A GREAT MUTINY AGAINST ECONOMIC REFORM?

摘要

It's a rowdy election eve in Bombay's sprawling Shivaji Park, and an audience of more than 20,000 is drinking in the thunder and theatricals of a rally by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies. Thrilling the crowd is Bal Thackeray, charismatic chief of Shiv Sena, the party that rules the pivotal Maharashtra state with the BJP. He roars into the microphone! "What has the Congress Party given you in the last 50 years? Corruption. But we will change that. We have to clean the system that's been sullied for 50 years."