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Article: BJP must shed its anti- Muslim agenda to live.
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- Mail Today (New Delhi, India)
- Article date:
- August 26, 2009
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THE COUNTRY NEEDS ASTRONG CENTRE- RIGHTPOLITICAL FORCE, BUTONE WHICH HAS AFORWARD LOOKING AGENDA
THE Bharatiya Janata Party's founding narrative is quite clear and often expounded by Lal Kishen Advani himself.
By the mid- 1970s it had become clear that the Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS) was making little or no impact on Indian politics. The experience of the Emergency, where many of its leaders were incarcerated alongside the socialist followers of Jayprakash Narain, persuaded the Party to become part of the Janata Party that ran the Union government from 1977- 1979.
But the very issue that still dogs the party -- the role of the Rashtriya ...