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Politics Business Expressions General Sports Leisure States 25 February 1998   Repolling ordered in 4,164 seats so far The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday ordered re-poll in 60 polling stations in Bihar's Hajipur Lok Sabha constituency, from where Union Railway Minister and Janata Dal candidate Ram Vilas Paswan is contesting, following reports of booth capturing and poll irregularities. Re-polling will be held on Wednesday in polling booths in six assembly segments.   PM persuading Bhandari to quit Stung by criticism that he had washed his hands off Romesh Bhandari affair, Prime Minister I K Gujral has mounted a damage control exercise to try and get the UP governor to quit on his own. The Prime Minister is caught in an unenviable position. On the one hand is an incensed President who has expressed in no uncertain terms to Gujral and others who have met him that he is opposed to Bhandari's continuation. Naga body contests voter turnout figure Naga Hoho, the apex body of tribal chiefs and NGOs in Nagaland, contested the claim made by the state election department that a 42% turnout was recorded in Monday's elections and claimed that vast majority of the Nagas refrained from voting. Speaker's scheme: MLAs will choose chief minister by ballot Uttar Pradesh Assembly Speaker Kesri Nath Tripathi has come up with his own innovative way to implement the SC's unprecedented ``composite floor-test'' requirement. He proposed to issue a ballot paper to each MLA called out by the name of his constituency.   Gujarat's rebel lion begins walk into winter Gujarat Congress president C.D. Patel said, after the election, ``Vaghela ko doondhte rah jaoge''. An unkind remark about a former ally, but if the pre-poll mood is any indication, the Rashtriya Janata Party leader is heading to live up to the comment. ULFA, Left outfit on collision course The outlawed ULFA and the Vinod Mishra faction of the CPI(M-L) in Assam have landed up in a collision course following the murder of the latter's state secretary Anil Kumar Baruah on February 11. While the CPI(M-L) has been crying hoarse of the ULFA and threatening to organise the masses against it, ULFA chief Arabinda Rajkhowa has retorted back by saying that his group too would not sit idle.     Chhabildas faces uphill task   BJP upbeat over Vaghela's discomfiture   Karunakaran forgets Rao's promise on Babri   Govt officials working at gun point?   No `UP-style' threat to alliance Govt   Jaya's call to city Tamils   BJP breathes fire, Khalap feels the heat   Assam minister under EC fire   More trouble brewing for Mahanta   Mamata rules out pact with Cong   Left clout on the wane in Orissa   Sonia's entry enthused rural voters   Vote for unity, Sonia exhorts Keralites   Loktantrik factions go on an expulsion spree   In his last campaign meet, accuses govt of causing communal   Protege turns nightmare for Panja on home turf   HC admits plea against Raj   Purohit comes to town to taunt and haunt Mahajan   As always, it's the economy, stupid   Poll notes -- headline missing   SC tells MLAs to choose their leader   Candidate killed, Bihar minister is a suspect   President writes to PM   Voting to be by ballot; expulsions galore   Govt seeks AG's opinion on Srikrishna report