From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: Opposition Parties To Hold Demonstrations in Southern Indian State
Organization:  AT&T
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 12:28:10 GMT


Source	: CGI
Date	: July 27, 1992
Country	: India

Topics:

* Rao defends Center's approach to Ayodhya problem
* Kalyan Singh Kalvi dead
* Pawar witnesses Chinese military exercises
* Naga People's council merges with Cong(I)
* National Front to hold demonstrations in Tamilnadu
* Suchitra Mitra of Calcutta has been awarded this year's Indira

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* Rao defends center's approach to Ayodhya problem

New Delhi: July 27: Indian Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao Monday
defended the center's approach in finding a solution to the
temple-mosque dispute at Ayodhya, in the northern state of Uttar
Pradesh, saying any central intervention, after the state government
failed to stop the construction work, would not have been in the
interest of the country,
	Rao, in his brief intervention in the Upper House of
Parliament, said no commitments had been given to the leaders of VHP,
or Bajrang Dal. The present efforts, he added, were the starting point
for arriving at a negotiated settlement in involving political
parties.
	"The Sadhus were coming in the way of stoppage of work at
Ayodhya and the U.P Chief Minister said he can not shoot the sadhus.
Any other course of action by the center would have landed it with the
task which the Chief Minister refused to do, which is again not in the 
best interest of the country", he said.
	The Prime Minister said the present process had a limited
scope in arriving at a negotiated settlement and called upon all
political parties to collectively find a solution to this issue.
	
* Kalyan Singh Kalvi dead

Jaipur: July 27: India's former Union Energy Minister and a senior
Janata Dal (S) leader, Kalyan Singh Kalvi, died of massive heart
attack in Bombay.  He was 58.

* Pawar witnesses Chinese military exercises

Beijing: July 27: India's Defence Minister Sharad Pawar on Monday
witnessed military exercises at the sixth tank division of the Chinese
Liberation Army.
	In the presence of State Councillor and Defence Minister
General Qin Jiweli, Pawar saw firing demonstrations by a section of
tanks, armoured personnel carriers and self-propelled artillery.
	As many as nine T-59 tanks, four T-89 armoured personnel
carriers and several 122 mm artillery pieces of the Beijing Garrison
took part in the maneuvers that lasted 45 minutes, a release said.
	Pawar, the first defense minister to visit China, was earlier
shown the mausoleum of chairman Mao at the southern end of the
sprawling Tiananmen square.
	Pawar is due to leave for Shanghai today.

* Naga People's council merges with Cong(I)

New Delhi: July 28: The Nagaland People's Council today merged with
the Congress(I), stating that it had full faith in the leadership of the
ruling party.
	meanwhile, David Ledger, the loan Naton Assom Gana Parishad,
member in the Rajya Sabha also announced his decision to join the
Cong(I).

* National Front to hold demonstrations in Tamil nadu

The National Front and Left parties have decided to hold
demonstrations all over Tamilnadu on July 20, condemning the way in
which the AIADMK Government was holding the elections.

Karunanidhi had stated if the AIADMK wanted to corner all the cooperatives, 
it could do so without elections.  "Why should you conduct elections, when 
you make things impossible", he asked.
	The growth of the cooperative movement in Tamilnadu had been
hampered by political interference quite often. Senior officials felt
that whenever there was a change in government in the state, the first
casuality would be the cooperative movement, which they said, would
not help the healthy growth of the movement, which was once described
as "nursery of democracy" by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
	All the cooperatives in the state were superceded soon after
the dismissal of the DMK government and president rule was imposed in
the state for the first time.  Special managers were appointed to
manage the cooperatives then.
	The AIADMK government headed by late MGR, keeping the
recommendations of a special committee, brought forward a bill in the
state assembly, which besides incorporating the suggestions of the
committee, provided for 30 per cent reservation for women and 15 per
cent for SC/ST in the board of directors of the cooperatives.
	The bill was passed in 1983 but the elections to the
cooperatives were delayed as the government had not framed the rules
for the act.
	in 1989 when the DMK was voted to power, cooperative elections
were held after a gap of two decades but the then opposition parties,
AIADMK and the Cong(I), alleged malpractices in the elections and also
in nominations of women and SC/ST.
	Soon after the 1991 assembly elections, which returned the
AIADMK to power in the state, all the cooperatives were superceded and
special officers were appointed through an ordinance, which was
challenged in the Madras High Court earlier.
	The court, while striking down the ordinance, asked the state
government to hold elections (for cooperatives) before May 31 last.
The Tamilnadu Government went to the supreme court, appealing against
the verdict and got time till Aug 31 to hold the elections on the plea
that it would take time to complete formalities like enrolling new
members, including 30 per cent women members.
	With a number of expelled members deciding to challenge their
expulsion in the court, it is a question whether the AIADMK government 
could honour its commitment given to the supreme court to hold the
cooperative polls before Aug 31.

* Suchitra Mitra of Calcutta has been awarded this year's Indira

The 1992, Indira Gandhi memorial award for her outstanding performance in 
Rabindra Sangeeth, where as in the field of literature, Dr Monish Prodhan 
also of Calcutta was selected for the award. 


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