Ahmedabad, India--December’s watershed elections in Gujarat sent India reeling to the right. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a thumping two-thirds majority in Gujarat’s state assembly, washing out the opposition, the secular Congress Party. Chief Minister Narendra Modi led his party [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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