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Tuesday, May 24, 2005, Chandigarh, India
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Bihar Assembly dissolved
Nitish pre-empted; NDA cries foul
New Delhi, May 23
Feeling cheated with JD (U) leader Nitish Kumar being pre-empted from staking his claim to form the government in Bihar, the BJP-led NDA dismissed the quickfire dissolution of the Bihar Assembly in the wee hours today as a “fraud on the Constitution and murder of democracy” even as the Manmohan Singh government defended its intervention to “avoid horse-trading.” 		Bihar Legislature Party leader Nitish Kumar just before a Press conference after the NDA meeting on the Bihar issue in New Delhi
Bihar Legislature Party leader Nitish Kumar just before a Press conference after the NDA meeting on the Bihar issue in New Delhi on Monday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

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New Delhi, May 23
 Even as he blamed the NDA of taking recourse to horse-trading to get the numbers in the Bihar Assembly, Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan today squarely held Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav responsible for the dissolution of state Assembly, saying that efforts to install a secular UPA government headed by a Muslim did not succeed because of the intransigence of the RJD chief.
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New Delhi, May 23
In a massive hunt to trace the suspects involved in the twin bomb blasts last night in two cinema halls here the Special Cell of the Delhi police today claimed to have detained a militant belonging to the LeT terrorist outfit last night in the Safdarjung area.
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