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	Janata Dal (United) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Janata Dal (United) is a political party in India with political presence mainly in Bihar and Karnataka.
		The current party was formed by the merger of the erstwhile Janata Dal (United) with the Samata Party on October 30, 2003.
		Janata Dal (United) is a constituent of the National Democratic Alliance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Janata_Dal_(United) (205 words)

	Janata Dal (Secular) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Janata Dal (Secular) is a left of centre Indian political party.
		H.D. Deve Gowda is still the leader of the party and is a JD(S) MP for the Hassan district in Karnataka, India.
		His party is the third-largest in the Karnataka state legislature and governs in a coalition with the Indian National Congress party, the first coalition government in Karnataka.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Janata_Dal_(Secular) (334 words)

	Politics of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Like the United States, India has a federal form of government, however, the central government in India has greater power in relation to its states, and its central government is patterned after the British parliamentary system.
		This rule was interrupted between 1977 to 1980, when the Janata Party coalition won the election owing to public discontent with the controversial state of emergency declared by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
		The Janata Dal won elections in 1989, but its government managed to hold on to power for only two years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_India (1417 words)

	long_longman_comppol_1\|Country Profiles\|India\|Introduction
		The Janata Dal, a union of opposition parties, was able to form a government with the help of the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the right and the communists on the left.
		With all political parties wishing to avoid another round of elections, a 14-party coalition led by the Janata Dal emerged to form a government known as the United Front, under the former Chief Minister of Karnataka, H.D. Deve Gowda.
		The Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as the single-largest party in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) elections in September 1999.
	wps.ablongman.com /long_longman_comppol_1/0,4965,297257-,00.html (4590 words)

	Janata Dal (United) Party, India
		Janata Dal (United), with 7 members of the Lok Sabha, is an ally of the BJP.
		At http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050118/elec3.jpg one finds a version of the Janata Dal (United) flag, a horizontally divided green-white green flag with the party symbol of the arrow and some writing above it on the white field.
		Presumably the writing is the party name, but so blurred in the photo I am not completely certain what alphabet, but would hazard a guess as Latin as it seems to be ending in a letter U shape.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/in}janp.html (151 words)

	India (12/05)
		With all political parties wishing to avoid another round of elections, a 14-party coalition led by the Janata Dal formed a government known as the United Front, under the former Chief Minister of Karnataka, H.D. Deve Gowda.
		Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee serves as Chairman of the BJP Parliamentary Party, and former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani is Leader of the Opposition.
		The party must balance the competing interests of Hindu nationalists, (who advocate construction of a temple on a disputed site in Ayodhya, and other primarily religious issues), and center-right modernizers who see the BJP as a party of economic and political reform.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3454.htm (6634 words)

	India POLITICAL PARTIES
		It became the ruling party of a free India by reason of its national popularity and because most leaders of the independence movement were among its members, including Indian first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
		Prime Minister Gandhi's declaration of a state of emergency in 1975, followed by the arrest of thousands of her political foes, led several opposition parties of otherwise divergent viewpoints to form the Janata (People's) coalition, which, campaigning against her "dictatorship," scored a major election victory in March 1977.
		The BJP emerged as the largest party with 182 seats in the 545-seat Lok Sabha, followed by Congress/I with 142 seats.A. Vajpayee, parliamentary leader of the BJP, was appointed prime minister and asked to form a coalition government.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Asia-and-Oceania/India-POLITICAL-PARTIES.html (1460 words)

	South Asian Media Net
		The National Front coalition that was formed consisted of the Janata Dal and a few smaller parties in the government, and had outside support from the BJP and the Communists.
		The NCP advertises itself a progressive, secular party that stands for "democracy, Gandhian secularism, equity, social justice, and federalism." It positions itself as a moderate, left-leaning alternative to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress.
		Akali Dal (Party of Akal - The elderly clique of
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/india/india_politicalparties.cfm (2451 words)

	Know your party: Janata Dal (United)
		Two of the constituents -- the Samata Party and the Janata Dal (United) -- that decided to join hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party merged into a single unit on October 30, 2003.
		He had welcomed Samata Party rebels like Raghunath Jha and Brahmanand Mandal into his Rashtriya Janata Dal, which is also a part of the extended Janata Parivar.
		Supporters of the Janata Party, which formed the first non-Congress government at the Centre in 1977, are still nostalgic about the Parivar but also realise its shortcomings.
	www.rediff.com /election/2004/apr/29espec1.htm (609 words)

