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REGIME OF BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY, 1998 A SELECT ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF
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BY
GHUFRAN MOHSIN RollNo. 98LSM-22
Enrolement No. X-8222
Under the Supervision of
Ms. Sudharma Haridasan (Lecturer)
DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE
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This is to certify that the IVI.L. & I.Sc.
dissertation of Mr. Ghufran Mohsin on Regime
of Bharatiya Janata Party, 1998 - : A select
annotated bibliography was compiled under my
supervision and guidance.
(Ms. Sudharma Haridasan) Lecturer
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Page No.
AIM, SCOPE & METHODOLOGY III
INTRODUCTION
PART -ONE
1-19
BIBLIOGRAPHY
AUTHOR INDEX
TITLE INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX
PART - TWO
PART-THREE
20-149
150-154
155-162
163-168
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AIM AND SCOPE
The Bhartiya Janata Party in power proved to be strong in
taking decisions, providing security as well as prosperity to its
countrymen. All this inspired me to select the topic "The Regime of
Bhartiya Janata Party 1998". This is an attempt to take
up all the major achievements and failures of the BJP/^vtJ through
the selection of articles related closely with its various activities viz.
the Pokhran Tests, Resolution of the Cauvery Conflict, the Mandir-
Masjid Issue, Bus Service from Delhi to Lahore and Calcutta to
Dhaka, being covered within the preview of the study.
This dissertation provides an annotated bibliography of all the
relevant material related to the significant events and mishaps
attempting to be exhaustive in its coverage.
In the process, it has included 200 articles dealing with BJP's
rule which may prove useful for all those who have are slight
interest in Indian Politics.
Part one of this dissertation deals with introduction of the
topic covered. Part two consists of an annotated bibliography of 200
articles on the topic. Part three consists of indices, author, title and
subject.
METHODOLOGY :
The primary sources were consulted in the following libraries,
i) Maulana Azad Libraries, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.
ii) Coaching and Guidence Cell, A.M.U., aligarh.
iii) Seminar Library, Department of Library Science, A.M.U., Aligarh.
iv) Bharatiya Janata Party, Central Office (New Delhi).
Ill
STANDARD FOLLOWED :
The Indian standards recommended for bibl iographical
reference (18:2381-1963) and Classified Catalogue Code (CCC) of
Dr. S.R. Ranganathan have been followed. In some cases where ISI
do not give any guidance, I have taken appropriate decision.
ARRANGEMENT : The entries are arranged under subject heading which are
arranged alphabetically following letter by letter method. The entry
element of the author is in capitals, followed by the secondary
element in parenthesis using capital and small letters and then the
title of the articles, subtitle (if any) then by the volume number,
issued number, the year, month and date giving by using inclusive
notation of the pages of the articles. The each entry is than
followed by an informative abstracts of the articles.
Entries of periodical articels are arranged as follows :
a) Serial Number
b) Name of the Author/Author
c) A full stop (.)
d) Title of the contribution including subtitle and alternative title if
any
e) A full stop (.)
f) Title of periodical being underlined
g) A full stop (.)
h) Volume number
i) Comma (,)
j) Issue number
k) Semi colon (;)
I) Year
iv
m)
n)
0 )
P)
q)
r)
Comma (,)
Month
Comma (,)
Date
Semi colon (;)
Inclusive pages of the articles
s) A full stop (.)
SPECIMEN ENTRY :
.139 CHATTERJEE (Partha). How we Loved the bomb and
Later Rule it-Economic and Political Weekly. 33, 34; 1998, June,
13; 1437-1441.
EXPLANATION :
This article is taken from the periodical "Economic and
Political Weekly" How we loved the bomb and later rule it" written
by "Chatterjee (Partha)" in 34th number of 33rd volume of 13th
June 1998, on the pages from 1437 to 1441 against this entry.
SUBJECT HEADING :
Attempt has been made to give co-extensive subject heading
as much as possible, it will facilitate the readers to find out desired
artjcle(s) from this bibliography.
INDEX :
The index part consists of indices, author, title and subject.
The index guides to the specif ic entry or entr ies in the
bibliography. It is hoped that it will be found useful in consultation
of the bibliography.
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INTRODUCTION
Genesis of Bharatiya Janata Party :
The genesis of the Bharatiya Janata Party should be traced
to the Preindependent period in India when sections of Hindus
felt that the congress part^ Mahatma Gandhi was unnecessarily
appeasing the Muslims and neglecting the interests of the Hindus
who constituted the majority.
The history of the formation of Bharatiya Jana Sangh under
the inspiring leadership of late Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee in
1951 is well known though not its back ground. The Late Dr.
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee/talented leader of the Mahasabha had
been importuned by Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru and Patel to Join the
first control cabinet in spite of the fact that he did not join the
congress.
In 1951 Dr. Mukherjee started work in East Bengal and
also Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and other states. The first all
India session of the new party, Jana Sangh was held in Delhi on
21st October, 1951, where Dr. Mukherjee was unanimously
elected its first president. The first major attempt to suppress the
RSS was made in 1948, after the murder of Mahatma Gandhi.
Various (Canards were spread by its opponents that the murderer
belonged to the RSS that he had confessed and all sorts of
unbelievable trash. The RSS became very popular in northern
India but after Gandhiji's association it was banned by the (^G^vtj
The ban was lifted with great difficulty. The main goal of the
RSS was to see a free, prosperous and great India emerging on
the International scene. The progress of the RSS under its
second Sarsanghehalok Shri Golwalkar from 1940 to 1973 was
multi dimensional. The RSS also contributed to the fight for
independence. After his demise the RSS workers who had already
joined the Jana Sangh came to position of prominence in that
organisation because there seemed to be no others alternative.
The Jana Sangh came to the election fray in 1952 under
the leadership of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukerjee. It is one of the
post independence political parties. It having won only 3 out of
the 93 seats it contested. Only 35 out of a total of 725 Jana
Sangh candidate to the state assembles could win. When it
fought the 1957 election it was supposed to be a leaderless party
having no programme or policies or any economic ideology for
that matter. But the election results were encouraging, It had won
4 Lok Sabha and 46 Assembly seats its percentage of votes
rising to almost 6. Its representatives, Atal Behari Vajpayee came
to Lok-Sabha to raise its voice. Under the leadership of Dean
Dayal Upadhyaya, the emphasis in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh
from 1957 to 1962 was on strengthening the Organisation. After
Deendayalji's death in 1966, the progress continued. But the
political situation started undergoing a qualitative change from
1971 onwards.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was born under stunning
circumstances over which it had no control, circumstances which
were both tragic and grotesque. Despite the fact that Bharatiya
Janata Party had no control over the aforementioned
circumstances, it is determined to have a complete control over
its destiny because it is a party which rests on the strength of
lakhs of selfless workers, has a popular national base and
represerts the aspiration of patriotic elements. The party is
determined to fulfil a national historic role with full sense of
responsibility and urgency. Bharatiya Janata Party has been
formed at a t ime when the nation is faced with an
unprecedented crises. The Janata movement started in 1973-74
and people of different Ideoslogies and parties combined to
create an alternative to congress.
When the Janata Party was launched in January, 1977 no
one had raised any objection to the association of former Jana
Sang members with the R.S.S. background. Even after Janata
Party come to power, dual membership remained a non-issue
until the internal power conflicts with in the party became very
sharp. The Jana Sangh component of the Janata Party tried to
cooperate with others but without much success. The mutual
bickerings of the leaders coupled with the activities of a group of
compulsive, chronic party spl i t tness undermined Morarji 's
Government and the Janata Party.
As a result of this successful resistance Mrs. Gandhi's
Congress Party was trounced in the 1977 elections and af Janata
Party Government consisting of BJS, BLD, Congress (0) ,
Socialists and CFD took office. Here Shri Vajpayee as External
Affairs Minister and Shri L.K. Advani as Information and
Broadcasting Minister made memorable name. But within thirty
months this Government went to pieces, thanks to the vaulting
a.iibition of individual leaders.
Rise of BJP :
While the splintered Janata Party was routed in January
1980 their suicided "Dual Membership" campaign continued. The
BJS component found this situation impossible, went out and
reorganized itself as Bharatiya Janata Party. On April 6, 1980 the
Bhartiya Janata Party was launched. Some people had suggested
that the Jana Sangh should be relaunched. But Shri Vajpayee
firmly said, "No we should not turn back. We will make use of
our experiences in the Janata Party. We shall move ahead on
the strength of our original thinking and principles" A bright new
day had dawned in the chequered history of India. The very first
session of BJP in December 1980 in Bombay, presided over by
Sri Vajpayee was a glorious success.
The foundation session of the party at Bombay, carried his
personal stamp as the policy declaration was replete with terms
like-secularism, socialism and non aligenment. When the image he
projected at the 1980 Bombay session got his party a miserable
two seats in parliament his policy stance came in for sharp
criticism with in.
Principles :
Bharatiya Janata Party put forward five principles which it is
determined to follow and on the basis of which a national
consensus can be created.
The first principle is Nationalism and National Integration.
BJP believes that people of different faiths and different
ideologies should be able to coexist in peace and harmony with
one another.
Second a fundamental plank of the J.P. movement and so
also of the BJP approach has been the commitments to
"Democracy" .
Third Bharatiya Janata Party believes in the policy of
positive secularism based moral values.
Fourth the ideology of the Bharatiya Janata Party would be
broadly speaking that of Gandhian Socialism.
Fifth the central point of Gandhian Socialism is that these
should be no poverty or explotation of man by man. BJP will
strive to build up such a value based politics.
With the over all ideological frame work of these five
commitments, BJP will take a flexible stand on other issues and
will go a long way to cooperate with all those opposition parties
which have no extra-territorial loyalty in envolving a common
approach to resisting the authoritarianism, corruption and anti
national policies of the congress party.
Both interms percentage of votes polled and seats gained,
the graph of the Bharatiya Janata Party shows a steady rise
since 1984, when it had won just 2 seats. No other party has
shown a more consistent trend over the period.
BJP's steady progress from 1984 to 1999 is as follows :
Year Seats won
1984 2
1989 85
1991 119
1996 161
1998 177
196 1999 V
Clearly Ihe Bharatiya Janata Party has offered something to
India that has appealed to large sections of society. In the 1989
elections the Janata Dal effected adjustment of seats with the
BJP and proceeded to firm the Government without side support
from the BJP and the communists.
From day one Shri V.P. Singh did not play ball. The
Bharatiya Janata Party had pladged him unconditional support,
which was probably a mistake : there is no charity in politics, no
free lunch. As BJP president L.K. Advani was heard remarking at
the time. "Shri V.P. Singh is like an old-style princeling. He is all
courtesy and all conspiracy". He would tell Shri Advani that he
himself would join him in Kar Seva and then issued a temple
ordinance only to with draw it within hours and have Shri Advani
arrested V.P. Singh Suddenly came up with the Mandal Report
not because his heart was bleeding for the poor but because he
thought that, on this issue he could dissolve the house go to the
polls, collect some 350 seats and rule the country on his own
without the bother of consulting anybody on anything. But it was
a gamble that failed, because the BJP had already raised the
Ayodhya issue. And it had done so early in 1989, not on the
basis of any electional calculation but on ideological conviction.
Historic wrongs had to be righted, however symbolically, for a
lasting solution of the Hindu-Muslim problem.
Sea Change in Political Scence :
Shri advani's Rath Yatra from Somnath to Ayodhya effected
a Sea Change in the political scene. While Mandal had divided
the people, Ayodhya united the people. What violence there was
in 1990 came only because the Government arrested Shri Advani
and the U.P. Chief Minister fired on Kar-Sevaks. Had they
allowed Shri Advani to reach Ayodhya and do symbolic kar-seva
there would have been no bandh no violence, anywhere. Shri
V.P. Singh thought that BJP had secured 89 seats in 1989
because of seat adjustment with JD and that was true enough.
But he forgot that his JD had also got 143 seats only because
of seat adjustment the BJP would lose scores of seats. The BJP
had won 119 in 1991. Actually the BJP added 30 seats to its
old secure and it was the JD that declined to 59 seats.
Vajpayee came out of the shadows in 1992 when the Babri
masjid was demolished. He did not show the glee exhibited by
'ekdhakka aurdo' Uma Bharti and disassociated himself from the
pul deed by calling it unfortunate. The BJP ruled or supporter
state government in Indian states of Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) Madhya
Pradesh (M.P.), Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra are continuing
the Virulent anti-Muslim policy.
Unstoppable BJP :
The results of the 1995 election in Andhra, Karnataka,
Bihar, Orissa, Goa, Gujarat and Maharashtra were, if anything
even more remarkable. In Maharashtra, Shiv Sena and the BJP
have formed a fine coalition government. The BJP's historic
performance in the Assembly elections when there was no seat
adjustment with other parties and when the Ayodhya issue stood
frozen, is confirmation of the fact that basically the BJP is
forgoing ahead because of its excellent organisation, superb
leadership and patriotic people's policies. BJP State Government
enunciated a new education policy; they made copying in the
exams a conginzable offence; they decentral ised the
administration; their Antyodaya took care of the poorest of the
land, they waired the bans of poor farmers and their war on
ciriminal elements and put them in jail.
Clear BJP Position :
The BJP position is very clear on this issue: Indian
science and technology have come of age, as examplified by our
defence and Research Development Organisation presided over by
Dr. Abdul Kalam. Therefore foreign capital is welcome only in
capital intensive hightech and infrastructural areas; however it
must come on fair and competitives terms. The new watch-word
is "Swadeshi". The world has been told in unmistakable terms by
the BJP that India cannot be taken for granted. Under foreign
pressure our missile programme has been capped. There have
been successes, too. BJP leaders have made the Government
agree to start and close parliament session with 'Vande Mataram".
The BJP Ekta Yatra Flag in Srinagar on Republic Day 1992. And
the BJP's Karnataka unit saw to it that the National Flag is duly
hoisted on the Huble Public ground, which is used for Nawaz on
Id-days.
This was amply proved in the 1996 general election. The
BJP set the tone for this election through Shri Advani's Suraj
Yatra which focus on corruption and the corrupt misdeals of the
Narasimha Rao regime. The BJP emerged as the largest single
party with 161 seats. Its allies, the Shive Sena, the Haryana
Vikas Party, the Samata Party and the Akalidal, declared their
support to a BJP government at the Centre.
History was made on May 16, 1996, when Shri Atal Bihari
Vajpayee was sworn in as Prime Minister. This was the first truly
non congress Government to take charge of the nations affairs.
But alarmed by the prospect of the BJP firmly establishing
itself in power, the others ganged uptand struck an unholy
alliance of 14 parties. In the debate that followed on Shri
Vajpayee confidence motion, the nation was witness to the
pol i t ical chicanery of the non-BJP part ies. The Vajpayee
Government resigned after a fortnight but the country paid a
heavy price with the coming to power of the united front.
The tremendous success of Shri Advani's historic 59-days
15,000 kg, Swarna Jayanti Rath Yatra provides further evidence
of the BJP's popularity. The enthusiastic response to Shri Advani,
latest Yatra to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of India's
independence has firmly established the BJP as the primary
political power in the country.
BJP in power - 1988 :
Mr. Atal Behri Vajpayee the veteral leader of the Bharatiya
Janata Party was appointed Prime Minister by president Mr. K.R.
Narayanan on March 15, 1998. The number of MP's supporting
the BJP formation came to 264 on March 15, 1998, though short
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of the halfway mark in the total house of 539. Even thus nagging
anxiety was set at rest when the president of India was
telephonically assured by the leader of the Telugu Desam Party
and Chiefminister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Chandrababu Naidu,
that the 12 TDM MPs and would remain neutral. The prime
minister to prove his majority with in 10 days-on March 19,
1998. The BJP-Led coalition came went out with defetlons the
TDP's turn about in the first instance and the AlADMK's walking
out its fold in the final phase. Simiarly the Samata Party of
George Fernandes, Biju Janata Dal, Shiromani Akali Dal, H.V.P,
Mamta Banerjee's Trinamul Congress, Telugu Desam Party and
Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Chandrababu Naidu. The
present BJP Government may have a boon in not getting on
absolute majority the hardlines will not be able to have their way
and liberals must prevail.
The Bhartiya Janata Party led government completes its 100
day in office. The BJP led governemnt has decided on Nuclear
tests to stay in power, was necessary. The BJP wants India to
be a right winning militant state. It has pushed the country to a
different, to confrontation. The BJP led government is conniving at
efforts to communalise the atmosphere. In fact communalism has
increased since the advent of Vajpayee government. Reminded of
the Babri Masjid, Vajpayee said that the wanted the matter to be
settled through the court. Vajpayee had a good word for the
economy.
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Bharatiay Janata Party's Major Achievements :
The achievements of BJP are as follows :
Economy : The BJP stands for fair trade note free trade. Though
ostensibly a Swadeshi Government, the process of liberalisation
continues none the less, giving hope to TNCs exploring investment
options in India. The policy decision to reduce Government share
holding in non strategic public sector units to 26%, Approval of
Strategic sale of a few companies. Introduction of foreign
Exchange Management Act Bill, Anti-Money Laundering Bill and a
Bill Permitting private investment in the insurance sector in
parliament. Annoucement of changes in deposit norms for NBSCs.
Further reforms anticipated in the wake of western sanctions and
the US business interests in key areas like insurance.
Financial Sector : The Vajpayee's Government provide the
president regulations for banks tightened to require provisioning
for centre ans Stage Government Securit ies, Government
guaranteed loans and general provision for standard assests.
Canditions for public issues by infrastructure campanies eased,
100 percent book buklding permitted for issues above 25 crore.
Bill for strong independent Insurance Regulatory authority and
opening of insurance and pension funds to private companies
introduced in parliaments proposal to allow 26% foreign equity
and additional in percent NRI and Fll holding.
Information Broad Casting : The BJP led Government have
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introduce a sports channel, A24 hour news channel, FM radio for
private broad casters started and Rs 430 crore plan for J & K
up gradion of facilities for DD & AIR etc.
Agriculture : The BJP firmly believes that agriculture is the
backbone of Indian economy and conscience keeper of Indian
democracy. The BJP led Government they are 58% more
budgetary allocation in respect of ministry of agriculture for the
financial year 1998-99 provided, new Agricultural policy being
formulated to accord important role to cooperative to ensure both
high productivity and stable agro-commodities market, watershed
development programme given higher budgetary allocation. Rs
1627 crore provided to state Governments as assistance under
Accelerated Irrigation benefits programme to benefit formers
during 1998-99. Steps taken for introduction of modern technology
in handing, storage and transportation of foodgrains, reducing
losses to the minimum possible.
Empowerment of woman & Children : Bharatiya Janata Party's
led government they have provide legislation for reservation of
33% of the seats in parliament and state assemblies for woman.
The plan to provide free education for girls upto college level,
including professional courses and take ameasures to eleminate
child labour.
Corruption : Bhartiya Janata Party led government introduce in
parliament at path-breaking Lok Pal Bill to fight corruption at high
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places, brining in the office of the Prime Minister also within the
annbit of the proposal bill.
International Relations : The Vajpayee's Government have
achieve successful handling of post- Pokhran II through practive
diplomancy and they had multilateral summits, including SAARC in
Colombo, the NAM Summit in Durban and the Un-General
Assembly. Theere are initiative on joint global action against
terrorism and dismantling of weapons of mass distructions. A firm
message to Pakistan that while India seeds friendly relations and
can take an initiative such as the "Lahore Bus Journey", there
are equally firm in defeating any aggressive intentions. The
effective management ensured that Pakistan was isolated
diplomatically on the Kargil issue and the international community
endorsed the Indian stand that Pakistan was the aggression and
aggression must be vacated and security of LOG restored.
Information Technology : Bhartiya Janata Party's led government
have achieve national Task Force on Information Technology &
Software Development constituted to formulate National Information
Technology Policy with an aim to enable India to emerge as an
information technology super power with in the next 10 years.
Blue print already adopted.
BJP Government will be to ensure protection of life and
property from mafias and terrorists by giving a free hand to their
security process to deal with the menace of terrorism. They put
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an end to infiltration of foreign arms and terrorists from training
camps across the border.
The Bhartiya Janata Party Government wil l appoint a
National Security Council. It would review the nation's nuclear
policy and exercise the option to induct nuclear weapons. The
BJP is in favour of a nuclear free world. The BJP Government
will not accept the Fissile Material Control Regime (FMCR) as well
as Missible Technology Control Regime (MTCR). It would expect
the serial production of Prithvi and the development of Agni II.
Poor Vajpayee, he did not know what to do during the first
eight months after assuming power in 1998. The results prices of
essential commodities just boomed and the Vajpayee government
kept helplessly watching traders robbing consumers imagine,
onions sold beyond Rs. 50 per kg; tomatoes and potatoes price
hitting the roof. The Vajpayee government just looked the other
way and balamed the opposition for the sky rocketing price hike.
It annoyed the people so much that the Bharatiya Janata Party
lost Delhi and Rajasthan while failed to win Madhya Pradesh
during the November assembly election.
The Ayodhya disput has been there for a long time. It has
been dragged through courts and is still pending there though
decades have passed. It can be solved either through dialogue or
by law.
The politicisation of national issue did not stop at that and
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similar shiades of manipulative politics were discernible invaried
domains. The dismissal of Naval Chief Vishnu Bhagwat proved to
be he last straw. It could be betterer handled by giving him
private advice to resign, not by making it a public issue.
Jayalalitha making it a public issue. Jayalalitha made Bhagwat's
dismissal an issue of national security and demanded his
reinstatement and dismissal of defence minister George Fernandes
as the price for continuing support to the Vajpayee government.
The BJP in Government would resume the str ictest
implementation of existing laws to punish rapists and those guilty
of texual assault on woman. If the present laws failed to act as a
determinent, the death penalty will be considered for rapists.
The Bharatiya Janata Party is the leading player in the
coalition and drawing its stength from the authoritarian and
aggressive phalanx of the Sangh Parivar. The BJP wants to
create goodwill of its own, it must take action on these issues
which touch the commonman.
The National Agenda for Governance (NAG) adopted by the
BJP led government at the centre stated that government would
expedite comprehensive reforms of PSUs including restructuring,
rehabitation and disinvestment. After its first full budget 1998-1999
it became clear what was meant by NAG was "liquidation,
dismantling and privatisation" of public sector, fare well to the
lakhs of PSU workers under compulsory golden hand shake.
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unmindful of what happens to their future and what ever happens
to the self-reliant growth of the country. The hidden meaning of
'Swadeshi' agenda is to finish the really Swadeshi/National
enterprises. On account of the disinvestment, as per that budget,
the government was to get Rs 8,000 crores to meet the deficit.
The Bharatiya Janata Party seem to be a clean party and
capable providing a corruption free government. The people of
India wanted a fresh approach, a party that could provide an
efficient government
Conclusions :
Shri Vajpayee's government set itself to the task of fulfilling
the goal of making India strong and prosperous. Shri Vajpayee's
Government effectively ended this crises of leadership and
restored a sense of confidence and pride among the people.
They are to review India's nuclear policy In the context of
emerging security concerns and scenario. On 11 May 1998,
Pokhran II has not only instilled a sense of pride and security
among the people of India but it had made the wortd recognise
India as a powerful nation. They are subsequently mature and
responsible even in the face of extreme provocation, has made
the world recognise India as a responsible nuclear power.
The Bharatiya Janata Party led government's handling of the
economy has shown the ability to manage the nation's affairs.
India is once again on the path of industrial and agricultural
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growth. They have protected the national economy from the
effects of the fourth-east asian economic crisis. They ensured
stability of the national currency. They have protected the
interests of the common man by holding the price line.
The resolution of the cauvery conflict to the satisfaction of
all the states involved in the dispute for more than four decades,
is evidence of their commitment to consensus over conflict. The
BJP has worked to have better relations with our neighbours.
India's relation with Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nopal are today
better and more robust than ever before. Shri Vajpayee's bus
journey to Lahore was has led by governments across the world.
They had held out to BJP a hand of friendship.
But Pakistan mistook Vajpayee's gesture of friendship as a
sign of weakness. They did not realise that the BJP Government
was willing to extend a hand in friendship, whereas they were
also prepared to use the other hand to crush any evil designs
on India's Unity and integrity.
The Pakistani instruction in Kargil was met with all their
might and determination. They have all seen the difficult terrain
in which Indian soldiers had to fight. The brave soldiers inflicted
a crushing military defeat on the Pakistani's Simultaneously, BJP
Government was a shining diplomatic victory-Pakistan was isolated
while the international community backed India's stand. No less
important is the fact that BJP's Government did not let the Kargil
IS
conflict disrupt normal life. Nor did they pass on the economic
burden of the war on to the people.
Indias victory in Kargil has fetched our nation a new
respect. It has given to people a sense of confidence. It has
made us proud.
Vajpayee's Government set new parameters of purposeful
governance. The National Agenda of BJP is a sincere and
solemn covenant armed at changing the content and culture of
governance of this great nation, freeing it of the triple curses of
hunger (bhookh), fear (bhay) and corruption (bhrashtachar), and
transforming it in to a New India, that is prosperous, strong, self-
confident and at peace with itself and the world.
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PART TWO
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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1. BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY, GOVERNMENT, ACHIEVEMENT.
MUKHERJl (Debashish). From balancing act the bus. The
week. 17,13; 1999, May, 14; 30-33.
The article deal with Prime Minister Vajpayee, after a
crises ridden year is working on winning back his public
appeal. His remarkable skill at one to one. Sessions has
seen Vajpayee build cordidi personal relations with not only
Nawaz Sharif but also Jayalalitha, Mamata and the rest of
his Volatile allies. The government do not add up to much
of a tally. There is undoubtedly the Pokharan blast which
BJP, leaders continued to take enormous pride in. The
temporary solution to the Vexed Cauvery dispute between
Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, was yet another Coup. The bus
trup to Lahore and the meeting of the prime ministers of
Pakistan and India is another significant achievement.
2. —., .—, — , PRIME MINISTER, INDEPENDENCE DAY.
