Sunday, March 21, 1999
Rabri -- Cong on a hot tin roof
Pushed to the corner by the BJP and its own state unit over Thursday's Jehanabad massacre, the Congress High Command has begun to distance itself from the Rabri Devi Government with several senior leaders sending signals that Rabri should step down.
PM raps Cong attitude
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Saturday came down heavily on the Congress for what he called its obstructionist role, not only on Bihar, but on other issues as well. Governments will come and go but such a role for the Opposition is not good for democracy, he told a BJP rally at Calcutta.
Thakre presides over ad hoc appointments; hawks shaken
Bhartiya Janata Party president Kushabhau Thakre's attempts to promote his men has in the past raised quite a few eyebrows within the party. But his latest decision to sneak in through the back door Rajya Sabha member and former Madhya Pradesh BJP president Lakhiram Aggarwal as in-charge of the state unit has come as rude shock to many.
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