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From S.Ramani
National Centre for Software Technology,
Gulmohar Cross Road No 9, Juhu, Bombay 400 049 INDIA
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poll-Advani
New Delhi, June 17 () the BJP leader, Mr L K Advani,
Today ruled out the possibility of BJP extending support to
Congress-I for forming a government in the event of a hung
parliament.
Mr Advani told doordarshan in an interview that the two
parties had gone to the polls with diverse planks in the
elections and hence it would be going against the verdict of
the people if BJP joined Congress-ito form the government.
Going by the results, he said the party was likely to
get around 100 seats and hence people had cast upon it the
duty to function as an opposition party in Lok Sabha.
Mr Advani said the party's performance was
''remarkable'' in the sense it had been able to establish
itself as an all India party, besides heading for a majority
in the Uttar Pradesh assembly.
Also he said that in a span of just two years, the party
from a mere two seats in Lok Sabha had secured 100 odd seats
besides formyng four state oovernments, including in the most
populous state of Uttar Pradesh and the largest state of
Madhya Pradesh. More sud vMr as spg
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Bangalore
plea to elect Rao as cpp leader
Bangalore, jun 17 : senior Karnataka Congressmen
today appealed to their central parliamentary board to elect
by consensus Mr P V Narasimha Rao as leader of the Congress-I
parliamentary party to shoulder the responsibility of running
the Congress-igovernment at the centre at this crucial stage.
In the intgrest of the party and the nation it was
absolutely necessary for the cpb, which is meeting this
evening, to elect by consensus Mr Rao, AICC president, who has
vast experience of administration, as cpp leader, they said in
a joint statement.
They are Mr n hutchamasthi gowda, mla, deputy leader
clp, Mr k h ranganath, mla, mr k lakkappa, mla, general
secretary, kpcc-i, ex mla and Mr t m narayana swamy, mlc.
INFORMATION FROM 6 PM AIR BULLETIN
Declar ed 300 seats
Congress 164
BJP 67
JD 18
ADMK 11
CPI(M) 9
TDP 9
CPI 4
Others 18
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