<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4e3c620f-f357-4598-b912-a80529c67c18/74ABD2E9-23AA-4D4E-9468-5CE3BACA5154/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/world/asia/07india.html?ref=asia#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/world/asia/07india.html?ref=asia#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/world/asia/07india.html?ref=asia#"><P>But in the past, long periods of virtually unchallenged Congress rule have not been particularly kind to India. It is no coincidence, analysts say, that India’s rise as a global economic powerhouse really took off as the B.J.P. became a viable national alternative to Congress. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/world/asia/07india.html?ref=asia#"><P>In a speech to the party faithful after the electoral defeat, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate for prime minister, the octogenarian <A title="Web site." href="http://lkadvani.in/eng/" mlb_binding_key="63">L.K. Advani<SPAN mlb_idspanflag="true" idspanfor="LINK" mlb_binding_key="63">63</SPAN></A>, was almost valedictory, saying that his party, whatever its failures, had broken the Congress’s lock on national power. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/world/asia/07india.html?ref=asia#"><P>“In the last two decades the B.J.P. has succeeded in transforming this single dominant party polity into a bipolar polity,” he said. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/world/asia/07india.html?ref=asia#"><P>“We focused on negatives when the people wanted a positive, superior agenda for governance and development,” he said. “People want India to grow steadily on this path, with no disturbances and no turmoil.” </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/74ABD2E9-23AA-4D4E-9468-5CE3BACA5154/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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