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• Saturday, November 29, 2008 02:29 PM

  Newsweek - - to combat terrorism, India turns towards - - terrorists

  http://www.newsweek.com/id/171237

  Right Tilt
  The Mumbai attacks have given India's Hindu right-wing opposition a boost ahead of upcoming elections.
  By Jayshree Bajoria | Nov 29, 2008

  The recent violence is a boon to the right-wing Hindu dominated Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) [...]

  Even as the security forces battled the terrorists holed in Mumbai, the BJP had begun to use the opportunity to point to a weak government "soft" on terrorism. Frontpage newspaper adverts in Delhi on Friday, the day before the city goes to the polls, said the incident shows that the ruling Congress-led government is "unwilling and incapable" of dealing with terrorism. [...]

  The BJP's candidate for prime minister, Lal Krishna Advani, was responsible for leading the Hindu activists that tore down the 16th century Babri Mosque in 1992, resulting in Hindu-Muslim riots across the country. [...]

  The Mumbai attacks might also divert attention away from the recent reports of possible links between BJP-associated Hindu nationalist organizations such as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and suspected Hindu terrorists—a first for a mainstream Indian party. The BJP has denounced a probe into these links [...]

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