Thursday, March 25, 1999
Govt wakes up to tea party manoeuvres
The Vajpayee Government has hurriedly convened a meeting of its coordination committee during Jayalalitha's sojourn in the Capital to counter Subramaniam Swamy's efforts to pull off a tete-a-tete between Sonia Gandhi and the AIADMK leader at his tea party on March 29.
Samata loses its national status
In a major setback to the Samata Party, the Election Commission on Wednesday derecognised it as a national party but granted the status of state party in Bihar, Haryana and Manipur on the basis of its performance in the elections last year.
Congmen rediscover Narasimha Rao
Sonia Gandhi loyalists would like to shrug it off as an aberration, but the resounding reception accorded to former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao by a large section of partymen on his return from United States on Tuesday has surely stirred things up in the Congress.
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