Election rallys for candidates of the Congress Party and the Bharatya Janta Party

Speakers on the dais, another using a truck

A candidate lobbies with voters on a street

Election poster of the Shiv Sena Party

The atomic explosion of 1998 is used by the BJP to project its leader as a national hero

Typical pose of a political leader

Raj Path in New Delhi, where the National Parade is held every January

The Parliament building in New Delhi

Earstwhile Prime Minister Atal Vajpayee

Former environment minister Maneka Gandi

Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is received with a guard of honour in New Delhi in 2001

At the Raj Bhavan Palace Schroeder shakes hands with Premier Vajpayee and adresses journalists

The head of the German government pays tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial Raj Ghat

Former chancellor Helmut Kohl at Raj Ghat in 1993

Helmut Kohl honoured with the Gandhi Peace Prize 1993 in the President's Palace Raj Bhavan

Former Federal Minister for Devolopment Cooperation Carl-Dieter Spranger on a visit to India in 1994

Former Federal Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer visited India in 2004