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BJP exploiting
Kargil: Sonia
PATIALA, Aug 28 — Congress president Sonia Gandhi today accused the Vajpayee government of betraying the people of the country and its brave soldiers by projecting the Kargil operations as a major victory.

Sonia’s statement on coalition
Advani calls it volte-face
AHMEDABAD, Aug 28 — Union Home Minister L.K. Advani today termed as a "significant volte-face" Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s statement that her party could consider forming a coalition government in case of a hung Parliament after the Lok Sabha elections.		 Congress President Sonia Gandhi
PATIALA: Congress President Sonia Gandhi with her son Rahul Gandhi and Punjab Congress leaders at an election rally in Patiala on Saturday. — PTI

Bellary basks in glory
BELLARY, Aug 28 — Ever since the Congress president, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, decided to try her electoral fortunes from this constituency and BJP’s Mrs Sushma Swaraj followed suit to challenge her, life in Bellary has not been the same.

Passions high, voters polarised
FARIDABAD: This Lok Sabha constituency is heading for a neck and neck fight between Mr Zakir Husain (Cong) and Mr Ram Chand Bainda (BJP), who is in race for the third time.
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Laloo blames it on CPI
NEW DELHI, Aug 28 — Rashtriya Janata Dal President Laloo Prasad Yadav today charged the CPI with breaking the seat-sharing pact with his party, but promised to withdraw his candidates from Godda and Hazaribagh, if the CPI restricted itself to contesting the three seats allotted to it.

Bank of Punjab
Elections '99  
  Border area voters to boycott poll
JAMMU, Aug 28 — More than one lakh voters living along the Line of Control (LoC) in Akhnoor, Marh and Chhamb areas of the Jammu parliamentary constituency have decided to boycott Lok Sabha elections.

Left parties call for Orissa bandh
BHUBANESWAR, Aug 28 — Five political parties in Orissa today called a 12-hour Orissa bandh on September 1 to protest against the killing of a trader allegedly by Dara Singh in Padiabeda village in Mayurbhanj district on Thursday.

Dateline Srinagar-II
"Normalcy" thrives amidst contradictions
From Hari Jaisingh
With the changing face of militancy, the Kashmir valley has entered a new phase of "normalcy". In Srinagar, life flows as usual. The markets are bursting with activity. Shops attract the young and the old alike even after dusk. Schools function. So do public and private offices.

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