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Kesri sticks to charge on RSS hand in blasts
The controversy over Sitaram Kesri's remarks suspecting RSS hand in the serial bomb blasts in Coimbatore took a new turn yesterday with the Congress president sticking to the charge and dismissing reports of his having backtracked on the issue. "I have not denied whatever I had said...RSS has come to court after a long time. This is what we wanted. Now everything will come out in the open", Kesri said.
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Sonia lacks accountability: BJP
Continuing his tirade against Congress' main campaigner Sonia Gandhi, veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Atal Behari Vajpayee has accused her of wielding unbridled power without accountability. Calling it a manifestation of a trend which was not in the interest of either the country or the Congress.
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Antony for tie-up with pro-Cong parties in UF
Congress Working Committee member AK Antony has said that his party would be willing to align with those constituents of the United Front which are not "anti-Congress" to form a Government at the Centre. Antony, however, declined to identify the UF constituents whom he considered to be pro-Congress.
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Cong to carry on eco reforms: Singh
Former Union finance minister Dr Manmohan Singh has said that if voted to power, the Congress will finish the unfinished task of economic reforms and liberalisation launched by the party in 1991. He was participating in a debate on `Economic agenda for action by various political parties on the eve of the 1998 elections' organised by the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI).
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