CPI for breaking ties with TDP
Setting at rest the uncertainty in the CPI's relationship with the Telugu Desam party in Andhra Pradesh, party general secretary A B Bardhan has advised the state unit to sever ties with the regional party as the latter decided to support the Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre. Bardhan's comments came in the wake of reports that there was a difference of opinion among the State CPI unit on continuing alliance with the TDP at the State level.
First Ladakhi to represent J&K in Rajya Sabha
National Conference nominee Kushok Nawang Chamba Stanzin was declared elected to the Rajya Sabha from Jammu and Kashmir, becoming the first Ladakhi to represent the State in the Upper House. In other results out Karnataka Janata Dal working president Lakshmisagar and Congress nominee in Orissa Frida Topno were elected to the House. Topno had been denied a party ticket in the recent Lok Sabha elections.
Left Front wakes up to threat posed by Mamata
Close on the heels of two important meetings -- the CPI(M) State Committee and the CPI State Council -- the crucial Left Front meeting, singled out the Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party combine as the `main enemy' to be fought in the coming panchayat elections.
Fernandes in favour of unconditional talks in N-E
Defence Minister George Fernandes said that feelers had been sent to outlawed insurgents of north-eastern region for attending peace talks. Reiterating the Centre's offer for talks, he said there would not be any precondition for such an exercise. He said the talks with the National Students Council of Nagaland would go on.
AIADMK to demand reopening of Sarkaria commission findings
Union Minister for Surface Transport R Muthiah said that AIADMK MPs would demand reopening of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) cases filed in the mid-1970s, on the basis of the findings of the Sarkaria Commission against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on corruption charges, and later withdrawn in 1980.
Sycophancy is the buzz-word in AICC show
The line dividing loyalty and sycophancy in the post-'70s Congress has been thin. The slogan, "Indira is India", was perhaps the best indicator of the height of loyalty. But more than two decades later, Indira Gandhi's daughter-in-law today declared that sycophancy had no place in the party under her.
