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To: Annakin
The current Indian administration is also not just the BJP but a coalition of some 20-25 different political parties, of which the BJP is the leading member. Merely to cobble together such a coalition involves many compromises and the end result that even the BJP cannot pursue essential economic reforms like labor and land reform or else its coalition will fall apart. This type of scenario is India's and most other Third World republics' neverending situation. Democracy in both First World and Third World countries often involves gridlock but Third World countries suffer more because it is they that need economic reforms more desperately, whereas First World countries are already rich.
86 posted on 10/27/2002 11:18:01 PM PST by formosaplastics
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To: formosaplastics
"coalition of some 20-25 different political parties..."

There are only about 20 political parties in the entire country of India according to the CIA World Factbook (and I doubt they would lie).

87 posted on 10/29/2002 8:10:38 AM PST by Annakin
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