Tuesday, March 2, 1999
Trinamool to consider joining Central Govt
Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee has said she will discuss the prospects of her party joining the ministry once the Bengal package was implemented.
Govt denies PM's `remark' on Kashmir
India has described as incorrect a comment attributed to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee during his talks with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Lahore last week. Media reports from Islamabad had quoted Sharif as saying that Vajpayee had commented `you are right', Sharif stated that Kashmiris should decide on their right to self-determination.
Bihar -- Statements and status quo
The fate of the Presidential proclamation on Bihar hangs in the balance with Railway Minister Nitish Kumar of the Samata Party claiming today that the Cabinet was considering the idea of sending it for a judicial review and Union Power Minister R Kumaramangalam of the BJP insisting that all options were open, including withdrawing the proclamation without putting it to vote in the Rajya Sabha.
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