Teacher:You are given a sentence in Hindi language and we ask you to translate those to the English language. Consider following guidelines while doing the translation: 1) Note the input can be lowercase or uppercase. Please do the same in your translations. 2) Keep the short forms like '%s', 'CMD' intact as the literal meaning does not make sense. 3) The numbers present in the input should be preserved in English language in output
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: - 1990 - 1996 .
Student:
His reputation as a Hindutva hardliner-a product of his controversial rath yatra in 1990-ruled him out as the leader of a coalition in 1996 .