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Turn votes into political clout
After a series of successful elections the 1998 results have come as something of an anticlimax for the BSP. Its modest group of MPs in the Lok Sabha has been cut from 11 to 5. All of the seats in Punjab and Madhya Pradesh were lost. In Uttar Pradesh the BSP suffered a net loss of 2 seats. The only consolation was the election of the first BSP MP from Haryana.
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Advani and Vajpayee repeat history
Though comparison is odious, there are many similarities between the Nehru-Patel team and the Vajpayee-Advani duo. The most obvious one is that poet and Prime Minister Vajpayee, like writer and Prime Minister Nehru, has decided to retain the External Affairs portfolio. This is not just a coincidence, but also a matter of inclination.
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Battlelines in Babudom
Equidistance begets distance, or so Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu is discovering with every passing day. His recent signal to the BJP that he is prepared to play ball, led to his high profile industries minister, Basheeruddin Babu Khan, deciding to pack his bags, followed two days later by former TDP Rajya Sabha MP Kaleelur Rehman.
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Hopefully, Good Friday
The hard-won settlement reached on Northern Ireland is a historic breakthrough which gives peace a real chance after three decades of violence and mayhem. It provides for trust in place of hate and for hope instead of despair. It gives both sides of what has for so long appeared as an unbridgeable divide the chance to look with optimism towards the future.
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The engines of growth
Early last week, something funny happened to search engines. Two funny things, actually. First, the NEC Research Institute in New Jersey, USA, announced that these services, which users the world over depend upon for getting at the information they need, have no idea what is happening in two-thirds of the World Wide Web. Within the same week, the search engines Lycos, Excite and Infoseek increased their market capitalisation by 15%.
Problems and promises
The National Agenda of the new BJP-led ruling combine has in two simple, uncomplicated lines Stated that "it is committed to the formation of Uttaranchal, Vananchal and Chattisgarh State". Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has subsequently announced that his government would not go into the niceties of commissions etc. and will start the process of formation of these States "very soon".
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