Wednesday,
June 8, 2005,
Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am
(IST)
Advani quits, but partymen say no New Delhi, June 7
A rattled and bewildered BJP rallied behind party President L.K.
Advani imploring him not to press his resignation for “being relieved from the party post.”
Even the then Congress leader and poetess Ms Sarojini Naidu praised Mr Jinnah.
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Vajpayee defends Advani’s remarks about Jinnah Kulu-Prini, June 7
Unfazed by the ‘anti-Advani stir’ by the Sangh parivar following BJP President
L.K Advani describing Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan a “secular leader” while on a recent private visit to Pakistan, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today defended Mr. Advani’s statement, and stated that Mr Jinnah was a nationalist and for a secular country. Spotlight: Leadership caught off guard Advani’s calculated gambit comes unstuck
Justice Sekhon to probe
paper leak Chandigarh, June 7
A one-member commission, headed by a retired Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justice Jai Singh Sekhon, will look into the Punjab PMT paper-leak case.
Beant’s killer Hawara held? Chandigarh, June 7
Has Jagtar Singh Hawara, the alleged assassin of Punjab’s former Chief Minister Beant Singh, been arrested by the Punjab Police?
Though sources in the Punjab Police headquarters do not rule out
the possibility, senior police officers neither confirm, nor
deny it.
Childhood ruined by effluents Ludhiana, June 7
Three minor boys of Chehlan village near Amloh town may not be able to walk properly ever due to the alleged negligence of some industrialists of the area, who dump industrial effluents in a playground of the village.
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