The surprise defeat of the Hindu Nationalist BJP-ruled alliance has sent shock waves across the nation. One national newspaper headlined the election results as “Shock and Awesome”. This was a result no one expected. Most opinion polls predicted victory for the BJP alliance, while the exit polls predicted at the worst a hung parliament where the BJP would be able to gobble up an alliance once more.
At the bi-annual All India Christian Council conference in March 2004, in Hyderabad, we declared to the over 1,000 Christian leaders gathered from different parts of the nation that this election was going to be a make or break election. We urged the Christian leaders to pray and act. Around India much prayer went up for the nation. I was at a meeting in Chennai for 2,000 Christian leaders gathered for a day of prayer and fasting.
This is an excerpt from an article at Christianity Today. It will be interesting to see what happens from this point onwards.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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Amazing isn’t it! Australian newspapers were only talking about some chick getting married in northern europe some where that no-one knows about and has a population of a couple of thousand. While the world’s second most populous country faces economic and political mayhem.
Gotta love the Aussie press!