POLITICS IN INDIA.

From: Contemporary Review | Date: March 1, 2000| Author: Raman, AS | Copyright information

THE number 13 has played a crucial role in the rise and fall of the Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP for short, which rules India today. This right-wing nationalist party, committed self-confessedly to pro-Hindu activist agenda, is in the unenviable position of being one against all other parties, with secular pretensions. Sensibly the BJP has temporarily put its ideology on the shelf to be able to function smoothly as the dominant partner in the 24-ruling-party coalition.

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