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	Chandy set to become Kerala opposition leader - India News
		Thiruvananthapuram - Former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy was set to become the leader of opposition in the new assembly after being elected the leader of the Congress legislature party (CLP) Wednesday night.
		The Congress executive meeting, in which Chandy was elected as CLP leader, was attended by former chief minister A.K. Antony, Union Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi, Congress general secretary Veerappa Moily, state Congress president Ramesh Chennithala, senior party leaders and legislators.
		V.S. Achuthanandan, who served as leader of opposition when Chandy was chief minister, is the new chief minister.
	www.indiaenews.com /politics/20060524/9029.htm (328 words)

	India's opposition leader, party reunite \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		NEW DELHI, India – India's main opposition party wooed back disgruntled leader Lal Krishna Advani yesterday, ending a political drama over his resignation after his comments on the founder of Pakistan angered hard-line Hindu allies.
		The statement, however, said Advani had not described Jinnah as secular – the trigger for the controversy – but merely recalled the Pakistani leader's address to the newfound nation in 1947 where he had sought freedom for all faiths.
		Advani, deputy prime minister in the BJP-led coalition that ruled India until last year's general election defeat, had demanded that the party publicly endorse his visit to Pakistan and his comments on Jinnah.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050611/news_1n11india.html (209 words)

	India will not help US in attack on Iraq: PM
		Opposition leaders, including CPI-M's Somnath Chatterjee and RJD's Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, told reporters that a consensus eluded the meeting on the issue of bringing forth in Parliament a unanimous resolution condemning any possible unilateral action by the US against Iraq.
		The meeting was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sonia Gandhi and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Manmohan Singh.
		Why the opposition is unhappy with the government, and what else the congress would do under the circumstances, except that wait and watch the situation...
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/mar/10iraq1.htm (570 words)

	Opposition leader in India submits his resignation \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		NEW DELHI, India – L.K. Advani, a chief architect of the political ascendance of Hindu nationalism in the 1990s and the current opposition leader in the Indian Parliament, submitted his resignation yesterday as head of his party.
		At the time, Advani's family was among the millions of Hindus and Sikhs who migrated east to India during the tumult of partition; Muslims likewise fled west.
		The Bharatiya Janata Party, which led a coalition government for six years, was trounced in national elections last year, when a coalition led by the Congress Party returned to power.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050608/news_1n8india.html (315 words)

	Leader of the Opposition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest party not in government in a Westminster System of parliamentary government.
		The Leader of the Opposition is invariably seen as the alternative Prime Minister to the present incumbent, and heads a rival alternative government known as the Shadow Cabinet or Opposition Front Bench.
		In many Commonwealth Realm monarchies, the full title is Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition (128 words)

	India-U.S. Strategic Partnership: Perceptions, Potential, and Problems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		And if there are aspects that disturb us, India, and if we are strategic partners, then the United States must be able to sit with India and engage in say what it that is troubling you is. Let's jointly try and find an answer.
		Jaswant Singh, leader of the opposition in India's Upper House of Parliament, will discuss India's relationship with the United States.
		India will soon be the world's most populous state, with a nuclear arsenal, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and an emerging strategic relationship with the United States.
	www.brookings.edu /comm/events/20050531.htm (594 words)

	India - News - Lankan Opposition Withdraws Election Lawsuit Against Kumaratunga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		UNP lawyer Tilak Marapone said it was difficult to sustain the case as the Supreme Court had disallowed the party from presenting evidence on two of the three counts cited against Kumaratunga.
		The court ruled that as "no evidence had been adduced of any corrupt or illegal practice" by Kumarartunga or her agents, her election was legitimate and her return as president was not affected by the petition.
		The march, called to protest the rising cost of living, ended in a rally at which Leader of the Opposition Ranil Wickremesinghe vowed to oust Kumaratunga by March.
	www3.estart.com /india/news/domestictroubleskumaratunga.html (464 words)

	Visiting British opposition leader David Cameron urges India to continue economic reforms - Asia - Pacific - ...
		Cameron, the head of the main opposition Conservative Party, was speaking to the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry during a four-day trip to India.
		Cameron said there was a lot of untapped potential trade between Britain and India, noting that in 2004 India received just half a percent of British overseas investment and less them one percent of British exports.
		The visit to India was the third overseas trip for Cameron since he was appointed party leader in December.
	www.iht.com /articles/ap/2006/09/05/asia/AS_GEN_India_Britain.php (268 words)

	Facts about india (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		MODERN HISTORY: India, which traces its civilisation back 5,000 years, won independence from Britain in 1947 in a welter of sectarian bloodshed as the subcontinent was partitioned into predominantly Hindu India and Moslem Pakistan.
		India's 26 states elect their own assemblies, but Delhi has the power to impose central rule, as it did in Punjab in 1987 and in Jammu and Kashmir in 1990 to curb separatist movements.
		However, India's various regional parties are unlikely to gain the BJP enough support to establish the 273 seats necessary for a simple Parliamentary majority.
	www.cs.umsl.edu /~sanjiv/india_info.html (2509 words)