PHADNIS (Aditi). Totter Totter Creak Creak. Sunday. 25. 34;
1998, August, 23; 19-20.
The author express his view that in the five month's
that it has been in power, the BJP's government has little to
boast of. So, when Vajpayee stood up and faced the nation
on 15 August there was little else he could talks of except
of course his own problems of governance. The government
has not really had much success (Indeed, t ime) for
governnance. The record of most ministers Is below par-not
only are they not implementing their own agenda they are
not implementing anyone else's agenda either. For the most
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part he concentrated on the BJP governments achievements,
namely the Pokhran and the Cauvery accord. Shut your
eyes and imagine India being overned by a BJP
government. What come to mind progromms riots, thought
police, righte wrong. The BJP is waiting for deliverance
from Jayalalitha. India is waiting from the BJP to stop
talking and start working.
..., ...., AGENDA, DEMOLITION, BABRI MASJID.
BHADRA (Gyon). Hindutva Card Never Pad off to BJP.
Nation and the World. 8, 172; 1998, Dec, 16; 10.
The author expresses his view about BJP-RSS
combine demolished the 464 year old Babri Mosque in
Ayodhya which led to a spate of rioting allover the country.
They were supported by a highly communal lsed
administration and police force. The BJP coupled with
Sangh Parivar firmly believed that it could stake its claim
to power in New Delhi. The BJP maintained before the
masses that the demolition of the Babri mosque was an
assertion of the feeling of Hindutva. The Hindutva card
played by BJP put the party in a 'nown' situation in the
elections. And this is the only reason which explain the
BJP's reductance to play 'Hindutva' card is successive
elections-both assembly and parliamentary held after 1993
election.
..., ...., ...., RAM MANDIR.
AHSAN (M.H.) BJP regimes wo not build Ram Mandir. Blitz.
58: 22; 1998 May 30; 7.
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Though the issue of erecting a Ram Mandir at
Ayodhya does not figure on the national agenda of the BJP
led coalition in New Delhi the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP)
is regardless going full steam ahead with preparation to
build the contentious temple. The VHP's recruitment target
of fulltime workers by the year 2000 is 50,000 of which
15,000 will hail from Andhra Pradesh. Their job will to be
help in the construction of the temples.
5 ...., ...., ...., WOOING MUSLIMS
YADAV (R.S.) Vajpayee Pushes His "Foul" Thesis. New age.
46, 30; 1998, Jan, 18, 24;1.
The author discuss about the Vajpayee's advise to
Muslims to Shake off their outmoded thinking. He declared
that Ram Janam Bhoomi, Kashi or Mathura is not on his
agenda now. If Atal Behari Vajpayee is to be believed, BJP
all along a Muslim baiter party-has turned into a party quite
sympathetic and considerate to Muslim interests. Vajpayee
and some other top leaders are wooing Muslims. Starting
from Aslam Sher Kham, they are in hot pursuit of any
Muslim, whosever, may agree for a press statement in
BJP's favour. Some people may course seek to business
with the BJP for personal gains. Bal Thackeray, the Shiv
Sena Supremo and the BJP's closest only is also speaking
in a different tone. Vajpayee is also pushing this pul thesis.
It is really pathetic to find that a leader who is being put
up before the people as their future prime ministerial
candidate, if voted to power, has stoped so low.
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6. —, .—, AGREEMENT, INDO-PAK
INDIA, PAK Sign Memorandum. The Pioneer. 9, 53; 1999,
February 22; 1.
India and Pakistan on Sunday agree to set up
appropriate consultative mechanism to monitor and ensure
implementation of the existing confidence building measurer
besides upgrading the communication links between the
director generals of military operations of the two nations
for maintaining peace and tranquility on the borders. These
commitments of under in a memorandum of understanding
which was signed by the foreign secretaries of the two
countries Mr. K. Raghunath and Mr. Shamshad Ahmad in
the presence of Priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Mr.
Nawaz Sharif. The two sides fully committed measures to
reducing the risks of accidental or unauthorised use of
nuclear weapons under their respective control.
7. ..., ...., ALLIANCE, REGIONAL.
GILLAN (Michael) . BJP and Transformation of opposition
politics in West Bengal. Economic and Political weekly. 33,
36; 1998, Sep. 5-12; 2391-2395.
The BJP Compaign in West Bengal reflects the
national strategy developed by the BJP to break its political
isolation and from important regional alliances through out
India. The basis for these alliances, as in the example of
West Bengal has been to form regional ties with state
opposition political formations whose primary concern is the
defeat of particular ruling parties at the state level. Whether
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the particular regional alliance between the Trinamul and
The BJP in West Bengal can be maintain in perhaps
secondary to the shortterm efficacy of the alliance in
allowing the state unit of the party to gain an electoral
posthold in the state for the first time. In order to facilitate
its alliance strategy, the BJP has been forced to adopt a
political style which is as accommodating as possible for
an avowedly 'ideological' party.
8. .—, .—, ASSEMBLY ELECTION.
KIDWAI, (Ansar). Punished. Nation and the World. 8, 172;
1998, December, 16; 14-15.
The BJP faced a rout in the November assembly poll
as widely predicted even though the Prime Minister Atal
Behari Vajpayee found it agains his party's expectations.
The party paid heavily for its misgovernance and promise
which proved follow. This Is the first time that economic
issue like that price rise and shortage of essent ial
commodities played such a major role in making or marring
the political fortunes of the major grouping in the fray. The
BJP-RSS have not been able to ride themselves.of their
communal hang-ups after the electorate put them in seats of
governance at the centre. The defeat of the BJP is bound
to be seen as a gain of the secularists. The BJP has
knack of speaking in two voices. This assertion denial
syndrome has been part of the BJP double speak.
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9. ...., ...., BUDGET 1998-99.
RAINA (R.) Political Budget : Protection to businessmen,
war on Public Sector. New Wave. 27, 42; 1998 June 7; 1.
The B.IP has taken its second major step to
consolidate its political hold by presenting a soft, please-all
budget. The first was the Pokhran tests. Both are designed
to create, a feel good atmosphere project the BJP as an
ultra nationalist party. The budget is going to extent this
isolation to the economic sphere. The budget has gone out
of its way to be benefit businessmen, protect the subsidies
of rich formers and the compensation to well off withdraw
from the global economy and resurrected the spetre of
stagflation. In that sense it is political objectives rather than
tacking economic issues.
10. VYASULU (Vinod). BJP's First Budget : The Pluses and
Minuses. Economic and Political Weekly. 33, 23; 1998,
June, 6-12; 1362-1366.
In this article the author confines himself to the
economic dimension, and the immediate context of the latest
budget. It means that what we are discussing many not be
the most important of the issues now facing the country.
Yet this agenda has been set by the finance minister
Yasvant Sinha. The BJP's first budget represents continuity
in some ways, but in others it breaks new ground. This
effort could, however, have gone further. Then of course,
there are many negative points in the budget. Do they out
weight the possitive ones. Finally, there is a great danger of
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inflation. Governments may come and go but their poverty
goes on for ever.
11 ...., ...., ...., PUBLIC SECTOR.
MAHADEVAN, (H). Budget 1998-99 : BJP Government's
Waron Public Sector. New age. 46, 27; 1998, July, 5-11; 9.
The author discuss about in a devastating move, the
BJP led government came out in clear and unambiguous
term on June 1, that t he central public sector in India w\\
be demolished. The budget 1998-99 presented by Finance
Minister Yashwant Sinha openly diclared a war on public
sector and in that process more than satisfied the IMF-world
bank dictates. The Budget 1998-99 opens up a red carpet
welcome to the private capitalists both Indian and foreign
who were hostile to the public sector since inception and
who want to own and enjoy the fruits of the blood sweat of
the working class.
12. -—, .—, BUS SERVICE, CALCUTTA-DHAKA.
MAHFUZAMAN. Trade wheels : Moving in the right direction.
India Today. 24, 16; 1999, April, 13-19; 44.
The direct bus service between Dhaka and Calcutta
comes over two decades too late. The bus link should also
help forge closer Indo-Bangia trade cooperation. Bangladesh-
India relations is that for the Indian it is hardly a part of
the domestic political agenda while for Bangladesh it is
nothing but. Where politics has failed, hopefully trade and
commerce will successed. The practical world of profit and
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loss should raise the level of discourse on India-Bangladesh
relation to a new, realistic level.
13. HAROON HABIB. Dhaka-Calcutta bus trial run on April 6.
The Hindu. 122, 72; 1999, March. 26; 8.
The article deals with the trial run of the bus service
between Dhaka and Calcutta will take place on April 6 to
facilitate road communications between the two neighbours.
The delegation from India will begin their journey for
Bangladesh on April 8 and will come along with the bus
from Bangladesh. With in a week of the trial run, the
commercial operation of the bus service between the
countries will follow an official said. The two countries
signed an agreement and a protocol on February 17 in
New Delhi enabling them to operate direct bus service
between Dhaka and Calcutta. Under the agreement and
protocol two bases from each side will ply for six days of
the week for the initial period of operation. The agreement
will be remined by the two governments after three months
of operation covering the share of traffic frequency of
service and other related issues the official added.
14. DHAKA REPICES as bus reaches city. The Hindustan
Times. 25, 167, 1999, June, 20; 1.
The inaugural Calcutta-Dhaka bus reached here this
evening at the Osmani Memorial Complex to a tumultuous
welcome in the presence of Prime Minister Adal Behari
Vajpayee and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina,
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thus heralding a new chapter in Indo-Bangia relations.
External Affair Minister jaswant Singh, his Bangladesh
counterpart Abdus Samad Azad, West Bangal Chief Minister
Jyoti Basu besides Union Ministers Nitish Kumar and
Kabindra Purakayastha were present at the function. Sheikh
Hasina said the bus service heralded a new era in bilateral
relations between the two countries. The bus to Dhaka was
flagged off from Calcutta amid usual trappings but missing
unmistakably was they fizz with the controversy surrounding
the denial of permission to writer Sunil Gangopalhyay by
the centre, casting its shadow over the historic event. The
Actor Vasanta Chowdhury boarded the bus at Salt Lake
International Bus Terminus.
15. JAHANGIR (Rahman). Bus to Bangladesh. Sunday. 26, 26;
1999, June, 27; 30-31.
The two neighbouring countries are now poised to
enter a new phase in their relations with the formal
inauguratory of a direct bus service on 19 June. The direct
bus service is being viewed by regular travellers as a
positive move in the right direction, aming at easing the
untold sufferings of passengers who visit India by road.
Shafi Sami : the successful operation of the Dhaka-Calcutta
bus service will decide the future of the Dhaka-Agartala and
Dhaka-Syedpur Sil iguvi bus links, pointed out foreign
secretary Shafiul Samil at a news briefing in Dhaka. The
token ride on 19 June was symbolic as both Priministers
Sheikh Hasina and Atal Behari Vajpayee and West bengal
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Chief Minister Jyoti Basu received nearly 80 passengers of
the two buses coming from Calcutta. Both Bangladesh and
India had in the meantime taken steps to promote regular
movement of people by relaxing visa rules. The Dhaka-
Calcutta direct bus service is a new era of cooperation
between neighbouring.
16 MOZFAFFAR ISLAM. A Ride to Dhaka. Nation and the
World. 8, 187; 1999, August, 1; 26-27.
There is general expectation that besides strengthening
bilateral relation between India and Bangladesh this step
goes a long way in signalling there abiding desire for good
neigboury relations. The two buses called 'Soharelya'
(Friendship) started their historic run from the newly
constructed Karunamage international bus terminus is salt
Lake city in Calcutta. The flower-bedecked 'Sohardya'
carying the Indian delegation from Calcutta was received by
Priminister's Atal Behari Vajpayee and Sheikh Hasina Wajed
along with West Bengal Cheif Minister Jyoti Basu with his
other colleagues. The two priministers later discuss a wide
range of issues including economics and the Kargel conflict.-
In an agreement with the Bangladesh government on June
20 India agreed to provide a creadit of Rs. 200 crore over
the next three years. The media in Bangladesh hailed the
Calcutta-Dhaka bus service as a historical event. However
given the goodwill and opportunetly the Calcutta-Dhaka
pasenger bus service would open a new chapter in the
history of India-Bangladesh cooperation. The two close
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neighbours and became a significant step in consolidating
peace and prosperity in South East Asia.
17. KHARE (Harish). Indo-Bangia ties strengthened. The Hindu.
122, 25; 1999, June 20; 1.
On June 19, The "People's Bus" from Calcutta railed
into Dhaka this evening, raising hopes of a substantive
integration at the popular level between Bangladesh and
India. Devoid of the high profile hype that accompained the
now bettered "Lahore Bus" the Calcutta-Dhaka bus run was
a rather low key affair but still underlining the Cultural and
political affimity between the two countries. The bus was
formally received by the two prime Ministers, Mr. Atal
Behari Vajpayee and Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh at the
Osmani memorial hall. Mr. Vajpayee described the start of
the bus service as "One more stage in the active agenda
between India and Bangladesh and called the Occasion a
"Wonderful Celebration. The Bangladesh Prime Minister
hailed the bus service as reflection of a under desire for
easily available communication facil i t ies" which would
"strengthen and extend the existing cordial relation between
the peoples of the two countries. The Mr. Vajpayee chose
to travel to Dhaka in the midst of the Kargil conflict, seek
to under line India's friendly ties with the South Asian
neighbours with the possible exception of Pakistan.
18. BUS BRINGS back the Spirit of 71. Sunday Pioneer. 9,
169; 1999, June, 20; 1.
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A Historic landmark was established as the first
Calcutta-Dhaka bus rolled in this evening to a spontaneous
clap of the two nations top leaders. Hundreds of people
gathered at the Osmani Hall where priminister Atal Behari
Vajpayee and Bangladesh Priminister Sheikh Hasina
welcomed the passengers of the bus which had entered
Dhaka after completing a 380 km journey. This is indeed a
joyous occassion for people in both countries. This is a
service we have long planned for and today we see it as a
reality. We in South Asia are now engaged in establishing
arrangements for regional cooperation in this direction
through SAARC. The easily available communication facilities
will strengthen and extend the existing cordial relations
between the peoples of the two countries.
19. BANGLADESH for enhancement of bilateral relations. National
Herald. 31, 103; 1999, June. 21; 1.
The article deals with Calcutta-Dhaka bus service
being launched. The Priminister of two countries welcomed
the first direct Calcutta-Dhaka bus service here this evening
with a call for further .enhancement of ties between the
neighbours. Receiving the inaugural bus service here along
with Priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee and a host of other
dignitaries from India and Bangaldesh at a ceremony at
Osmani Memorial Hall here, Bangladesh Priminister Sheikh
Hasina said during our war of liberation 10 million people,
leaving their homeland had taken shelter in India. The
people of Bangladesh still remember the rare example set
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by India and her people with gratitude for saving a huge
number of refuges, providing them with food, clothing,
shelter and health care extending moral support towards the
liberation war" said Hasina. This is indeed a joyous
occasion for people in both countries" Vajpayee said as the
bus rolled in to the Bangladeshi capital.
20. CHAKARBATI (Ashis). Delhi, Dhaka get on board. The
Indian Express. 67, 223; 1999, June, 20; 1.
The article deals with both India and Bangladesh taking
giant step forward in improving bilateral relations. The two
priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Sheikh Hasina, were
here to welcom the passengers of the first directs Calcutta-
Dhakabus. This carries forward the journey the two countries
have begun in recent years with the signing of the Ganga
water shaving agreement in- December, 1997. Reinforcing
that this was just the beginning of the journey towards
peace and goodwell, Vajpayee promised that more routes
whould be opened up, more rail services introduced.
Travellers between the two countries Vajpayee said, included
students in large numbers, medical patients, businessmen,
tourists pilgrim and tourists who had relatives and friends
on either side of the border. The absence of a direct bus
service meant the travellers had to walk across the border
with their luggage.
21. —-, .—, , DELHI-LAHORE.
AIYAR (Manishankar). Vajpayee's bus lomacy. Sunday. 26,
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24; 1999, June, 13; 8-10.
This article beings with the view that the bus to
Lahore had arrived in Kargil. The relationships between
India and Pakistan was over-laid. The bus to Lahore was
neither about strategy nor about tactics. It left people on
both sides of the border mesmerised by vision of peace but
now where near any resolution of differences. Bus to
Lahore did serve the immensely important domestic purpose
of making the bumbing Vajpayee look like a world class
states man. The Lahore wastoo important to the survival and
image of the Vajpayee government for Vajpayee and his
collegues to jeoparadise the good. Whether for sustaining
his government or seaking a fresh minded, Vajpayee
desperately needed the Lahore spirite.
22. BUS JOURNEY to Pakistan. Competition Master. 40, 9; 1999
April, 5; 70.
The author discusses about India and Pakistan having
built a wall of hostility between. Hopes of peace and
cooperation were raised when priminister Atal Behari
Vajpayee task a bus journey to Lahore. Given the history of
hospility and suspicion between Pakistan and India every
new effort to mark a fresh beginning is greeted with great
optimism. The Shimla aggreement had raised hopes of an
improvement of relations among the two neighbours.
Subsequently many rainds of talks have taking place
between secretaries and leaders but the hostil ity has
remained. The bus journey Undertaken by India's Prime
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Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is a historic step Indeed. It
was a defining movement of history because it may will be
a turning print of relation from suspicion and hostility to
trust and cooperation.
23. AMIT BARUAH. The bus to Pakistan. Frontline. 16, 4; 1999,
March, 12; 4-9.
Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee bus ride to wagah and
the promise head his host, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
made later in Lahore to the people of India and Pakistan
are only a big f irst step in a very long journey of
friendship between the two countries. The Prime Minister
Atal Behari Vajpayee crossed the wagah border checkpost
on February 20. The Vajpayee-Sharif talks focussed on the
entire range of bilateral relations, regional cooperation with
in the SAARC and issues of international concerned. The
broad principle of an emerging India-Pakistan relationship
with the Prime Minister of two countries sharing a vision of
peace and stability between countries. The responsibility for
both Vajpayee and Sharif will be torism in the hawks on
both sides.
24. JOSHI (Ishan). The Peace Ride. Outlook. 5,7; 1999, March,
17, 8-24.
The article indicates that the peace Initiative came
from PM's who lead hardline parties may be Ironic. But it
could also be the clincher. Atal Behari Vajpayee stepping
gingerly off the bus to Lahore at Wagah and Nawaz Sharif,
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pacing the red carpet perhaps a touch impatient ly,
embracing, a ceremonial guns boomed in solute. Feb 20,
1999, 4 P.M. Within movements of Vajpayee's first step on
Pakistani Soil, the mood had changed. A beginning had
been made to bring Vajpayee's word on Indian side " I am
going to Pakistan with your support with a message of
peace and friendship to fruition. It's a long hail on the
realbilateral issue. But if a bus crossing the border leads to
public euphoria, it's a start. The real break through has
been the symbolism the very act of embrance. While for
Vajpayee the bus ride is an attempt to take the initiative
away from the hawks, Sharif feels he can have it both
ways discuss Kashmir for the domestic audience and play
the stateman as well. Naturally both have no objection to
attention bing forced else where. All in al it's a fortuitous
encounter between vision, economics and global will. But
the sheer audacity of the wagah ren dezisus caught the
pulse of the people. Peacesuddenly seemed to make sense.
25. DELHI-LAHORE bus service from March, 16. The Hindu.
122, 61; 1999, March, 13; 1.
The author discuss the much awaited regular bus
service between Delhi and Lahore would begin from March
16, the Delhi Transport Minister, Mr. Parvez Hashmi
announced here today. The bus run four days a week-
Tuesday Wednes day, Friday and Saturday. Passengers
would be entitled to carry limited baggage as specified for
domestic travel. The super deluxe airconditioned bus with
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under and channel music would also have a mobile
telephone system which the passengers could avail of to
make calls on payment to any where in the country during
their journey between Delhi and wagah border. The 38
seater bus would have a five member crew with two drivers
two security guards and one liasion officer. The first bus
which undertask the historic journey to Lahore with the
Priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee, on board would be handed
over to the priminister is office. The bus would be puton
desplay of the PMO's penises from March 19 to coincide
with the Vajpayee Governments completion of one year in
office.
26. EQBAL (Ahmad). Enemies in Need could bring peace.
Nation and the world. 8, 179; 1999, April, 1; 14-16.
The author expresses his view t he Atal Behari
Vajpayee's bus journey' to Lahore is a historic events. They
make an unlikely pair of peace makers. Vajpayee and
Nawaz Sharif have developed a great foundness for each
other and are inclined to comprehand each other's grew
point, recognise domestic constraints and trust each other's
internations, A mutually agreed set of rules on safety
deploment and warning is requirement for preventing,
thermonuclear holocaust by accident, indvidual beyond the
symbolism of bus ride, bnuggy ride and Moghul point in
Lahore Possession of nuclear capability by both countries
has yielded a security environment characterised by
deference so that neither side can contemplate war.
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27. SAKSENA (Rashmi). Hope inspring. The weak. 17, 12;
1999, March, 7; 33-34.
Vajpayee's visit generated among the people of
Pakistan a desire for a more fruitful relationship with India.
The great moment of priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee's bus
crossing the Rad Cliffs lue at the wagah border had already
moved into the page of history. This is in solution to the
promise of peace between India and Pakistan. The two day
Vajpayee visit gave way to a new hope the day later.
Lahore posted the visit hoping that all the symbolism will
translate in to trade ties, casing of visa regulations and
f inal ly the resolut ion of Kashmir. Vajpayee and his
delegations has left behind a feel good sentiment. The
interaction has made the like of Tariq and Rubina disped
their inpressions about people across the border. Atleast in
Lahore to make friends review contacts establish trade links
and move on to a fruitful relationship. He may indeed be
hoping as are Punjabs industrialists and traders that the GT
Road to Pakistan may after them the trade opportunities that
coastlines offer people in other states.
28. KIDWAI (Ansar). Friendly bus streers towards peace. Nation
and the world. 8, 178; 1999, March, 16; 30-31.
The article deals with the Prime Minister Atal Behari
Vajpayee's bus journey from wagah to Lahore on February
20. The bus on both sides was a symbol of common
main's transport and as such. Peaceful protests and dissent
with in limits are part of the democratic way of life but
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violence has no place in this scheme. The joint declaration
signed by the two priministers and the memorandum of
understanding (Mou) worked but reach the two leaders the
men who really mattered. The friendly beginnings made
driving earlier regimes along with latest initiative need to be
consolidated to strengthen the aims of peace.
29. SHUKLA (Rajiv). Sustain the success. Sunday. 26, 10;
1999, March, 7-13; 11.
The author expresses his views as the follow up of
Vajpayee's Lahaore visit as the most successful visit. In a
very short time the Nawaz Sharif government made all
arrangement to make it a memorable event. Though nuclear
explosions on both sides, dashed hopes of friendship the
friendly feeling was still left in both Sharif and Atal Behari
Vajpayee. This feeling took Vajpayee to Lahore and made
Nawaz give him a read carpet welcome. Both the leaders
oepniy said that there should be no more war between the
two countries. Once trade is open business lobbies and
vested interests will force both the government to have
friendship. Both sides should withdraw forces from siachen
during winter when the soldiers of both countries suffer due
to the adverse weather and statusques should be maintained.
30. NAYAR (Kuldip). They did not Miss the bus. Nation and the
World. 8, 178; 1999, March, 16; 28-29.
The bus to Lahore opened avenus to greater peace
between the two neighbours. Flags of India and Pakistan
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were painted on its body. Tlie Priminister Atal Behari
Vajpayee sat in the front seat, the bus began its journey
to Lahore. Before long we were out of Atari and than at
Wagah. :Khushamdeed' to Pal<istan" were the first words
Nawaz Sharif spoke he embraced Vajpayee. Pakistani Prime
Minister also lined up to shakehands with Atal Behari
Vajpayee. Both Prime Minisert had shown coverage and
both may godown in history for having tried demalishing the
walls of distrust and hatred that have come up in the last
five decades. Atleast both can say that they have not
missed the bus.
31. — , — . , CAUVERY SETTLEMENTS, TAMIL NADU-
KARNATAKA
NAGARAJ (BS). Cauvery : Deal on, not quite. The Indian
Express. 66. 266; 1998, August, 8; 1.
Tamil Nadu and Karnataka agree on setting up an
authority, under the chairmenship of the priminister Atal
Behari Vajpayee, with Chief Minister of the four states as
member for implementation of the cauvery water disputes
tribunals interim order/. A monitoring committee comprising
central and state officers, to function under authority for
this purpose. Under this authority there would be monitoring
committee consisting of the designated officers of the
central government and the state government concerned.
32. LAST HURDLE in setting cauvery raw removed. The
Hindustan Times. 74, 220; 1998, April, 19; 1.
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The agreement reached on role of monitoring panel.
The final hurdle in the way of clinching an accord on the
cauvery issue was overcome today with the major parties to
the dispute, Karanata and Tamil Nadu. The decks have
been cleared for the implementation of the seven year old
interim award of the cauvery water fribunal by which
Karnataka will release 205 TMC of water every year to
Jamil Nadu. The Chief Minister of the four riparian states.
Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and pondichery had come to
abroad agreement on all contentions issues barring the role
and function of the monitoring committee at a high level
meeting convened by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee
Yesterday.
33. KARNATAKA, TN approve draft. Sunday Pioneer. 8, 219;
1998, August, 9; 1.
A. major hurdle in implementing the water sharing
agreement among the four cauvery basin states was
removed on Saturday. Both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, the
two main contending parties, approved a draft on the role
and function on the monitoring committee being set up to
assest the cauvery River Authority. Karnataka Law Minister
MC Naniab said the drafting committee which met under the
Chairmanship of the Cabinet Secretary last night, had
arrived at four broad proposals on the role of the monitoring
committee. The committee would only assist the authority,
and not have any independent executive or statutory powers.
It would function directly under the authority headed by
Prime Minister and four cheif minister.
