afterglow: BJP & allies are on a roll
• K Balakrishnan and GVL Narasimha Rao - Times of India - August 14, 1999
  >>>NEW DELHI: Filing of nominations is on, andserious campaigning is yet to begin, but it isbecoming clear that the BJP-led alliance is wellon the way to a big win in the forthcoming LokSabha elections......

• India Today poll gives big victory for BJP, allies
• The Times of India News Service - Times of India - August 14, 1999
  >>>NEW DELHI: An opinion poll conducted by IndiaToday-Insight has come to more or less the sameconclusion as The Times of India poll.The India Today poll gives the BJP and its allies322 to 336 seats in the coming elections. This is.....

• India inofrms US on Pak-inspired terrorism
• Excelsior Special Correspondent - Daily Excelsior - August 16, 1999
  >>>NEW DELHI, Aug 15: In an unpublished development, Prime Minister, Mr AtalBehari Vajpayee, has apprised the US President, Mr Bill Clinton, ofIslamabad’s re-structured plan for enhancing the level of cross-bordermilitancy in India, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir. Mr Vajpayee isreported to have cited certain glaring instances in support of his serious.....

• It is one-horse race, BJP will sweep: Arun Nehru
• Pratish Nandy - Rediff - August 18, 1999
  >>>This election, it seems, is all about pulling rabbitsout of hats. Like the BJP's surprise nomination ofGandhi kin Arun Nehru from Rae Bareily, or the Congressretaliating with T N Seshan in Gandhinagar. But it isNehru's candidature that has set the cat among the.....

• It's Sonia's competence, not foreign origin, that is the issue
• K Balakrishnan and GVL Narasimha Rao - Times of India - August 14, 1999
  >>>NEW DELHI: When after the fall of the Vajpayeegovernment last April Sonia Gandhi had staked herclaim for prime ministership, it set the stagefor a new phase of polarisation in Indianpolitics - between Prime Minister Atal Behari.....

• Jaya wanted corruption cases withdrawn: Vajpayee
• UNI - Rediff - August 21, 1999
  >>>Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee tonightconfessed that his days in power in alliance with theAll-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam were the mostpainful of his entire political career.He was addressing a mammoth election meeting at the.....

• Kargil is an election issue: PM
• Staff Correspondent - The Hindu - August 26, 1999
  >>>INDORE, AUG 25. The Prime Minister, Mr. Atal BehariVajpayee, today said that ``no code of conduct canprevent us'' from expressing happiness andcongratulating the brave soldiers on their victory onthe Kargil front. ``When others can take a critical.....

• Local Bahu fights outsider Bahu
• Sujay Gupta - The Telegraph - August 26, 1999
  >>>Amethi, Aug. 25The racquets have been flung to a corner of aroom inside Amethi's palace. Her hands, fromthe wrists to the elbows, are covered withjangling bangles and her forehead is streaked.....

• Moving out of the Kargil debris
• Shaikh Manzoor Ahmed - The Dawn, Karachi - August 5, 1999
  >>>THE Kargil misadventure culminating in the Washington declaration of July 4marks an unhappy watershed in our 52-year-long strident conflict with Indiaover Kashmir. There are indications to suggest that there was very littlediplomacy involved in the formal talks preceding the issue of the jointWashington statement; rather it appears to have been largely an.....

• New poll shows Cong losing ground, gains for BJP
• AP - Times of India - August 28, 1999
  >>>NEW DELHI: The latest opinion poll conducted byweekly news magazine Outlook shows the NationalDemocratic Alliance (NDA) of the caretakergovernment gaining strength against the Congressin the Lok Sabha elections which begin on.....

• No opponent in sight for Vajpayee
• P. K. Roy - The Hindu - August 30, 1999
  >>>LUCKNOW, AUG. 29. Whom to field against the Prime Minister, Mr. AtalBehari Vajpayee, in Lucknow is the problem for both the Congress(I) andthe Samajwadi Party, what with several film personalities and otherleaders refusing to oblige.The Congress(I) had no candidate worth the name in the last three.....

