Karnataka, India
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[edit] Karnataka, India
[edit] Government
- The Bharatiya Janata Party, for the first time, emerged as the single largest party in the southern part of India by gaining 110 seats in the Karnataka Assembly elections. BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka on Friday, May 30, 2008.
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[edit] Persecution
- In Karnataka, nearly 40 Hindu nationalist extremists from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, VHP and Ram Sena (Army of Ram) on July 20, 2008, stormed the Gypsy Prayer Hall in Vinayakanagara, Davangere district, burning Bibles and hymnals outside the church. Several Christians were beaten, dragged to the police station and accused of forcible conversions. With the intervention of the Global Council of Indian Christians, the Christians were released the next morning,