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34. MENON (N.C.) Major break through in cauvery water issue.
Hindust Times. 74, 219; 1998 August 8; 1.
The article deals with four basin states arrive at a
broad agreement. The chief minister of the cauvery basin
states today achieved a major break through on the
implementation of the contentious interm award of the
cauvery water tribunal. The accord between Tamil Nadu,
Karnataka Kerala and Pondichery was reached after nine
hours of discussions spread over two days priminister Atal
Behari Vajpayee had with the chief ministers ahead of the
Aug. 12 deadline set by the supreme court for finalising a
scheme to implement the award. Under the four point
agreement there shall be a scheme for giving effect to the
interm award of tribunal and all related order. There shall
be an authority which will comprise the Prime Minister and
the chief minister of the four states.
35. BREAK THROUGH in cauvery row. The Pioneer. 8, 218;
199, Aug. 8; 1.
The Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Friday
managed to achieve a break through on the contentious
cauvery water issue with the four riparian states reaching a
boad agreement on removing barriers to the implementation
of the seven year old Interim award of the river water
tribunal. The success came a the end of three rounds of
talks between the Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and
the Chief Minister of four states.Mr. JH Patel (Karnataka)
Mr. M Karunanidhi (Tamil Nadu), Mr. E.K. Narayan (Kerala),
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and Mr. Janakiraman (Pondichery). The centre has decided
to constitute a drafting committee headed by cabinet
secretary which will back in to power, duties functions and
the role of the monitoring committee. The agreement on it
reached under the leadership of Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee
on all occasions he was the chief minister of Tamil Nadu.
MR. Karunanidhi thanked Mr. Vajpayee and planning
commission deputy chiarman Jaswant Singh for facilitating
the agreement.
36. ESWARAN (V.V) Cauvery water dispute : A break through
at last. Nation and the World. 8, 166; 1998, September, 16;
24-25.
This article deals with old cauvery waters dispute
priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee could seen as having
successfully taken the initiative in solving a serious problem.
The main tussle is between Karnataka where the river
priginates, and Tamil Nadu through which it mainly passes.
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee made the chief minister
agree to compromise in the cauvery water dispute, since
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu appeared to be prepared to
developing the potential of the cauvery, the centres was only
too happy to assist them in formulating a concord that
could ensure the well being of both the states. The cauvery
waters dispute has made one thing clear. The pulls and
pushes of polit ical compulsion, inked both to popular
regional passions and local political rivalries, would always
stand in the way of a rational and amicable solution. The
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union government will not have to implement its promise as
stated in the national agenda of setting up National water
commission that would oversee all water related issues
allover the country. And the sooner the centre goes for it
the better.
37. GHOSE (Arabinda). Cauvery : From confrontat ion to
cooperat ion. Nation and the Wor ld . 8, 166; 1998,
September, 16; 26.
The author discusses the two largest states Karnataka
and Tamil Nadu have been fighting over sharing of the
waters of the cauvery river for the last seven years. This
war came to an end for the present at least on August, 7,
1998. The "armistice" in their war was brokered by Prime
Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his "trouble shooter"
Jaswant Singh when an agreement was arrived at leaving all
the four chief minister happy. International dimensions when
the country was partitioned in 1941 with the Indus system
in the West and the Ganga-Brahma Putra - Meghana (GBM)
system in east becoming international water courses.
Priminister Vajpayee resolved this tangle with the suggestion
that the proposal authority be claimed by himself and the
chief ministers of the four basin states be the members.
The present government proposes to seek solution to the
inter state river waters disputes through the political route
apart from the judiciations. The four state have adopted the
path of cooperation rather than confrontation in resolving
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this longstanding dispute. This is an encouraging
developments.
38. VENKATESAN (V). An Authority on test. Frontline. 15, 23;
1998, November, 7-20; 28-29.
The article indicated that the cauvery river water
authority met for the first time amidst continuing differences
between the states concerned failed to take any significant
decision. The first meeting of Cauvery River Water Authority
(CRWA) took place in New Delhi on October 28. The
meeting was chaired by priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee and
attended by the chiefministers of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka,
Kerala, and Pondichery and Senior Officials of the Union
Water Resources Ministery. The meeting was important for
three reasons, first the Authority is seen to be achieving its
aims, it wi l l be viewed as a tr ibute to the spirit of
cooperative federations that characterised the accord.
Secondly the CRWA has begun its work at a time when
there is uncertainty about when the cauvery water disputes
tribunal will announce its final award. It remains to be seen
whether the priminister's appeal to the chief minister to
continue in the spirit of mutual cooperation and under
standing that marked the setting up of the authority will help
in the spredy resolution of the cauvery dispute.
39. PILLAI (Sreedha). The cauvery card. Sunday. 25, 30;
1998, July, 26; 24.
The Tamil Nadu politicians use the river water sharing
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issue to embarrass the centre. Cauvery is an emotive issue
for the people of both Tamil Nadu and Karnataka seven
years have passed since the cauvery tribunal's interim order
asking Karnataka to release 205 meter fit of vi ater to Tamil
Nadu's former annually. Karnataka has not agreed to this.
In a game of one upmanship, Karananidhi hurriedly faxed a
latter to the PM., GK Moon paner called for an all party
meeting and Jayalalitha said Karnataka was blocking
implementation of the inter imaulard through ordinances and
lawsuits. It's totally unreasonable to expect the four month
old BJP government to solve a problem which has ben
hanging free for seven years.
40. SREEDHAR PILLAI. Troubled waters. Sunday. 25, 34; 1998,
August, 23-29; 30.
The art icle deal with tracing the history of the
cauvery dispute. The suit was closed in view of the scheme
notified by the centre which has created an authority
headed by the priminister with reparian stats as its
members cauvery has been at the centre of the over 150
year old dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The
cauvery begins her 800 km journey from the picturesque
kodogu district in Karnataka. She has cades into two fills
before entering the plains of Tamil Nadu where she becomes
the lifeline of formers. The dams were build by both the
states across they cauvery. The supreme court ordered the
PM to solve the issue. Finally in a major break through
priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee was able to get the chief
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minister of the four reparian states to agreement scheme
for the implementation of the 1997 interm award of the
cauvery water disputes tribunal and for creating a river
valley authority with the priminister as the head.
41. VENKATESAN (V). The Cauvery conundrum. Frontline.
15,16; 1998, August, 1-14; 30-31.
The article deals with the supreme court setting a July
12 "deadline" for the centre to work out a negotiated
settlement to the cauvery dispute the Vajpayee Government
finds itself pulled in different directions by political parties in
Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The BJP led coalition govrnment
at the centre is virtually being tern apart by interge
pressure from political parties in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka
on the cauvery water issue. It found negotiated settlement to
the decades olddispute between the two states. A
memorandum signed by members of parliament belonging to
all political parties in the AIADMK led front in Tamil Nadu,
barring the Marunalarchi Dravida Munpetra Kazhazam
(MDMK) was submitted to the priminister. The memorandum
submitted by the all party delegation to Atal Behari
Vajpayee stated. The solution to the problem does not lie in
the creation of a mechanism or a regulatory authority
equipped with statutory powers. Many observed believe that
an negotiated settlement between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
is the only posssible solution to the cauvery dispute.
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42. VENKATESEN (V). Role of the Monitoring Committee.
Frontline. 15, 17; 1998, August, 15, 28; 25-28.
The author express his views that the deaks were
cleared for the announcement of a scheme to give effect to
the interm award of the cauvery water dispute tribunal with
the drafting committee finalising the role of and functions of
the monitoring committee at a late night meeting on August.
The committee wil l assist the authority in collecting
information and data the three states and Pondichery
agreed. Atal Behari Vajpayee have more powers than the
authority. The state and union Territory have also agreed
that the monitoring (committee will assist the authority in
setting up a well designed hydro-meterorological network in
the cauvery basin. The authority the first of its kind to be
created compulsing the Priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee and
chiefminister) in any river water sharing agreement would
offer the much needed political healing touch.
43. MURTHY (Sachidananda). Fruid Situation. The Week. 16,
36; 1998, August, 23; 44-47.
The article deals with the water sharing issue depends
the mistrust between Vajpayee and Jayalalitha. The cauvery
aggreement was the biggest betrayal. The cauvery issue it
was their turn to be arrogant towards the difficult lady of
Channai. Vajpay's men had worked elaborate plans on
cauvery. Jayalalitha's priminister's had thought that Vajpayee
would invite their leader for talks on the dispute before he
meet the chief minister of the four basin state on August 6.
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As he found Vajpayee was ignoring the major ally more
and more he softened considerably on the cauvery water
draft scheme. But Karunanidhi wanted to anger Jayalalitha
more by accepting the Vajpayee proposal . When
Ramamurthy finally met Vajpayee, the agreement had been
reached and water resources secretary. Z. Hasan had
already signed the gazette notification. Finally Vajpayee and
Jayalalitha had no mutual trust at all.
44. VENKATESAN (V). And quiet flows the Cauvery. Frontline.
15, 17; 1998, August, 15-28; 25-29.
In the case of the long festering cauvery issue
conciliation has last trumphed over confrontation. Decades
old dispute over the sharing of the cauvery rever water
between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka appeared to have been
almost resolved in two days on August 6 and 7, when
priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee held discussions with the
chiefministers of Tamil Nadu Karnataka, Kerala and
Pondhichery. The August 7 agreement seemed to satisfy
both the main contenders, Tamil Nadu and karnataka if one
by the ini t ial reactions. In ttie case of the cauvery
conciliation trumpted over confrontation. A key advisor to
Kamnanidhi on the cauvery issue, Guhan was of the opinion
that the cauvery systems in the world and there was little
surplus water available from it. He believed that all river
water disputes were amenable to solution if there was the
will for conciliation.
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45. NAGARAJ (B.S.)- Cauvery : Rain Saves the day for
Vajpayee. Indian Express. 67, 324; 1999, September, 29; 1.
Rains saved the day for priminister Atal Behari
Vajpayee who put off tomorrow is meeting of the Cauvery
River Authority after karnataka Chief Minister J.H. Patel
said he could not attend it because of his indisposition.
Tanil Nadu seemed releived that parts of the catchment
areas in th state and in Karnataka had received rains
which led to a five-fold size in the water level in Mettur
dam. The Priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee also did a good
turn to Patel whose refusal to release water immediately was
with an ege on the polling for five assembly seats on
October 3. The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister also wests to
Vajpayee asking him to persuade karnataka to realease
some water. The three member experts team led by water
resources secretary. Z. Hasan which visit the two states for
an on the spot assessment of the availability and needs of
water in the two state wi l l submit its report to the
priminister tomorrow.
46. CALMING THE water. Economic and Political Weekly. 33,
33; 1998, August 15-22; 2205.
The author express his view that the central of BJP
government counsil was able, after al l , to present the
supreme court with a draft scheme on cauvery waters
acceptable to all the basin states cannot but be regarded
as a triumph of Atal Behari Vajpayee's skills of persuasion.
The agreement at some point between Karnataka and Tamil
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Nadu and various committees proposal under the cauvery
river authority. However for the BJP led government at the
centre this success paves the way for the resolution of
other river desputes, such as that over the Sutlej - Yamuna
link between Punjab and Haryana, both currently governed
by parties foundly to the BJP. Also river waters policy to
provide the framework for settlement of inter-state water
dispute promised in the BJP manifests might well take
concrete shape.
47. THOMAS (K.M.). Trick or Treat. India Today. 23, 34; 1998,
August, 24; 20-22.
The article deals with the cauvery agreement that gave
the AIADMK chief yet another excuse to bring Vajpayee's
Government perilously close to a down fall. When Prime
Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee negotiated an agreement with
the chief minister of Tamil nadu, Karnataka and Pondichery
over the sharing of cauvery waters. Add chiefminister M.
Karunanidhi. "This is a victory for the people of the four
states. It was thanks to this triumph that the BJP led
Goviernment came perilosly close to being deprived of a
majority. During the latest cauvery crises the was distinctly
unenthasiastic. Jayalalitha saw the cauvery settlement as a
victory for Karunanidhi. Despite advise from BJP hard lines
who felt that the cauvery issue was the most appropriate
occasion for the Government to call he bluff and play
martyr, Vajpayee wanted to offer Jayalalitha an opportunity
to saveforce. Both the BJP and the AIADMK were not ready
with an alternative scheme to save the government.
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48. —-, -—, CIVILIAN-PRISONERS.
AMIT BARUAH. India, Pakistan to exchange Civi l ian
Prisoners Today. The Hindu. 122, 68; 1999, March 22; 1.
The article deals with Indian Priminister Atal Behari
Vajpayee and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's
exchange of c iv i l ian prisoners at the wagah border
tomorrow. While India well hand over 43 prisoners to
Pakistan. Islamabad will realiease 15 Indian detenus. The
Prminister of both countries have agreed to facilitate more
contact between the separated families and prisoners and
for this purpose the procedure of interview prisoners is
being simplefied. In a joint statement issue on March 6,
Indian and Pakistani off icials had agreed to release
specif ied civi l ian prisoners in three weeks while the
fishermen and their boats were to be freed in month.
49. -—, —-, COALITION.
PALSHIKAR (Suhas). Manipulative polit ics continues.
Economic and Political Weekly. 34, 13; 1999, March, 27;
743.
The author had expected that through the present
ruling alliance of the Shiv Sena and BJP had not endeavour
itself to the electorate section of the traditional moratha
following of the congress which are not preparred to
accommodate the details or the OBCs have become
vulnerable to the appeals from the Shiv Sena and BJP.
The Shiv Sena - BJP victory was a combination of many
factors. In such a scenario, the task before the congress
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leadership would be to disintegrate the mythical maratha vote
and to seek build new alliance of the poor maratha with
other non maratha castes including the delites. The will
virtually mean writing a fresh text on the politics of the
state.
50. .—, .—, .—, AGENDA.
SHAMEEM FAIZEE . BJP Stammers out an Agenda for
Governance. New Age. 46, 12; 1998, March, 22-28; 1.
Despite all our efforts to win over the post poll allies
to Cobble up a majority by jettisoning several prepoll allies
and winning over individuals and small groups by all sorts
of inducement, Atal Behari Vajpayee has to be content to
be sworn in as priminister of a majority coalition of about
one and a half dozen parties and groups. He took over
office alongwith 43 others and 22 cabinet ministers and
equal number as minister of states. BJP Apart from
Vajpayee and Advani, Dr. Murii Manohar Joshi and Jaswant
Singh have also authanticated the document.
51. KAPOOR (Sanjay). Priminister Sick, but government is
sicker. Blitz. 58, 32; 1998, August, 8; 1.
Fuelled by rumours about the health of priminister Atal
Behari Vajpayee, moves to pull down the BJP-led coalition
government have begun In right earnest. The Vajpayee still
talks of peace some of his colleagues in government seem
to be pursuing a different agenda. The BJP's failure to
push its candidate for the post of deputy speakership of the
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Lok Sabha has also shown that it is no longer confident of
proving its majority. Only t ime wi l l te l l whether its
confidence in its ability to govern India has been eroded
for good.
52. .—, — , —., AGREEMENT.
KIDWAI (Ansar). Kicking up a Row. Nation and the World.
8, 159; 1998, June, 1; 14.
Author discuss his views about Home Minister and BJP
ideologue L.K. Advani has raised a stormby insisting on
review of the constitution and advocating the presidential
system of governance. Atal Behari Vajpayee spoke more
liked priminister than a party luminary; on the other hand
the out going party. Cheif L.K. Advani's Utterances were
marked by political rhetoric in his dual role as a party
ideologue as well as the home minister of the BJP led
coal i t ion. Vajpayee's emphasis was on strengthening,
evenexpanding, the present coalition arrangement. BJP
leadership has been at pains to make it clear that the
national agenda is a compact of compromise to ensure to
survival of the coalition arrangement else their original stand
on the construction of the temple at Ayodhya. The issue as
of course arguable both its pros and cons but the timing of
Advani's advocacy has tarred it with a deeply political
colour.
53. —-, —-, —., COMMUNALISM, PROMOTION.
NAYAR (Kuldip) 100 Days of BJP Led Government.
Radiance. 33, 26; 1998, June, 28; 8.
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The BJP led government completed its 100 days in
office. The BJP wants India to be right wining milliant
states. It has pushed the country to a different direction,
from peace to aggressiveness from conci l ia t ion to
confrontation. The Bhartiya Janata Party led coalition is
conniving at efforts to commualise the atmosphere. The
communalism has increased since the advent of Vajpayee's
government. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a member of RSS
Parivar, is openly talking about the Hindu Raj. The debate in
parliament should that the BJP was not varried. Over
jingoistic attitudes. At a time when the party shohid be
wooing people for consenius it is raising issue which will
further divide the nation.
54. —-, -—, -—, CONTRADICTION.
NAYAR (Kuldip). Controdiction at the Centre. Nation and the
World. 8, 162; 1998, July, 16; 40-42.
The author expresses, his views about the best thing
being probably to let the BJP led coalition fall under the
burden of its own contradictions. Prime Minister Atal Behari
Vajpayee is the person who should cabinet but the tells
openly that he has left proactive policy in the hands of
Home Minister L.K. Advani and the military. In the coalition
led by the BJP, there are 13 odd parties. The proactive
policy would have been finalised in consulting with them.
The AIADMK chief Jayalalitha has even spoken communalis
which has raised its head once again because of
determined stand by the BJP and the VHP to construct a
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Ram temple at the place where the Babri Masjid stood
before demolition. The differences between Vajpayee and
Advani on governance are too evident to be missed. And
everyone knows who wields real power. One way to
interpret him is that he has admitted the coalition failure.
The even negatively, the BJP allies stay in power.
55. .—, —., —-, DISAGREE, MANDIR-MASJID ISSUE.
SHAMEEM FAIZEE . Prime Minister Double Speak on the
temple issue. New Age. 46, 24; 1998, June, 14-20; 1.
The article indicates this is perfectly in tune with
policy of double speak in which the BJP leadership has
acquired mastery. After four days of rumpus in both the
houses of parliament over the construction activities for a
temple to be built at the site where Babri Masjid Stood in
Ayodhya, the Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has
declared that his government will abide by the court verdict
and wil l not allow violation of the court order in the
meanwhile. Beyond that the priminister is not ready to
commit anything. On the contarary he reminded the Rajya
Sabha that his parity is commited to building the temple at
Ayodhya and there is no question of retreating from it. He
claimed that the issue has been kept in abeyance as other
partners in his ruling coalition do not agree with BJP on
this issue.
56. —-, —-, -—, ECONOMY, KICK START.
BHARAT (Ahluwalia). No Thank your for the Priminister.
Outlook. 4, 44, 1998, November, 9; 50.
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Vajpayee seems to be trying his level best but it is
not enough in the gloom doom scanar io. Business
confidence indices touch all time lows. All indicators of an
inert coalition government. The government is doing nothing
to push big infrastructure projects which could kickstart the
economy. At priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee's f irst
interaction with industry at the CII's annual general meeting
in April he made 10 pronouncements. Vajpayee announced
his intention to go through with some new initiatives
buyback of shares increasing the creeping acquisition limit
for promoters and the annual general meeting of FICCI that
he got them cleared by the cabinet within two days.
Unfortunately for Vajpayee while business had long been
clamouring for these concessions reactions was like warm.
Clearly Vajpayee's learning the hard way reality does not
matter perception does.
57. —-, —-, — , PERFORMANCE.
KIDWAI (Ansar). BJP performance you're being watched.
Nation and the World. 8. 164; 1998, Aug., 16; 14.
The Bass has been watching and this came in to the
open at a recent meeting of the BJP priminister's called by
the RSS top brass to give them a low down on good
governance and discipline. RSS Chief Rajendra Singh who
presided gaved piece of his mind to the BJP's top notchers
in the government, the thrust of the advice being on the
need to drastically toning up their functioning in line with
the poll promises. The leading partner of the coalition owes
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the major responsibi l i ty and accountabi l i ty for the
government functiokning. The rising prices and overall
economic failure compounded by a spate of strikes in the
essential sectors and the deteriorating law and order
situation have further added to the woes of the beleaguered
outfit headed by the BJP. Much of such problems stem
from the difficult allies-Jayalalitha perpatually and other like
Samata, the Akalidal and Trinamul COngress sporadically.
This would require developing a coalition culture based on
common interests and minimum ideological affinity. In a
substantial sense stability and good governance would go
hand in hand.
58. — , — , — , POLITICS.
WITHIN. A month BJP bares Itself. New Age. 46, 16;
1998, April, 19-25; 1.
The article deals with the fact that a month's time BJP
led coalition government has shown clearly that it is neither
a stable government nor wants to carry for ward the
tradit ions of coalition polit ics. Priminister Atal Behari
Vajpayee has said so in so many words. While addressing
the concluding session of the BJP's national executive,
Vajpayee exhorted the party workers to work for establishing
the single party rule of the party. He said that the present
coalition is a temporary phase and cannot be carried for
long.
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59. BHARADWAJ (Brij). New Twist in Coalition Politics. Nation
and the World. 8, 175; 1999, Feb., 1; 25.
The article deals with the coalition partners of the
BJP, also facing inner convulsions. The Samata Party which
is the mianstay of the BJP in Bihar with its leader like
George Fernandes acting as trouble shooters for the
priminister are facing rought times. The Samata Party has
recieved notice on their leaders calling upon them either to
resign or change the government policy on controversial
issues like insurance bill and patent bill. Parliamentary
Affairs Minister madan Lai Khurana Committee a faux pas
unfortunately at the instance of powerful Home Minister L.K.
Advani who was not keen to push they that without them
BJP will lose its identity are indications of growing of the
suffsion brigade with Vajpayee or his policies. The Sangh
Parivar is keen to seek votes in the name of Vajpayee. The
coalitions have to work on the basis of their respective
strength and not on the strength of power to black mail.
60. —-, —-, -—, PROBLEMS.
VENKATESAN, V. Persisting worries. Frontline. 15, 19;
1998, September, 12-25; 26.
The article deals with the BJP, continuously being
plagued by problems inspite of the full in its conflicts with
its coaliation partners at the centre. This could will turn out
to be the calm before the storm, for both the BJP and its
allies are playing the waiting game, unwilling to rock the
boat at the present stage. The BJP managed to contain the
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challenge from the AIADMK it faced a siege within. The
Swadeshi Jagran Manch dubbed some of the centre's
economic policies as ant ipeople. It is believed that
Vajpayee's Critics in the party have succeeded in Sowing
the seeds of conflict between him and the arises. The
BJP's relation with its other allies at the centre are less
than cordial.
61. .—, .—, .—, .—, STABILITY PLANK.
ASGHAR (AM). The BJP and stability. New Age. 46, 13;
1998, April, 4; 5.
The article states that the Indian democracy was
passing through several chalenges and stability under such
unstable conditions is not possible. The Lok Sabha elections
are over and the BJP was to form 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
prepoll allience. it is having problems with its allies, some
are dictating terms. The BJP campaigned on the stability
plank but political stability for such a disparate allience is
anything but assured.
62. -—, —-, —-, SELF DECEPTION.
FAIZEE (Shameem). BJP's self deception. New Age. 46,
35; 1998, August 30; 1.
The article indicates the self deception which has
taken over the BJP leadership since it assumed power at
the centre and its constant efforts to divert the people's
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attention from its continuing failures and follies on almost all
front. On almost all fronts it appeared to be apologetic for
the failure of the government. By skirting the discussion on
the continuing war inside the ruling coalition and launching
an attack on opposion that its "ganging up" to dislodge the
BJP led coal i t ion from the power, the BJP National
execut ive at Jaipur has attempt to gloss over the
administration. It has attempted to pass the back on past
rulers for all the sense it has committeed during its five
month rule. The self contradiction and self deception is
more vivid in the political resolution. The fact is that the
directionless and unstable government of Atal behari
Vajpayee has pavalysed the whole administration.
63. -—, —-, —-, SURVIVAL.
SUKUMAR (Muralidharan). A Coalition on hold. Frontline.
15, 18; 1998, August, 11; 9.
The article deals with fact that despite the serious
straints in the BJP led coalition, the Vajpayee government
has survived solely because of the inability of the opposion
to put together an alternative dispensation. Between his effort
to sort out the cauvery water sharing dispute involving four
socithern states and a supposedly routine bureaucratic
rashuffle at the centre, last for night it seemed that
priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee had arrived perilously close
to the final break. The Atal Behari Vajpayee and his cricle
of political confidants have seemingly had little time to
attend to the pressing taks of governance. The DMK is
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almost certain to sign up as a member of the BJP led
coalition should Jayalalitha decide to part ways with it.
Finally, it is this negative assurance that there is no
alternative, an ironic represe of the claims of dynastic
legitimacy in the congress that alone sustains the Vajpayee
Government.
64. MUKERJI (Debashish). Wobbly winner. The Week. 16, 15;
1998, March, 29; 32-34.
The article Indicates that the length of the tenure of
the Vajpayee government will be determined by its allies.
Top on the agenda of the new government is its own
survival. Contentious issues will be jettisoned but not
Swadeshi. Immediate on the BJP's agenda in the next
session are passing the Lok Pal bill to contain corruption,
pushing through the bill reserving 33 percent legislative
seats for woman and electoral reforms. In the first flush of
victory as Vajpayee takes charge, unpleasant realities have
been burred. How long they will take to resurface is
anybody gueses.
65. —-, —-, —-, SUSTAINED.
NAYAR (Kuldip). BJP's some soult on Bhandari beats all
norms. Radiance. 34, 9; 1999, March, 14-20.
The BJP's some soult on Bihar governor Sunder
Singh Bhandari beats all norms. Home Minister L.K. Advani
was justified in announcing that can a political governor be
replacing Bhandari who repeatedly said even in office that
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he was an RSS man. But then how could the Bhartiya
Janata Party refuse the fate of RSS which ultimately
controls the party. That L.K. Advani had to eat humble pie
is not so bad as is the unquestionable rule of an RSS man
over Bihar. The Bhartiya Janata Party has introduced the
phrase to the civilian lexicon by sustaining the coalition it
heads.
