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August 26, 1999
 Election 99
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 Ballot Box
 - Only once since its birth
   in 1982 has the TDP
   beaten the Congress in a
   general election. The
   Congress, on the other
   hand, has gone down
   from winning 39 Andhra
   Pradesh seats in 1989
   to 25 in 1991, and 22
   each in 1996 and 1998.

 Cast your vote
  Will Priyanka's
  presence in Bellary
  improve Sonia's
  chances against
  Sushma Swaraj?

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NEWS
Sonia's candidature challenged in court
A public-interest petition in the Madras high court opposes the Congress president's candidature on the ground that she is Italian by birth.

NEWS
No Kargil wave in Punjab
The most important factor expected to dominate the poll in the state is the division of the Sikh vote. It could determine the success of the Congress.

NEWS
Tytler challenged to prove innocence
BJP leader Madan Lal Khurana said even the Justice R S Narula committee had recommended that the government should investigate the Congressman's involvement in the anti-Sikh riots.

CONSTITUENCY
Kargil gives BJP the edge over Vaghela
The BJP is cashing in on the sentiment favouring it after the death of son-of-the-soil Dinesh Vaghela in Operation Vijay.

GALLERY
A tale of two rallies
Atal and Sonia. Jaya and Karunanidhi. Sreeram Selvaraj captures vignettes from the Great Indian Political Circus.

NEWS
BJD's dominance worries ally BJP
What has especially irked the state BJP is that it was refused two of the 12 seats allocated to the BJD in the last election.

INTERVIEW
'I cannot take orders from every Tom, Dick and Harry'
'The harassment, the torture, the troubles I faced in the last 6, 7 months was too much,' says Dalit Ezhimalai, who resigned recently as Vajpayee's health minister.

COLUMN
Soft options, hard choices
'Forget parties, forget ideology. We are living in an era of political opportunism and high-pitched marketing,' says Pritish Nandy, MP.

SPECIAL
Election results, at your fingertips...
Who won in Barh in 1977? And, who won Rampur, which has the highest concentration of Muslims in India, in 1998? Check out the results of the previous 12 general elections.

 Sound bites
You know who's T Balu?
   T is Thackeray and Balu
   means Bal. But Balu also
   means baby. And a baby
   does not have the right
   to vote.
   NCP's Chhagan Bhujbal
   on Bal Thackeray's
   disfranchisement

 News
AIADMK's priority will be
   DMK government's dismissal
Thamaraikkani reiterates
   charge against Jaya
Congress attacks Jaya,
   says she lacks stature
Situation right for poll
   in J&K, says GVG
Athawale faction of RPI
   releases its final list
Maharashtra police are
   ready for the polls
BJP is enemy no 1,
   says Jharkhand Front
Congress, JMM-S wait
   for full moon
Bihar to deploy boats
   during election
More

 The Interviews
Sitaram Yechury on being
   anti-BJP
Sushma Swaraj on her fight
   for national pride
Sunil Dutt on the attack
   on Sonia's origin
E K Nayanar on
   the Congress
Arun Nehru on the BJP
Recent interviews

 Recent Specials
Son rise in K'taka
Bellary comes to terms
Star Line-up
Gandhi vs Swaraj

 The Columnists
Rajiv Shukla on
   a few good men
Recent columns

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