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JanataAlliance of political parties in India formed in 1971 to oppose Indira Gandhi's Congress Party. Victory in the election brought Morarji Desai to power as prime minister but he was unable to control the various groups within the alliance and resigned in 1979. His successors fared little better, and the elections of 1980 overwhelmingly returned Indira Gandhi to office. |
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| Many of the problems facing India's Muslim minority--to whom the doors of progress largely are closed--increased during the 1990s, when the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was in power. Kohli analyzed the role of political parties in producing divergent state policy by communists in West Bengal, the populist Urs government in Karnataka, and the backward-looking peasant-dominated Janata regime in Uttar Pradesh. Leaders of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) reacted with several protests to the Pope's comments on the anti-conversion bill. |
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