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Vajpayee lied about Bofors: Sonia
Sonia Gandhi used the penultimate day of campaigning in Delhi yesterday to launch her most vitriolic attack yet on the BJP. Sonia claimed that all of BJP leader Atal Behari Vajpayee's statements about Rajiv Gandhi's alleged involvement in the Bofors scandal were total lies. Sonia further asserted that the BJP was now running scared, while also blaming it for the Babri Masjid demolition.
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EC blacks out Cong poll violation
Chief Election Commissioner M S Gill may have announced that political parties will not be allowed any advertising on television, but neither the Congress nor the southern networks seem to be aware of the ruling. The Congress has released four films on regional satellite channels in South India in total violation of the EC ruling. EC officials, however, claimed ignorance about the telecast of these films.
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HC quashes ban on Raja Bhaiya
The Allahabad High Court yesterday quashed the Election Commission's orders restraining the Uttar Pradesh Minister for Programme Implementation, Raghuraj Pratap Singh from entering the Pratapgarh constituency till the elections were over. The court stated that the oral orders of the EC, which curtailed an individual's freedom of expression and movement, had no legal standing.
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Plea to delete part of BJP manifesto rejected
The Madras High Court has dismissed a batch of public interest writ seeking an amendment in the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) election manifesto. The petitions were requesting deletion of a portion of the BJP's manifesto relating to construction of a temple in Ayodhya. The court, however, dismissed the petitions, claiming that the Election Commission was the appropriate authority to decide the issue.
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