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| Eyes on Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur | | BJP sets in motion candidate selection process | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI, JAN 13
Any action by the Congress party invariably leads to reaction from the rival Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). No wonder, on seeing the Congress supremo, Sonia Gandhi, busy discussing the prospects of her party in the upcoming Assembly elections, the BJP set in motion a process to select its candidates for the polls in Punjab, Utarakhand and Manipur.
To start with, the BJP is concentrating on Uttarakhand where it sees the best chance of dethroning the Congress party from power. The possibility of victory has, however, created a different kind of problem for the party with the emergence of a large number of claimants for nominations with rival factions backing their own candidates.
Senior BJP leaders from Uttarakhand have come to New Delhi with their own lists and have been lobbying with the central leaders extensively. BJP has set up a screening committee under the chairmanship of leader in charge for the State, Ravi Shankar Prasad.
According to indications available, the BJP may deny nomination to at least half a dozen sitting lawmakers. The party had wo... | |
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| Salahuddin attacks some Kashmiri separatist leaders | | India 'only trying' to divide Kashmiris: Hizbul chief | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI, JAN 13
Should Maulvi Umar Farooq, chairman of the moderate faction of the All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC), decide to meet Syed Salahuddin, supremo of the Hizbul Mujahideen, during his upcoming visit to Pakistan, he will have to answer some awkward questions by the latter. Any doubts in this regard have been set at rest by Salahuddin himself by launching an attack on some separatist leaders from Kashmir for their unnecessary contact or interaction with New Delhi.
These leaders also include Maulvi Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). That Salahuddin does not favour direct talks a group of Kashmiri separatisat leader... | |
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