Saturday, June 27, 1998
UF backs new front; keen on Cong-led Govt
After the initial tentative reactions from within the United Front to the formation of the Rashtriya Loktantrik Morcha, UF leaders are now viewing it as a welcome move and say they are ready to back a Congress-led alternative government. At least two senior UF leaders, chairman H D Deve Gowda and former Union minister S R Bommai, have come out in support of the RLM saying the objective of the new front and the UF was the same; to fight communal forces.
KPCC hunts for dynamic new chief
Congress President Sonia Gandhi is understood to have given her approval for a change in the leadership of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), in view of the Assembly elections due next year. According to AICC sources, the present incumbent Dharam Singh is likely to be replaced by a "more prominent leader" from any of the two major communities -- Vokkaliga or Lingayat.
Grow up, Bakht tells Jaya; rules out Art 356 for TN
Offering cheeky advice to AIADMK supremo J Jayalalitha, Union Industry Minister and senior BJP leader Sikander Bakht has asked her "to behave in a more mature manner". He also categorically said that Article 356 would not be invoked against the DMK Government even if the AIADMK threatened to withdraw support to the BJP government at the Centre.
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