Wednesday, November 18, 1998
BJD feud rages as rebels boycott meet
With the 15 rebel Biju Janata Dal MLAs boycotting the controversial executive committee meeting of the party this afternoon, the feud in the 11-month-old organisation, headed by Naveen Patnaik continued. However, five of the nine party members in the Lok Sabha, including Patnaik himself, attended the meeting.
Congress rules out forming Govt with CPM backing
West Bengal Pradesh Congress leaders, who gathered here today to protest against the ``price-rise mess up by the Left Front Government,'' eventually devoted more time to disowning any political understanding with the Communist Party of India (Marxist), to ``oust the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition from the Centre.''
Dereservation row: Govt invites objections
While Chief Minister Manohar Joshi today said the ``modifications'' in the development plan of nearly 348 hectares of land at Mankhurd were open to objections from the public and a final decision pending, no clear reason emerges as to why the government decided to make the radical change in the first place.
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