	Background Notes: India
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		The party also must balance the competing interests of members such as Hindu nationalists, who are advocating construction of a temple on a disputed site in Ayodhya, and those who see the BJP as the party of economic and political reform.
		Delivering a blow to the Congress Party’s standing as severe as it was unexpected, elections in five states in November 2003 reduced the number of Congress ruled states from 14.5 to 11.5 — the Congress shares power with the People’s Democratic Party in the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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		Natwar Singh, who resigned as foreign minister over the scandal but remained minister without portfolio, and the Congress party which heads the coalition government were named as beneficiaries in a UN report on the oil-for-food scandal.
		The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has said it wants a special parliamentary debate on the oil-for-food issue and Natwar Singh to be dropped from the cabinet.
		The BJP has sharpened its attack after being emboldened by the massive defeat in Bihar state this week suffered by Railways Minister Laloo Yadav Prasad, whose Rashtriya Janata Dal party is the second largest member of the national coalition government.
	www.kuwait-info.com /newsnew/NewsDetails1.asp?id=62793&dt=&ntype=Home (465 words)

	News Headings
		Though there was no official confirmation from the INLD about their proposed stand, sources close to the party confided that as of this evening their plans were not to join the government.
		Party President, Mr Sharad Yadav, Commerce Minister, Mr Ramakrishna Hegde and former Railway Ministers, Mr Nitish Kumar and Mr Ramvilas Paswan are all strong contenders.
		Mr Karunanidhi clarified that his party had not sought the Finance portfolio as reported in a section of the Press and quipped that his party would rather demand finances for the state rather than the Ministry.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99oct13/head1.htm (796 words)

	A 'united' Dal and a divided NDA
		Meanwhile, NDA insiders point out that the tough postures adopted by the reunified Janata Dal and some BJP leaders over the singular issue of wielding greater clout in the alliance is the reason for the suspicions over the new alignment.
		The Janata Dal won 9 per cent of the votes polled and one seat in Bihar, and in Karnataka its voteshare was 21.7 per cent and it won three seats.
		In the first place, the Janata Dal had been degenerating in the last two years and there was no way it could have held on to its support base, he argued.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1617/16170130.htm (1522 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		The Samata Party, apparently peeved over its failure to get the party president’s post, shunned the merger move even as the Lok Shakti went ahead by formalising its merger with the Janata Dal (United) JD (U) and endorsed the continuation of Mr Sharad Yadav as the President of the united party.
		The formal merger of the two parties was endorsed by a show of hands by all the participating delegates.
		Samata Party General Secretary, Ms Jaya Jaitley in an indirect reference to the differences over the leadership of the united party said: “In the absence of a structured united party, it will be wise to fight Assembly elections in four states through mutual seat adjustments on respective party symbols”.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000107/main5.htm (523 words)

	Politics of India
		The Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party) emerged as the single-largest party in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) elections in September 1999.
		This local party won state elections in October, 2002, which upset the long-standing pro-BJP alliance.
		The PDP is allied with the Congress Party (I).
	www.fastload.org /po/Politics_of_India.html (1416 words)

	WORLDLawDirect - India -- background information (11/2004)
		Party President Sonia Gandhi was re-elected by the Party National Executive in May 2004.
		The party holds power in the states of Gujarat, Jharkhand, Goa, Arunachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Orissa—in coalition with the Biju Janata Dal—and in Haryana—in coalition with the Indian National Lok Dal.
		The party must balance the competing interests of Hindu nationalists, (who advocate construction of a temple on a disputed site in Ayodhya), and center-right modernizers who see the BJP as a party of economic and political reform.
	worldlawdirect.com /article/1644/India_--_background_information_(11... (5708 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Indian MPs almost come to blows
		At the centre of the storm was the Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief, Laloo Yadav.
		Prabhunath Singh belongs to the Janata Dal (United) Party - a rival of Mr Yadav's RJD.
		Laloo Yadav apologised on behalf of his party, but he said the offensive language used by the rival party MP was the reason for the scuffle.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/5282522.stm (444 words)

	India - Introduction
		This typically has occurred when opposition parties have captured state legislatures and set in motion policies unfavorable to the prime minister's party.
		Farther south, in Kerala and West Bengal, communist parties have upheld the banner of regionalism by capturing state assemblies and implementing radical socialist programs against the wishes of the central government.
		That majority allowed the Sikh-led Akali Dal (Eternal Party) to capture the state assembly in the early 1980s.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/india/intro.htm (1511 words)

	Times of Oman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Congress party which heads the coalition government were named as beneficiaries in a UN report on the oil-for-food scandal.
		The BJP has sharpened its attack after being emboldened by the massive defeat in Bihar state this week suffered by Railways Minister Lalu Prasad, whose Rashtriya Janata Dal party is the second largest member of the national coalition government.
		The BJP had allied in state assembly elections in Bihar with the regional right-leaning Janata Dal-United party to oust Lalu, who faces charges of stealing millions of dollars in a long-running animal feed scandal.
	www.timesofoman.com /print.asp?newsid=22388 (434 words)

