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Nityanand to be Uttaranchal Chief Minister

NEW DELHI, Nov 7 (UNI) — Mr Nityanand Swami, leader of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council, will be the Chief Minister of newly carved out state of Uttaranchal, Bharatiya Janata Party sources said here tonight.

Mr Swami will be formally elected as the Leader of the Uttaranchal BJP legislators in Dehra Dun tomorrow.

The move to select Mr Swamy for the Chief Minister’s post followed a demand by MLAs that the top post should go to only a person from among them.

The MLAs had held discussions with the BJP central leadership here on the issue and pressed that no person, who was not an MLA, be given the post.

Union Home Minister L. K. Advani is expected to attend the swearing-in of Governor Surjit Singh Barnala.

C. Subramaniam passes away

CHENNAI, Nov 7 (UNI) — Elder statesman C. Subramaniam, who guided the country’s Green Revolution, and was decorated with the highest civilian award of Bharat Ratna and a relentless campaigner for purity in public life, died today following a brief illness.

He was 90 and is survived by his wife, a son and two daughters.

Mr Subramaniam, who devoted seven decades of his life for the service of the nation, was a Union Minister, Governor of Maharashtra and a minister in the Tamil Nadu Cabinet and a trusted lieutenant of late K. Kamaraj.

He was the Congress president also for sometime.

Mr Subramaniam, for long an asthmatic, breathed his last while he was being taken to the hospital. His son Rajasekhar and daughter were with him when the end came.

He had quit active politics at the age of 70 and resigned from the post of Governor of Maharashtra at the slightest hint from the office of the then Prime Minister, Mr P. V. Narasimha Rao.