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Journalist and political analyst Pran Chopra speaks to an interviewer about the media's view on the Gandhis as political figures. He talks about the understanding of Indian politics each of the politicians had.

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A political figure of the Communist Party of India, Sitaram Yechury in his younger days speaks of the diverse communities in India and the secularistic governance in India. He talks of the struggles in the democracy with autocracy.

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Citizens traversing thousands of kilometers on foot and whatever transport they could get during the post declaration of Independence of India and the communal tensions in partitioned India.

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Fueled by religious nationalism and Hindutva movement, Kar Sevaks or volunteers of the Ayodhya movement fill the streets during LK.Advani's Ram Rath Yatra in 1990.

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Moments of the late female Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi captured in these photographs. From her infancy with her parents, her younger years and at International meets with heads of other states.

festival · politics

Thousands of Hindu supporters welcome BJP political figure, Lal Krishna Advani for his return in New Delhi in 1990. He is received with flowers and religious prasad by Hindu Nationalist supporters.

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Indian politicians arrive at the Indian Parliament. Among these politicians, there was Jaswant Singh, L.K. Advani, Mulayam Singh Yadav among others for a cabinet meeting.

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Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi addresses a rally in Congress stronghold Amethi in Uttar Pradesh along with other BJP members like Yogi Adityanath and Smriti Irani amoung others.

school · politics

Uttar Pradesh government officials get together to decide on the school system and higher education in Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Citizens in the then hilly parts of erstwhile Uttar Pradesh in northern India take to the streets to protest the reservation policy of the ruling Mulayam Singh Government.

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A wide view of the Ramlila Maidan, the venue for most of the major political rallies and protests in New Delhi. This is also the venue for Anna Hazare's fast and protests against corruption.

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Buddhist monks stage a sit-in protest in Delhi. They are chanting prayers as they hold banners appealing the United Nations and humanitarian organisations to work for the Tibetan Cause.

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Outside the office of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Delhi, supporters of the national political party chant slogans on the streets of the National Capital. They chant lines from Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Bengali Poem 'Vande Mataram'.

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Prominent political leaders and army officials arrive at the Shastri Bhavan in New Delhi for a meeting during the Kargil War in 1999.

politics · railway

Gorkhaland Statehood demand representatives meet the then Union Home Minister L.K. Advani in New Delhi. The Gorkha community resides mostly in Darjeeling, Kalimpong in West Bengal.

festival · politics

Arun Jaitley on being asked a question replies 'There is no justification for this. Earlier also we have said this, that for the time the Gujarat Gawdav Yatra has been stopped, it is a political rights organ of the party and the community.

ceremony · politics

Many of these political stalwarts are now gone... Sworn in ceremony of BJP ministers at President's House in New Delhi. Jana Krishnamurthi Indian Political leader swearing-in as the minister of the union.

politics · ceremony

in ceremony of BJP ministers at President's House in New Delhi. The new cabinet members were : Shatrughan Sinha, Sahib Singh Verma, Jana Krishnamurthy, Balasaheb Vikhe Patil.

dance · politics

As Indian National Congress forms the central government, the streets are full of Congress supporters and party members dancing and jumping on the streets. Watch the world's largest democracy in action.

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Vintage car rally organised on Rajpath and Chandni Chowk on the birth anniversary of PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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Samajwadi Party head, Mulayam Singh Yadav talks to the press and criticizes the incumbent BJP government. He says that the whole nation knows about the derogatory condition of India under BJP's rule.

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Party members and supporters of Indian National Congress shout out their support for the Gandhi family and Priyanka Gandhi in particular.

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Late Smt. Sheila Dixit addresses a rally in Delhi during her campaign which she later won as well. Her words are empowering and her voice is strong, to convince the masses and gain their confidence.