Both men will then be in their 80s, but Mr Advani, a hard-liner, is much the less decrepit.

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But Patrick Lang says that none of the Sunnis who are participating in the election meets his definition of a hard-liner.

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BJP's leading hard-liner and the former deputy prime minister, to have been part of the boycott planned if she became prime minister.

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The hard-liner Republican Whip Tom DeLay of Texas remains unchallenged.

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Weinstein herself is a hard-liner.

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