66. -—, —-, COMPROMISE.
NAYAR (Kuldip). BJP Looking for New Supporters.
Radiance. 33, 18; 1998, May, 3-9; 8.
Home Minister L.K. Advani, Human Resources Minister
Murii Manohar Joshi and the state Education Minister Uma
Bharti have been Charge-sheeted in the Babri Masjid
demolition case. Jayalalitha did not name then but was clear
to every body, that she meant all the three. The BJP had
only two options. Either the party comes clean or make
compromise. The BJP has been sucked in to vicious circles
of power. Some defence has been offered on their behalf
that the three are not involved in the corruption cases. They
have been accused of complicity in the destruction of a
structure that represented India's pluralistic society its
composite culture. And how can anyone forget the enormity
of Hindu-Muslim riots in the wake of Babri Masjid's
destructions. Already Vajpayee government looks too
compromising, too minity-priminy, too willing to leave out.
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67. —-, —-, CONCENCES, ISSUES.
NAYAR (Kuldip). Lack of Experience, Ideas Hounds BJP.
Radiance. 33, 39; 1998, October, 3; 9.
Priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee said candidly when I
asked him to go over the 200 days of his government 14
office and point out its achievements. The cauvery water
agreement people have welcomed it, infact every one. He
would like to sort out some other pending issues like
Kashmir and the northeast. I pointed out to Vajpayee that
the fault of his government was that it did not contact the
opposition to achieve a consensus on important matters,
some thing that the previous government were doing.
Reminded of the Babri Masjid Vajpayee said that he wanted
the matter to be settled through the court we have again
approached the judiciary to decide the matter quickly. At
one stage we had persuaded even the Vishwa Hindu
Parishad (VHP) he said. Mr. Vajpayee helpless in dealing
with various knotty issues confronting the country.
68. — , — , COOPERATION, INDO-SINO MEETING, FICCI.
MALHOTRA (Inder). Regional Cooperation. Sunday. 25, 49;
1998, December, 13-19; 28.
The author expresses his view about India's need to
have a balanced relation with China and Japan. Without
balanced and broadly cooperative relation among these three
giants of Asia neither the security and stability of the
continent can be assured nor will the 21st be the Asian
Century, as it would be all laws of logic be. China and
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Japan harbour deepest but to tally unstated suspicions and
reservation about each other. China's an"ger was fuelled by
Atal Behari Vajpayee unfortunate letter to Bill Clinton Citing
China as the main reason for this country going overtly
nuclear. A high power deligation of the Japan Business
Council, in Delhi for a FICCI meeting, called on the
Priminister and two governments have more or less finalised
a programme of official exchanges at a high level which
might begin in January with the two foreign secretaries
meeting in Tokyo. There is eagerness on both sides to
return to business as usual.
69. .—, -—, CRISIS, TELECOM.
KAPOOR (Sanjay). Telecom : The mess continuous.
Sundav.26. 32; 1999, August, 8-14; 38-40.
The author expresses his views about the telecom
crisis really of the Vajpayee governments making. Pramod
Mahajan announced a cabinet decision on 6 June to
replace the earlier license freebased regime with a new
revenue sharing arrangment was preparing a "multi crore
bail out plan for cellular operators for a hefty consideration.
The net out come of this aggressive lobbying is that
president K.R. narayanan, Election Commission and now the
courts have all intervened. Vajpayee has denied any
financial mal fearsance in the telecom deal. A pragmatist he
would be the last person to rule out the play of bribes in
international deal. Unfazed he has chosen to go ahead in
the hope that in the coming elections, his personal
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credibility and integrity would help him ride the telecom
storm.
70. — , .—, CORRUPTION CHARGES.
NAYAR (Kuldip). Vajpayee : Means to End. Mainstream. 16,
16; 1999, April, 11; 11.
The article indicate that the Bharatiya Janata Party
has learnt it the hard way. Jayalalitha, Chautala and Buta
Singh name anyone with curruption charges, they had
jumped in to the party bandwagon. The formation of the
cabinet indicates all that. The BJP realises it shaky
position. BJP has no easy choice. Nor can it review the
contentious issues like the Ramtemple, special status to
Jammu and Kashmir and Common Civil Code. The thins will
not come to head so long as a liberal person like Vajpayee
is the Priminister. He has the knack of giving the impression
of being everythings to everybody. He excides concilation. It
is an open secret that Vajpayee is only a means to an
end, not the end by itself. Strange, Vajpayee does not
realise it.
71. MUKHERJI (Debashish). From Crisis to Crisis. The Week.
16, 20; 1998, May 3; 32-36.
The author expresses his views that the Jayalalitha's
one point private agenda, of dismissal of the DMK
government in Tamil Nadu, has left the BJP led coalition
government tot ter ing on the brink. One month into
governance has shattered all the BJP's pretensions : its
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coalition seems to have more currupt people and appears
evenless stable thank the UF's even did. Jayalalitha has
chosen her targets fortitiously. JethmalanI (extreme riht) has
no support pase of any sort and owes his ministership
solely to his proximity to Vajpayee and Advani. If the
actions of Jayalalitha, Hegde and Jethmalani are any
indication, this is a tell order. Buta Singh mentioned not
only Hegde and Jethmalani but also L.K. Advani, Murii
Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharati all three chargesheeted for
their alleged involvement in the Babri Masjid demolition.
72. —., .—, DEMOLITION, BABRI MASJID.
MASUD (Iqbal). "Our" Separation with "Them". Nation and
World. 8, 173; 1999, January, 1; 20.
The author expresses his views about the fact is that
for most Muslims, December 6, 1992 is not yestarday. I
was the only one watching the telecast of the destruction
of the Babri Masjid brick by brick, it is not sadomasochim
which makes me recall that agonising hour, it is important
that Muslims today should reveal there true feelings about
this Karbala of so called modern India. Today the BJP
leaders talk of 'Unfortunate happing of confision. Mr. Naqvl,
BJP's Minister of State for informational broad casting has
said in effect in a number of interview Muslims have
forgotten the Masjid demolition. The recent reverses suffered
by the BJP in the election in Delhi, Rajasthan and MP will
possible be regarded as a late revenge for the demolition.
There is no distiction between BJP and hardcore. But
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Kalyain Singh is a cleaver, operating fascust. If he goes
down, he will like samson, bring down the state with him.
73. ...., -..., DIALOGUE, INDO-PAK.
AIYAR (Mani Shankar). The Thaw. Sunday. 26, 8; 1999,
February 21; 43-49.
The author deals with the two Priminister sho the
imagination to move matters decisively forward. If they do
new down could be breaking. The section of the Pakistan
Press, representing hard line Pakistani opinion have been
warning their readers to beware of Brahmins boarding
buses. The future of the thaw, allegedly taking place in
Indo-Pak relations, lies in Nawaz Sharif's hands particularly
because his longerity in office is as assured as Vajpayee's
is uncertain. The two Priminister's agree that even if the
time is not ripe for a strategy is break through on Kashmir,
a technical break through in pushing the dialogue as a
constructive priority is. That can be easily achieved by
restructuring the talks to fulfill the cardinal principal of
making the dialogue "uninterrupted and uninterruptible".
74. CHOPRA (Subhash). Indo-Pak talks Charade Time for give
and take. Nation and the World. 8, 172; 1998, December,
16; 44.
The article deals with the talks between India and
Pakistan have be came a routine affair with no concrete
result in sight. To witness the umpteenth round charade of
India-Pakistan talks. Both side realfirmed their commitment to
the Indus Water Treaty of 1960, exchanged views and took
note of the discussions on the subject from October 1987 to
August 1992. The both side agree to continue talks the
differences continued to faster around the definition of the
project. The charade not with standing, the lively thing is
that two sides held the final day of the talks to promote
friendship and hold more talk. The bottom line of any
solution to the Indo-Pak war of Worlds and Occasional
bullets must be the realisation that there has to be some
give and take.
75. ...., ...., , ...., AGREEMENT.
MALHOTRA (Inder). Core issue. Sunday. 28, 32; 1998,
August 9-15; 11.
The article deal with Indo-Pak dialogue must be made
more meaningful and complete. It is something of an
achievement for Atal Behari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif to
have agreed on the resumption of the ruptured dialogue in
Colombo. Indian and Pakistan have now to be have with
the sense of responsibil ity enjoind upon them by the
possession of duly declared nuclear weapons. Even dead
lock over other issues, confidence building measures,
accident, misunderstanding or misjudgment, have to be put
in place. As for Kashmir both sides have or got to
recognise that both of them are man absolute bind. A
cooling off is a must for useful talks on Kashmir but by a
cruel twist of irony, no one seems in a mood to allow the
Kashmir situation to cool down.
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76. —-, -—, , —-, COLOMBO.
BAWEJAA (Harinder) . Breakdown. Indiatoday. 23, 32;
1998, August, 10; 60-64.
The article indicates that Atal Behari Vajpayee and
Nawaz Sharif failed to get the Indo-Pakistan dialogue moving
in Colombo. Both sides accused the other of intransigence
over Kashmir. India now faces a major chal lenge in
councing the would that tensions will not get out of hand.
The 10th South Asian Association regional Cooperation
(SAARC) summit was being held under the broad shadow of
the highly billed Vajpayee and Sharif talks. There were
greate expectations internationally. Pakistan declares talks
are a waste of time and the Vajpayee and Sharif dialogue
adds upto zero.
77. —-, — , , PRIME MINISTER, INDO-PAK.
PHILIPOSE (Pamela). Two Prime Ministers give friendship a
chance. Indian Express. 66, 107; 1999, February, 22; 1.
The article deals with both the Prime Minister agreeing
to reasolve all issue including Kashmir. The most substantial
gains of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee visit to Lahore
seems to have been in the area of augmenting confidence
building (CBMs) between the two countries to prevent a
possible nuclear war Vajpayee and Sharif had two rounds
of one to one talks within a duration of 24 hours. The hope
of a no war declaration that many had hoped would
emerge from these current negotiations was belied, in a
Memorandum of Understanding signed between the foreign
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secretaries of India and Pakistan both nation agreed to
provide each other with advance notification in respect of
ballistic missle flight test. The both nation will undertake
national measures to reduce the risk use of nuclear
weapons under their respective control. The two leaders to
agree to meet periodically to discuss all issues of mutual
concern, including nuclear-related issues.
78. .—, —., , PRIME MINISTER, VAJPAYEE (A.B.) -
SHARIF (Nawaz).
NAYAR (K.P.). Colombo Diary. Sunday. 25, 33; 1998.
August, 16-27; 15.
Indian media management put Pakistani Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif on the defensive and upset his applicant at
the SAARC Summit. After meeting the Prime Minister Atal
Behari Vajpayee Unitaterally announced that the two sides
had agreed on the resumption of talks. On the eve of the
Vajpayee - Sharif Summit, the Pakistani's were certain that
they could performed a hat-tuck in Colombo. They believed
they could repeat Male and New York with ease. The Sharif
had hoped to make his proposal for a peace, security and
development initiative in Colombo the half mark of the
Vajpayee-Sharif meeting. Vajpayee's announcement about the
resumption of dialogue made Sharif's initiative a damp
squeb. For once the policy makers and media managers
undersrtood each other and acted in concert to bring forth
results.
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79. BAWEJA (Harinder) . Dead Lock. India Today. 23, 31 ;
1998, August, 3; 46-49.
In this article indicates that the meeting between the
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif at
the SAARC Summit in Colombo is likely to be market by
mutal suspicious and a hardening of political stands. While
India is willing to discuss Kashmir as part of the composite
subjects, Pakistan is itching to prove that talks without third
party mediation are doomed.
80. —-, —-, DISMISSAL BHAGWAT (Vishnu).
KUNJU (N). Indian Navy In Murky Waters. Alive; May,
1999, 199; 1999, May; 102.
The article deal with the Bhagwat issue has rocked
the boat of the JBP led coalition with both Fernandes and
Bhagwat trading charges. Is it merely a clash of egos or
the machination of the powerful arms lobby. The dismissal
of the chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat,
has split the community of politician, retired generals, the
media and of cource, the serving armed forces officers in
to pro and anti Bhagwat camps.
81. ANEJA (AtuI). New twist to Bhagwat issue. The Hindu. 122,
68; 1999, March, 22; 1.
The author express hisview that the defence minister
and the former Navy Chief Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat,
continue to be at logger heads over the issue of an Annual
Confidential Report (ACR) of a navel officer, disclosures of
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an internal meeting of the Navy in whicii his issue among
others was discussed has added to the confusion. The
committee asserted that the naval head quarters had not
reported any Irregularity commited by ex CNS (Admiral
Bhagwat) to the Minister of defence. The legal implications
of the case are also being examined, it added. The board
also examined other allegations of suspected tampering of
the ACRs of other top officers by Admiral Bhagwat - After
examining the merits of each petition the board concluded
that the review done by ex CNS are as per regulations and
that no malafide intensions in any of these cases could be
established". The board acknowledged that the formar navel
chief reviewed the ACRs of officers of various branches and
ranks but only as per regislations" and as part of his
responsibilities.
82. SAURABH KATAIL. A Sacking Saga. Sunday. 26, 8; 1999,
February, 27; 6.
The article deals with the for giving of and an indepth
analyses of sacking of chief of Navel Staff (Vishnu
Bhagwat). It is said that the Prime Minister Vajpayee and
the defence minister did not divulge the facts of the
sacking sega. the reason cited, that Bhagwat posed a
security threat seems a bit vagie. As defence minister
George Fernandes must reveal the facts leading to
Bhagwat's dismissal. The Bhagwat appointment too was
shrouded in mystery. The Bhagwat's meeting his nemeses at
the hands of the bureaucracy is not surprising. The Indian
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Soldiers have to suffer at the hand of the government babus
while the president being the supreme commonder of the
armed forces had been relegated to the background.
83. AIYAR (Mani Shankar). A Bhagwat Primer. Sunday. 26, 15;
1999, April, 11-17; 8-10.
The author expresses his view that George Farnandes
in a jam. He thought he would get away with invocation of
the doctrinal mantora of the subordination of the military to
the civil authority and held his dark doings behind the veil
of national security and thush hush brouhaha Vajpayee
catch phrase Admiral Bhagwat made it to the top of the
naval forces. Bhagwat in this affi-davit informed to Raksha
Mantri at a briefing in part blair in May that these arms
were meant for rebels in the North East and had these
arms and ammunition not been apprehanded, these weould
have been sufficient to tie up one whole division of the
armed forces, for a period of about one year Bhagwat
records how every inst i tut ional norm was blantautly
transgressed to push in the sky post of Deputy Chief of
Navel Staff an off icers whose camulat ive record of
outstanding grading's stretched over all of 16 month of a
career spanning wellover threg decades. Bhagwat affirms to
be one of the most serious security risk in the country.
84. NAJMI (Quaied). Foreign hand. The Week. 17, 7; 1999,
April, 11; 36.
Former Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat,
while reluctant to speak about his dismissal matter pending
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before parliaments speaks out his mind on the arms dealers
mafia operating in the country. Bhagwat added that after the
pokharan tests last year, the government had said that it
was important to safe guard various sensitive installations in
the country. Bhagwat further says that the nexus between
big arms dealers and their middle men or agents and
foreign intelligence agencies and its implications on the
internal security of the L.K. Advani on December 1998
during meeting at the latters office in parliament house.
Advani had advised Bhagwat to meet president K.R.
Narayanan.
85. VIR (Sanghvi). Avenger and Admiral. Sunday. 26, 15; 1999,
April, 11-15; 17-21.
The author expresses his views that they key to
understanding the Fernandes Bhagwat despute lies in
understanding George Fernandes himself. All the issue that
arose because of dismissal of Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat the
most puzzling question in this is how is it that Fernandes
perceived by the armed forces as the soldiers friend, as
the best defence minister in living memory has suddenly
become the enemy of the Navy, the symbol of political
interference in the armed forces. As puzzling is the list of
misdemeanours that led to Bhagwat's sacking. Talk of
national security of defiance of civilian authority, why
Bhagwat was sacked but how he was appointed in the first
place. The thing to remember about thecurrent dispute is
that both men see it through the prism of their own
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experiences. Bhagwat sees himself fighting some politician
who is trying to interfere with his job. George Fernandes
sees Bhagwat as a v indict ive and unfair boss. The
Fernandes-Bhagwat story follows a smilar plotline.
86. PRASANNAN (R). Nailing of minister. The Week. 17, 17;
1999, April, 7; 41.
Bhagwat's Charges offer Fernandes no easy escape.
There are two options: reinstate Vishnu Bhagwat or remove
Fernandis from the defence ministry. It sacked. Bhagwat
without stating reasons and later explained that he had been
a security risk. It was on the Adamans issue that Bhagwat
nailed Fernandes. In February 1998 the navy, the army and
the coast guard launched an operation in the Adamans
following intelligence alerts. They captured a large quantity
of arms, arrest 73 persons and shot 6 in the operation.
These operations are only straigh tening the Bhagwat case.
Naval headquarters maintains that it has no authority to
challenge anyship in international water. But Bhagwat's
contenses which the ministry does not deny is that his
antiarms smuggling operations were within the exclusive
economi zone. Such actions can hit the moral of the forces.
Incidentally the number of naval officers who saught
premature retirement last year was the largest in the last 10
years. As many as 192 officers sought to leave against 134
in 1997 and 105 in 1996.
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87. —-, —., —-, CORRUPTION CHARGES.
CHENGAPPA (Raj). Trading charges. India today. 14, 12;
1999, March, 22; 53-55.
The author had expected that the slanging match
intensifying and the opposition trying to make capital out of
it in parliament, the storm over the dismissal of the Navy
Chief relusses to subside. The union defence minister knew
that format chief of naval staff Vishnu Bhagwat would not
as retired soldier normally do. The Bhagwat Summarily
desmissal nine month before his term a naval chief was. to
expire. As the opposition trained its guns on Fernandes
even levelling serious charges of curruption and malafide
intent, priminister Vajpayee personally intervenued to take
some of the heat off his favorite trouble shooter. Bhagwat
claims that he had proof to substantiate his charges. The
final out come Bhagwat is right about one thing. The issue
is not likely to fade away in a hurry.
88. —, -—, —-, NATIONAL SECURITY.
RAMDAS (L). Navy, Nation and National Security. Frontline.
16, 2; 1999, January,' 16-29; 17-20.
The dismissal of Admiral Bhagwat has brought into
focus fundamental questions of unequal power relation, weak
structures and unprofessional leadership obtaining within the
civilmilitary complex and the democratic set up. The BJP
Government to dismiss Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat as the Chief
of the Naval Staff was sudden and extraordinary. Defence
minister George Fernandes and the ministry of Defence
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anounced on 6 January their intention. If would almost
appear that Bhagwat has been made a kind of scapegoat
and sacrificed at the altar of the power play that has gone
unchecked for too long. Two related aspects of the current
situation created by the decission dismiss Admiral Bhagwat
need to be addressed : namely giving creadence and tacit
encouragement to demands for promotions, appointments
and transfer made by serving officers on political and/or
communal grounds. Making accusations that relate to
national security concern is a serious matter and justice
demands that Bhagwat be provided an opportunity to defend
himself one can only hope that good sense will prevent that
some form of inquiry wi l l be instituted, and that the
sacrifice made by Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat will not be in
vain.
89. -—, —-, ECONOMIC CRISES.
GHOSH (Jayat). The Economic effects of the BJP. Frontline.
16; 10; 1999, May, 21; 100.
During its 13-month term in office, the BJP led
government has managed to make a bad si tuat ion
substantially worse and has even has tend the processes
that are leading the country to Its next economic crisis.
This could even be suggested that the BJP led government
in herited an economic that was already in a fragele
condit ion, with an accentuated sectoral and regional
imbalance, unsustainable patterns of economic growth, more
unequal Income distr ibut ion. The two most important
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economic effects of the BJP's rule have probably been the
dramatic increase in food prices and the dwindling of
productive employment opportunities. Specially, the issue of
the high and rising price of food items-especially vegetable
(onion) and other essential items such as edible oil and
salt. The economy does remain a major issue. And it's one
which is for broader in its implication than the way it is
currently projected in the media in terms of getting the
budget quickly passed, meeting the international obligations
made in amend for pokhran, or keeping he stock market
satisfied. The economy is probably the aspect of the BJP's
rule which has been most negative for most of the
electorate.
90. .—, .—, ECONOMIC GROWTH, INVESTMENT.
VAJPAYEE (Atal Behari). Need for Rejuvenating the
Economic. Yojana. 43, 4; 1999, April; 4.
The author express his views that they need greater
fiscal discipline and responsibility, both the centre and in
state. So that public sector investment is not Jeopardized. It
will also help the private sector to perform its due role in
the many difficult task it has to perform to achieve our
target of seven percent economic growth in the next three
years. It wil l facil i tate greater inflow of foreign direct
investment, which are need in many critical areas. Scarcity
of public resources means inadequate investment in roads,
railways, power generation etc. which are vital for a strong
economy. The biggest loser will be the poor, the weakest,
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the under privileged in whose name many of the existing
populists policies are often justified.
91. ...., ...., ELECTION PLANK.
TEWARI, (Pradeep). Bardhan Appeals secular parties to unit
to defeat BJP. New age. 47, 29; 1999, July, 24; 14.
The author discusses that while talking to the media
persons here after two day meeting of the UP State
Council, A.B. Bardhan, general secretary of CPI criticised
the BJP and RSS for communalising the entire country was
united against the Pakistan sponsored armed intression. He
assailed the BJP president Kushabhau Thakre for his
repeated utterances to make the kargel an election plank.
The BJP is trying to gain political mileage even as our
jawans are laying down their lives to drive away the foreign
intruders he changed. Chief minister Kalyan Singh declaring
that the Ayodhya temple issue would be the major electral
plank of the BJP in the state.
92. NOORANI (A.G.). The BJP's projects. Frontline. 15, 14;
1998, July, 17; 108.
The article indicate that is eyes were set firmly on
the temple project, the BJP plans to go to the electorate on
the planks of the Bomb and Ayodhya, it is up to the
opposition to show that there is an alternative. The Sang
Parivars frenetic drive to build a Ram temple at Ayodhya
regardless of the judiciary and the law has justifiably
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aroused national concern. The BJP and its all ies in
Government the force of the so called "National Agenta" as
distinct from the BJP's manifesto and the party inherent in
capacity for moderation. By December 1997 the BJP was
deeply mired in realpolities. The party's National Executive
which met on December 19 did not refer to Ayodhya. But
the Next da Atal Behari Vajpayee said that a Ram temple
would be built by legislation. The BJP plans to go to the
electorate on the planks of the bomb and Ayodhya. The
alternatives is to let Vajpayee conduct his election campaign
with all advantage and facilities of a priminister office.
93. ...., -..., EXPANTION, CABINET.
SHUKLA (Rajiv). Expansion Slots. Sunday. 25, 30; 1998,
July, 26; 17.
The article deals with Vajpayee being under pressure
his party to expound the cabinet earlier but he deliberately
avoided it fearing problems to the government during the
session. Prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee favour of
buying t ime inorder to check d iss idencew in the
parliamentary party. He still want to a leave a dozen slots
for the Telugu Desam Party and those who may joint from
other party. The two persons from the AIADMK will come
as replacements while one more will be inducted as a
minister of state. Chautala is also trying to make his
nominee the deputy speaker of the Lok Sabha. Even as the
priminister belongs to UP his party is in favour of giving
more representation to that state. The Kalyan Singh Camps
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has suggested that state party Chief Raj Nath Singh be
made a central minister and Kalraj Mishra be nominated
state unit president againt. The leadership, however has not
committed any thing.
94. ...., ...., FAILURE, KARGIL ISSUE.
SWAHI (Praveen). The Bungle in Kargil. New Age. 47, 26;
1999, July, 3; 3.
The article deals with the crisis in Kargil has its
origins in the Bharatiya Janata Party led government's
fai lure to comprehend the strategic consequences of
Pokhram-ll and its political blindness and failure to act an
military intellegence warnings. The spring of 1998, saw the
reinvention of George Fernandes as field Marshal. It has
taking just over a year for field Marshall Fernandes and
Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition he represents to lead
India to its most embarrassing military debacle since the
war of 1962. The BJP led coalition was so desperate for
the success of the Lahore process that it inductlonated
itself with the belief that the wagah bus ride had been an
unmixed triumph.
95. ...., — , FOREIGN POLICY, SECURITY.
BJP's FOLLY in Politicising Security, Foreign Policy. New
Aqe . 47, 26; 1999, July, 3; 7.
The author express hisview that the Kargil misadventure
of Pakistan threatens to be very costly for both countries in
all respects havy cost in human and material resources as
also in embittering political relation between India and
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Pakistan. Thereby the gains at the popular level of recent
friendly contacts after the Lahore Declaration may be all
but wiped out. The Atal Behari Vajpayee was discussing
peace at Lahore. Pakistan was preparing for war in Kargil.
96. —-, —-, HINDU-MUSLIM RIOTS.
NAYAR (Kuldip). India is not the BJP. Nation and the
World. 8, 160; 1998, June, 16; 14-16.
This article indicates that the BJP is not India and
India is not ust the BJP. The BJP has only 180 seats in
the 543 member Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament.
Priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee is considered a liberal who
is opposed to Hindu fundamentalalism and war-like postures.
But it appears he has no control over ministers like Advani.
The very fact that Pramod Mahajan denies any difference
between the priminister and the home minister. Confirms the-
impression that the two do not see eye to eye. The BJP will
rise above obscuranist views and give the country a secular
not Hindu government. The 13 parties had given their
support to Vajpayee, not Advani or other hardlines. Ashok
Singhal , heading the par ishad, has advocated the
establishment of Hindu Raj in India and a war against
Pakistan. Some responsible BJP leaders like Jaswant Singh
Urge Pakistan to go nuclear they should realise they are
playing with fire. The first remark made after the demolition
of the Babri Masjid was that two nation theory was proved
right underlining the Hindu and Muslims were two different
nations. True India has not yet be come a truly secular
country. True there are Hindu-Muslim riots.
