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SP honeymoon with Cong ends Oza may contest against Modi JD(U) releases list of 25 |
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Farmers burn sugarcane Guru’s message highlighted |
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Save India front, allies to contest
over 100 seats Mann to protest non-inclusion
in jatha 100 yrs of Indian music recording Anti-liquor army
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SP honeymoon with Cong ends New Delhi, November 19 Reacting sharply to the lack of support the SP got from the Congress for the lone election to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council yesterday, Mr Amar Singh was back to his old ways, accusing the Congress to be a psuedo-secular party. He said it was Congress’ animosity against the SP which was not letting it come forward. Besides, the Congress was insecure that the SP government in Uttar Pradesh would be lethal to its interests in the state before the general election. The role of the Congress was always in doubt during the present political crisis in the state. The SP is upset that with the Congress was instructing its MLAs to abstain from the legislative council elections where the BSP-BJP combine candidate won by a slender margin of 11 votes. While the BSP-BJP combine candidate got 194 votes against 183 for the Opposition, minus the Congress, candidate. Saying that the secular claims of the Congress had been exposed, the SP general secretary said had the Congress not abstained from the elections the Opposition candidate would have won easily as the party had 25 votes with it. He added that the SP had doubts about the Congress’ intention ever since Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati expressed gratitude to Congress President Sonia Gandhi for not helping the SP form an alternative government in the state. Adding that even until yesterday morning the party was approaching Congress leaders like Mr Moti Lal Vora, Mr Natwar Singh and Dr Manmohan Singh to come forward, he said everytime he got the same reply “where are the numbers with the SP”.
But now I am sure that the Congress would be mulling over its actions and the SP had proved that it had the numbers which it had been claiming all along, he said. LUCKNOW
(OC): The Congress which paved the way for the victory of the ruling party nominee Munna Singh Chauhan in the state legislative council byelection, today gave a petition to the Governor Vishnu Kant Shastri, asking him to direct the Chief Minister to summon a special session of the Assembly where she could prove her majority. Leader of the Legislature Congress Party Parmod Tiwari in a two-page petition said that the Mayawati government had failed to provide relief to cane and paddy farmers, and moreover the results of the byelection had proved that the BSP-BJP coalition government had been reduced to a minority and thus the Chief Minister should prove her majority. Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan had blamed the Congress for betraying the faith of the Opposition by abstaining from the crucial byelection. “If the Congress had taken part in the election, Mr Yashwant Singh would have won easily. The Congress will have to pay for this step in the Gujarat elections,” he told newspersons on Tuesday. |
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Oza may contest against Modi New Delhi, November 19 A lawyer, Mr Oza was a BJP MLA from neighbouring Sabarmati before he joined the Congress. He quit both the BJP and his Assembly seat following differences with the party and in the subsequent by-election, the Sabarmati seat was won by the Congress. Mr Oza was in the forefront of the Congress campaign against the Modi government over the communal violence following the Godhra carnage. He was among the leaders considered for the Rajya Sabha seat from Gujarat by the Congress. After PCC chief Shankarsinh Vaghela, Mr Oza would be the second leader with a BJP past to be entrusted an important role by the Congress in the Gujarat elections. AICC General Secretary Kamal Nath, who is in charge of Gujarat, today sounded Mr Oza about his likely candidature. Congress leaders were quick to point out that Mr Modi had changed his seat from Rajkot II because of infighting in the BJP. Rajkot II falls in Saurashtra, where former Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel wields considerable influence. Mr Kamal Nath wondered why Mr Modi had “run away” from Rajkot. “People of Maninagar will now make him run away... The change of constituency by Mr Modi reflects the infighting in the BJP,” he said. Mr Kamal Nath indicated that the pending names of the Congress candidates would be released by Friday. With its internal survey giving it only a slender edge over the BJP in Gujarat, the Congress is taking extra caution in selection of candidates. The “non-contentious” seats having been declared yesterday, the party is now factoring in the BJP candidates to decide its pending names. |
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JD(U) releases list of 25 New Delhi, November 19 Most of the seats the party is contesting are in the tribal areas of Surat, Bharuch, Baroda, Panchmahal, Chota Udaipur and Bhavnagar. The party is going it alone in the state having a total of 182 Assembly seats. The JD(U) has decided not to have any electoral tie-up with any other party, including NDA partners, in the state, saying that it was part of the NDA only at the Centre. The party had won four seats in the last Assembly elections but three of its MLAs joined the Congress. Lone MLA Chhotibhai A Vasava has been renominated for the Jagadia (Reserved) seat. JD(U) President and Union Minister Sharad Yadav is expected to launch the party campaign next week, party sources said. Mr Yadav was likely to campaign only for his party’s cause and would not campaign for other NDA partners in the state, they said. |
