Saturday, April 17, 1999
Cong to stake claim if BJP Govt fails
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and ADMK chief J Jayalalitha, the two principal players in the efforts to topple the A B Vajpayee govt., began damage control measures by meeting top politicians and trying to slow the momentum which had swung the BJP's way during the day.
How Chautala was wooed
An imminent split in his four-member party seems to have forced INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala to return to the ruling alliance today. BJP sources said they pulled off the coup last evening when the two dissident MPs met Prime Minister.
Sajjan celebrates emergence of a new power centre
Subhash Chopra was endorsed as this much-awaited force by the most restless leader of Delhi politics, Sajjan Kumar, who seems to believe, as Kautilya said, that `enemy's enemy is a friend'.
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