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Ranjit Deshmukh resigns as Congress leader in Maharashtra council
'The high command is ignoring party loyalists,' fumed the Vidarbha politician, who is said to command the loyalty of a significant number of legislators in the state.
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Maharashtra government to make details of financial health public
Deshmukh, who was sworn in on Monday, said he had instructed his ministers to restore the confidence of bureaucrats so that they could gear up to implement the new government's common minimum programme.
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Balayogi to be speaker again
Five sets of resolutions were filed today, including one proposed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and seconded by Leader of the Opposition Sonia Gandhi.
INTERVIEW
'We should not relax our vigil on the borders'
"We have to first watch developments in Pakistan before we can talk in terms of holding some kind of negotiations with them. We should not down our antennas," says former prime minister Inder Kumar Gujral.
THE COLUMNISTS
Pawar-sharing
'In his undying quest for power, Sharad Pawar has made a career of throwing down the gauntlet before the Congress leadership -- as with Narasimha Rao post-Bombay riots, then with Kesri during the CPP elections -- only to meekly pick it up again. Succumbing to the first offer made does not a stalwart make,' says Varsha Bhosle.
Why have Ananth Kumar and Mahajan hit terra firma with a thud?
'Much as secular sourpusses would like to delight in their plight, it is painfully obvious that while subtlety is not their strong point, neither the party nor the Parivar is daft to spike its stars of the future in so obvious a manner as to set tongues wagging,' says Krishna Prasad.
Our poor are ignored: true or false?
'It doesn't make much sense for Amartya Sen to merely plead for more funds for education or health care or poverty alleviation. What is much more essential is to examine whether ... the existing delivery systems need to be revamped,' argues Arvind Lavakare.
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