The Indian Express -- Politics

Friday, December 05 1997

Parikh Cabinet swells to 33

In the second phase of ministerial expansion, 22 more ministers, including six of Cabinet rank and 16 ministers of state, were inducted in the one-month-old Dilip Parikh ministry yesterday. Out of the 46 ruling Rashtriya Janata Party legislators, as many as 33 have been allotted ministerial berths in the two-tier cabinet.

Parties go into a huddle as poll race begins in Maharashtra

With the Lok Sabha being dissolved and the threat of a mid-term poll looming large, all the main political parties in Maharashtra went into the emergency mode yesterday. The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have both called emergency meetings today to discuss the fallout of the dissolution while Shiv Sena leaders are awaiting the return of their supremo Bal Thackeray from Nashik.

Rabri wears the crown but Laloo is still king in Bihar

Besides the usual questions of caste, land reforms and politics, the Lakshmanpur-Bathe carnage has raised what is perhaps the most crucial question now: Who rules Bihar? Chief Minister Rabri Devi, her jailed husband Laloo Prasad Yadav or Governor A R Kidwai?.

People will decide, says happy Gowda

Praises for Punjab from the outgoing PM

Fade in, fade out

Parties go into a huddle as poll race begins in Maharashtra

Change in JAAC poll process urged

Kerala Speaker urges MLAs to plunge into the info-boom

Bal Thackeray appears in court, gets bail

Curtain comes down on 11th Lok Sabha

India regrets "aspersions" on Nepal royals in Jain report

Rabri wears the crown but Laloo is still king in Bihar

Witness claims Sena backing

Keeping the faith across the border and overseas, Gujral style