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97. .—, —-, HINDUTVA AGENDA.
NAYAR (Kuldip). The Malady in Uttar Pradesh. Radiance.
31, 48; 1996, November, 9; 6-9.
The Bharatiay Janata Party is not my cup of tea. Its
communal politics has muddied waters of tolerance and
accommodation in the country. The malady, in UP, Gujarat
and elsewhere is that politics and power have got so inter
tulined that even the realisation to keep them separate is
not here. This is telling upon the system. What has been
done in UP, India's one sixth in population, to keep the
BJP out of power may push liberal elements, if not the
party, in to the background. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh (RSS), the party's mentor, may bring back militant
Hindus to the centre stage and revive the old agenda on
the destruction of mosques, particularly in Mathura and
VaranasI, which share the premises of two Hindu temples.
Once again, the programme to formate communal troubles
may be put into action.
98. .—, —., .—, GLIMPSE.
VASFI (Ausaf Saied). A Glimpse of Hindutva at the centre.
Radiance. 31, 11; 1996, Feb, 11; 6-9.
The BJP- Shiva Sena led state government of
Maharashtra has exploded three myths that an open enemy
is better than the enemy passing as a friend, that the BJP
and Shiv Sena are secular, egalitarian and believe in the
much publicised justice for all and appraisement of none.
Third Myth, this myth rather is the hypotheses that the
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saffronites can provide an effective alternative to the plural
polity of India. Barring the BJP and its natural allies each
and every political party has critised the killing of the
Srikrishna commission. It has inflicted deeper injury to the
conscience of the nation than the calculated killings of
innocent Muslims. The systematic dismantl ing of the
minorities institutional structures in Maharashtra hinst at what
sort of rules the saffronites may prove at the centre.
99. .. . . , ...., . . „ , ICHR.
MURALIDHARAN (Shukia). The Hindutva takeover of ICHR.
Frontline. 15, 14; 1998, July, 17; 105-107.
In this article hetakes the Hindus and Muslims of India
hold separate views of their common history. The Hindu and
mUslim view oftheir common history have defferent in the
pas t .as they do today and that is a cause of their
separation in identity and action. The reconstitution of the
Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) giving positions
of authority to three VHP luminaries betrays a deep political
design on the part of the BJP led government. The
Hindutva takeover of the ICHR comes at a time when the
organisation is passing through a serious crisis. Cultural
nationalism is the unique political platform of the BJP which
few others share in the omnibus coalition it heads.
100. —-, —., —., POLITICS.
PATHAK (Avijit). Not by opportunism. Mainstream. 26, 12;
1998, March, 14; 3.
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The author of the article expectes that the BJP as it
had been reportedly argued by the leftists and securists, is
not just another rightist party. The fear is that it leads to
the communalisation of Civil Society, it is determined to
destroy the pluralistic ethos of Indian Society. Hindu religion
with its symbols and resources becomes an important
component of the BJP/RSS brand of Hindutva is exclusivist
in nature. As the arguments go has to be seen not as
some thing static, but as a dynamic process. The Bharatiya
Janata Party politics as indicated was also a kind of culture
politics. It had a cultural agenda. Unit India or the basis of
the Hindu identity use religion to arouse political embition.
101 — , -—, HISTORICAL BUSJOURNEY-DELHI-LAHORE.
GUHA (Seema). Vajpayee in Lahore on Historic visit. The
Sunday Times.7. 10; 1999, February, 21; 1.
Priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Saturday made a
historic bus journey to Pakistan, terming it a defining
moment in South Asian history and saying both countries
should make a new beginning putting a side the betterness
of the past Mr. Vajpayee was received with a warm hug by
his Pakistani Counter part Nawaz Sharif. I bring the good
will of the people of India for peace and harmony with
Pakistan, said Vajpayee. The two leaders to will held formal
talks on Sunday in the first highest political level interection
on Pakistani soil between the two sides after they resumed
official level talks in October last year following the nuclear
tests in May. Mr. Vajpayee along with Mr. Sharif later flew
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by a helicopter to governor's house in Lahore where the
Indian leader will be staying during his trip.
102. — , — , HYPOCRISY, PHYLOSOPHY, STRATEGIES.
VASFI (S. Ausaf Saed). BJP Double-Taik, Double-Deal Under
Sherpher Focus. Radiance. 33, 18; 1998, May, 3-9; 6-9.
Uprightness, perhaps is not the strong point of our
saffronite brethren. Probility does not appear to be in their
gain. It is their good fortune that nobady charges them with
catholicity, opines. Even foreigner feel they have two faces
and frequently indulge in double thought, double talk and
double deal. For a proof recall the well known. British
diplomat's reaction to Mr. N. Govinda Charya's logic. It is
probably for the removal of the impression of hypocrisy that
over foreign missions abroad have been recently instricted
to dispet misgiving about the philosophy and strategies of
the BJP led government and its good father the RSS. That
however is the fitness of things. The truth are not naive.
The have every right to point themselves white.
103. —-, —-, IDEOLOGY, HINDUTVA.
LAKDAWALA (M. Hanif). The BJP and its ideology onthe
road to oblivion. Radiance. 32, 49; 1997, December 6; 9-11.
The article indicates towards what prompted the BJP
In pulling off its mask of morality? Even Atal Behari
Vajpayee, its morality mascot, declared that what was done
by Kalyan Singh in U.P. would be repeated in Delhi too.
The lust for power, naked and brutal, made Vajpayee forget
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his own promise. He swore on May, 28, 1996, we (the
BJP) assure you, if power comes our way be breaking
other parties, I will never want to touch such power even
with a barge pole. BJP's Hindutva is being its relevance
Hindu Rashtra, Slogan no more attracts the people in the
changed scenario. Thus in the rise of BJP its ideology has
no important place. In future BJP may not be lucky to get
these benefits. BJP has become the party of contradiction.
Its economic policy is in a mass. The counter the
communal poli t ics of the BJP the simple strategy is
honesty, commitment and selfless service to the masses.
104. KIDWAI (Ansar). Vajpayee for governance, Not Politics.
Nation and the World. 8, 175; 1999, February; 28.
The author discusses his view that the Prime Minister
Atal Behari Vajpayee has asked several of his colleagues
but he has no regrets for his performance. The Vajpayee
government found itself at the receiving and for having given
ago by to the Hindutva ideology, preferring power to
principle, it all began with the formation of the Sangh
Parivar in the aftermath of the Ayodhya agitation. The
Vajpayee-Advani relationship is often likened to that of
Nehru and Patel in the congress. This is no relavance and
Advani is no Patel to Vajpayee's Nehru. Nehru was a
socialist while Patel was pragmatic and right wing. Both
Vajpayee and Advani had their political schooling with in
RSS fold andtheir differences are nuance-based K. Thakre
was present at the Nagpur conclave and was even a party
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to the pejorative appraisal of Vajpayee's style of governance.
Vajpayee found himself on a sufficiently safe ground to
have gone on the offensive against his detractors at
Bangalore. Thus the implications of Vajpayee winning the
'Banglore Round' can neither be over estimated nor under
estimated.
105. —-, -—, INDO-PAK RELATION, BUS ERVICE, DELHI-
LAHORE.
SAGAR (S.G.). Will the bus move on. Alive. 1999, 198;
1999, April; 10-15.
The article deal with the bus diplomacy has created a
euphoria of sorts in Indo-Pak relation. But can the basic
contensions issues between the 2 countries be sorted out
through such dramatics. The bus diplomacy of the Indian
pr iminister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his Pakistani
counterpart Mian Nawaz Sharif has finally broken the ICC
in the strained Indo-Pak relations, once and all, means
overtaking history without taking into account the stark
realities.
106. MAHAUTI (Subhodh). Prime Minister's Historic Visit to
Pakistan. Employment News. 23, 48; 1999, March, 5; 1.
This article indicates that the Prime Minister Atal
Behrai Vajpayee paid a two day visit to Pakistan from
February 20 to 21 , 1999. The visit in which the Prime
Minister travelled to Lahore via Wagah border in a bus,
marks a historic break through in Indo-Pak relations and is
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widely being seen as a big step forward in improving
friendly ties between the two countries. The two priministers
during their talks touched upon almost all issues of mutual
concerned including that of Kashmir and also regional
cooperation within SAARC countries to increase not only
mutual trust and harmony but also broad base economic
cooperation, by sharing one another's human resources as
well as expertise in various fields. The diplomatic initiative
by the priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee has been widely
welcomed at home and abroad for it has once again
demonstrated that India was prepared to go an expramile to
improve its relation with Pakistan. The countries has open
up a new vista of friendship and close relations between the
people of India and Pakistan.
107. ----, ----, -—, ----, MUTUAL CONFIDENCE.
NAYAR (Kuldip). Bus Diplomacy. Periodical Humanist. 63, 3;
1999, June; 11.
The author discuss about the bus ride from wagah to
the other side blanket the two countries with hope and
confidence. The Nawaz-Vajpayee Summit was the stuff
drams are made of. The feel good factor in Pakistan-India
relations is a rarity and one is tempted to hang on to it
as long as possible, if for noting else than to relish the
exciting possibilities that it conjures. There are a host of
factors which have the potential of punctuating the bus
diplomacy which include domestic compulsions mutual
mistrust , uncertainty, second thoughts, di f fer ing
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in terpretat ions and in the extreme case fal l of the
government. These factors were swept away in the
background by the sentimental avalanche that accompanied
Vajpayee, Pakistan Visit. We can assume that as per
tradition peace between Pakistan and India is merely the
period falling between two round of battle. In fact the
Lahore Declaration should build mutual confidence. There is
no need for a third party.
108. —-, —-, INTERNAL RIVALRY.
KIDWAI (Praful). Hindutva and 'moth eaten' governance.
Frontline. 16, 4; 1999, February, 13-26; 15-16.
As the sordid drama of internal rivalry in the Sangh
Parivar unfolds, it should be clear that Prime Minister Atal
Behari Pajpayee is himself part of the force he complains
about. The government is beleaguered by its own ideological
mentors and organisational gate keepers. The RSS power
and authority in the BJP comes prior to such minor details
as elections or the politicl skills or merit of its nominees. It
does not rest on internal democracy. The RSS has the last
word in the BJP. It also has the first. What distunguishes
Vajpayee from his brothers in the Sangh Parivar is not
liberalism or secularism but that being in power the under
stands the importance of damage control, and has been
practising it, albeit ham-handedly. Ironically this has in many
ways had the opposi te effect. The BJP is being
disingenusus, in addition to being disgustingly communal, in
the anti-minorities compaign. The same seems true of the
central government's future. The sooner it goes, the better.
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109. .—, —-, INTRUDERS, KARGIL.
RAJA (D). "After me the Deluge" says Vajpayee. New Age.
1999, July, 17; 1.
Our army is fighting a heroic battle to recapture our
own territory occupied by the intruders in Kargil. it has
been paying tremendous price by shedding blood and laying
down precious lives of our officers and soldiers not only to
defend the borders in the extremely difficult mountainious
terrains and adverse climate of the Kargil region but also
for the failures and inept handling of the situation by the
BJP led care taker government. The BJP led government at
present in just a care taker government headed by Atal
Behari Vajpayee.
110. — , —., KARGIL ISSUE.
AGHA (Qamar). Crisis in Kargil. Nation and the World. 8,
185; 1999, July, 1; 38-39.
The author discuss India has kep the peace option
open. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had conveyed to
Islamabad that the conflict in Kargil may be peacefully
settled if Pakistan ends the instrusion and respects the line
of control. The western nations, particularly united states,
Britain and France had rejected the Pakistan moves to raise
the Kashmir issue in United Nations and advised the Nawaz
Sharif government to negotiate the dispute with India and
sort out its problem before it gets out of control. The US is
also putting pressure on Islamabad to improve its ties with
India and that is possible only if Pakistan gives up its
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support to separates elements in Kashmir and accept the
status-qvo in Jammu and Kashmir. In both the cases it is
going to face serious internal crisis.
111. KIDWAI (Anser). A Friendship Betrayed. Nation and the
World. 8, 187; 1999, August, 1; 16.
When bus diplomacy was initiated by Prime Minister
Vajpayee come about and seemingly earned full reciprocity
from his Pakistani counter part. The friendship bu rolled out
from Delhi for Lahore in February this year, two months
before the fall of the Vajpayee government. No body could
have then envisaged that the coming months would unfold a
sorded drama of bloodshed, horror and betrayal of the
worst order from the neighbouring side. The events in
Kargi l caused an irreparable damage to the peace
processes making the Shimla Agreement and Lahore
Declaration, a dead letter.
112. — , — , — , INFILTRATORS.
NAYAR (Kuldip). Who are the infiltrators? Nation and the
World. 8, 185; 1999, July, 1; 30-31.
There are no infiltrators; they are freedom fighters
who are fighting for their right of self determination, this
was Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's reply to Prime
Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee who told him that the
infiltrators must vacate the territory they had occupied on
the Indian side of the line of control (LOG). Yasin Malik and
Shabir Shah the two popular young leaders were among the
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freedom fight. They have realised that a peaceful expression
of grievances is for more effective than violence. It had
been proved beyond doubt that the Pakistan Soldiers
crossed the LOG to fight, lead and help the infiltrators In
the Kargil sector. At places the Pakistani force have been
fighting without even dressing up as infiltrators. It means
that the Pakistan forces had been fighting on the Indian
side of kashmir. The statment by both sides that it is a
war-like situation in ominous. The ray of hope is that the
two Prime Ministers still talk about the Lahore Declaration,
which exchews hostilities.
113. -—, —-, -—, STRATEGIES.
SHARMA (Narendra). Kargil Adds to BJP's woes. New Age.
47, 24; 1999, June, 19; 13-14.
The author discuss the differing perceptions about the
likely role and place of the new party formed by the power
Sangma trio in the national scene and the impact of Sonia
Gandhi's foreign origin have already made it difficult for the
BJP strategists to chalk out a coherent election strategy.
The Kargil development have added to their owes, according
to available indication. The BJP strategists are a more
worried lot due to the Kargil imbroglio which has already
taken the shine off the Prime Minister bus ride to Lahore.
This is easier said than done, given the penchant of the
BJP and its homew and defence ministers to trumpet their
concepts of national security.
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114. —., —-, LAHORE DECLARATION.
JOSHI (Manoj). Peace Pledge. India Today. 14, 10; 1999,
March, 8; 59.
The article deals with reducing the risk of accidental
nuclear holocaust was a key goal of the Lahore Summit. At
f i rst sight memorandum of understanding signed by
Raghunath and Ahmad in Lahore on February 21, appears
to be nothing more than a declaration of intent. Both the
sides need to reduce the risk of nuclear war and eventually
build a frameword of peace. Their commitment to discuss
security concepts and nuclear doctrines couldlead to path
breaking agreement on defence postures that do not
threaten the other. There are simple explanations. Nawaz
Sharif and Atal Behari Vajpayee created a diplomatic
firestorm by crossing the nuclear threshold in May 1998.
Their goad was preserving national security. Having achieved
this, they now seem to be signalling that the time has come
to get on with more urgent tasks of governing their poor
and backward nations.
115. CHERIAN (John). Lahore and Beyond. Frontline. 16, 5;
1999, March, 12; 9-10.
The author discusses about the various sections of
opinion in Pakistan that are sceptical about the Nawaz
Sharif-Atal Behari Vajpayee diplomatic initiative, but the
general impression is that it is a step in the right direction.
The Lahore declaration is an important step towards
establ ishing good neighbourly relat ions. The Lahore
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declaration talked in general terms with sides confining
themselves to recognising that the nuclear dimensions of the
security environment of the two countries adds to their
responsibility for avoidance of conflict. The Vajpayee's visit
has cuased a bit of political turmoil, Sharif has reason to
be happy with Vajpayee's referene to Kashmir in his
banquet speech and in the Lahore declaration. The once to
fulfil the expectations giving rise to the people of the two
countries is now onthe leadership of the two countries.
116. DHAR (M.K.). Death of Lahore Declaration. Nation and the
World. 8, 185; 1999, July, 1; 32.
The article deals with the political scene to warne
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee of the parils of alow
himself to be troped by Nawazsharif in to Singing Lahore
Declaratin as it was worded. The Lahore Declaration says:
Recalling their agreement of 23rd September, 1998, that an
enviornment of peace and security is in the supreme
national interest of both sides and tha resolution of all
outstanding issues including Janimu and Kashmir is essential
for this purpose. Despete the havoc wrought to the defence
forces by Farnandes antics, the Jowans were valeantly
batted the intruders in the in hospitable terrain. The Lahore
Declaration had been clearly violated as it commits both
sides to refrain form intervention and interference in each
other's interenal affars.
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117. VAJPAYEE'S BUS Ride. Alive. April, 1999, 198; 1999, April; 8.
The author express his view that the Prime Minister
Atal Behari Vajpayee's bus trip to Pakistan in February this
year was hailed as a historic step towards building
friendship with that country. Mush as was made of the
Lahore Declaration that was signed at the end of the visit.
It was a great step towards building confidence between
India and Pakistan. The Declaration is that two sides wil
take immediate steps to reduce the risk of accident! or
unauthorised use of nuclear weapons. Vajpayee has his bus
ride to Lahore. Nawazsharif too may have his bus ride to
Amristar or New Delhi. It only means taking the people of
both the countries for a side, givingthem false hopes.
Kashmir in fact is an emotive issue with grave political
implications. The leaders who compromiseon it in both India
and Pakistan may well dig thier political graves.
118 , , , INDO-PAK, AGREEMENT.
AMIT BARUAH. The Declaration and After. Frontline. 16,
26; 1999, March, 26; 24.
The article indicates that any attempt by India or
Palistan to score political points has the patential to prevent
forward movement in the talks between the two countries.
TheLahore Declaratin signed by Prime Minister A.B.
Vajpayee and Nawazsharif, both leaders began playing to
the gallery at homeon the Kashmir issue. The memorandom
of understanding signed in Lahore duringVajpayee's visit with
the needto engage in regular consultation on security
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concept and need for peace and development. The Lahore
Declaration refers to the "issue of Jamu and Kashmir,"
while the Simla agreement refers to "a final settlement of
Jammu and Kashmir." In fact one roundof substantive
discussions on peace and security and Jammu and Kahsmir
issue was heldin Islamabad on October 1998. The
Vajpayee's "bus deplomacy" made a good impression on the
people of Pakistan. The two Prime Minister need to work
towards actualising the agreements entered into. Otherwise
the Lahore initative can easily descend into the same
quangmive the two countries had been struck in.
119. -—, , , —--, MUTUAL CONFIDENCE.
NAYAR (Kuldip). After Lahore Declaration what. Radiance.
34, 13; 1999, April, 18-24; 2.
The authors feels that Lahore Declaration would build
mutual confidence. It has made a new start possibleLinvingin
the past would only back better memones. If Great Britain
and France could be friends after fighting wars for 100
years why not India Pakistan. The Lahore declaration has
mention at more than one place that the problem wil be
settled peacefully, through belateral talks. Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif has repeated the assurance even after the
declaration.
120. -—, —-, —-, RESTRAINT.
ZIA MIAN. Beyond : From transparency to arms control.
Economic and Political Weekly. 34, 16; 1999, April, 17; 938-41.
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The author state that what the US and USSR did
dcade ago. India and Pakistan have started to turn to
'transparency' measures as a way to reassure as a way to
reassure themselves and the international community, about
the nuclear dangers they have created. The measures
however do not confront the central fact that two countries
now have acquired the means to fight a nuclear war. The
recent test of Agnl II and Ghauri-ll and references to Agni
III Ghauri III and Shaheen I and II demonstrate just how
little restraint the Lahore agreements in poses on th two
states continuing to develop their nuclear arsenats. The
urgent task was to engage in the political work that would
put peace at the top of the agenda.
121. —-, .—, LIBERALISATION, IMPORT.
CHANDRASHEKHAR (C.P.). The Swadesh route to
liberalisation. Frontline. 15, 9; 1998, May, 8; 10.
The BJP led government's decision as reflected in the
eximpolicy, to accelerate import liberalisation, despite signs
of a widening current account deficit, shows that it is more
keen on pleasing the developed countries represented in the
WTO than pushing ahead with its Swadehiplank. Resorting
to increased tariffs however involves reversing the unilateral
decision taken by previous governments to ensure a
continuous decline in maximum and average applied tariff
rates. The BJP has nationalist rhetoric, including its stated
intensive to keep the nuclear option open would be can
done. The BJP has mastered the art of playing with
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symbols whether they be nebulous ones like swadeshi or
real ones like the bomb or the mosques it wants to destroy
and the temples it wants to build.
122. -—, — , NUCLEAR POLICY, AFFECTED.
RAM (N). The perils of nuclear adventurism. Frontline. 15,
11; 1998, May 23; 8-10.
The BJP led governments nuclear policy could now
swing from adventurism to compromise and appearement. It
is clear that the Vajpayee Government's RSS inspired
nuclear hawkinshness as demonstrated in the Pokhran
explosure and in the talk of nuclear weaponisation has not
served India's national and democratic inrterests at all.
Unitateral and unprovoked conversion of the nuclear option
into weapons backed by a delivery system will have very
harmful consequences for peace and security in the region
and especially for Sino-lndian and India-Pakistan relations
and wi l l harm India's reputation international ly. The
economic and political price for this act of adventurism is
also likely to be staff.
123. -—, —-, -—, CTBT.
MENON (S.M.). The Nuclear imperium and its vassal kings.
Economic and Political Weekly. 33, 31; 1998, August, 1-7;
2054-57.
Apart from seeking a special dispensation for India
within the CTBT regime, the new, emerging nuclear policy is
unclear and the terms of the engagement remain unstated.
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It begins to seem likely that the BJP-led government would
be willing to settle for a cosmetic, face saving concession
from the lords of the global nuclear imperium, rather than a
substantive one.
124. -—, -—, -—, INDIA.
KIDWAI (Praful). Seeking a paradigm Shift. Frontline, 15, 8;
1998, April, 24; 17-18.
The article indicate the BJP's nuclear policy is an
umprincipled violent break with long established consenses. It
will degrade India's security and legitimse horror weapons.
The government has no mandate for this. In reality the BJP
led Government 's stated nuclear policy is a major,
unconscionable, violent departure from the earlier official
posture. The premises that underlie the BJP government's
stated nuclear policy violate the Indian stand on this issue
for five decades-that nuclear weapons, being weapons of
mass destruct ion are moral ly indefensib le, legal ly
impremissible and strategically irrational. The BJP led
government will have to think twice before actually decldiing
to go over nuclear. The BJP which most vociferously
demands nuclearisation is also the party most associated
with bellicouse communal politics. After all the BJP with its
25 percent vote and its shaky ragtag government, has no
mandate to make long term, possible irreversible, policy
change.
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125. —-, -—, NUCLEAR POWER, IRONY, INDIA.
INDIA AS a Nuclear power. Competition Master. 39, 11;
1998, June; 932.
The author expresses his views that it would be an
irony of sorts if our country, that gave the message of
peace and non violance to the world were to became a
nuclear power India will have to show a lot of restraint if it
is to remain a non-nuclear state. Or will the BJP led
government give in to demand to developed nuclear
weapons. In this article we discuss the consequence of a
nuclear race in the region and what the future hold.
Whether we decide to go nuclear or not it is clear that
nation faces grave choice as it must respond to the
challenge from across the border.
126. -—, -—, NUCLEAR PROGRAME, CONSEQUENCES,
ECONOMIC, POLITICAL.
GIDWANI (Vanay Krishin). India's Nuclear tests : Loss of
moral station and coverage. Economic and Political Weekly.
33, 22; 1998, June, 5; 1312-15.
In India 1545 hours 1st, May, 11, 1998, will remain a
moment of moral incert i tute. The BJP led coal i t ion
government of India made two fateful decisions; first it gave
sanction to Indian defence scientists to test three nuclear
devices at Pokhran, one of these a thermonuclear device;
second it abandoned India's commitment to a peaceful
nuclear programme. While the economic and political
consequences and underlying logic of the nuclear tests
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require to be critically evaluated, the reasons for desmay at
India's nuclear turn are neither economic nor political. The
real cause for distress is India's loss of moral stature and
courage.
127. -—, ----, NUCLEAR TESTS, AFTER EFFECTS.
RAM (N). From nuclear adventurism to appearement.
Frontline. 15, 12; 1998, June, 19; 11-14.
The BJP led government's nuclear adventurism and
militarism have landed the government the country and the
region in a mess the like of which they have not faced
before. A new situation has been created by Pakistan's
tests but India is prepared to meet any eventuality. We are
committed to maintain deterrence. The Sharif and Vajpayee
statement of May 28, 1998, speak to a dangerously
destabilished, volatile situation in the region. The Vajpayee
government and the India nuclear energy establishment need
to come out with the full truth, backed by sufficient
evidence. The BJP's nuclear game plan if there was are
has back f i red and vitual ly cal lopsed. The BJP led
government's nuclear policy is well into a process of
swinging from hawkish adventurism to compromise and
appearsement.
128. —-, —-, —-, AGNI.
MEHTA (Ashok). Agni Pariksha. Sunday. 26. 16; 1999,
April, 18-24; 14-15.
Article deals with India's successfully lanching Agni II
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missile. By all accounts the scientists of the integrated
missile development programme have scored a bull's eye a
totally fault free launch and a perfect 11 minutes tracking
of the minute from launch to its designated point of infact
more than 2000 kns away. The agni tests will hot up the
multiply war of words between India and US India and
Pakistan and India and china. The prospect for the 10th
round of JW with China already delayed by a year may
become a non startert. The missile tests is likely to blow
away much sooner than the fall out of the nuclear tests.
129. —., - - , —., CODEMNATION.
SAROSH (Bana). Blast Em All. Blitz. 58, 20; 1998, May,
16; 1.
