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Tuesday, April 28, 1998
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Sonia finally revamps CWC set-up
Sonia Gandhi has completed her much awaited exercise of reconstituting the party heirarchy, protecting her predecessor Sitaram Kesri and his follower Tariq Anwar, sidelining Kesri's rivals Jitendra Prasada and Pranab Mukherjee, and inducting Rajesh Pilot, P A Sangma and S K Shinde into the CWC. The Sonia team is thus in place and this is the core of the Congress which is expected to tackle the arduous task of revitalising the ailing party.
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Central observer confident of early end to BJP-Mamata rift
Claiming that the BJP-Trinamool alliance in the state was not jeopardised, Kailashpati Mishra, the Central BJP observer, has said that he was optimistic about finalising seat-adjustment with the Trinamool Congress in the Panchayat elections. "Only a genuine willingness on the part of the State BJP and Trinamool Congress could stand the allies in good stead, and it would be done", said Mishra.
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BJD for special state status
The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has decided to raise its demand for declaration of Orissa as a special category state before the Centre again in a bid to minimise the adverse impact the issue may have on the party when the by-polls to five Assembly constituencies are round the corner.
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BJP committee still at sea
Rather than smoothening the functioning of the BJP-led government, the constitution of the coordination committee appears to be compounding the confusion between the BJP and its allies. BJP spokesperson K L Sharma announced yesterday that the TDP and Haryana Lok Dal, both post-poll allies of the government, would be invited to attend the first meeting of the committee on May 9.
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