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- "Those who oppose me are insignificant" Joshi
- 'Pokhran ke liye Vajpayee ko vote do!': Uma Bharati
- Vaihayasi P Daniel
Rediff on the Net
- November 20, 1998
>>> A white speck appeared in the dark
overcast sky from Saranpur in the west.
The hundreds of villagers in Berasia, the assembly
constituency of Laxmi Narayan Sharma, who had gathered
impatiently for an hour or more at the dusty central
...
- Advani lamants anarchic politics in education
- Assaulting India's pluralist ethos
- D. Harikumar, Kochi
The Hindu
- November 6, 1998
>>>Sir, - This has reference to the articles, ssaulting India's
pluralist ethos (The Hindu, Oct. 26) by Ms. Malini
Parthasarathy and "BJP belies hopes of moderation" (The Hindu,
Oct. 28) by Mr. Inder Malhotra. The core of their argument is
that the (so-called) Indianisation, nationalisation and
...
- Assembly results have no impact on Center, says Vajpayee
- Posted By Dinesh Agrawal The Economic Times
- November 29, 1998
>>> NEW DELHI 28 NOVEMBER
IN AN effort to lift the sagging morale of his party as
well as the allies and to send a signal that he was
prepared to take on a ``resurgent'` Congress, Prime
Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said the just-concluded polls
...
- Basic feature of secularism
- Dina Nath Mishra
The Observer
- October 29, 1998
>>>Insulting anything related to the cultural traditions of Hindus
of this country has become a synonym of contemporary secularism
as practised by the opponents of BJP. This was amply demonstrated
in a recently-held conference of the state education ministers
and secretaries when hell broke loose on the melodious recital of
...
- Believe us, we are not ill-treating Christians
- S Gurumurthy
The Observer
- November 24, 1998
>>>In India, more attacks on Christians’ screamed the headlines in
Washington Post on page 29 on November 17, 1998. The popular
American newspaper said, “India is experiencing a new wave of
communal conflict. Hindus, who make up 82 per cent of the
country's 950 million people, are attacking Christians - a 2 per
...
- BJP attacks Cong for playing communal card
- BJP calls for steps to check criminals' entry into politcs
- Bhaskar Roy
Times of India
- November 15, 1998
>>> NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party vice-president
K L Sharma has called for steps to prevent
infiltration of criminal elements into the party
to protect its image as a ``party with a
difference''.
- BJP claims 8 months of scam-free rule
- Posted By Dinesh Agrawal Hindustan Times
- Nov. 23, 1998
>>> The Bharatiya Janata Party today claimed that even with the
'temporary increase' in vegetable prices due to unseasonal
rains compounded by the 'Congress-hoarder collusion', the
BJP-led Government at the Centre had provided the nation
with a riot-free and scam-free rule over the last eight
...
- BJP embarrasses Congress, CPM with quotations
- Posted By Dinesh Agrawal The Asian Age
- November 17, 1998
>>>CPI(M) on Congress: "All the poisonous creatures - snakes,
scorpions, centipedes, blood-sucking leeches and what not - have
trooped out into the country's political world."
Congress on CPI(M): "Their national importance has been
...
- BJP govt ready to take on Oppn challenge: Vajpayee
- BJP poll paper lambasts `tainted' Cong
- Posted By Dinesh Agrawal The PIoneer
- November 11, 1998
>>> The Bharatiya Janata Party sought to put the Congress on
the backfoot over corruption issues by describing Congress
president Sonia Gandhi's leadership as "part and parcel of
the same tainted lot" which comprised the PV Narasimha Rao
Ministry.
- BJP says Cong is abetting minority communalism
- BJP seeks to embarrass Cong on emergency
- Posted By Dinesh Agrawal The Pioneer
- Nov. 20, 1998
>>> The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sought to embarrass the
Congress on the question of the 1975 internal emergency by
accusing it of justifying an "anti-democratic step." In a
statement, party vice-president K L Sharma joined the issue
with Congress spokesman Mani Shankar Aiyer, who had only
...
- BJP singles out Sushma as its USP
- Posted By Dinesh Agrawal The Telegraph
- November 8, 1998
>>> Bolstered by the assessment that 50 of the 70
candidates fielded by the Congress in Delhi
were "weak", the BJP has begun fine-tuning its
campaign which, sources said, will revolve
around Delhi chief minister Sushma Swaraj to
...
- BJP will not pay the `price', asserts PM
- Rajeev Deshpande
The Pioneer
- November 8, 1998
>>> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is confident the price
rise of essential commodities is not an "all-India"
phenomenon and will not become an over-arching issue in the
forthcoming Assembly elections. Consequently, he feels, it
will not work too much to the BJP's disadvantage.
- Can Pakistan survive?