	International Herald Tribune > Asia - Pacific > India party erupts over praise for a Muslim
		NEW DELHI India's main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, faced ideological disarray Tuesday evening after its leader resigned amid growing tension with the hard-line wing of the party.
		Advani has agreed to stay on as the leader of the opposition National Democratic Alliance for the moment.
		The India Today news magazine this week described the party under Advani's leadership as an "ineffective opposition with no agenda or attitude," adding that the party was "ideologically incoherent, biologically tired, organizationally disarrayed," and amounting to "all noise and little action or ideas."
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/06/07/news/india.php (731 words)

	India Resource Center - Indian Groups Rebuke US Statement on Cola Ban in India
		The US ambassador to India at the time, Robert Blackwill, as well as the Assistant Secretary in the US Commerce Department, William Lash, contacted senior Indian government officials to seek the waiver, after it was initially refused.
		The US ambassador to India at the time, Frank Wisner, was a major proponent of the project.
		India Resource Center is making this article available in our efforts to advance the understanding of corporate accountability, human rights, labor rights, social and environmental justice issues.
	www.indiaresource.org /news/2006/2017.html (1051 words)

	CNN - India's prime minister expected to resign after government loses confidence vote - April 17, 1999
		NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was expected to submit his resignation Saturday, after his crisis-plagued government fell, when it lost a vote of confidence in parliament by a single ballot.
		Sharad Pawar, a senior member of the main opposition Congress party, immediately told reporters that his party would try to form a viable alternative government.
		However, it may not be easy for the opposition to garner support for a coalition among the many small and fractious parties in India's parliament.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9904/17/india.01/index.html (607 words)

	JURIST - India
		India court issues last verdicts in 1993 Mumbai bombings case
		India court hands down fifth guilty verdict in 1993 Mumbai bombing trial
		India court delivers first verdicts in 1993 Mumbai bombings trial
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /countries/india.php (475 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation
		India is unsure if the US will extend support to India for a permanent seat in the expanded United Nations Security Council during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s official visit to Washington from July 18 though this country has every right to “put forward its candidature as it has the credentials.”
		CPI Deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Gurudas Dasgupta, in a three-page dissenting note to be appended in the Parliamentary Standing Committee report on Finance, had yesterday demanded withdrawal of the Bill and termed it as a “fraud” on Central and state government employees as well as the unorganised sector workers.
		It is well known that India does not endorse the framework resolution of the US even as the Bush administration concedes there must be expansion of the permanent and non-permanent members of the UNSC coupled with providing greater representation to the developing countries.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050713/nation.htm (5053 words)

	Colorado College \| News Releases
		Singh is one of India’s most respected public figures, having served with distinction in both Houses of Parliament and headed six core ministries of the government of India.
		He led the transformation of India’s foreign policy from 1998 to 2004, and was one of the architects of India’s Nuclear Doctrine, guiding the positioning of India as a responsible nuclear-weapons-possessing state.
		When barely 19, he was commissioned in the Central India Horse of the Indian Army and fought in the conflicts of 1962 and in 1965.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /news_events/releases/Sept06/JaswantSingh.asp (817 words)

	All Headline News - Indian Opposition Leader Dies - December 15, 2006
		New Delhi, India (AHN) - Pramod Mahajan, a senior leader of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, died 10 days after allegedly being shot by his brother.
		Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led the condolences and said it was unfortunate India had lost a young leader with a lot of promise.
		Reports say Mahajan's brother fired three shots at the leader from close range in Mahahan's Mumbai apartment because of a family dispute.
	www.allheadlinenews.com /articles/7003420445 (190 words)

	Terror Tuesday:Impact on South Asia -- Response -- Political Parties India
		Till Osama bin Laden is proved guilty all Muslims are with him The Taliban's courage in the face of an enormous enemy had to be admired....
		What concerns us more are incidents such as the attack on the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly [We are solidly behind government on fighting against terroroism] The best course [for the opposition] is to meet the Prime Minister who is always available and place their concern before him.
		He [Prime Minister Vajpayee] should have spoken of India's concerns about cross-border terrorism in front of the TV cameras in the presence of [British Prime Minister Tony] Blair.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/usa/Political_PartiesIndia.htm (1440 words)

	Indian opposition leader steps down as party president
		New Delhi - The leader of India's main opposition party the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday stepped down from the position of party president.
		Lal Krishna Advani, 78, will however continue to be the leader of the opposition in Parliament.
		Many in India hold Jinnah responsible for the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 that led to bloody riots in which thousands were killed.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /southasia/printer_1072586.php (413 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: India Opposition Leader to Be Retried (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		A court on Thursday charged India's top opposition figure and leaders of his Hindu nationalist party with inciting Hindu mobs to demolish a 16th century mosque in 1992, an attack that sparked bloody nationwide rioting.
		But a court in the northern town of Rae Bareilly on Thursday ruled there was enough evidence to try Advani and leaders of his Bharatiya Janata Party and the World Hindu Council, India's main hardline Hindu nationalist group, said R.K. Saini, a prosecution attorney.
		Advani, who is now India's top opposition leader, was acquitted by a special court in Rae Bareilly in September 2003.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2005/jul/28/072802899.html (362 words)

