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November 23rd, 1998 as finance minister Yashwant Sinha walked up to newspersons to announce the cabinet decision to allow entry of foreign equity in the Indian insurance sector he ended days of speculation.

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The Karnataka Chief Minister Mr. J. H. Patel was busy this week staving off a concerted attempt by Janata Dal dissidents to effect a change in the state leadership.

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The results of the assembly elections to the four Indian states of Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram that went to the polls were declared this week.

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It was a sudden expansion of the Vajpai cabinet. The swearing in of Jaswant Singh, Pramod Mahajan and Jagmohan would have been a routine political development.

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The Swearing in of Sheila Dikshit as a Chief minister of Delhi. Earlier in the week dIg Vijay Singh retained his position as a chief minister of Madhya Pradesh for a second term and Ashok Gehlot assumed the charge of Rajasthan is the congr…

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I. K. Gujral talks about Indian political scenario at the time when he was elected as Prime Minister. He clears all the rumours about forming a political party.

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Gandhinagar in Gujarat is one of the VIP election areas in India. L. K. Advani participates in the elections from BJP and T. N. Sheshan from Congress. This is the first election of Sheshan while L. K.

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East Delhi is one of the important election areas in New Delhi. Approximately 24 lakh voters decide the future of 20 candidates in East Delhi. The primary competition is between BJP candidate Lal Bihari Tiwari and H. L.

Maharashtra·politics

The Supreme court this week upheld the election of the Maharashtra Chief Minister Mr. Manohar Joshi to the state assembly in 1990 washing the earlier verdict by the Bombay High Court which had declared his election null and void for alleged…

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The former Prime Minister Mr. Chandra Shekhar was conferred with the parliamentarian of the Year award by the President Mr. Shankar Dayal Sharma in the high domed hall of the Parliament this week.

Jammu and Kashmir·politics

As the leaders of various political parties entered the August premises of Parliament last week there many who believed that the ongoing winter session of Parliament would serve them more opportunity to do more electoral posturing.

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Looking back at the year 1995 through India's political prism it can be characterized as a pre-election year which saw shadowboxing and posturing by all political parties gearing for the electoral frame.

West Bengal·politics

These scenes of celebration captured the upbeat mood of Congress party in West Bengal. Although the ruling Left Front managed to squeak past the winning post in a narrowest of victories in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation election analyst…

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When Parliament reconvened its budget session after a gap of few weeks. The focus was inevitably dissident congressmen and former Minister Mr. PR Kumaramangalam and his cut motions on the Union budget of this year. Mr.

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The visit of the union Home minister Mr. SP Chavan and the Finance minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to Kashmir immediately after the burning down of holy shrine in Charar-e-sharif. Earlier the prime minister P. V.

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The assembly elections in the five states Gujarat, Maharashtra, Bihar, Orissa and Arunachal Pradesh will take place in February next year. The election commission announces the poll schedule this week.

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Inaugurating the conference of the international police Interpol in short which held its session in New Delhi this time the Union Home Minister Mr. S. B.

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The Telugu Desam supremo Mr. N. T. Rama Rao took over as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on 12th of December at a public function attended by thousands of party workers and well-wishers at Hyderabad's Lal Bahadur Stadium.

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While the action taken report on the JPC findings which went into the multi-million rupees securities and banking fraud was used by the opposition to paralyze the parliament monsoon session.

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The venue was Talkatora Stadium in the capital and as the All India Congress Committee met for the first time after the party's victory in the recently concluded assembly elections. The mood amongst the party workers was one of ebullience.

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The President Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma this week declined the assent of two ordinances by the government on that their promulgations at this juncture may not pass the test of constitutional propriety.

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"It is for you to use the word, it may be the political compulsion... it may be the political necessity I want I think that it was put a political desirability a necessity that compelled Mrs. Gandhi.

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The confessions made by the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's henchman Bablu Srivastava who had been nabbed by police with the CBI probe still on the Chandra Swami saga brought onto the national agenda the issue of criminalisation of politics…