• No talks with Pak till terrorism continues: PM
• Staff Reporter / New Delhi - The Pioneer - August 9, 1999
  >>>Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Sunday rejectedresumption of dialogue with Pakistan till it stopssponsoring terrorism in J&K. The prime minster said Indiacould not be pressurised into holding talks at a gunpoint.Addressing a rally organised by the Delhi pradesh Bharatiya.....

• No talks with Pak until it stops abetting terrorism: PM
• UNI - Rediff - August 15, 1999
  >>>Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee todayasserted that there was no question of holding talkswith Pakistan in view of its continued support tomilitancy in India, and called upon the world communityto unitedly fight against terrorism, the biggest threat.....

• On Eve of September Elections, India's BJP gains momentum: WSJ
• JONATHAN KARP - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - August 23, 1999
  >>>NEW DELHI -- Through luck and newfound economic leadership, India's rulingBharatiya Janata Party heads into next month's national elections favored notonly among Indian voters but also by many foreign businesspeople.That is a far cry from a year ago, when onion prices were high and the BJP'spopularity among ordinary Indians was low. Foreign investors were wary, too:.....

• Other myths to "internalise"
• Varsha Bhosle - Rediff - August 9, 1999
  >>>"Only those whose heart beats for the Sangh Parivar willtake the Wadhwa Commission's findings on the murder ofAustralian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons inOrissa earlier this year at their face value. Any suchbestiality may have a single individual pressing the.....

• Our forgetful media pundits
• MV Kamath - The Hindustan Times - August 15, 1999
  >>>MV Kamath’s rejoinder to the notion that Atal Behari Vajpayee is a teflon’Prime MinisterUntil K Natwar Singh, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Kapil Sibal and now Sumir Lal cameon the scene, I had thought the age of Jerome K Jerome and PG Wodehouse waslost forever and laughter had gone irretrievably out of our lives. Lal’s most.....

• PM briefs Oppn on Pak attack, gets their support
• Political Bureau - Economic Times - August 12, 1999
  >>>NEW DELHI 11 AUGUSTTHE Prime Minister today asked the top brassof the services to brief Opposition leadersabout the developments in the Kutch sector.This is to ensure that the Opposition's.....

• PM promises prosperity
• PTI - The Hindu - August 24, 1999
  >>>SURENDRANAGAR, AUG. 23. The Prime Minister, Mr.Atal Behari Vajpayee, today sought to differentiate theIndian armed forces' action in Sri Lanka and the one inKargil in Jammu and Kashmir recently, saying the Kargilwar was fought to defend the country's integrity from.....

• PM's address to the Nation
• Editorial - Daily Excelsior - August 17, 1999
  >>>Prime Minister AB Vajpayee during his address to the nation from the rampartsof Red Fort on the occasion of 53 Independence Day makes it amply clear thatnational security occupies top priority. He elaborates the same by informingthe nation that Agni-II missile is being mass produced for induction in theArmy. This missile was test fired after the previous Governments capped it.....

• Pakistan is a 'wounded wild animal', says Advani
• UNI - Rediff - August 13, 1999
  >>>Union Home Minister Lal Kishenchand AdvaniThursday likened Pakistan to a "wounded wild animal"trying to avenge one defeat after another, and said thatthe Government of India would take all necessary action"to stamp out" Inter-Service Intelligence activities in.....

• Peace with Pak will have to wait: PM
• Binay Kumar Singh - Times of India - August 18, 1999
  >>>VARANASI: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayeesaid peace with Pakistan would have to wait tillIslamabad ceased threatening India and droppedits aggressive designs. In a hard-hitting speechdelivered while launching the BJP's election.....

• Please vote on Indian Express: Correction
• Posted by Dinesh Agrawal dxa4@psu.edu - Not Known - Posted on Fri, 6 Aug 1999 15:55:40 -0500
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• Saffron surge in Karnataka, Maharashtra Andhra state polls predicted
• PTI - Asian Age - August 29, 1999
  >>>New Delhi: An opinion poll has predicted that the BJPand its allies will be way ahead of their opponents inAndhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra Assemblyelections.The Week-TN-Sofres mode opinion poll shows a saffron.....