	India
		In India, we have an all-party consensus on this issue, demonstrated by my speaking to you, as Leader of the Opposition, on behalf of my country.
		In India, we also have a rigorous and scientific methodology to monitor prevalence levels in the general population.
		In India, even at the reduced price announced by some drug manufacturers, the cost of antiretroviral treatment would be a hundred and fifty times more than the per capita expenditure on health care provided by the Government.
	www.un.org /ga/aids/statements/docs/indiaE.html (881 words)

	Indian Parties
		She was born as Princess of Jodhpur and married Maharaja Aditya Dev Chand Katoch of Lambagaron and mother of one son.
		As President of Congress (I) since 1998, she was charged with forming a government in 1998, but failed, after the elecions she became Parliamentary Leader of the whole Parliamentary Party in the Lokh Sabha and Leader of the Opposition.
		She is leader of the movement to restore the rights of the indigenous Adivasi population in Kerala.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /indian_parties.htm (772 words)

	INDIA - ELECTIONS (L ONLY)(CQ)
		Should read: Priyanka Vadra // INTRO: The leader of India's main opposition Congress Party, Italian-born Sonia Gandhi has launched her campaign from the election district of Bellary in southern India, from where she is contesting the upcoming general elections.
		TEXT: Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi told thousands of voters Friday in the small South Indian town of Bellary in Karnataka state, "I have made India my own, I am tied to the Indian soil." Mrs.
		Gandhi defended her commitment to the nation after her chief opponent in the constituency, Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Sushma Swaraj, questioned her credentials as a political leader due to her foreign birth.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/india/1999/990827-india.htm (538 words)

	CNN.com - India's Gandhi slams government for economic 'mess' - November 21, 2000
		NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) -- Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born leader of India's opposition Congress party, charged the coalition government on Tuesday with economic mismanagement and "wanton wastage" of national assets.
		The Congress leader said the government's forecast of 7-8 percent growth in gross domestic product for fiscal 2000/01 (April-March) was too optimistic: growth now looked set to be "even more dismal" than 1999/2000, when it was 6.4 percent.
		She said that halfway through the current financial year industrial production growth was stagnating at about half the 11.0 percent rate targeted in the budget, and agricultural output was unlikely to exceed last year's growth of 1.3 percent.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/south/11/21/india.gandhi.reut (668 words)

	Ranil tours India
		[20th July 2006 -06:00 S.L.T] The leader of the opposition Mr.
		Internal sources of the United National Party said that the UNP leader would enlighten the Indian leaders about the prevailing National Question that has plagued Sri Lanka during his current tour.
		In company with the opposition leader were parliamentarians John Amaratunge and Milinda Moragoda who are touring India.
	www.lankatruth.com /full_story/2006/july/20/20060720_4.htm (82 words)

	Indiantelevision.com > News Room Headlines > Zee News presents Jinnah Vs. Jinnah
		The 45-minute documentary, to be telecast at 8 pm, attempts to find some answers to the controversial historical personality and, in the process, raise some new questions.
		This question recently created trouble for LK Advani, leader of India's biggest Opposition party, the right-win Bharatiya Janata Party, who during a visit to Pakistan tried to put forward a more secular front by dubbing Jinnah a secular person.
		The film has also sourced letters from the archives to indicate that Jinnah and Winston Churchill were in secret correspondence as both were working towards a common cause of not to give the entire nation of India to the Congress.
	www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k5/aug/aug137.htm (431 words)

	USATODAY.com - Indians protest, fear violence will spread (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Soldiers and police were sent to guard prominent religious pilgrimage spots across this country of 1 billion people, which is about 84% Hindu but which also has a sizable Muslim minority and millions of followers of many other religions.
		Advani, leader of the opposition in India's Parliament, said he told President Bush during his visit to India last week that terrorism continued to be a problem in India.
		Varanasi, 450 miles east of Delhi, is Hinduism's holiest city and ordinarily is filled with pilgrims visiting temples and bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges, which runs through the city.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-03-08-india_x.htm (861 words)

	Leader of India's opposition party shot - A Bravenet.com Headline News Service
		Pramod Mahajan, a former federal minister and general secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party, India's opposition party, has been shot in a family dispute.
		His condition is said to be "quite critical," the BBC reported.
		Praveen Mahajan, the victim's brother, was allowed to pass through building security to enter the 15th floor Mumbai apartment, where he allegedly shot the party leader three times.
	pub46.bravenet.com /news/3879406474/64205/1 (224 words)

	Association for Asia Research- Indian Opposition Leader Charged over 1992 Riots
		RAE BARELI, India - Indian opposition leader Lal Krishna Advani was charged in court on Thursday with inciting religious riots that triggered the razing of a mosque in 1992 and left thousands dead.
		Former Deputy Prime Minister Advani, leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, has always denied any wrongdoing in the razing of the 16th century Babri mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya.
		More than 3,000 people were killed in riots that erupted across India after the Babri mosque was razed, and the bitter dispute has become the lightning rod for tension between the country's majority Hindus and minority Muslims.
	www.asianresearch.org /articles/2670.html (290 words)

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