Cry O my beloved India!

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Read these two articles to get some insight on why the BJP lost the recent

Indian elections...

 

http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/jun/08arvind.htm

 

and

 

http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/jun/09arvind.htm

 

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By the way, the BJP government that just lost power - and it WAS NOT voted

out of power... the Congress got just a few seats more than the BJP, but has

formed a government with the help of a large blocks of Communists who swept

the parlimentary polls in both West Bengal and Kerala, did more in their 6

years for ISKCON and more to set the record straight about Indian history

and culture than 50 years of Congress run governments.

 

The outgoing Prime Minister personally put in a word for a land in Moscow

with Russian President Putin, and without that request, ISKCON would have

been very hard pressed to obtain that land.

 

Similarly PM Vajpayee put in a word for some work for ISKCON in Hungary,

details of which I'm now fully aware of.

 

Those who are against the BJP - as in both the letter from Tripurari Das

(who is he?) and in the article by the ex Member of Parliament from the

Congress party posted here by Trivikram Maharaj, are usually not friends of

Krishna Consciousness either!

 

It's also probably worth mentioning that the BJP government in Madhya

Pradesh spent a tremenous amount of funds on the just concluded Kumbha Mela

at Ujjain and publicised the function far more than any Congress or

"secularist" government would have done...

 

To answer the question, "who is Francois Gautier?" by Hari Sauri Prabhu, he

is a French journalist, who is married to an Indian, and is connected

looesly with the Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry, which is quite well known

if France, as Sri Aravind Ghosh ("Aravind", as in "vande guroh shri

charanaravindam" is "Aurobindo" as Bengali's pronounce it) had a French

woman disciple who became his successor (dosen't speak much for him...) and

was well known at the "Mother" of the ashram!

 

Apparently Gautier lives in India, but I'm not sure if he lives in New Delhi

or Pondicherry.

 

For more bio-details you can do a "google search" on the internet. He

regularly writes a column on www.rediff.com