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			Sunday, January 24, 1999
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Minister submits resignation
BANGALORE, Jan 23 (UNI) — Karnataka Panchayati Raj Minister M.P. Prakash has submitted his resignation to Chief Minister J.H. Patel in protest against the Cabinet decision to postpone the gram panchayat elections in the state. Mr Prakash said he had forwarded the resignation on January 19 to the Chief Minister. He was forced to take the drastic step as his repeated appeals not to postpone the elections had failed to evoke any response. He had also walked out of the Cabinet meeting when his suggestion was not heard. He said senior party leaders — Mr H.D. Deve Gowda, Mr S.R. Bommai, Mr Patel and Deputy Chief Minister Siddaramaiah — had met him and explained the need for postponing the elections, he said adding that based on their request he had resumed his work. However, he clarified that he had not withdrawn his resignation.

10 killed
JAIPUR, Jan 23 — Ten persons, including a bridegroom, were killed and 16 injured in two separate road accidents in Ajmer and Churu districts today, the police said. Six members of a marriage party were killed on the spot and eight others injured when their jeep collided with a truck near Gegal village on the Ajmer-Jaipur highway in Ajmer district. The other collision occurred near Rajaldesar in Churu district between a Tata Sumo vehicle and a truck killing four occupants of the Sumo on the spot. The victims included a bridegroom. Eight others injured in the collision were admitted in the government hospital in Churu, the police said.

Police blamed
LUCKNOW, Jan 23 — The UP government today faulted the Rae Bareli police for raiding the ancestral house of noted Islamic scholar Syed Abul Hsan Ali Nadvi, Rector of Nadwatul-Darul-Uloom, last month and transferred Mr Rajiv Ranjan Verma, SP, for misleading the government. Principal Secretary (Home) Naresh Dayal said here that a three-member committee which inquired into the matter recommended a CB-CID inquiry into the affair and the registration of a case against the policemen for the November 22 raid on Ali Mian’s residence. Five other policemen, including an Inspector, had already been transferred.