	The Hindu : Paswan-Sharad Yadav rift apparent
		Paswan later said that considering the current situation in the party where things were in a state of drift he did not see much role.
		He suggested that when leaders in the party were out to chart an independent course, the issue of the leader of Parliamentary party was best not taken up at present.
		He was of the opinion that the leader of a Parliamentary party should be a member of the Lok Sabha.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/08/19/stories/02190009.htm (363 words)

	rediff.com: Samata Party, Janata Dal-United to go it alone in Gujarat
		Distancing themselves from the Bharatiya Janata Party, two key National Democratic Alliance allies -- Samata Party and Janata Dal-United -- on Wednesday said they would go it alone in the upcoming Gujarat assembly election.
		JD-U president and Union minister Sharad Yadav said his party had contested the last assembly election in Gujarat all by itself and four of its candidates won.
		Shrivastava said his party would field its candidates mostly in Saurashtra, Kutch, central and south Gujarat.
	www.rediff.com /news/2002/nov/06guj1.htm (222 words)

	Political Notes,Indian Politics, News Analysis, India News Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He is a senior leader of the Janata Dal United party at present.
		J.H. Patel who is a senior leader of the Janata Dal (United) and also the JD (Secular) leader and former Prime Minister Mr.
		This laid to speculation that the Janata Dal (Secular) may be revived and strengthened but at the JD(U) headquarters in New Delhi there was no move of this kind.
	news.indiamart.com /news-analysis/political-notes-8265.html (651 words)

	Maldives Royal Family Official Website: Majid's Pages- Communal Organisation
		In 2000 the political party system was outlawed when a group of people applied to form a political party.
		The official Maldive government line is that a "party" is an occasion where food and tea are served and has little to do with governance.
		The basic communal unit is the household presided over by a senior woman.
	www.maldivesroyalfamily.com /minicoy_community.shtml (922 words)

	NationMaster - World Statistics, Country Comparisons
		The United Kingdom is leading the mission in Helmand, and plans to increase NATO's International Security Assistance Force from 9,000 to 21,000 by November this year.
		Trade with the United States is highlighted here, with well over 200 of the latest statistics available.
		The disaster could be the costliest in history as well, with "many billions of dollars" of damage, said UN undersecretary Jan Egeland, who is in charge of emergency relief co-ordination.
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	Minicoy Pages- Shri Pallichapura Pookunhikoya, M.P.
		Dr Pookunhikoya defied the union-wide swing in the 2004 general elections that saw the Congress swept back into power in a surprise electoral win, ousting the Indian nationalist Baharatia Janata Party government from office.
		Dr Pookunhikoya's electoral win brought home a salient message to long-standing politicians all over the world who rest on their laurels in the presumption that their right to power is independent of the needs of their constituents.
		This was a hotly contested position, with the congress party fighting tooth and nail with the ruling BJP to get him elected to the post.
	www.maldivesroyalfamily.com /minicoy_pookunhikoya.shtml (1046 words)

	World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Congress party, already under fire over what critics say is its "pro-US" stand on Iran's nuclear programme, was listed in the report as a beneficiary of a separate oil allotment.
		Yadav, accused by critics of presiding over a "jungle raj" of criminals in Bihar, had held an electoral stranglehold on the state for 15 years.
		The victory in impoverished, lawless Bihar by the Janata Dal-BJP alliance was the Hindu nationalist party's first major good news since its surprise ousting in national elections last year.
	www.dailynews.lk /2005/11/26/wld02.htm (440 words)

	DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Law Needed to Get Private Firms to Hire Dalits
		A former diplomat, she is the daughter of the late Jagjivan Ram, an influential dalit politician who held various high-ranking cabinet posts, including that of deputy prime minister, before his death in 1986.
		Kumar, a soft-spoken member of the Congress party that leads the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), has lately been expressing impatience with industry leaders for not acting on their promise of voluntary affirmative action.
		A crucial difference between legislated and voluntary affirmative action is that under the former, the government may seek to establish a regulatory body along the lines of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the United States.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=33823 (1237 words)

	South Asian Media Net
		Amnesty International, in the year 2003 "there were severe restrictions on freedom of the press, and political parties were unable to function." Anti-government riots broke out in the country in
		Abdul Rasheed was born on 16 October 1932, in Malé, in the Maldives, the second of my parents' seven children.
		He left the Maldives to study abroad at the age of 14, and spent his entire working life in Canada and the United States.
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/maldives/mv_leadingpersonalities.cfm (1051 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Politician gunned down in Kashmir
		Police in Indian-administered Kashmir say a Janata Dal United party activist has been killed by suspected separatist militants in Srinagar.
		Police said Mr Bhat was a former militant who became a politician after his release from jail.
		His killing came a day after militants detonated explosives on the house of a worker of the state's ruling Peoples Democratic party in Anantnag district.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/south_asia/3522902.stm (134 words)

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