- Dina Nath Mishra
The Observer
- November 12, 1998
>>>It is no secret that Pakistan's economic and financial conditions
have deteriorated further after the nuclear explosion in May this
year. It is virtually on the brink of collapse. Bill Clinton has
lifted some of the economic sanctions mainly to help Pakistan.
The problem is not confined to this alone. The fact is that the
...
- Cong manifesto full of lies: BJP
- Cong may throtlle democracy again: Vajpayee
- Posted By Dinesh Agrawal The Pioneer
- November 22, 1998
>>> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Saturday warned the
nation that the Congress, if returned to power, might
"throttle" democracy by imposing Emergency again as it was
still unrepentent about what it did in 1975.
...
- Congress corruption created Sharma: Advani
- Congress is corrupt: Vajpayee
- Congress shedding crocodile tears over secularism: BJP
- Observer Political Bureau
The Observer
- November 12, 1998
>>>The BJP on Wednesday charged the Congress with playing communal
card in every election and shedding crocodile tears for
secularism during non-election times. Pegging its charge around
Congress President Sonia Gandhi's election speech in mizoram's
Christian-dominated areas, the BJP accused the Congress of
...
- Details of NRI card to be announced next week: Sinha
- Draft white paper reveals Pak role in fomenting terrorism
- Inder Sawhney
The Times of India
- October 30, 1998
>>>Pakistan's ISI-sponsored terrorist operations in Jammu and
Kashmir received a tremendous boost with the deployment of UStrained militants from Afghanistan, says the proposed draft of a
white paper on ISI operation which is to he presented in the
winter session of Parliament.
.
- Education controversy: It is war of ideas
- Debashish Mukerji
The Week
- Nov 15, 1998
>>>If asked what ails education in India most people would point to the
inadequate infrastructure. Too few schools, too few teachers, not
enough outlay on education. For the Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya
Shiksha Sansthan, the education wing of the RSS, however, this is only
part of the problem. More important perhaps is the kind of education
...
- Ethics essential for value education
- P L Jaiswal
The Times of India
- October 30, 1998
>>>The current controversy over the HRD ministry's move to
"Indianise, nationalise and spiritualise" education - in
particular the proposal to teach Sanskrit and include the vedas
and the upanishads in school curricula - is a shocking example
of the levels to which politics has descended in this country.
- Growing menace of pseudo-secularism
- Posted By Dinesh Agrawal Hindustan Times
- Nov. 28, 1998
>>>NEW DELHI, Nov 26 (HT Correspondent)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today called upon journalists to
continue their search for truth and uphold the highest traditions of
the fourth estate that were geared towards the progress and prosperity
of the nation.
- M. V. Kamath
Organiser
- November 22, 1998
>>>One of the saddest, most tragic things one is being forced to
witness these days is the degradation of secularism by its most
vocal champions, the secularists themselves. We have reached a
stage where, in the name of secularism, a determined effort is
made to denigrate India's culture and national heritage and even
...
- High on opinion polls, low on the future
- M. J. Akbar
The Asian Age
- November 15, 1998
>>>After years of sobriety, the Congress High Command is feeling
high once again: there is nothing more than the faint whiff of
opinion polls in the air and jostling has started for
portfolios. Two polls have put the Congress ahead of the BJP in
the Assembly elections for Delhi and Rajasthan, and even the
...
- Honesty to be BJP's slogan in Delhi
- UNI
Rediff on the Net
- November 6, 1998
>>> "Imaandaar shaasan" (honest governance)
will be the Bharatiya Janata Party's slogan in the Delhi
assembly election, according to state unit president
Mange Ram Garg and Food and Civil Supplies Minister
Poornima Sethi.
- Indians in blood and colour unite
- Sandhya Jain
The Pioneer
- November 1, 1998
>>> Indians in blood and colour have united, and are on a
carnival of self-denial, self-denigration and
self-incrimination, the like of which we have not seen
since raj "toadies" were silenced by the fervour of the
nationalist movement. There can be no other explanation
...
- Indo-Pak talks conclude, fail to make much headway
- Indo-Pak talks on terrorism end in acrimony
- Joshi's plans for education are justified. The alternative has failed
- Tavleen Singh
India Today
- November 9, 1998
>>> It is evidence of the deeply degrading effects of
colonisation that so many years after the British left it
still takes a foreigner to ask the right questions about
India. So it was left to the thin lady from Turino to ask
the most pertinent questions about the storm over our
...
- Let the 'hidden' agenda be an open one
- Virendra Parekh
The Observer
- November 3, 1998
>>>Allah is the same as Ishwar, but Saraswati is a mythical figure
revered by a section of a community. Promoting Urdu is being true
to our national heritage, but Introducing Sanskrit in schools is
nothing short of fascism.
...
- Our students donknow India's
- Debashish Mukerji
The Week
- November 15, 1998
>>>The cabinet minister most closely identified with RSS is
certainly Dr Murli Manohar Joshi. With his prominent tilak, his
angavastram and choti, he still looks the RSS pracharak he had
been for many years. It was widely held that Joshi, a former
physics professor in Allahabad University, was allotted the
...
