from the "anyone but bush again" dept, a victory of sorts: the right-wing fundamentalist (and dare i say, murderous) BJP suffers an election defeat:
India's ruling party concedes defeat http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/story/0,12559,1215700,00.html India's ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) today conceded defeat in parliamentary elections, according to the party's president, Venkaiah Naidu, in one of the biggest upsets in Indian politics since independence. Tired of Tech, Hungry Farmers Vote for Change http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=655&e=1&u=/oneworld/20040513/wl_oneworld/4591859741084447887 Agriculture experts stress that the defeat of India's techno-czar at the hustings is a warning to politicians to heed the interests of rural India, where several thousand debt riddled farmers committed suicide in the last few years. LDF makes clean sweep of kerala: http://in.rediff.com/election/2004/may/13ker1.htm The CPI-M led opposition Left Democratic Front in Kerala made a clean sweep of 18 of the 20 Lok Sabha seats in the state. guardian india election special report: http://www.guardian.co.uk/india/0,12559,821007,00.html rediff.com election 04 links and data: http://specials.rediff.com/election/poll04.htm --ravi