India ove rides global condemnation in realising its
nuclear deterance. Bludge oning the grounds well of world
wide condemnation that has not unanticipatedly followed,
India signalled its arrival as a weaponlsed nucfear power by
barnstormina the exclusivist atomic club at 3.45 p.m. on
Monday and then following them up with two additional
unannounced and equally unexpected detonations on
Wednesday. The US will rally world opinion against India on
this score its sanctions including halt to world bank credit
that last year amounted to $ 1.5 billion, and discontinuing
the annual $ 140 million government and as well as exports
of American computers parts and military technology. With
this planned series of five tests now complete and carried
out in the and wastes of Pokhran, 100 km from Rajasthan's
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border with Pakistan, India became a sixth member, 34
years after its fifth and last member, China, had joined it.
130. —., —-, —., CONSENSUS, HINDUTVA.
AJAZ AHMAD . The Hindutva Weapon. Frontline. 15, 11;
1998, June, 5; 21-23.
The author expresses his views, as a full scale
reactionary agenda begins to upfold, it is becoming clear
that the consensus behind the BJP's dangerus nuclear
adventure is an attempted consensus, behind Hindutva. The
Pakistan explosions have brought independent India to a
watershed comparable in its long term political significance,
to the sino-lndian war the emergency and the destruction of
the Babri Masjid. The BJP will act precisely the way it
acted on the Ayodhya issue and the way it has been
acting on the nuclear issue until now. The consensus
behind Vajpayee's nuclear policy, amounts to consensus
behind Hindutva. Equally strongly the point needs to be
made that this act of boguns ani-imperialism is designed to
facilitate the ability of the Hindutvia forces to implement a
programme of liberalisation and privatisation for more drastic
than anything, P. Chidombaram was able to implement or
even envision.
131. — , -—, — , CRUCIAL PHASE.
VANAIK (Achin). Crossing the Rubicon. Economic and
Political Weekly. 33, 24; 1998, June, 13; 1433-36.
The article deals with the overnight ruthless political
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force of great evil and determination that changed the
parameters of debate and struggle on so vital an issue as
nuclear security and insecurity, as well as on related
concerns such as India's relationship to its neighbours and
to the World. Vajpayee said that the on May, 11, 1998,
India crossed the nuclear Rubicon embarking on a journey
that can only bring more insecurity, tension, maldevelopment
even as it represents another crucial phase in the ongoing
efforts ofthe Sangh combine to total ly transform the
character of Indian Society.
132. - - , —., —., DISTRESS.
GIDWANI (Vinay Krishan). India's Nuclear Tests : Loos of
Moral stature and courage. Economic and Political Weekly.
33, 22; 1998, May, 30; 1312-15.
In India 1545 hours 1st May, 11, 1998, will remain a
moment of moral incert i tute. The BJP led coal i t ion
government of India made two fateful decisions : first it
gave sanction to Indian defence scientists to test three
nuclear devices at Pokhran one of these a thermonuclear
device; second it abandoned India's commitment to a
peaceful nuclear programme. While the economic and
political consequences and underlying logic of the nuclear
teste requrie to be critically evaluated the reasons for
dismay at India's nuclear turn are neither economic nor
political. The real cause for distress is India's loss of moral
stature and courage.
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133. -—, —-, —-, FISSION DEVICE.
RAO (Rama, M). India conducts 3 Nuclear tests. National
Herald. 30, 65; 1998, May, 13; 1.
The article deals with India, successfully conducted
three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran range on
Monday. The BJP a political weapon for calling, an early
midterm poll. The morale booster by the BJP faithful and
big surprise by rest of the world, the tests came exactly
twenty four years after India demonstrated its nuclear
capability with an under ground test with a fission device at
the same Pokhran site. This tests conducted today were
with a f ission dev ice , a low yield device and a
thermonuclear device. India remains committeed to speedly
process of nuclear disarmanent leading to total and global
elimination of nuclear weapons.
134. —-, -—, —-, INPT, CTBT, JAPAN.
SINGH (Rai). India as Sixth Nuclear Weapons State. Nation
and the World. 8, 16; 1998, June, 16; 17.
It has been accepted widely that India has emerged
as the new or the sixth nation of the world with capability
and capacity to produce nuclear weapons. Whether India
would actually produce and deploy nuclear weapons for its
defence in the near future is another matter. Priminister
Atal Behari Vajpayee had announced on May, 11, that India
had exploded three nuclear devices, including one thermo
nuclear at 3.45 pm at Pokhran. Japan wants India to stop
its nuclear testing immediately and sign the NPT and CTBT
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at the earlist. It may be recall that the French are keen to
increase their business cooperation with India. French which
is the leader of the airbus industries consortium has been
pushing hard to sell airbus aircraft to air India and also
Indian Air lines. The americans are also lobbying keenly to
self boeing commercial aircraft to India. India should also
reiterate its promise against the first use of nuclear weapon
against anyone. Declaration of moratorium on nuclear tests,
though welcome is not sufficient.
135. —-, —-, —-, LAHORE DECLARATON.
JAYARAMAN (T.), Lahore Declaration and Nuclear Issues.
Frontline. 16, 12; 1999, March, 12; 12.
The key message of the Lahore Declaration as well
as the Memorandum of understanding (MOU) is that the govt
are bent on holding course towards nuclear weaponisation,
whatever be the political, social and economic costs. BJP
led government holds to a policy of the uni tateral
deployment of nuclear weapons a peace threatening and
destabilising mores. Essentially the Declaration and the
MOD'S promise that the two parties will play the deterrence
game well and safety. The sale positive more has been the
confirmation and identifinity extension of the moratorium on
nuclear testing. Hope for future lies in the fact that for all
the hype, nuclear weaponisation in the subcostinent will
proceed slowly. There is time for new political leadership in
both countries to display the wisdom need to draw the
subcontinent back from the brints of nuclear weaponisation
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by Understanding fresh peace on ented initiatives.
136 - - , —-, - - , NEXT STEP, MISSILE, SURYA.
PRASANNAN (R). Going full Blast. The Week. 16, 23;
1998, May, 24; 33-35.
The article deals with a series of five explosion India
has forced its way into the nuclear club. The Hydrogen
bomb has stunned the world which now worries about
India's next step : the inter continental ballistic, missile
surrya. Priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee hardly 54 days into
rulling third world's India with a rag tag coalition, cocked a
nuke at the superpowers with their mega death bombs. Five
eearth shaking tests in the sandy wastes of Rajasthan and
a sixth nuclear power has been born for the third
millenium. Unlike that first test (Greater of 1974 explosion in
pokhran) there is no apologetic suffix of 'peaceful' to the
Buddha Purnima of 1998. There is a deliberate attempt to
flaunt the yet-to-be acquired weaponry.
137. -—, —-, —-, NUCLEAR WEAPON STATE, INDIA.
WELLS (H.G.). India's Nuclear Gamble. Competition Master.
39, 12; 1998, July; 1017.
The article analysis the nuclear compulsion of India on
May 11, 1998, India reaffirmed its nuclear powers by
conducting three under ground nuclear tests, code named
Shakti I to III in the Pokhran range in Rajasthan. These
were followed by two more tests on May 13. Priminister Atal
Behari Vajpayee said that India, thus joined the club of five
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nuclear weapon states. Despite pressures from USA and its
allies Pakistany conducted five tests on May 28, 1998 thus
increasing the possibility of a nuclear arms race in the
indian subcontinent. This article analysis the nuclear
compulsions of India, the background as also comments on
the future scanario. Priminister Atal Behari made the
announcement of India's nuclear tests on May 11 at a
hurriedly called press conference.
138. - - , .—, .—, PEACE, THREAT, SOUTH ASIA.
ROLL BACK Nuclear Weaponisation. New age. 46, 31 ;
1998, August, 2-8; 1.
The article deals with the nuclear explosion conducted
in May 1998 by the BJP government of India and Sharif
government of Pakistan and consequent talk of and moves
towards nuclear weaponisation, have given rise to serious
situation that threatens peace, security and well being in
South Asia. Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass
annihilation of a genocidal character. The achievement of
the BJP led government with in four months of assuming
office has been to undermine both the non mil i tary,
peaceful orientation of India's nuclear policy and the
country's leverage against the unequal global nuclear
bargain.
139. -—, —., .—, POKHRAN.
CHATTERJEE (Partha). How we loved the bomb and Later Rued It.
Economic and Political Weekly. 33, 24; 1998, June, 13; 1437-41.
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The article Indicates that with the test explosions in
Pokhran, the euphoria in India has evaporated. When
parliament debated the issue on May 28 and 29 the mood
was critical, worried, sometimes introspective. In real political
terms, the objective of the Indian elite is not Universal
d isarmament, but to move from the side of the
discriminated to that of the discriminators. That is the
underlying polit ical agenda on which a new national
consensus is being sought. If we do not keep this in view,
we will also fail to understand another bewildering turn that
has taken place in the last few weeks : the sudden
declaration that China is India's principal security threat.
140. JOSHI (Anuja). The man who never closes his mouth.
Sunday. 25, 30; 1998, July, 26; 8.
Madan Lai Khuana has given his party a lot to worry
about his mouth being almost always half open. Take his
performance in the last 100 days of the BJP government.
Immediately after the Pokhran blasts, Khurana did his unzip
mouth insert food act yet again. Both Vajpayee and Advani
pulled him up. The BJP government has become a bit of a
joke in parliament since in the past 100 days there have
been more walk outs by its allies than by the opposition. It
does not help that Khurana lacks the finesse and subtility
his job requires. It also does not help that every time he
makes a blunder he holds a press conference to highlight
that fact. It was Atal Behari Vajpayee who explain to
Khurana you must get out of regional politics and come to
no
the centre. We need you there "said Vajpayee. And
Khurana was nnore than pleased to carry his open mouth.
But for how long is anybody's guess. The views of the
author are not necessarity those of the party.
141. ROY (Arandhati). The end of imagination. Frontline. 15, 16;
1998, August, 1-14; 4-7.
By afternoon the wind had fallen silent over Pokhran.
At 3.45 p.m; the timor detonated the three devices. Around
200 to 300m deep in the earth the heat generated was
equivalent to a mill ion degrees centigrade as hot as
temperatures on the sun. Instantly rocks weighing around a
thousand tons, a mini mountain underground, vapourized.
Shakwaves from the blast began to lift a mount on earth the
size of a foot ball field by several metres. One scientist on
seeing it said. "I can now believe stores of Lord Krishna
lifting a hill.
142. WALIA (Kaajal). Smiling Dharmaraj. Sunday. 26, 21; 1999,
May, 23-29; 7.
The article indicates towards Buddha Smiling at
Pokhran on 11 May. This year on 11 May, it was
'caretaker' Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee who could
not stops smiling at the impressure turnout at Shivaji Park
in Bombay. The first anniversary of India going nuclear. He
stressed that it was all meant for peaceful use. He also
recalled the positive outcome of his bus ride to Lahore.
The Information and Broadcasting Minister Pramod Mahajan
i n
gave a spirit performance attacking the "lady witin Italian
origins". Vajpayee has been in public service since he was
15 years. The people who brought down the government
are the Kauravas. Vajpayee is Yudhister, AdvanI Is Arjun.
and Fernandes the might bhim.
143. —-, —-, —-, —-, BUDGET.
BANA (Sarosh). Nuclear racism. Blitz. 58, 22; 1998, May,
30; 2.
The Vajpayee's government will do will not to take
recourse to a harsh budget in an effort to escape the
economic noose that appears to be tightening round India in
the wake of its nuclear tests in Pokhran on May 11 and
13. If India has done will in standing up to world opinion in
exercising it nuclear option it should do will to stand up to
the sanctions as well by not crumbling under them in the
union budget.
144. KAPOOR (Sanjay). Budget to nuke reform process. Blitz.
58, 22; 1998, May, 30; 1.
The article deals with serial nuclear tests at Pokhran
and the sanctions inposed by the united states and other
western countries are likely to provide swadeshi hawks in
the BJP's coalition government with the excuse to push
through an isolationist agenda-beginning with the up coming
budget. The pain and suffering which may come in the
wake of economic sanctions, it contents, will strengthen the
process of national consolidation. The BJP led coalition
claims that it has a contingency plan to take care of
sanctions. The budget will unveil that plan, if there is one.
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145. —-, —-, -—, -—, FISSION DEVICE.
INDIA CONDUCTS thre nuclear tests. The Hindustan Times.
74; 131; 1998, May, 12; 1.
On May 11, India successfully conducted three
underground nuclear tests in the Pokhran range in
Rajasthan, 24 year after the nation had conducted the first
such tests. The dramatic announcement about the three
tests conducted at 3.45 p.m. was made by priminister Atal
Behari Vajpayee at a hurriedly convened press conference
at his residence here. The test had been conducted with a
fission device, a low yield device and a thermonuclear
device.
146. —., —., —., .—, HYSTERIA, CONSENSUS, POLITICAL.
RAINA (R). Hindu bomb. New Wave. 27, 40; 1998, May,
24; 3.
The insidious design behind the Vajpayee government's
Pokhran adventure is gradually manifesting itself. Now that
the mist of euphoria has started lifting both political parties
and commentators are having second thoughts over the real
reasons for the nuclear tests. Nuclear adventure for it's the
demol i t ion of Babri Masj id , aimed at captur ing and
consolidation political power for partisan ends. The other
myth is that the BJP will win the next elections which it
may hold before the Pokhran hysteria fully subsides. If the
BJP is sincere about restoring national honour it must
repudiate its antiminorities agenda and publicity abandon
divisive, exclusivist Hindutva Ideology. That alone will ensure
political consensus and national cohesion.
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147. —-, —-, —-, —-, POLITICAL PLAY.
KUNJU (N). Bread, Not Bomb. Nation and the World. 8,
175; 1999, Febraury, 1; 20.
The article deals with what India needs is not nuclear
bomb but economic development. Japan and Germany have
proved this point, the author discusses that the pokhran
tests were a political play by the BJP to divert the attention
from government's non-performance and internal squabbles.
The Atal Behari Vajpayee government pushed to the corner
by its non-performance, contradictions between its actions
and agenda that made its ranks restless and above all, has
taken refuge in the nuclear bang to overcome the
opposition, both internal and external. The Parivar Cadres
angry at not being able to build the Ram Mandir at
Ayodhya nad having to surrender the lion's share of power
to unsympathetic all iance partners, have now become
ecstat ic with this self procla imed. Hindutva nuclear
achievement. Advani has aid that India would suffer in the
preparation for conventional war because of the sanctions.
Nuclear bomb are not weapons of war but of mass
distruction.
148. —-, -—, -—, —., STATUS, INDIA.
JOSHI (Manoj). Nuclear shock waves. India today. 23, 21;
1998, May, 25; 22-30.
The art ic le deals with the Pokhran tests that
proclaimed India a nuclear weapons state took the world by
surprise. For the BJP however it was the fulfilment of a
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long standing promise, Risi^ing international opprobrium and
economic sanctions, the government has gone ahead with
the nuclear tests. Will the gamble work? And at what cast?
Priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee chose the auspicious
Buddha Purnima to trumpet India's status as the world's
sixth nuclear weapon state. These tests have proved that we
can make any kind of nuclear weapons.
149. -—, —-, —-, —-, THREAT, DEMOCRACY.
JOSHI (Manoj). Hawkish India. India today. 23, 22; 1998,
June, 1; 28-34.
May 11, 3.45 p.m. site of nuclear test in Pokhran.
The article Indicate that the Pokhran tests and their after
math have radically redefined India's foreign policy, forcing
other nuclear weapons states to reevaluate their basic
assumptions about the country being a benign democracy,,
slow to anger and action. It is now seen as nation
pursuiting its interests aggressively, discarding its self-
righteous halo Priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee stood at the
edge of the large crater caused by India's recent nuclear
blasts in pokhran and simply flashed the "V" Sign. In an
attempt to muscle its way into the big boys' club, India is
jettisoning its idological baggage and indulging in real politic
Calculations on China went awry, the tensions excalted and
India backed down, but the damage to relations is still
serious.
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150. —-, -—, —-, PRESSURE, WASHINGTON.
EUPHORIA AND reality. Frontline. 16, 6; 1999, March, 26;
23.
After Lahore, India and Pakistan appear to have
prepared in to antagonistic rhetoric. However evidently, they
are coordinating heir responses to nuclear and related
issues. India and Pakistan seem to have offered to sign the
CTBT before September 1999. The memorandum of under
standing signed in Lahore during Vajpayee's visit deals with
the need to engage in regular consultations on security
concepts and nuclear doctrines, to notify each other in
case of nuclear accidents and to provide early warning of
missile tests. The Kashmir issue continues to remain on the
front burner. Nawaz Sharif claim that during his visit to
Lahore Vajpayee had given an assurance that the question
of self determination would be considered. Indian offificals
claim that western investor confidence in South Asia has
increased after Vajpayee's visit to Lahore. Indian official
insist that there is a convergence of views of nuclear and
other related issues with Pakistan, they deny that India and
Pakistan are coordinating their efforts to face up to
pressure from Washington.
151. -—, - - , —., SHAKTI - 1998.
ONE YEAR after Pokhran. Competition Master. 40, 12;
1999, July; 1045.
The author expresses his news about India exploding
the shakti nuclear tests on May 11, 1998. The world was
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shocked last year when Indian and Pakistan exploted their
nuclear bombs. Disapprovals and economic sanctions were
quick to come. The world seemed to be a little move unsafe
as the two countries seemed poised to go and divastating
arm race. The country's nuclear weapons deterant has not
deterred Pakistan which has created war like conditions in
Kashmir. We examine the nucelar balance sheet after one
year of Pokhran, the benefits and the costs.
152. BARDHAN (A.B.) The Nuclear Explosions and After. New
Age. 46, 21; 1998, May, 24-30; 1.
The article deal with the six week old Vajpayee
government had distinguished itself by nothing more than
sheer non-governnance, a war of words and mutual in suits
and leg pulling among partners it has come as a great
reprieve for the government. The series of five nuclear tests
on May 11 and 13, named as shakti-1998, was bound to
capture the popular imagination. There has been an
euphoric out-burst, and a feeling that we are now a strong
power, no matter all our other interrent weakenesses. There
is admiration for the veil of secrecy which covered the
whole operation, so that big boy Clinton and his banch of
CIA spies with their snooping stallites were caught literally
napping. This is rather unusual for us, since we generally
leak like a sieve. No one can mistake this position as one
arising from weakness, or lack of capabilities.
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153. —-, -—, —-, STRATEGY, SECURITY.
BANERJEE (Subrata). Indo-Pak Nuclear Confrontation, US
Inspired. New Age. 46, 32; 1998, August, 9-15; 7.
The BJP government should discard the strategy of
national security built up over the last 50 years and opt for
the US designed foreign policy and security strategy. It one
looks a little carefully at US-India-Pakistan relations in
recent years, in the context of the current nuclear
confrontation in the subcontinent, one cannot excape
identifying US as the villain in the scenario as it has
evolved. The ruling classes of Pakistan, v\/ho have always
been junior partners in the US strategy for the Indian
subcontinent.
154. ...., ...., -..., TEST BAN TREATY.
CHENGAPHA (Raj). Future fire. India Today. 23, 21; 1998,
May, 25; 32-34.
India stil l needs to develop a range of fast and
accurate delivery systems for the N-bombs. Latest Nuclear
tests at Pokhran look like innocious craters. The nuclear
tests may have given a boost to India's defence arsenal,
but the country can not ignore the enormous cost of
weaponisation. These tests have proved that we can make
any kind of nuclear weapons. It is a controversial means of
testing the reliability of nuclear weapons adopted by the five
nuclear power to get around the comprehensive Test ban
treaty. Priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee spoke that the India
is now a nuclear weapons state.
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155. —-, —-, -—, THREATENED, WORLD PEACE.
PHANDI (Adit i). Toward peace. Sunday. 26, 8; 1999,
February, 21-27; 40.
India and Pakistan took the first tentative step towards
creating a mood that will dominate the next one thousand
years. When BJP government came to power and conducted
the nuclear tests, and Pakistan carried out its own nuclear
tests, new elements were added to the relationship. This war
the united states which made it clear to both India and
Pakistan that world peace would be threatened. They argued
that Indians and Pakistan are like the female monkey which
clutches the body of its child to its stomach because it
can not bear the thought that its child might be dead.
Indian and Pakistan are too used to quarrelling stop doing
it. But who knows peace might just breake out.
156. -—, —-, —-, WORLD PEACE.
SEN (Mohit). The Nuclear Fall Out. New Wave. 27, 41 ;
1998, May, 31; 12.
The nuclear weapons tests have now become a part
of national life, it has changed that life to an extent but life
goes on. The BJP leadership had also hoped the atomic
blast would make their allience partners easier to tame. We
did all this not only world peace and cooperation were our
objectives but because it was only in conditions of peace
that we could pursue our socio-economic goals. The BJP is
endangering our national prospect in the name of the
nuclear explosions. Strength should make us self confident.
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The BJP commanded government's behaviour is one of
paranoic nervousness placing the nation in danger.
157. ...., ...., NUCLEAR WEAPON, INTERNATIONAL POWER.
DESHINGKAR (Giri). Equating Technological Progress with
Nuclear Bombs. Economic and Political Weekly. 33, 22;
1998, June; 1297-98.
The faith in this theology is that nuclear weapons are
the currency of international power; other currency are
secondary. The second article of faith is that nuclear
weapons, excuding power as they do, cutting down on
conventional forces. A further articles of faith says that a
no first use pledge by Indian will clear all doubts about
India's basic peaceful intensions. The priminister Atal Behari
Vajpayee has decleared the day of Pokhran II, May 11, as
technology day' effectively equating technological progress
with nuclear bombs. In all nuclear weapons countries experts
have of may of bamboozling their political leaders with
science fiction project in the name of national security. The
government has already created a BARC-DRDO complex
under the ministry of defence. ISRO and the Airforce can
be integrated into that at appropriate times to make it a
truly for midable lobby.
158. -—, —-, —-, POWER.
MALHOTRA (Inder). National Interest. Sunday. 25, 30; 1998,
July, 26; 10.
The article states the signing of the CTBT-on suitable
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terms would be to India's benefit. India is now a nuclear
weapons power and this situation can not change except as
a result of total global disarmament. More importantly this
country needs no more tests. Having conducted subcritical
experiments can ensure the realiability and safety of its
weapons through laboratory tests. Atai Behari Vajpayee is
willing lo give the moratorium on nuclear testing a legally
binding basis. What's the difference between this and
signing the CTBT, provided of course this is not done
unconditional as demanded by the US and China. The
major objections to the CTBT was that in flagrant violation
of international law it was sought to be imposed on an
unwilling India by making the treaty's coming into force
dependent on India's adherence to it. If this country
refuses to subcribe to the CTBT it be comes a dead latter.
159. JOHN CHERIAN. The BJP and the Bomb. Frontline. 15, 8;
1998, April, 24; 4-9.
The author expresses his view that the Bharatiya
Janata Party and its earlier incarnation, the Jan Sangh,
have consistently advocated a hawkish line on matters of
national security part icular ly nuclear related Issued.
Possessing the "bomb" is an article of faith with the party
that now heads a coalition government at the centre. The
Nuclear weapons have always been viewed as a "currency
of power" and the "ultimate weapon" by the BJP. The BJP
led government's intention to exercise the option to induct
nuclear weapons marks a break with India's nuclear policy
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since 1974 and carries serious security and foreign policy
risks for India. The BJP's 1998 manifesto committed the
party to the expolitions development of the Agni series of
intermediate range balistic missiles which are capable of
carrying nuclear warheads.
160. —-, —-, —-, TESTS, VIOLATION, INTERNATIONAL LAW.
BANERJEE (Subrata). Politics of BJP's Nuclear Weapons
Strategy. New Age. 46, 27; 1998, July, 5-11; 5.
The author express his view on the matters as they
stand at the moment, each of the five nuclear weapon
power has the right to conduct nuclear weapon tests without
violating any international agreement. The BJP government's
nuclear weapon misadventure it needs to be emphasised that
India has violated no international law. The Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) signed in 1996 by most states has
a significant clause. It requires all the 44 nuclear capable
states in the world to sign and ratify the treaty before it
can formally come into force. It was known at that time
that there was no possibility in the near future of India,
Pakistan and Israel signing and ratifying the treaty. Our
BJP politicians are no fools; nor they are military advisers.
The BJP's declared willingness to sign a suitable amended
CTBT too is hypocritical. No such scope exists for an
amendment.
161. .—, .—, ONION CRISIS.
REKHI (Shefals). The Great Onion Disaster. India Today. 23,
45; 1998, November, 9; 21-26.
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The article deals with prices continuing to spiral in
spite of frantic imports. The skyrocketing prices of onions
throughout the country have caused extreme hardship to the
poor and the middle classes. Is the BJP government to
blame or are they shortages real? The BJP leadership was
probably aware that Egyptian pharaohs regarded the onion
as a symbol of eternity. The BJP is busy importing. Atal
Behari Vajpayee Government in herited the congress
numberous white elephants which were blessed with
monopoly power. Through the onion crisis Vajpayee also
guaged the bureacracy's natural inclination to let inaction
prevail. Judging from the potentially damaging after effects
of the onion crisis on the BJP's electoral for tunes, he
does not have too options. The story of the great onion
disaster begins with bureaucratic loxicity.
162. —-, — , PERFORMANCE, VAJPAYEE.
NAQVI (Naseem). Abki Baari Atai Ki Baari.. Nation and the
World. 8, 175; 1999, February, 1; 14.
The author express his views about Atal Behari
Vajpayee being welcomed for his boldness in politics. The
odd Vajpayee watcher this comes as panful reminder that it
is the turn of politics to have one dayer syndrome, where
only the moment matter, brushing a side past performance.
Ataiji is treated by his parivar. The inducting three men of
this 'choice' into his cabinet throwing everyone from his
ruling partners to his sangh family member. Fron now
onwards it will be a different Vajpayee who will be a little
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more than the 'mask' his family members wanted him to be.
