Tuesday, November 10, 1998
Sushma launches poll campaign from home
With only two weeks to the hustings, the seasons of pre-poll pageantry set in on Sunday in full earnest as the race to the 70-seat Delhi Assembly entered the home stretch. The Congress had its hired auto-rickshaws blaring parodies of `Vande Mataram' in the city's bylanes as the Bharatiya Janata Party opened elections offices at the various constituencies with full religiosity.
Gowda asks rebels to save Patel Govt
Doubts about the survival of the Patel government was cleared with former prime minister H D Deve Gowda appealing to Janata Dal legislators in Karnataka to unitedly defeat on Tuesday the opposition-sponsored no-confidence motion against the government.
Shiela may find going tough in Gole Market
It is not just a battle of the leviathans in Gole Market. If the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party have drawn battlelines, there is another fight emerging on the sidelines right inside the Congress camp.Two lobbies have emerged in the Congress with one supporting Sheila Dixit and the other throwing its weight behind Romesh Sabharwal, who failed to get a Congress ticket.
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