From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: India - New Ministry to be sworn in on Friday in Andhra Pradesh
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 16:23:19 GMT


Source	: The CGI
Date	: Oct 8, 1992
Country	: India and Pakistan

Topics:
* Ministry to be sworn in on Friday in Andhra Pradesh
* Supreme Court dismissed petition to halt the execution of killers of 
  India's former Army Chief
* Natali Brunner expresses concern over the plight of Kashmiri Pandits
* Pakistan accuses India of making bellicose threats

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* Ministry to be sworn in on Friday in Andhra Pradesh

New Delhi: Oct 8 - A two tier 15 member ministry headed by Mr.Kotla 
Vijaya Bhasker Reddy will be sworn in at Hyderabad, on October 9 and 
the new Government's immediate priority will be to look into the problems of 
weaker sections and farmers.
	A beaming Reddy who holds the portfolio of law at the Center
thanked the party MLAs for unanimously electing him the leader of the
A.P legislative party and pledged to take everybody with him and give a
clean administration.
	Reddy said here Wednesday he will leave for Hyderabad thurdsday 
morning and the swearing in is slated for Friday. The strength of his 
council of ministers will be between 15 and 20 to begin with.
	The ministry will be expanded after he undertakes an extensive
tour of the state. He will begin his tour with a visit to Tirupati,
the Chief Minister designate told newsmen. The decision to choose him 
as successor to the outgoing state Chief Minister N.Janardhan Reddy was 
conveyed to him by the Premier PVN Rao only on Wednesday morning. Rao 
later left on a day's visit to Bombay.
	Replying to question, Mr.Reddy said there was no move to 
change Mr.M.Janardhan Reddy but for the High Court verdict in the Capitation 
fee case.
	Mr.Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy who returns to the state as Chief
Minister after a lapse of 10 years said his top priority would be to 
immediately initiate steps to solve the problems faced by the weaker 
sections and farmers who were being exploited. 
	He said he would take every body with him including dissidents 
to tone up the party. He hinted out at the possibility of having a Deputy 
Chief Minister. There was a demand that a person belonging to the 
weaker section should be made the Deputy Chief Minisiter.

* Supreme Court dismissed petition to halt the execution of killers of 
   India's former Army Chief

New Delhi - Oct 8: With barely 24 hours left before the execution of
Sukha and Jinda, the killers of former Indian Army Chief Arun Sridhar
Vaidya, the Supreme Court of India on Thursday dismissed a petition
seeking stay of the execution of the prisoners at a Pune jail in
western India. 
	A bench comprising of Justice Ahmadi and Justice Ramaswamy
dismissed the case as not maintainable. It said third parties had no

Pandits (Hindus) a minority in the troubled north Indian state of
Jammu and Kashmir who had to leave their homes because of the continuing 
violence in the state.
	In a message sent to the Kashmiri Overseas Association, she
said the Kashmiri Pandits have been victims of on going struggle for
power between Kashmiri separatists and the Indian government. It appears 
to be neither side is interested to protect the rights of people who ask 
only to preserve their 5,000 year old heritage.
	She has promised to fight for the rights of Kashmiris.

* Pakistan accuses India 

Islamabad - Oct 7: Pakistan on Wednesday accused India of making 
increasingly bellicose threats and warned that these could adversely 
affect efforts for peaceful resolution of bilateral problems including 
Kashmir issue.
.H.K.Bhatia 
as an attempt to brow beat Pakistan to make it abandon its principled 
diplomatic support for the Kashmiri militants.
	The spokesman also accused Indian security forces of desecrating 
the sanctity of a mosque in Srinager.
	To a question regarding Pakistan govt's stand on the call given 
by the J&K Democratic Alliance to cross the Line Of Control on Oct 24, 
he said we are cognisant of these possibilities.
	We have tried to impress on all the concerned the need to promote
a peaceful solution to the Kashmir issue.

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