Atleast its the first step for Vajpayee tow a look and be
have priministeral. First the coalition partners then the
parivar rank and file had all but suffocated the government
and governance. Vajpayee's coterie wanted to keep itself
away from the mairstream saffronites. Vajpayee on a
confrontation course with sangh parivar's think tanks. And
yet this was done proving that the man means business.
The BJP with its numerous power centres, unfortunately,
behaves like this. It is time that Vajpayee shows more such
assertiveness and keeps the numerous leaders in the pack
fully leashed. Author said that Vajpayee is a new avtaar.
163. — , — , POLICE REFORM, INDIA.
ANSARI (Iqbal A.). Police Reform in India. Radiance. 33,
6; 1998, February, 8-14; 3.
It is a matter of great shame forthe India Republic
and its Citizenery that they are still being governed by the
policy and parliamilitary forces which are expected under
law to threat them as subject people. The debacle of
Ayodhya on December 6, 1992 presents one of the worst
examples of gross misue of political authority misdirecting
the civil administration and the police not to be use force
against rampaging nob of Kar Sevaks who continued for
long hours and days to unlawfully damage and destroy a
building whose protection was guaranteed under law.
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164. —-, —-, POLITICAL UNCERTAINITY.
ESWARAN (V.V.). Fortune for some lesson for others.
Nation and the World. 8, 173; 1999, Jan, 1; 44-45.
The author expresses that the year 1998 would be
remembered by the BJP as it fulfilled its long-cherished
dream of coming to power at the centre yet also of
shattering dreams when it lost assembly polls in three
states. At the same time congress comp rejoiced as the
year provided it with a ray of hope. In 1998, with stand
out as a period of political uncertainly and confusion.
Bridging the gab between the government and the party is
an inescapable and urgent task. In the back ground was
also on inference conflict between the camps of priminister
Atal Behari Vajpayee and Lai Krishna Advani which appears
to have been temporarily got over. The result was a massive
upsurge against the BJP among the poor, the minorities
and the women. The BJP has been punished for its non
performance as a government. The BJP thinks that by the
time the next assembly elections are held, the party would
have tied up loose ends and over come the short comings
which were visible this time. The onion prices can not shoot
up every time elections are held, it will be the BJP which
would be victorious.
165. -—, —-, —., SCENARIO.
MUKERJI (Debashish). Mission accomplished. The Week.
16, 19; 1998, April, 26; 44-46.
The article deals with the filing of nominations to the
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post of BJP national president was reached at 3 p.m. on
April 14. By down playing Ayodhya and forging valiable
alliances, L.K. Advani brought intellectual muscle and power
to the BJP. The Vajpayee image is a major advantage and
brought us many votes, admitted a senior office bearer.
"But when it comes to organisational ruts and bolts, there
is none to match Advani. He knows the party much better
than Vajpayee does. Leadership is important but we must
not forget that the general political conditions favoured us
said K.R. Malkani . "It is not just the president 's
achievement, the BJP got only two seats but that does not
reflect on Vajpayee alone, just because he was president
then. So much depends on the prevailing political scenario.
But to impute jealously to Advani, to believed that he
resents Vajpayee as priminister, is to misread the man
completely.
166. —-, —-, POST-POKHRAN POLICY, KASHMIR, DEBATE,
GROUPS, ETHNICS AND RELIGIOUS.
PUR! (Balraj). A post pokhran policy for Kashmir. Economic
and Political Weekly. 33, 45; 1998, November, 7-3; 2830-32.
An Internal debate among he different ethnic and
religious communities of Jammu and Kashmir on their status
within the state and on the state's external ties must
constitute the core of a post Pokhran Indian policy on
Kashmir. It was unnecessary to assume that the out come
of such a political process would necessarity go against
India. For any understanding among the various identities
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within Jammu and Kashmir can be built only on the basis
of a democratic and federal set up which is closer to the
Indian polity, with all its faults and short comings.
167. —-, —-, PRICE HIKES.
BARDHAN (A.B.). Fight the price rise to save your family.
New Age. 46, 29; 1998, November, 19-25; 1.
The article indicates towards the life of common
people is becoming more and more miserable. Nearly 39
percent of our population lives below the poverty line. It
means downright starvation dueto high prices of every
single food items. In the heat of controversy over several
other issues the way prices of literally every essential
commodity are soaring up to the skies, under the present
BJP-led dispensation, is not getting the desired attension.
Let us recall how a decade or two back, rising prices had
brought tens of thousands on to the streets, almost in every
centre. It is this government that has failed miserably in
economic management. Perhaps keeping prices down is not
on its priority list.
168. -—, —-, —-, ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES.
SONI (Thengamam). Onion price increase 1,000 percent;
countesy BJP Government. New Age. 46, 44; 1998,
November, 1-7; 2.
The article indicate that the BJP government in Delhi
had poured darkness into the lives of Delhites with spiralling
prices during the festival season of Dusserah and Divali.
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Even the middle class is struggling hard with escalating
prices. Onions, potatoes, edible oil all these essential
commodities have gone out of reach of common man. The
price of these article have touched an all time high. Still
the BJP government in Delhi talks about a new style of
governance.
169. ----, —-, PRICE RISE, ESSENTIAL COMMOTIES.
CHAKRAVARTI (Sundeep). Rising Prices. India Today. 23,
29; 1998, July, 20; 35-40.
The author discusses the crop failures over cautions
policies, a falling rupee and demand have collectively driven
up prices of essential commodities as never before in the
space of a year. And there no respite in sight for Indian
families who are being forced to tighten belts. The BJP
government of shielding hoarders and pannel Finance
Minister yashwant Sinha's "anti poor" budget. Mean while at
the centre the left is attacking the BJP-led government for
its failure to control prices.
170. — , — , PROGRAMM, HOUSING, VASUNDHARA YOJANA,
U.P.
SUNDERARAJAN (P). Vajpayee takes part in a community
meal. The Hindu. 122, 67; 1999, March, 20; 6.
The priminister Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee today
celebated one year of his government by taking part in a
community meal with the people of this village. The menu
consisted of the typical rural fare of Dal, Sabzi and Roti
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served in earthern pots and plate made of levels. He also
handed over a cheque for Rs. 50 crores for 50,000 houses
that are to buiit in Uttar Pradesh with HUDCO assistance
under the two million housing programme laid the foundation
stone for new housing programme under the Vasundhara
Yojana of the Uttar Pradesh Housing and Development
Board and Under the Ashraja sudhar Vojana at Nandgram
and Baurao Devras Yojana of Pratab Vihar by the
Ghaziabad development authority. Besides he handed over
keys to the allottees of houses under the Vasundhara
Yojana.
171. . . . . , . . . . , PROGRAMME, NUCLEAR, THREAT, ALTER,
ISSUES, MILITANCY, INTERNAL SECURITY.
KAPOOR (Sanjay). Nuclear status to Quell Militancy. Blitz.
58, 21; 1998, May, 23; 1.
The momentous decision of the BJP government at
the centre ot weapons India's nuclear programme is now
threatening to radically alter the traditional approach of the
Indian establishment towards issue of militancy and internal
security. Even though the blasts have brought to the fore
the hypocrisy and double standards of the International
nuclear regime the BJP government appears to be benefit
of a coherent stragegy and seems unable to identify
individuals who can articulate India's case convincingly. The
BJP anticipated to build on the domestic euphoria and good
will generated by the bomb.
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172. —-, —-, —-, -—, WEAPONS, ECONOMY.
GHOSH (Jayati). The Bomb and the Economy. Frontline.
16, 10; 1999, May, 8-21; 37-39
The nuclear weapons programme which envisages the
spending of staggering amounts of resources on it even as
developmental and social spending is being cut back, is a
devastating reminder of the misplaced priorities of the BJP-
led government. The economic cost of categories core only
recently emerging. The expense of decontaminating and
clearing up radioactive sites; health care expense of afflicted
workers with in the nuclear complex and other involved in
production of radioactive material. Compare these amount of
Rs 20,000 crores plus for the weapons alone and another
Rs 160,000 crores for the related systems necessary for
weaponisation, with the government of India's total plan
outlay budgeted for the current year which is only Rs
77,000 crores. The nuclear weapons programme is a
devastating reminder of the misplaced priorities of the
government. It is now up to social pressure and action to
ensure that these priorities are reset.
173. .—, —., RAMTEMPLE, CONSTRUCTION.
MUKERJI (Debashish). Ayodhya Bomb. Making of the
Mandir. The Week. 16, 25; 1998, June, 7; 35-41.
The author discusses about the Mandir being
assembled in three workshops in Rajasthan and one in
Uttar Pradesh under the supervision of the VHP. The plan
is to start construction at the actual site in two years
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whether or not the BJP has a majority at the centre. Two
bombs have been ticking away in India for years, one in
the pokhraran desert of Rajasthan and the other in
Ayodhya. The BJP led government gladly pulled the pin at
pokhran flexing its nuclear muscle; a shakti peeth temple
that Hindu Sanyasins have planned near pokhran wil l
symbolise this victory. The BJP is worried about the political
cost of detonating this bomb, but the Vishwa Hindu
Parishad is defiant. The proposed Ayodhya temple is being
prefabricated by the sangh parivar in Rajasthan's Sirohi
district and in Kar Sevak Puram in U.P. One forth of the
work is complete.
174. ...., ...., REFORMS, BLENDING, SWADESHI.
BLENDING SWADESHI with reforms. Competition Master. 40,
3; 1998, October; 214.
This article deals with BJP government took the runs
of the country at a time when a down ward slide had
already set in the economy. Grwoth rate and productivity
both were on the decline. The economic problems were
compounded with economic sanctions imposed by several
countries, including the USA and Japan. It is not certain
whether Pokhran-ll has been able to dissuade he political
opponents of the government but it has certainly resulted in
decline in foreign aid. Under this circumstances, it was
expected that the Finance Minister would come out with
forward-looking and bold budget proposals. But the Union
Budget for 1998-99 failed leave up to the expectations and
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rather took a U-turn in matter like excise and custom
duties. As apprehended, the economy is already showing the
signs of gradual but continuous slide.
175. .—, —., REGIONAL PARTIES.
NAYAR (Kuldip). An atmosphere of Ennui Looms large.
Radiance. 32, 14; 1997, March, 16-22; 8.
The real malady, analyses is that political parties are
benefit of ideas. The BJP the largest block in the Lok
Sabha, has huffed and hawed for record. The BJP is still
in the midst of the crisis that has followed the demolition of
the Babri Masjid in December 1992. Advani is wrong in
concluding that the BJP has benefited from the 'secular
logic' that has brought 13 regional parties together. Once
the BJP leavs to compromise, it will find that t he type of
politics it follows is sterile. The BJP is wrong if it believes
that it is making in roads in the south. The party is still
seen in that part of India as a northern Hindu Chauvinistic
group. It is sliding downward partially in all the non-Hindi
speaking states. Regional Parties are gaining ground.
176. —-, —-, RELATION, INDO-PAK, FRIENDLY.
ZEYAUL HAQUE. The state of Indo-Pak Ties. Nation and the
Word. 8, 172; 1998, December, 16; 46.
Jaswant Singh whose party as wel l as the
mastermind, the RSS are hawkish on Indo-Pak relations has
been making Pak-friendly statement. The both India and
Pakistan are born of the sam womb. Advani's insistence on
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hot pursuit bothered Americans who saw it as sure recipe
for sudden escalation. Some how with American counselling
the idea of hot pursuit has been dropped. A peace process
has already been started between India and Pakistan thought
the guns keep booming on the Siachenglaciers and bayond
as well as along the landborder with Pakistan. The release
of hundreds of innocent fisherman languishing in Indian and
Pakistani jails for years is a welcome sign. So is the
invitation of a direct Delhi-Lahore bus service and relaxation
of Visa restrictions. Friendly exchange in education, sports
and calture too are part of the CBMS. Priminister Atal
Behari Vajpayee rightly points out, once the two estranged
neighbours develop enough trust in each other, solution of
larger and more enduring problems including Kashmir, would
be easier.
177. ...., ...., .-.., ...., KARGIL ISSUE.
MOHAN (Saumitra) Kargilization of Indo-Pak relations.
Politics India. 4, 2-3; 1999, August, September; 18-19.
Indo-Pak relations also seem to be suffering from the same
Sisyphean curse as the recent flareup in Kargil Indicates.
The entire country led by Atal Behari Vajpayee were raising
toasts to the success of the bus to Lahore and consequent
Lahore Declaration. Pakistan was engaged in dispatching its
troops to the icy heights of Kargil. Though India has
remonstrated against this breach of trust, the recent flareup
in Kargil exposes in sharp relief the chinks in our defence
armor. Even though Kargilization of Indo-Pak relation has
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dealt a heavy blow to the bilateral relations. India should
not completely lose hope. So India should strengthen it
security apparatus, the should simultaneously engage in
confidence building measures with Pakistan. After all there
is no substitute for peace. Hopefully the saner elements in
that country would prevail upon the leadership there to
usher in a strong bilateral relationship.
178. —-, -—, —-, —-, KASHMIR ISSUE.
RAGHAVAN (K.). being from Kashmir. Outlook. 5, 11; 1999,
March, 29; 8.
The author had expected that the real break through
in Indo-Pak relations has to be achieved, it's important to
address the Kashmir issue first, it went ahead with a
plebiscite befor taking over Sikkim. It's time was showed
manageminity to kashmir by declaring a plebiscite under
U.N. observers. Let's right the wrong our rulers commited
in 1949.
179. SUMANTRA BOSE, Kashmir : Sources, of Conf l ic t ,
Dimension of Peace. Economic and Political Weekly. 34,
13; 1999, March, 27; 762-78.
The article identifies and develops essential elements
of a multidimensional approach to gradually, incrementally
de-escalate the Kashmir conflict. It first pin points the
essential features of that conflict, stressing that the problem
has both exogenous source in the form of the broader
regional confl ict between India and Pakistan and
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endogenous sources, in the form of the existence of several
fundamentally different political allegiances and preferences
among the socially heterogeneous population of Kashmir.
The Indo-Pak relations following the Atal Behari Vajpayee
Shuttle bus diplomacy to Pakistan and Nawaz Sharif retur
visit to India. The article develops one by one three
interlocking dimensions of an alternative peace building
approach which takes account of the complex intersection of
multiple, comulating doemstic and international factor that
collectively define the contemporary Kashmir problem.
180. -—, -—, —-, INDO-RUSSIA, STRENGTHENED.
JOSHI (Manoj). Old Friends Calling. India Today. 14, 1;
1999, January, 4; 21.
The article deals with the visit of russian Priminister
and Shri lankan President & refocus on India's traditional
alliances. Russian Priminister yevgeny Primakor paid a tow-
day visit to India that reaffirmed the continuing friendship
between the two countries despite the trails of a post cold
war world. Durning the business like two-day visit the
Russian leader and his Indian counter part signed six
agreements designed to stabil ise their post cold war
economic and political relations and a seventh to confirm
and extend, despite considerable American pressure, their
military technical cooperation agreement till the year 2010.
Declaration of Strategic partnership to be signed at the next
summit, possible 1999, which would getnew parameters and
guide the progress of Indo-Russian partnership. A
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agreement on economic, industrial and financial cooperation.
Priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee could honestly till his
Russian guest, Relations with Russia are a matter of
national consinsus and enjoy all party support In India. With
Sri Lanka things have already got off the ground especially
the free trade agreement.
181. —., .—, .—, SINO-INDO.
DHAR (M.K.). Trusty Neighbours. Nation and the World. 8,
160; 1998, June, 16; 30-32.
The articles deals with India's neighbours in nuclear
determent capability and acquired the status of a nuclear
power in its own right. Indian should remain engaged in
pursuit of universal and complete disarmament and
developing relation with other countries, US, Russia and
China particularly though Pakistan, the most trouble some
neighbour, remain a difficult case while making out a case
for higher allocation for defence to improve the battle
worthines of cash-starved armed forces, Fernandes need not
underl ine the considered policy course adopted by
successive governments to improve Sino-lndian relations. The
BJP Government must also work for strengthening friendship
with neighbours and maintaining peace and tranquility along
its borders. Former chief General Sunders had earlier
calculated that a battery of 30 Agni and 45 Buthvi missiles
with nuclear pay loads would adequate for deterrent
capabilities. But now the estimate has gone up to 45 Agni
and 80 Prithvi batteries in the hope that the Vajpayee
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government will find resources for these project. India is
committed to constructive and cooperative relationship with
China, eliminating differences and promoting understanding,
hoping China will show sensitivity towards its concerns.
182. MALHOTRA (Inder). After Kargil. Sunday. 26, 31 ; 1999,
August, 1-7; 25.
The article deals with India's relation with both the US
and China reaching turning point. Kargil has been from our
point of view, a turning point. The rellentless manner in
which Bill Clinton forced Nawaz Sharif to withdraw force
from the Indian side of the LOC speaks for itself. This
combined with the distressing history of relat ionship
between the world's most pwerful and most popular
democracies. America influences all the major diplomatic
dynamics across the globe. In both investment and trade it
is India's biggest partner. An adversaries relationship with it
is not in this country's interest. The US would want a quid
proquo for better relations, most probably in the nuclear
field specifically in the form of signatures on the CTBT in
the first place. India needs good relation with both the
superpower and the most powerful neighbour on realistic not
illusory, terms.
183. -—, —., — , -—, DETERIORATED.
ACHARYA (Alka), Sino-lndian Relations since Pokhran-ll.
Economic and Political Weekly. 34, 23; 1999, June, 5-11;
1397-1400.
The article deals with the India-China relation having
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deteriorated after India's nuclear explosions. Both countries
have different and divergent views on the causes and
solutions to the imbroglio. Priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee
believes that China should be more sensitive to its security
and strategic concerns. China feel that the onus lies with
India to make good the damage done. India expects China
to be more sensitive to its security and strategic concerns.
It is possible for the two countries to temporarily shelve
problems which are intractable and improve bilateral relations
by other means.
184. — , —-, REMOVAL, BHANDARI.
MUKERJI (Debashish). The leack behind the apology. The
Week. 17, 12; 1999, March, 7; 38.
Author express his views about how Advani's men used
a section of the media to try and remove Bhandari as
Bihar Governor. Once more Advani pressed the need to
replace Bhandari and was trongly backed by Fernandes.
But Sinha curiously refused to take sides at the meeting
called by Vajpayee, maintaining he had learnt that some of
the names suggested for key posts by Advani were those
of Laloo Yadav's loyalists. Bhandari contacted Advani on
phone and pointed out that he had been speaking to
Advani on various matters every day since presidents rule
was imposed but he had been given no inkling at all Advani
reportedly responded and named the friendly newspaper. It
was Sushma Swaraj finally who played mediator. She visited
Bhandari and worked out the details of the public apology
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Advani finally delivered closing the chapter, where he
clarified that his comments on a political administration were
no rellection on the abilities or administration competence of
Bhandari.
185. —-, -—, RIVER, WATERS ISSUE.
SUBRAMANIAN (T.S.) Cauvery water tusseles. Frontline. 16,
21; 1999, October, 9-22; 108-110.
The article deals with Karnataka refuses to release
cauvery water to tamil Nadu as recommended by committee
of the cauvery river authority and the two governments trade
charges, the situation in the delta areas remains grim, with
the Kuruvai crop and samba nurseries in risk of withering.
The August 7, 1998 agreement signed by the Chief
Ministers of tamil Nadu, karnataka, Pondichery and Kerala
in the presence of Prime Minister Vajpayee was projected
as a mechanism that would resolve the dispute between
Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The Cauvery Basin Said on
September 28, that 17 tmeft of water was required over the
next for night to save the standing Kuruvai Crops, and that
the total requirement for cultivation in the delta until
January 2000 would be 150 tmeft.
186. MENON (Parvathi). Unresolved Issues. Frontline. 16, 21 ;
1999, October, 9-22; 111-112.
Karnata's refusal to abide by the recommendations of
the Monitoring Committee of the Cauvery River Authority
show up the limitations of the agreement reached last year.
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Tamil Nadu's demand for water on an urgent footing to save
the standing kuruvai Crops in the Cauvery delta was turned
down by Karnataka on the grounds that the water stored in
Karnataka's reservoirs was insufficient to meet its own
irrigation and drunking water needs. The Cauvery River
Authority (CRA) should utilise the "peace time", (when there
is enough water in the reservoirs) to work out a range of
options of sharing water during scarcity.
187. —-, —-, SECULAR POLICY, HINDUTVA.
HAQUE (Mohd. Zeyaul). Secular in Srinagar, Communal in
Ayodhya. Nation and the World. 8, 164; 1998, August, 16;
45-46.
The author expresses his views about L.K. Advani
faces a crisis of credibility while reconciling his Jammu &
Kashmir and Ayodhya stances. There was nothing really to
write then without being suspected as a Muslim opposed to
Hindus or as a communist opposed to Muslims or as a
VHP agent opposed to unity. L.K. Advani an accused in
the Babri Masjid demolition is the Union Home Minister now
and the remark of late Pandit Kamlapati Tripathi about BJP-
HP double talk has come true after they broke the promise
to protect the mosque made before the supreme court,
National Integration Council and Parliament. Advani Home
Minister knows that only secular policy can work in the
sensitive states of Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab and North-
East and he is trying to be secular in handling these
areas. The secular stance has to be seen all over India.
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188. -—,.—, STABILITY PLANK.
DESAI (Radhika). The 'stability' plank. Frontline. 16, 11;
1999, June, 4; 40-42.
Stability in any case a natural plank of any party of
the Right, proved most useful . Masking its hideous
communalism, stability became the respectable face of the
BJP. The new political discourse certain around the slogan
of stability signals the demise of the political will to appose
the Bhartiya Janata Party on principle. The BJP led
government 's 13 months in power have ironical ly
demonstrated how its anti-secularism are parts of a much
larger authoritarian and dictatorial edifice. The BJP is
almost certain to be the winner in the "stability" stakes. BJP
had mad "stability" its own distinctive plank its branded,
political stock in trade, convincing the relevant class that
other parties are unlikely to do better. The coming elections
will feature sordid spectacles of the most foul and unseemly
al l iances and col lusions and the most be wi lder ing
competitions over who can offer more stability. The BJP is
already bridling at constitutional and customary restraint by
rejecting the nation of a "caretaker" Government.
189. —., .—, STEP DOWN, MANDIR, AGENDA.
NAYAR (Kuldip). BJP Beats about the bush. Radiance. 32,
41 ; 1998. October, 5-11; 8.
All the 49 who have been indicted should step down.
The forty nine top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party,
Rashtriya Swajamsewak Sangh and allied organisations such
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as the Shiv Sena and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) have
been held guilty of conspiring to demolish the Babri Masjid.
All wear Hindutva on their sleeves and run down secularism.
Atal Behari Vajpayee has put party above principle. He says
the grounds for the charges are flimsy and that the case is
wrong and polit ically motivated. That the Masjid was
demolished stone by stone, with security forces quietly
watching, is an accepted fact. The judge says the Criminal
conspiracy began in 1990 and culminated on December 6,
1992. His pronouncement minces no words while Vajpaye is
equivocal and full of holes. In their statements on Varanasi
and Mathura, Advani and Vajpayee have said many a time
that the mosque are not on the party's agenda.
190. —-, —-, STRATEGY.
GOYAL (D.R.). Vajpayee and RSS strategy. Nation and the
World. 8, 175; 1999, February, 1; 30-33.
The article indicates that the end of a lack listre
period of ten months in office Atal Behari Vajpayee has
started efforts to brush up his image. Priminister Atal Behari
Vajpayee has asserted his authority, van quished the party
president Khusbhu Thakre and forced the national executive
to change its resolutions. Thakre declared that the BJP
would not exercise remote control over the government that
Vajpayee in driver's seat would be the final authority to
determined the direction of the government. Vajpayee is as
much a lame duck leader as the government he heads. He
has already declared his intention to quit parliamentary
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politics here after. And when the RSS controlled government
is formed with a clear majority the Mukhota would not be
required any more.
191. -—, -—, .—, REVIVAL.
CHAWLA (Prabhu). Recipe for Revival. India Today. 23, 35;
1998, August, 31; 32.
The aticle indicates Vajpayee should realise that only
drastic steps work. After five months office Priminister Atal
Behari Vajpayee finds himself in an unenuiable position. His
government is in peril and political instability and economic
stagnation continue to plague the country, it is the week
after the 51st Independence Day he had held several
strategy sessions with his close aides and this is their
prescribtion. Having just crossed his 150th day in office
Vajpayee is fast realising that it is no longer India's elite
that is disenchanted with his performance. People across
the country are questioning his government's ability to
deliver. If the priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee believe that
less government is better government he is in for a
surprise.
192. — , —-, SWADESHI, COMMITMENT.
SHIVA (Vandana). BJP on swadeshi : The Great 'U' Turn.
Nation and the World. 8, 159; 1998, June, 1; 39-41.
The article deals with two of India's well known
environmentalists are sceptical about swadeshi commitments
of the BJP. The recent decisions of the BJP led government
143
have caused consternation in the mind of people who were
brought up to bel ieve that the BJP would base its
government policies on a strong swadeshi plank. The BJP
government could have studied the Issue and taken a
longterm decision in national interest rather than a short
term adhoc response purely to get good marks from WTO.
On the domestic from the Aquaculture Authority Bill (AAB)
which died ignoble death under the last government is being
resurrected by the BJP led government to protect the very
interests that were defended earlier by the united fron and
the congress. All will involve critical swadeshi component
and the national agenda about which there can be no
dispute. These decision would indicate whether the BJP can
be trusted to defend the country's interest or sell them
down the drain. The issues are as follows : Patents Bill,
Biodiversity legislation, farmers' right act, Export of Meat
and Raw Hides, Food, Grain Import. The BJP government
has already fai led test as far as food imports are
concerned. It has continues the mindless decisions of the
lastgovernment to import wheat, this time from Australia, to
the determinent of India's formers.
