Indian Polls: USA accused of double standards on Kashmir issue
In view of the striking similarities of the freedom struggle of East Timorese people with that of the Kashmiris, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has rightly demanded that the wishes of the Kashmiri people should also be ascertained through fair, free, and impartial plebiscite under the UN auspices to seek judicious resolution of the Indo-Pak dispute over the future of Jammu and Kashmir state. There is obviously no reason for the world body to deprive the Kashmiri people of their right to...
Indian Polls: Bangladesh editorial welcomes victory of "secular forces" in India
In the general election of India, the largest democracy of the world, the ruling Hindu nationalist alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP] suffered a humiliating defeat. The National Democratic Alliance [NDA] government of India, headed by Atal Behari Vajpayee, has been voted out of power. Belying all speculations and predictions, the Indian National Congress [INC] of Sonia Gandhi was victorious.The Congress [party] proved the exit polls, media projections, observations of poll...
Indian Polls: The Statesman (India):
Villagers to oppose border fencing: Guha
KRISHNAGAR, Feb. 20. — Forward Bloc leader and state agriculture minister Mr Kamal Guha today said at least 15,000 people from the four “adverse possessions” in Berubari gram panchayat area along the India-Bangladesh border in Jalpaiguri will hit the road tonight and reach Jalpaiguri town tomorrow morning on foot. They are protesting against the decision to construct barbed fences along the border road by excluding the four adverse possessions, including...
ANALYSIS: Local, development issues were key to success in Indian polls
New Delhi (dpa) - It was a day of surprises and setbacks in Indian politics as a 79-year-old prime minister lost the confidence of a billion people and a 119-year-old party made a dramatic comeback to power.Over the next weeks and months outgoing Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will try and understand what went so terribly wrong in its calculations.The party that once confidently claimed it would win 300 of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha, or...