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...ADVANI: As a BJP man, I'll be happy. But we must have two stable national parties. If Congress shrinks and disappears, it will be a loss for democracy...
...TIME: Yet many say the BJP has matured and mellowed...
...ADVANI: I would not claim that the Muslim community has started supporting the BJP, not yet, but the hostility is no longer there. After six years of BJP rule, they acknowledge that everything they were told about the party being hostile to them and undermining their position in society has not happened...
...ADVANI: Since 1984, Congress has been shrinking and the BJP [has been] rising. And on the foreign origin [of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi], even the opposition is not ready to accept her as Prime Minister. It's not personal vilification. It's an issue...
...While time has left Congress behind, it has blessed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which rules India through a coalition. If the party that once harnessed revolution now symbolizes an old India of family, inefficiency and stagnation, so what was once a fringe party fascinated by fascism and Hindu legend is coming to represent a new India driven by an emphasis on technology and the dreams of millions of aspiring capitalists. In part, of course, the BJP simply got lucky, assuming power in 1998, just as the nation's IT industry began to blossom. And today's thundering economy?which...