Blood and soil
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1220618,00.html
India's Hindu right always play the race card
Mike Marqusee
Thursday May 20, 2004
The Guardian
India's general election saw the first major reversal in 20 years for
the Bharatiya Janata party and the forces of the Hindu right. But no
sooner had the advocates of "Hindu rashtra" lost at the polls than
they launched a strident campaign to alter the result. They declared
that they would not accept the foreign-born Sonia Gandhi, heir to the
Nehru-Gandhi legacy and leader of the victorious Congress party, as
prime minister. On Tuesday, following days of personal attacks by BJP
leaders, she withdrew, handing the prime ministership to her Congress
ally, Manmohan Singh.
The BJP spent years making an issue of Gandhi's foreign origins. It
was an unrelenting motif in their campaign for re-election. But, as an
editorial in the Hindu observed, "in no democracy are losers in an
election entitled to overrule the umpire on who won and who lost".
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