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VHP
attacks Advani New Delhi, November 19 “Advani does not know about
Hindutva. Hindutva itself is synonymous with secularism”, VHP
President Vishnu Hari Dalmiya told newspersons here. |
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Farmers burn sugarcane Muzaffarnagar, November 19 The government has fixed the sugarcane price at Rs 95 per quintal and had issued a notification on November 12, asking the mill owners to start crushing from November 25. However, Uttar Pradesh sugarcane mill owners got a stay from the Allahabad High Court against the fixed price of Rs 95 per quintal. Meanwhile, the third round of negotiations between the Uttar Pradesh Sugar Mill Sangh and the government could not fructify in Lucknow, according to sugar lobby sources in Muzaffarnagar. The government had called the sangh along with the Indian Sugar Mills Association for talks in the State Capital, yesterday. However, while the representatives of both sangh and the All-India Sugar Mills Association continued to wait, the Chief Secretary had gone to meet the Chief Minister during the scheduled time. |
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Guru’s message highlighted Chennai, November 19 Capt Kanwaljit Singh, delivering a special address at the function, said Sikhism did not acknowledge the monopoly of any one religion and Guru Nanak had spread the message that there was no Hindu or Muslim but all were the children of the same supreme being. He also underlined the commonness between Sikhism and Tamil culture, citing Subramania Bharathi’s songs on Guru Gobind Singh. The inter-faith meeting organised by Developers India, a non-profit organisation committed to national development and peace, was also an occasion for the conferment of the “Vibrant Indian” award on the eminent industrialist and educationist, Dr N. Mahalingam, for his achievements in various fields, including the corporate sector, humanitarian initiatives and social activism. |
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Save India front, allies to contest
over 100 seats Ahmedabad, November 19 The front, led by Mr Udit Raj, in a statement said besides the front, Lord Buddha Club, Jamat-e-Ulma-e Hind, All-India Christian Council and Dalit Adivasi Sangathan would together field 100 contestants for the poll. The front decided to field Mr Mukesh Sharma from Maninagar seat from where Chief Minister Narendra Modi would contest the elections.
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Mann to protest non-inclusion
in jatha New Delhi, November 19 Party President Simranjit Singh Mann said here today that SGPC President, Kirpal Singh Badungar had not cared to ask his party to send members for the jatha. The senior Akali leader said during Mr Badal’s regime, the SGPC had stopped sending jathas to Pakistan. |
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100 yrs of Indian music recording New Delhi, November 19 Announcing this at the Doordarshan monthly awards distribution function for the best programme and best graphic work for September, Director-General (Doordarshan), S.Y. Quraishi said here yesterday that the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting had declared the period between November 11, 2002, and November 10, 2003, as the centenary year of recorded music in India. Doordarshan was planning a commemorative series titled ‘A Century of Recorded Music — a retrospective’. The first song was recorded in India on November 11, 1902, in Kolkata by the Gramophone Company of India and was sung by Gauhar Jaan, a celebrated singer of her time. Dr Quraishi said 26 episodes of film, classical and folk music will be produced for being shared with music lovers. Director (Programmes), Doordarshan and Bharatnatyam dancer, Kamilini Dutt told TNS that a 30-minute curtain raiser of the 26-episode programme would be telecast on DD National at 10 pm on Wednesday. It would feature Naushad, Khayyam, V. Balsara, M.S. Vishwanath, M.S. Subhalakshmi, music composer Anil Biswas and former AIR sound recordist Satish Bhatia. Ms Dutt said the episodes would be telecast in May and would have interviews with singers, music directors, sound recordists, music lovers and collectors of tapes and records. She said DD was trying to get archives from other kendras as well. The programme would also feature foreign singers whose mellifluous voices have been recorded in India. These include Runa Laila, Sabeen Yasmin, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Malika Pukhraj, Farida Khannum and Yani. Ms Dutt said the episodes would also feature Wadali brothers, Daler Mehendi and Jassi besides Bade Ghulam Ali, Sharafat Ali and Nazakat Ali of the Patiala gharana. The programme provided an opportunity to hear the great voices of the last century and see how recording had influenced the way people sing. Dr Quraishi said Doordarshan and All India Radio had good archives but did not seem to realise that they were sitting on a goldmine. Prasar Bharati CEO, K.S. Sarma said 12,900 spools of tape of All India Radio had already been
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Anti-liquor army Bhubaneswar, November 19 Villages in these areas have formed an anti-liquor army. They have not only been assaulting drunkards and liquor manufacturers, but also destroying liquor and its raw materials, according to a district official. |
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Stellar show Mumbai, November 19 In Mumbai, the household FM radio sets failed to give the whistle signals of the meteors entry for lack of the required frequency. In Asangoan on the outskirts of Mumbai, observers said they could see 50 meteors per hour in the sky dominated by fog and smog.
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