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| India-Pakistan |
| Hindu fanatics sweep back to power in Gujarat elections |
| 2002-12-15 |
| Riding a 'Hindutva' wave, the BJP on Sunday swept back to power in Gujarat with a massive two-thirds majority in a win that could have a far-reaching impact on national politics. "Hinduvta" is the Indians' attempt to be just as intolerant and bloodthirsty as their Muslim neighbors... Performing a hatrick, the party won 127 seats in the 182-member Assembly bettering its tally of 117 in the 1998 elections. Congress, which had 57 members in the dissolved house, fared much worse than predicted, getting 50 seats. Of the remaining four, three went to independents and one was bagged by JD-U. Election in one seat was countermanded. It doesn't appear the Gujaratis preferred Congress, preferring Modi's corruption to someone else's... The newly elected BJP MLAs would meet on Monday to elect their leader who in all probability will be the 52-year old chief minister Narendra Modi. The swearing in is likely to take place a couple of days later. Modi won the Maninagar seat, defeating his Congress rival Yatin Oza by a margin of 75,331 votes. In a proper Caliphate that wouldn't have happened, mainly because there wouldn't have been any elections... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |