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January 18, 1998
ELECTIONS '98
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Empty coffers threaten Sonia's campaign
Her hefty tour bills have added to the worries of a virtually bankrupt Congress party. On Friday, Sitaram Kesri convened an unusual meeting of top Congress leaders to chalk out a strategy to tackle the grave funds crunch. Priyanka may contest from Amethi Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav seems keen on extending her support. 'Muslims will not vote for Congress' Though the party has promised to create a ministry for the minorities and provide them with job reservations, few Muslims seem to be convinced. Former Congressmen feel stifled in BJP Three weeks after they flocked to the party, some former Congressmen have been left in the lurch by the saffron leadership. Sonia's charisma sways Congress in Kerala Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's widow Sonia has conclusively demonstrated her charisma, at least among Congressmen, when she presided over a mammoth rally at the Marine Drive promenade yesterday in Kochi. 'Is fighting corruption indiscipline?' "It is the largest scam in independent India,'' Banwarilal Purohit, Nagpur MP in the 11th Lok Sabha, reiterates his allegations against BJP general secretary Pramod Mahajan. 'I never wanted to compromise on my principles' Gulzarilal Nanda, who passed into the ages on Thursday, was one of the most unusual of men as Vaihayasi P Daniel discovered when she met him in Ahmedabad sometime ago. BJP, SP gain as panic spreads in Congress, BSP Come election time, and every party worth its name in Uttar Pradesh begins wooing members of rival groups. But never was the activity as intense as it is this year. 'I find politics in India today confusing, but not hopeless' 'My brother had to keep so many diverse forces and it is to his credit whatever you may say he acted like a gentleman...' 'Whenever I think about Husain I rather feel sorry for him. Such sorrow comes when you witness a tragedy and a tragedy is always of a great man...' Artist Satish Gujral tells the Rediff Chat. No change in policy towards India, Pakistan ''Nothing has changed,'' said state department spokesman James P Rubin, when asked whether the postponement of Clinton's visit to the region indicated a policy review. Jnanpith for Ali Sardar Jafri He is the third Urdu writer to be thus honoured -- Firaq Gorakhpuri (1969) and Qurratulain Hyder (1989) being the other two. A quieter way of battling AIDS The Naz project takes up the cause of the HIV-afflicted south Asians in Britain 
Jammu and Kashmir: 27 assembly segments declared'hypersensitive' Karnataka: Jalappa quits Janata Dal, to join Congress Kerala: CPI announces 4 names for LS poll Maharashtra: Kalmadi to begin campaign on Sunday Maharashtra: Sena undecided about Seshan |
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• Capital Buzz Political gossip from the Delhi Durbar • Rajiv Shukla on the new Gujral doctrine • Saisuresh Sivaswamy on Madame's aspirations • T V R Shenoy on Sonia Gandhi's SPG trail • Varsha Bhosle on the Alien Resurrection • Pritish Nandy on the Media as Villain • Dilip D'Souza on the tragedy of traffic accidents • Rajeev Srinivasan on Mifune and Kubrick • Ashok Mitra on the media and its commissars • Ashwin Mahesh argues for a voluntary Uniform Civil Code  • 'I was not disappointed with the BJP leadership' Rajni Patil, the BJP MP from Beed who left the party this week, in candid conversation. • 'Zero plus zero adds up to zero. The BJP plus anyone will always be zero' Union Defence Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav tells Pritish Nandy. •Earlier Interviews 
•MS is happy in her sadness •A labour of art •'Those kids could have been saved if a doctor had been on duty' •India on road to H-bomb? •The Price of Power •In Memoriam •Assam's hour of reckoning •Indian clowns inspired Nobel-winner •Muslims and I •Fear over the City •Anti-Muslim feelings plague Bradford •Church to issue moral manifesto for election •'The army commanders had no say in the IPKF operation. Wars are not fought this way' •'Lady Amitabh' eyes politics •Fear and loathing in Tamil Nadu •No English please, only Kannada spoken here •'The fate of the Congress appears to be sealed' •Officers and Gentlemen •Reins for Corruption • Ask the Chief Minister! • December 6: A Memoir •The Jain Commission Controversy •The Search for Veerappan •More Specials
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