- PIO card details released
- T.V.Lakshminarayan
Tribune
- November 14, 1998
>>> The Centre's proposed scheme to
issue persons of Indian origin (PIO) cards to people of
Indian origin holding alien passport will not be
applicable universally as the government plans to put
certain restrictions on the persons applying for the cards.
- PM confident of poll victory
- Satish Mishra
Tribune
- November 14, 1998
>>> ON BOARD IAF AIRCRAFT, Nov 13 - Reiterating that the
November 25 poll in four states will not be a
referendum on his coalition government at the Centre,
the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, told
newsmen on board his official aircraft that the BJP
...
- PM launches war against price-rise
- UNI
Rediff on the Net
- Nov. 2, 1998
>>> The government today announced a series of
measures including abolition of customs duty on pulses,
wider procurement of onions and sought the states' help
in launching a vigorous nationwide de-hoarding drive to
check the rising prices of essential commodities.
- Prime Minister announces Persons of Indian Origin cards
- UNI
Rediff on the Net
- November 13, 1998
>>> Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today
said his government had decided to implement a scheme to
issue Person of Indian Origin cards to those living
abroad and having foreign passports, which would confer
upon them a range of special benefits.
- Pulp friction
- Varsha Bhosle
The Rediff On the Net
- Nov. 19, 1998
>>>Newswise, this certainly has been the most boring week of the year. And
I'm afraid it's going to be the same for a while. Some may consider the
recent statements from the major players worthy of interest or alarm...
Nah, it's nothing but electoral rhetoric. What is interesting though is
the way the press is going about it: From all the papers I scan, I now
...
- Second take on Sharma
- T V R Shenoy
Rediff on the Net
- November 14, 1998
>>> Her son has met with an accident. She must fly to Dubai
immediately but needs a new passport." Who would have
thought that those seemingly innocent words would open
up a new chapter in the ongoing saga of Romesh Sharma?
...
- Secular love for Macaulay
- Rakesh Sinha
The Hindustan Times
- November 3, 1998
>>>The conference of education ministers, which turned into a
political battleground, served one great purpose by triggering a
debate on the nature and content of our education policy. The
agenda of the HRD Ministry to 'Indianise, nationalise, and
spiritualise' the education system, which was regarded by the
...
- The controversial Saraswati vandana
- The Left distorts: Interview with Arun Shourie
- Swapan Dasgupta
India Today
- November 23, 1998
>>>Controversy and Arun Shourie are inseparable. He, has taken on
governments, politicians and corporate houses, championed
contentious causes and assumed the role of India's permanent
gadfly. After questioning the mythology centred on Babasaheb
Ambedkar and offending Dalit activists, Shourie has now targeted
...
- UP government pushes through curricular changes
- Posted By Dinesh Agrawal Rediff on the Net
- November 15, 1998
>>> While top leader were locked in a heated debate over
what was being termed as saffronisation of education by
the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre,
the Kalyan Singh-led government in Uttar Pradesh has
already gone ahead with its agenda of adding several new
...
- Vajpayee sets up infrastructure taskforce
- UNI
Rediff on the Net
- Nov. 1, 1998
>>> Prime Minister A B Vajpayee has constituted
a taskforce headed by deputy chairman of the Planning
Commission Jaswant Singh on infrastructure with the aim
of attracting investments to specific projects of
national and regional importance and ensuring their
...
- Votebank politics, the bane of polity (Interview with L K Advani)
- N K Singh
Newstime
- October 28, 1998
>>>Seldom does a politician take up his job with missionary zeal.
one of the two tallest leaders of present day politics - L K
Advani - is one such who has taken his job - home ministry and
thereby internal security - as a mission. His efforts did show
some results in Kashmir although he apprehends escalation of Pak-
...
- Who said the BJP is faring bad?
- M. V. Kamath
The Free Press Journal
- November 19, 1998
>>>The fight between the opposition Congress and the ruling
Bharatiya Janata Party never mind their supporters in other
parties - is now on and it promises to be bitter. In February/
March earlier this year the Congress was effectively disowned by
the nation and for very good reasons. The Congress Party had
...
- Will Itlay decide India's defence policy
- T V R Shenoy
Rediff on the Net
- November 20, 1998
>>> "It's going to be a battle between piyaaz (onion) and
Pokhran," a Congress worker from Rajasthan chuckled. I have a couple of
points on this quip.
First, why is it that Congressmen seem incapable of
...
- Without naming names
- T V R Shenoy
Rediff on the Net
- November 6, 1998
>>> Patriotism, according to Dr Johnson's dictum, is the
last refuge of the scoundrel. Had he met a certain
Romesh Sharma, Dr Johnson could have added a rider:
politicians are the first refuge of a scoundrel.
...
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