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BJP touch to Prasar Bharati
On a day that the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) national agenda promised to ``improve'' the original Prasar Bharati Act, one of the board members, Hindi writer Rajendra Yadav, dared the party to remove them. The BJP has made no secret of its desire to change the composition of the Prasar Bharati Board, by allowing the October 1997 ordinance to lapse.
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Jayalalitha written all over
AIADMK leader J Jayalalitha's influence on the BJP-led alliance's National Agenda was evident. The agenda is in English, not Hindi; Tamil folk music was played at the releasing ceremony. And the AIADMK leader got pride of place: to the left of Prime Minister-designate Atal Behari Vajpayee.
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Subramanian tipped to be Cabinet Secy
Retired Foreign Service officer and convenor of the BJP's foreign affairs cell Brijesh Mishra was yesterday appointed Principal Secretary to Prime Minister-designate Atal Behari Vajpayee. Vajpayee will, however, hold back three other crucial bureaucratic appointments till he wins the confidence vote in the Lok Sabha on March 27.
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CM part of shady deals: Cong
Buoyed by the massive victory in the just concluded Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra, Congress yesterday launched a blistering attack on the BJP-Shiv Sena government in the State Assembly and even accused Chief Minister Manohar Joshi of corruption. In a series of stunning disclosures, Congress member R R Patil alleged that while there was suspicious links between leading builders and Chief Minister Manohar Joshi, a section of his cabinet colleagues were involved in one or the other multi-crore scandals.
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