Even at the height of its popularity in 1999, under former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the party managed to scrabble together only 182 seats 90 short of a simple majority and garnered just about a quarter of the national vote.

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These are more about interaction than action: players either join their friends for an online game of poker or Scrabble, or to create and show off virtual pets, farms and mob families.

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