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Wednesday, April 29, 1998
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Generally Beijing
The reciprocal visit by a high-ranking Chinese military delegation intended to further contacts with Indian counterparts has turned out to be an occasion for a broader exchange of views. Official briefings on the meetings of the Chinese chief of general staff, General Fu Quanou, with the Prime Minister and Defence Minister, are, as usual, taciturn to the point of being uncommunicative.
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The Andhra model
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu finds himself besieged on his Bill to reform the power sector in his state. He should carry on regardless. The Bill is bound to be unpopular in the short run with entrenched employee interests and opposition MLAs who mirror their interests and go to the extent of demanding that the Essential Services Maintenance Act should not be invoked against employees going on strike against the measure.
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Home Alone
Chaudhri Shujaat Hussain is a leading light of West Punjab's land-owning feudal classes and an old Nawaz Sharif confidant. So it was no surprise when, in his first Cabinet, Nawaz Sharif appointed him Minister for the Interior (Home), as well as Industry. I ran into Shujaat in Islamabad and congratulated him on having landed such powerful twin portfolios.
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When the court banishes morality
On April 17, five judges of the Supreme Court in P.V. Narasimha Rao vs CBI declared that the Constitution prohibites courts from proceeding against any MP or MLA under the Prevention of Corruption Act who votes or speaks in parliament or the legislative assembly after taking a bribe for doing so. If he does not vote or speak in parliament or the assembly after having taken a bribe for doing so, then courts can proceed to try him under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
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