31.   Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Sunday denied his Hindu nationalist government would establish a theocratic state and pledged to improve relations with arch-rival Pakistan.

32.   A Hindu nationalist government run by the Shiv Sena party immediately forced Enron to renegotiate terms.

33.   An incoming Hindu nationalist state government also demanded to renegotiate the contract with Enron.

34.   Verma said the Hindu nationalist government of Maharashtra, by first opposing the power project and then approving it, violated norms of public accountability.

35.   Joshi, who heads a right-wing Hindu revivalist government, declined to elaborate.

36.   Maharashtra is run by a Hindu nationalist government.

37.   Pakistani Defense Minister Aftab Shabaan Mirani Saturday warned the new Hindu nationalist government in New Delhi that Pakistan had the strength to meet any Indian challenge.

38.   Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee pledged Monday to defend secularism as the Indian parliament began debating a no-confidence motion which threatens to topple his Hindu nationalist government.

39.   Reporting on the last phase of voting in the crucial state elections in Uttar Pradesh, widely seen as a popularity test for the ruling Hindu fundamentalist federal government.

40.   The Congress was voted out of office in the April-May elections but later helped the United Front take power after pulling down a shortlived Hindu nationalist government.