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Photo Essay - A Nation Divided



National Dilemma


National Dilemma

Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee (left) and Indian External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh appear at a press conference in New Delhi on February 27, 2002. At the conference, Vajpayee, a member of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), assured opposition parties that his government would not allow construction of a temple in or around the disputed site of Ayodhya.
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Photo: Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski
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