• Sena-BJP predicted to win from Maharastra
• Pioneer News Service / Mumbai - The Pioneer - August 25, 1999
  >>>An opinion poll carried out by the SRS/HARRIS, an affiliateof Louis Harris and Associates Inc, New York, haspredicated that the ruling Shiv Sena-BJP alliance wouldreturn to power in Maharashtra, by bagging anywhere between150 and 154 seats out of a total 288 State Assembly seats.....

• Senior Congress leader fires salvo at Sonia
• Rana Ajit / New Delhi - The Pioneer - August 28, 1999
  >>>Former Union Minister and Congress Rajya Sabha MP SSAhluwalia on Thursday accused Ms Sonia Gandhi oftrivialising the Kargil issue and sounding as aspokesperson of "Pakistan's malicious campaign againstOperation Vijay.".....

• Sonia can contest, but should not be PM: Vajpayee
• HT Correspondent - The Hindustan Times - August 28, 1999
  >>>Lucknow, August 27Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today said as an Indian citizen Congresspresident Sonia Gandhi could contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, butbecause of her foreign origin she should not occupy high positions.The Prime Minister was addressing a press conference here at Raj Bhawan this.....

• Sonia fighting a lost battle: BJP
• Pioneer News Service / New Delhi - The Pioneer - August 31, 1999
  >>>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday said Congresspresident Sonia Gandhi's statement that the Congress wasprepared to form a coalition government, proved that theparty had realised that it was fighting a lost battle.Briefing mediapersons on Saturday, BJP General Secretary.....

• Sushma knows enough Kannada for the battle
• M. Gautham Machaiah - Times of India - August 20, 1999
  >>>BELLARY: BJP candidate Sushma Swaraj, who ispitted against Congress president Sonia Gandhi,will campaign in Kannada. ``Nanige swalpa Kannadabaruthe (I know a bit of Kannada),'' she says asshe reels out a long complex sentence......

• TWO QUESTIONS RECENT CRISES THROW AT US
• Arun Shourie - India Connect - August 2, 1999
  >>>"A thousand Pakistani militants have entered the Baramula and Poonch sectorsof Kashmir" -- that was the lead story on the 9 p. m. news bulletin of aleading TV channel on 27 July. I was properly alarmed. Pakistan had beensoundly thrashed on the ground, its government was still trying to explainthe retreat to the Pakistani public, the country had been roundly censured.....

• The truth about India's Independence, Part I
• Francois Gautier - Rediff - August 11, 1999
  >>>It is hoped that one day the history of India'sIndependence movement will be totally rewritten. Forwhat is now taught, both in the West and in India, isoften the history of the superficial, the apparent, thefalse even. And those who have least contributed to.....

• The truth about India's independence: Part II
• Francois Gautier - Rediff - August 12, 1999
  >>>So, ultimately, what was true nationalism? Who were thereal revolutionaries, those who had an inner vision ofwhat the British really represented, those who knew whatwas the genius of India and how it was destined to begreat again? Once more, we have a wrong understanding of.....

• The truth about India's independence: Part III
• Francois Gautier - Rediff - August 13, 1999
  >>>Nehru, writes French historian Alain Danielou, "was theperfect replica of a certain type of Englishman. Heoften used the expression 'continental people', with anamused and sarcastic manner, to designate French orItalians. He despised non-anglicised Indians and had a.....

• Unfinished task
• Editorial - Daily Excelsior - August 03, 1999
  >>>Pak firing on Kargil town from some heights still under their control hasonce again resulted in panic and exodus amongst the residents who had justreturned to resume life in their own hearth and homes. This is the secondtime that the town has come under intensive shelling during the week. Thisclearly indicates that claims of having evicted all the Pak intruders lack.....

• Unholy deals ousted Govt: PM
• Sidharth Mishra / Muzzafarnagar - The Pioneer - August 19, 1999
  >>>Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee lambasted theOpposition on Wednesday for creating political instabilityin the country."Polls are to democracy what heart is to body, but shouldthe heart beat too frequently it could spell doom," he.....

• `Cong. politicising Kargil issue'; Vajpayee
• Rajesh Ahuja - The Hindu - August 31, 1999
  >>>REWARI, AUG. 30. The Prime Minister, Mr. A. B.Vajpayee, today lambasted the Congress(I) forpoliticising the Kargil issue and said it was doing soout of sheer frustration.Addressing an impressive election rally in the Ahir.....

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