193. — , — , —-, CONTRADICTIONS.
PATNAIK (Prabhat) . The contradictions of swadeshi.
Frontline. 15, 11; 1998, June, 5; 92.
The author expresses his views on the assertion that
may appear stronge at first sight since the BJP has come
to power on a slogan of swadeshi. But swadeshi whether of
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the BJP variety or even in its most ideal from imaginable,
represents an untenable programme. The ideal of any
coherent swadeshi programme is to make domest ic
capitalists emerge as autonomous players in the global
arena with state support and this cannot possible happen
unless certain structural changes we made in the country.
These change are unacceptable to the existing classes.
194. ...., ..-., TELECOM POLICY.
SHAMEEM FAIZEE. A loot of the Exchequer with
Priminister's Connivance. New Age. 47, 29; 1999, July, 18-
24; 1.
The article deals with the forth coming Lok Sabha
election compaign of the BJP led National Democratic
Alliance will basically be financed by the private Telecom
operators who have been given helty concessions by the
caretaker regime. It is believed that the changes in the
Telecom policy announced by the Vajpayee government will
cause a loss of baout 1,00.000 crore rupees to the public
exchequer and the metro operators alone will get about Rs
50,000 crore rupees from the change over.
195. —-, -—, TEMPLE ISSUE.
KIDWAI (Anser). BJP's Misrule Doublespeak Speaks. Nation
and the World. 8, 166; 1998, September, 16; 8-9.
The article deals with BJP components over the moves
for rewriting history the Sangh parivar's double speak on
the temple construction issue, rehabilitation of Gods and the
\4i
repression of the minorities in the BJP rules state of
Gujarat. The ignoming of its 13 day stint got washed out
by a curious turn of for tune. At the party to party level
the presence George Fernands as the Samata luminary In
the new set up has been indicative of his own part as well
as of the BJP. The wheel turned full circle when a more
sedate devote of the socialist movement, R.K. Hegde threw
his lot with the BJP. The BJP along with its post poll and
pre poll partners remains a minority outfit. The solution is
compounded by the daily ultimations issued by the mercurial
Jayalalitha threatening the survival of the dispensation. The
BJP as leading player would appear to have earned a
reprieve for the movement.
196. -—, -—, TEST BAN TREATY.
BHARDWAJ (Brij). Vajpayee on Cloud Nine. Nation and the
World. 8, 160; 1998, June, 16; 24.
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee who was
sometime ago described by one of his colleague as looking
"jaided and tired" is now riding high on cloud nine. Yes the
series of nucleur explosions at Pokhran in Rajasthan has
done wonders to the morale of the two month old
government at the centre and for the country as well. There
is not doubt that the BJP government's decision to use
nuclear option has given a new lease of life to the
government. The BJP government has done well to soften
the blow by talking about India's willingness to sign test
ban treaty along with the announcements of the test, it
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obviously gives two options to Americans they can either go
ahead with sanctions as done in the past or negotiate fresh
agreements India has to be prepared to pay the price after
all the cost of entering exclusive club of supr powers is
very high. The defence minister George Fernandes while
raising the issue of India's security concerns with respect
to China. India having proved its point can now offer to
under taken never to be first to use nuclear weapons.
197. —-, —-, TREATY, MAHAKALI, INDO-NEPAL.
GYAWALI (Dipak). Mahakali impase and Indo-Nepal water
conflict. Economic and Political Weekly. 34, 9; 1999,
February, 27; 553-61.
The article attempts to put into perspective the
complex set of events that led to the signing of the treaty
and to understand and the dynamics of Napal-lndia water
confl ict in the last three years. The Mahakali Treaty
between India and Nepal was signed and rammed through
the Napal Parliament is extreme haste, pushing a side all
the serious doubts that were raised about the dam, highest
rockfill dam in the world in the seismic Himalayas. Indian
priminister Atal Behari Vajpayee in Delhi on September 19,
1998 had assured him that they would cooperate in
furthering the Mahakali Treaty as they had done during its
ratification. They assumed him that they were doing not
for petty interests or a few billion rupees but for furthering
friendship and bilateral relation with India.
147
198. —., - - , WAR DECISION, PRIME MINISTER.
AKBAR (MJ). The silence of the sacrifical lamb. Blitz. 54,
77; 1999, June, 20; 3.
The author says that every Indian is deeply angry
with Pakistan. The most important war decision that prime
Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee may have taken in the last
fornight is to telt George Fernandes to keep his mouth shut.
The dividends of this decision are already becoming visible;
the government believes that it is no longer haemorrhaging
on the war issue. As a reward for good behaviour, Geroge
is going to be showered with occasional complements by
Mr. Advani.
199. — , — , WOOING MUSLIMS.
MUZAFFAR ASSADI. Wooing Muslims : BJP's Minorities
Conference. Economic and Political Weekly. 33.; 23; 1998,
June 6-12; 1367-69.
The author discuss about the BJP is attempting to
attact Muslims to its fold using several means: it is
projecting the nuclear scientist Abdul Kalam as the
quintessential new Muslims; it has attempted to appropriate
Tippu Sultan, a fonner ruler of Mysore who is something of
an Icon to the state's Muslims and most importantly it is
se lect ive ly cal l ing for the implementat ion of the
recommendations of the Goodawala and the Rahman Khan
commissions which sought to better, the conditions of the
minorities in the state. The BJP has a long way to go to
establish a strong base among the minorities particularly the
Muslims.
148
200. -—, —-, YATRA, VHP-BAJRANG DAL, CHICKMANGLUR.
GAURI LANKESH. Ayodhya, once more. Sunday. 25, 49;
1999, December, 13-19; 23.
The article deals with the saffron brigade, tries to
reclaim a place of worship in Chickmanglur. But a recent
yatra organised by Vishwa Hindu Preshad and the Bajrang
Dal to reclaim the place for performing rites according to
the Hindu religion has vitiated the atmosphere, if the
government does not sort out the issue soon enough the
dargah might well go the way of the mosque at Ayodhya.
That the VHP and the Bajarang Dal religious and activist
wings of the BJP have for long sought to commullalise
issue in the state makes their highly suspect. On 3
December 10,000 saffron clad activists of the VHP and the
Bajarang Dal marched to the dargah, hoisted saffron flags
on the hill and demanded that idols of Dattatreya and
Ganesha be installed inside the shine. Though the Hindu
fundmantal ists created a communal frenzy over the
reclaiming of the dargah for the community the lagely Hindu
population of Chickmanglur opted to stay away from the
yatras.
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IMDEX
J
AUTHOR INDEX
NAME OF AUTHOR ENTRY NO.
ACHARYA (Alka) - 183
AGHA(Qamar) - 110
AHSAN(M.H.) - 4
AIYAR (Manishankar) - 21, 73, 83
AKBAR (M.J.) - 198
AJAZAHMAD - 130
AMITBARUAH - 23,48,118
ANSAR (IqbalA.) - 163
ANEJA(Atul) - 82
ASGHAR (Ali) - 61
AVIJITPATHAK - 100
BANA (Sarosh) - 143
BANERJEE (Subrata) - 153,160
BARDHAN(A.B.) - 152,167
BAWEJA (Harinder) - 76,79
BHADRA (Gyan) - 3
BHARDWAJ (Brif) - 59,196
BHARAT (Ahluwalia) - 56
BIDWAI (Praful) - 108,124
CHAKRABATI (Ashis) - 20
CHAKRAVARTI (Sudeep) - 169
CHANDRASEKHAR(C.P.) - 121
CHATTERJEE (Partha) - 139
150
CHAWLA (Prabhu)
CHENGAPPA (Raj)
CHERIAN (John)
CHOPRA (Subash)
DHAR(M.K.)
DESAI (Radhika)
DESHINGKAR(Giri)
EQBAL (Ahmad)
ESWARAN (V.V.)
GAURI LANKESH
GOYAL(D.R.)
GHOSE (Arabinda)
GHOSE (Jayati)
GIDWANI (Vinaykrishan)
GILLAL (Michael)
GUHA (Seema)
GYAWALI (Dipak)
HAQUE(MohdZeyaul)
HAROONHABIB
JAYARAMAN
JAHANGIR (Rahman)
JOSHI (Manoj)
JOSHI (Ishan)
JOSHI (Anuja)
KHARE (Harish)
KAPOOR (Sanjay)
KIDWAI (Anser)
KUNJU (N)
191
87,154
115,159
74
116,181
188
157
26
36,164
200
190
37
89,172.
126,132
7
101
197
187
14
135
15
114,148,149,180
24
140
17
51,69.144,171
8.28,52,57,104,111,195
80,147
151
LAKDAWALA(M.Hanif) - 103
MAHADEVAN(H) - 11
MAHANTI (Subodh) - 106
MAHFUZANAM - 12
MALHOTRA (Inder) - 68,75,158,182
IQBALMASUD - 72
MEHTA(Ashok) - 128
MENON(S.M.) - 123
MENON(N.C.) - 34
MOHAN (Saumitra) - 177
MUKERJI (Debashish) - 1,64,71,165,173,184
MURALIDHARAN (Sukumar) - 99
MURTHY (Sachidananda) - 43
MUZAFFAR ISLAM - 16
NAGARAJ (B.S.) - 31,45
NAJMI (Quied - 84
NAQVI (Naseem) 162
NAYAR (Kuldip) - 30,53,54,65,66,67,70,78,
96,97,107,112,119,175,189
NOORANI (A.G.) - 92
PALSHIKAR(Suhas) - 49
PAMELA PHILIPASE - 77
PARVATI - 186
PATNAIK(Prabhat) - 193
PHADNIS (Aditi) - 2,155
PILLAI (Sreedhar) - 40
PRASANNAN{R) - 86,136
PURI(Balraj) - 166
152
RAGHAVON (K)
RAINA(R)
RAJA(D)
RAM (N)
RAS (Rama)
RAMDAS (L)
REKHI (Shefali)
ROY (Arundhat)
SAGAR(S.G.)
SAKSENA (Rashmi)
SAROSH (Bana)
SAURABH KATIAL
SEN (Mohit)
SHARMA (Narendra)
SHIVA (Vardana)
SHUKHLA (Rajiv)
SUKUMAR (Muralidharan)
SINGH (Rai)
SONI (Thengamam)
PILLAI (Sreedhar)
SHAMEEM FAIZEE
SUBRAMANIAN (T.S.)
SUMANTRABOSE
SUNDERAJAN(P)
SWAMI(Praveen)
TEWARI (Pradeep)
THOMAS (K.M.)
VANAIK (Achin)
178
9,146
109
122,127
133
88
161
141
105
27
129
82
156
113
192
29, 93
63
134
168
39
50,55,62,194
185
179
171
94
91
47
131
153
VASFI (Ausaf Saied) - 98,102
VAJPAYEE (A.B.) - 90
VENKATESAN(V) - 38,41,42,44,60
VIR(Sanghvi) - 85
VYASULU (Vinod) - 10
TITLE INDEX
NAME OF TITLE ENTRY NO.
Abkibaari Atal Ki Baari 162
AfterKargil 182
After Lahore Declaration 119
After me the deluge says Vajapyee 109
Agni Pariksha 128
And quiet flows the Cauvery 44
Atmosphere of Ennui looms large 175
Authority on test 38
Averager and Admiral 85
Ayodhya Bomb 173
Ayodhya, Once more 200
B Bardhan appeals secular parties to unite to deaft BJP. 91
Bangladesh for enhancement of bilateral relations 19
Being from Kashmir 178
Beyond : From transparency to arms control 120
Bhagwat primer 83
Blast Em All 129
Blending swadesh with reforms 174
BJP and the bomb 159
BJP and its ideology on the road to oblivion 103
BJP and Transformation of opposition politics in West Bangal 7
BJP Beats about the bush 189
BJP double-talk, double-deal, under sherperfocus 102
155
BJP's First budget 10
BJP fully in politicising security, foreign policy 95
BJP Looking for new supporters 66
BJP's Misrule double speak speaks 195
BJP on Swadeshi 192
BJP's Performance your being watched 57
BJP's projects 92
BJP regimes wo not build Ram Mandir 4
BJP's Self deception 62
BJP's Some soult on Bhandari beat all norms 65
BJP and stability 61
BJP stammers at an agenda for governance 50
Bomb and the economy 172
Bread, not bomb 147
Break down 76
Break down 35
Breakthrough in Cauvery Row 11
Budget 1998-99
Budget to nuke reforms process 144
Bungel in Kargil 94
Bus brings back the spirit o f '71 ' 18
Bus to Bangladesh 15
Bus diplomacy 107
Bus journey of Pakistan 22
Bus to Pakistan 23
c Calming the water 46
Cauvery card 39
156
Cauvery conundrum
Cauvery : Deal on, not quite
Cauvery
Cauvery : Rain save the day for Vajpayee
Cauvery water dispute
Cauvery wate tussle
Coalition on hold
Colombo diary
Contradiction at the centre
Controdictions of swadeshi
Core issue
Crisis in Kargil
Crossing Rubicon
100 Days of BJP led government
D Dead lock
Death of Lahore declaration
Declaration and after
Delhi, Dhaka get on board
Delhi-Lahore bus service from March 16
Dhaka-Calcutta bus trial run on April 6
Dhak repices a bus reaches city
Did not miss the bus
E Economic effect of the BJP
End of imagination
Enemies in need could bring peace
Equanting Technological progress with nuclear bombs
41
31
37
45
36
185
63
78
54
193
75
110
131
53
79
116
118
20
25
14
13
30
89
141
26
157
157
Euphoria and reality
Expansion slots
F Fight the price rise to save your family
Friendly bus streers towards peace
Friendship betrayed
Foreign hand
From balancing act the bus
From crisis to crisis
From nuclear adventurism to appeasement
Fruld situation
Future fire
Future for some lession for others
G Glimpse of Hindutva at the centre
Going full Blast
Great Onion disaster
H Hawkish India
Hindu bomb
Hindutva card never pad off to BJP
Hindutva and 'month-eaten' governance
Hindutva takeover of ICHR
Hindutva weapons
Hope in spring
How we loved the bomb and later rued it 1 1
India's Nuclear tests : Loss of Moral Stature and coverage
150
93
167
28
111
84
1
127
127
43
154
164
98
136
161
149
146
3
100
99
130
27
139
132
India as sixth nuclear weapons state 134
Indo-Bangia ties strengthened 17
India conducts 3 nuclear tests 133
India conducts nuclear test 145
India is not the BJP 96
Indian navy in murky waters 80
Indian as nuclear power 125
India's nuclear tests 126
India, Pak to exchange civilian prisoners today 48
Indo-Pak nuclear confrontation, US inspired 153
India, Pak sign MOU 6
Indo-Pak talks charade tirme for give and take 74
K Kargil Adds to BJP's woes 113
Kargilization of Indo-Pak relations 177
Kashmir: Source of conflict, Dimensions of peace 179
Kicking up a row 52
L Lackbehind the apology 184
Lock of experience, ideas hounds BJP 67
Lahore and beyond 115
Lahore declaration and nuclear issues 135
Last hurdle in setting cauvery raw removed 32
Loot of the exchequer with PM's convenience 194
M Mahakali impase and Indo-Nepal water conflict 197
Major break through in cauvery water issue 34
Malady in U.P.
Man who never close in mouth 141
159
Manipulative politics onctinues 49
Mission accomplished 165
N Nailing of a minister 86
National interest 158
Navy, nation and National Security 88
Need for rejuvenating the economy 90
New twist to Bhagwat issue 81
New twist in coalition politics 59
Not by opportunism 100
No thank your for the PM 56
Nuclear explosions and after 152
Nuclear fallout 156
Nuclear gamble 137
Nuclear imperium and its vassal kings 123
Nuclear racism 143
Nuclear shock waves 148
Nuclear statis to quill militancy 171
Nuclear weaponisation 138
o Old Friends calling 180
One year after Pokhran 151
Onion price increase 1,000 percent 168
"Our" separation with "them" 72
P Peace pledge 114
Peace ride 24
Perils of nuclear adventurism 122
Persisting worries 60
160
Police reform in India 163
Politics of BJP's nuclear weapons strategy 160
Political budget 9
Post-Pokhran policy for Kashmir 166
PM's Double-speak on the temple issue 55
PM's Historic visit to Pakistan 106
PM Sick, but government is sicker 51
Punished 8
R Recipe for revival 191
Regional cooperation 68
Ride to Dhaka 16
Rising prices 169
Roleof the monitoring committee 42
s Sacking saga 82
Secular in Srinagar, Communal in Ayodhya 187
Seeking a paradigm shift 124
Silence of the sacrificial lamb 198
Sino-lndian Relations since Pokhran II 183
Similing Dharmaraj 142
Stability plank 188
State of Indo-Pak ties 176
Sustain the success 29
Swadeshi route to liberalisation 121
T Telecom 69
Thaw 73
TN approve draft 33
161
Totter Totter Creak Creak 2
Toward peace 155
Trading charges 87
Trade weels 12
Trick or treat 47
Troubled waters 40
Trustthy neigiibours 181
Two prime ministers give friendship a chance 77
u Unresolved issues 186
V Vajpayee and RSS strategy 190
Vajpayee's bus lomacy 21
Vajpayee's bus ride 117
Vajpayee for governance, not politics 104
Vajpayee in Lahore on historical visit 101
Vajpayee : Means to end 70
Vajpayee on cloud nine 196
Vajpayee pushes his "Foul" thesis 5
Vajpayee takes part in a community meal 170
w Who are the infiltrators 112
Will the bus move on 105
With in a month BJP bares itself 58
Wobbly winner 64
Wooing Muslims 200
162
SUBJECTS INDEX
NAME OF SUBJECTS
A BJP, GOVERNMENT, ACHIEVEMENTS
.._.^ _..._...._ INDEPENDENCE
— , — , AGENDA, DEMOLITION, BABRI MASJID
—._ __________ RAM MANDIR
_—______ —_ WOOING MUSLIMS
— , — , AGREEMENT, INDO-PAK
— , -—, ALLIANCE, REGIONAL
— , — - , ASSEMBLE ELECTION
B — , —-, BUDGET
— , —-, BUDGET, PUBLICSECTOR
—-, —-, BUS SERVICE, CALCUTTA-DHAKE
—._...._ ...._ DELHI-LAHORE
c — , —-, CAUVERY SETTLEMENTS, TAMIL
NADU-KARNATAKA
— , — , CIVILIAN-PRISONERS
__________ COALITION
_____ _-.._ _____ AGENDA
-___—._...__ AGREEMENT
—-, -—, -—, COMMUNALISM
—______ _____ CONTRADICTION
ENTRY NO
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9,10
11
12-20
21-30
31-47
48
48
50,51
52
53
54
163
CRISIS
—-, DISAGREE, MANDIR-MASJID ISSUE 55
—-, ECONOMY, KICKSTART 56
—-, PERFORMANCE 57
—-, POLITICS 58,59
—-, PROBLEMS 60
—_ — , STABILITY PLANK 61
-—, SELF DECEPTION 62
—-, SURVIVAL 63, 64
— , SUSTAINED 65
—-, COMPROMISE 66
—-, CONCENCES ISSUES 67
— , COOPERATION; INDO-SINO, MEETING, FICCI 68
TELECOM 69
CORRUPTION CHARGES 70-71
D DEMOLITION BABRIMASJID 72
DIALOGUE, INDO-PAK 73-74
-—,-—, AGREEMENT 75
—-, —-, COLUMBO 76
—-, PM, INDO-PAK 77
—-, PM, VAJPAYEE-SHARIF 78
—-, — , VAJPAYEE (AB)-SHARIF (NAWAZ) 79
DISMISSAL, BHAGWAT (VISHNU 80-86
—-, — , CORRUPTION CHARGES 87
—-,-—, NATIONAL SECURITY 88
— , - — , ECONOMIC RISiS
— , — , ECONOMIC GROWTH, INVESTMENT
89
90
164
—_ — , ELECTION PLANK
— , — , EXPLANTATION, CABINET
F — , — , FAILURE, KARGIL ISSUE
— , — , FOREIGN POLICY, SECURITY
H — , — , HINDU-MUSLIM RIOTS
— , — , HINDUTVA, AGENDA
— , — , HINDUTVA. GLIMPSE
—_ — , —_ ICHR
— , — , HINDUTVA, POLITICS
— , — , HISTORICAL BUS JOURNEY, DELHI-LAHORE
— , — , HYPOCRISY, PHYLOSOPHY STREGIES 1 1
— , — , IDEOLOGY, HINDUTVA
— , — , INDO-PAK RELATION, BUS SERVICE,
DELHI-LAHORE
—-, -—,-—, —-, -—, MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
— , — , INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY
—-, — INTRUDERS, KARGIL
K — , — KARGIL ISSUE
— , — , — , INFILTRATORS
— , — , - — , STRATEGIES
L BJP, GOVERNMENT, LAHORE DECLARATION
—._ —_...__ INDO-PAK, AGREEMENT
-—, — , — , — , MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
91,92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103, 104
105, 106
107
108
109
110, 111
112
113
114-117
118
119
165
—_ —_—._ RESTRAINT
— , — , LIBERALISATION, IMPORT
N — , — , NUCLEAR POLICY, AFFECTED
—_ —,_—_ CTBT
— , — , - — , INDIA
— , — , NUCLEAR POWER, IRONY, INDIA
— , — , NUCLEAR PROGRAMME. CONSEQUENCES,
ECONOMIC, POLITICAL
—_ — , NUCLEAR TESTS, AFTER EFFECTS
—-, — , — - , AGNI
—^ —,—-_ CODEMNATION
—^ — , — _ CONSENSUS, HINDUTVA
—^ —______ CRUCIAL PHASE
....^ —___._^ DISTRESS
_____ _.__,___._ FISSION DEVICE
_____.._.___.__ iNPT, CTBT JAPAN
...__ _._-_...__ LAHORE DECLARATION
_____ ...__.-_._ NEXT STEP, MISSILE, SURYA
...._ _.-._...._ NUCLEAR WEAPON STATE, INDIA
_____ —______ PEACE, THREAT, SOUTH ASIA
—_ —______ POKHRAN
—_ —_—_ —_ BUDGET
—_ __________ _____ FISSION DEVICE
— , — , - — , —-, HYSTERIA, CONSENSUS, POLITICAL
_____ _„____.__ _____ POLITICAL PLAY
_____ __________ _____ STATUS INDIA
—_ —___________ THREAT DEMOCRACY
120
121
122
123
124
125
26
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139-142
143-144
145
146
147
148
149
166
— —_—_ PRESSURE, WASHINGTON 150
—^ — _ — , SHAKTI-1998 151, 152
BJP, GOVT. NUCLEAR TESTS, STRATEGY, SECURITY 153
—^ — , — , TEST BAN TREATY 154
—_ —_—_ THREATENED, WORLD PEACE 155
—_ — _ „ . . , WORLD PEACE 156
— , — , NUCLEAR WEAPONS, INTERNATIONAL POWER 157
...__ —_—_ POWER 158, 159
— , — , NUCLEAR WEAPONS, TESTS, VIOLATION,
INTERNATIONAL LAW 160
o — , — . O N I O N CRISIS 161
P — , — , PERFORMANCE 162
— , — , POLICE REFORM INDIA 163
— , — , POLITICAL UNCERTAINITY 164
— , —-, POLITICAL SCENARIO 165
— , — , POST-POKHRAN POLICY, KASHMIR,
DEBATE, GROUPS, ETHNICS AND RELIGIOUS 166
-—,-—, PRICE HICKES 167
—_ — „.._ ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES 168
—-, — , PRICE RISE 169
— , — , PROGRAMME, HOUSING, VASUNDHARA YOJANA, UP 170
— , — , — , NUCLEAR, THREAT ALTER, MILITANCY
INTERNAL SECURITY 171
—-, — , — , NUCLEAR WEAPON, ECONOMY 172
R — , — , RAMTEMPLE, CONSTRUCTION 173
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— , — , REFORMS, BLENDING, SWADESHI
— , — , REGIONAL PARTIES
— . — , RELATION, INDO-PAK, FRIENDLY
—_ —_ _____ —_ KARGIL ISSUE
_____ __________ _____ KASHMIR ISSUE
— , — , RELATION, INDO-RUSSIA, STRENGTHENED
—_ —_ _____ SINO-INDIA
— , —-, REMOVAL, BHANDARI
— , — . RIVER WATER ISSUE
s — , — , SECULAR POLICY, HINDUTVA
_____—.STABILITY PLANK
— , — , STEP DOWN, MANDIR, AGENDA
— , — , STRATEGY
__________ STRATEGIES, REVIVAL
— , — , SWADESHI, COMMITMENTS
__________ _____ CONTRODICTIONS
T -—,-—, TELECOM POLICY
—-,-—, TEMPLE ISSUE
— , —-, TEST BAN TREATY
— . — , TREATY MAHAKALI, INDO-NEPAL
w — , — , WAR DECISION PM
— , — , WOOING MUSLIMS
Y — , — , YATRA, VHP-BAJRANGDAL, CHICKMANLUR
174
175
176
177
178,179
180
181-82
184
185, 186
187
188
189
190
91
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
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LIST OF PERIODICALS
NAME OF PERIODICALS FREQUENCY PLACE
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8.
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11.
12.
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14.
15.
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Alive
Blitz
Competition Master
Economic and Political Weekly
Frontline
Hindu
Hindustan Times
Indian Express
Indian Today
Main Steam
National Herald
Nation and the World
New Age
New Wave
Out Look
Pioneer
Politics India
Radiance
Sunday
The Week
Times of India
Yojana
Monthly
Weekly
Monthly
Weekly
Fornightly
Daily
Daily
Daily
Weekly
Weekly
Daily
Fornightly
Weekly
Weekly
Weekly
Daily
Monthly
Weekly
Weekly
Weekly
Daily
Monthly
Delhi
New Delhi
Chandigarh
Bombay
Madras
Madras
New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delh
New Delhi
New Delhi
Calcutta
New Delhi
New Delhi
Delhi
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