The Indian party system under transformation: Lok Sabha elections 1998

Asian Survey

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 836-851

  Sudha, Pai ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL SYSTEM;

INDIA;

EID: 0032436865     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.1998.38.9.01p0384b     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Sudha Pai, "Transformation of the Indian Party System: Lok Sabha Elections 1996," Asian Survey 36:12 (December 1996), pp. 1170-83.
2. All electoral results mentioned in this section are taken from Election Commission of India, Statistical Report on General Elections 1998 to the Twelfth Lok Sabha: Based on Provisional Data for 539 Parliamentary Constituencies, vol. 1 (New Delhi: Election Commission of India, 1998).
3. Political resolution adopted at the plenary session of the Congress Party, Calcutta, August 1997. Hindu (New Delhi), August 11, 1997.
4. Five of the sadhu sants were from Uttar Pradesh and two from Madhya Pradesh. Virginia van Dyke, "Political Sadhus and Limits to Religious Mobilization," Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) (December 6, 1997), pp. 3149-58.
5. Ibid.
6. Subrata K. Misra, "Transformation of the Party System, Social Change, and Civil Society in India" (paper presented at the meeting of the International Political Science Association Conference, Seoul, Korea, August 1997).
7. Virginia van Dyke, "Political Sadhus."
8. Originally used during the Freedom movement, swadeshi meant political and economic freedom from British colonialism. In the context of globalization today it means "self-reliance," particularly protection of domestic producers' interests, often in the form of import barriers.
9. Sudha Pai, "New Political Trends in Uttar Pradesh: The BJP and the Lok Sabha Elections 1998," EPW (July 11-17, 1998), pp. 1841-45.
10. "Choice Between BJP and Instability," Hindu, January 23, 1998.
11. "Advani Promises 'New' Softer BJP," Indian Express (New Delhi), April 12, 1997.
12. K. K. Katyal, "Sonia Factor Varied from State to State," Hindu, February 11, 1998.
13. Sudha Pai, "Dalit Assertion in Uttar Pradesh: Implications for Politics," EPW (September 13, 1997), pp. 2313-14. See also Sudha Pai and Jagpal Singh, "Politicisation of Dalits and Most Backward Castes: Social Conflict and Political Preferences in Four Villages of Meerut District," EPW (June 7, 1997), pp. 1356-61.
14. Sudha Pai, "Dalit Assertion in Uttar Pradesh: Implications for Politics," EPW (September 13, 1997), pp. 2313-14. See also Sudha Pai and Jagpal Singh, "Politicisation of Dalits and Most Backward Castes: Social Conflict and Political Preferences in Four Villages of Meerut District," EPW (June 7, 1997), pp. 1356-61.
15. All electoral results mentioned in this section are from Statistical Report on General Elections, 1998.
16. Hindu, February 11, 1998.
17. "Threat to Saffron Brigade in Mumbai?" Hindu, February 5, 1998.
18. Jayalalitha, leader of the AIADMK, has claimed that the BJP leadership had promised dissolution of the DMK government while forming the coalition (Times of India [New Delhi], June 20, 1998). This demand has been renewed following the government's attempts to impose President's Rule in Bihar. These attempts have led to a series of conflicts with the BJP's alliance in Bihar, the Samata Party. Since joining the alliance, Samata Party leaders have been torn between working to retain Bihar's current boundaries, contrary to the BJP's manifest support for carving a Vananchal state out of southern Bihar, and working with the BJP to wrest control of the current Bihar state government from Laloo Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal.
19. The finance minister agreed to reduction of price of both commodities within 24 hours of the demands being made in Parliament during the budget session.
20. The statements were made in an interview conducted after the elections. Indian Express, March 12, 1998.
21. Times of India, June 15, 1998.