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- A Surya Prakash / New Delhi
- Sonia Gandhi became a voter first, then an Indian - The Pioneer - may 11, 1999
>>>Ms Sonia Gandhi's name first entered India's voters' listin 1980, three years before she became a citizen of Indiaand renounced her Italian citizenship. Following an outcryin 1982, her name was deleted only to be reinstated in1983......
- Abhijit Dasgupta / Calcutta
- When Italy rejected our own daughter - The Pioneer - May 19, 1999
>>>The story had everything that film rags in Calcutta wantedto publish in details in the mid-50s but could not. But itdid make banner headlines in the local press in those days.And 40 years down the line, it has acquired a Sonia angle,which should make it good stuff for politicians too......
- Aparisim Ghosh
- The Riddle of the Sphinx - Time - May 3, 1999.
>>>I should have known to take my phone off the hook last week when itbegan to look likely that Sonia Gandhi would become India's next primeminister. Sure enough, 1 was inundated by calls from Indian friendsand acquaintances, some expressing disgust, others dismay. A fewtalked of giving up their citizenship, and at least one threatened to.....
- Editorial
- A separate reality - The Pioneer - May 8, 1999
>>>Ms Sonia Gandhi's speech at Thursday's meeting of thechiefs of Pradesh Congress Committees and CongressLegislature Parties at the headquarters of the All-IndiaCongress Committee in Delhi, deserves serious attention. Itreflects not only her highly personalised understanding and.....
- Radioactive Glow - Indian Express - May 11, 1999
>>>Time was when annual invocations, of a most dubious nature, to the BJProutinely appeared on December 6, summed up in that one over-burdened word,`Ayodhya'. Well, henceforth, the media obsession with the calendar willstill be indulged, but the landmark date will be May 11, with muscular`Pokharan' supplanting shameful `Ayodhya'. On the very first of these.....
- Pokhran Afterglow - India Today - May 17, 1999
>>>The first year on the nuclear highway was fine. But there are miles to goThis week sees the anniversary of theShakti nuclear tests carried out inthe Pokhran range in Rajasthan in 1998. By allaccounts, the Government must be complimented.....
- Origin-al revolt - The Pioneer - May 18, 1999
>>>The raucous attempt by Ms Sonia Gandhi and her acolytes todismiss the issue of her foreign origin as inconsequentialand dub everyone who raised it as a "BJP agent" hasreceived a crippling blow. The Italian-born Congresspresident should have realised that when a grassroots.....
- Winning to lose: Sonia's drama - The Pioneer - May 26, 1999
>>>Having made it abundantly plain that she was not interestedin the Congress party unless it pledged to anoint her itsprime ministerial candidate, Ms Sonia Gandhi on Tuesdayrecorded a predictable even if pyrrhic victory when some1400 AICC delegates prostrated themselves before her.....
- George Iype in New Delhi
- India makes a diplomatic coup over Pakistan - Rediff on the Net - May 30, 1999
>>>While the fresh face off between India and Pakistan overthe Kargil conflict has nearly killed the historicLahore Declaration, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee governmenthas successfully blocked Islamabad's efforts tointernationalise the issue......
- HT Correspondent
- BJP makes light of Cong complaint to Narayanan - Hindustan Times - May 7, 1999
>>>The BJP today made light of the Congress' complaint toPresident K.R. Narayanan that the Vajpayee Government hadexceeded its caretaker brief by transferring IAS officers ona large scale.It also sought to pooh-pooh the reports that the Congressmen.....
- BJP: No takers for Sonia's sob story - Hindustan Times - may 26, 1999
>>>The BJP today said the people would refuseto buy Mrs Sonia Gandhi's emotionaloutpourings which were no reasons for her to be PrimeMinister.They would instead focus on quality of leadership and.....
- Harish Khare
- Pawar, Sangma, Anwar oppose Sonia as PM - The Hindu - May 17, 1999
>>>NEW DELHI, MAY 16. The Congress (I) tonight stood badlydivided on the question of Ms. Sonia Gandhi'ssuitability for the post of the Prime Minister. Seniorleaders of the Congress (I) were tonight trying to sortout the crisis in the wake of the demand made by three.....
- Hiranmay Karlekar
- The national pride factor - The Pioneer - may 7, 1999
>>>Perhaps for the first time in Independent India's history,the main issue in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections willbe India's self-respect. It will be asked repeatedly duringthe campaign whether a country with a feeling of nationalpride can have as Prime Minister someone who is not its.....
- Kanchan Gupta
- Church gets Rs 126.7 million between January and March 1999 - Rediff on the Net - May 11, 1999
>>>Union Home Minister L K Advani, newspapers report onemorning, says that 70 per cent of the foreign fundsreceived by 'religious, cultural and social'organisations operating in India go to Christian orChurch outfits. "Not true," scream the suddenly.....
- Yeh Sonia Mangey More! - Rediff on the Net - May 17, 1999
>>>I have a personal reason to thank Sharad Pawar, P ASangma and Tariq Anwar: It is because of theirdelightful letter to Sonia Gandhi nee Maino that I havebeen spared the agony of getting over Monday morningblues. The dust and heat of Delhi does not seem so.....
- Monu Nalapat
- From Mahatma Gandhi to Madam Gandhi - Rediff on the Net - May 22, 1999
>>>Twenty-four years ago, at the Kochi headquarters of theKerala Pradesh Congress committee, a telegram came tothe state chief, the venerable Arecaparambil KurienAntony. 'Organise spontaneous demonstrations across thestate to protest against Sinha judgment', it read. In.....
- N Sathiya Moorthy in Madras
- Pro-BJP 'sympathy wave' sweeping across Tamil Nadu - Rediff on the Net - May 5, 1999
>>>"They were settling down and should have been given timeto prove themselves," says S David, a Tamil Nadugovernment employee in Christian-dominated Nagercoilnear Land's End. "But Jayalalitha could not wait, andhad to bring Vajpayee down.".....
- Omer Farooq / Hyderabad
- Cong paying for topple games: PM - Pioneer - May 18, 1999
>>>Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee refused to make anycomment on the revolt in the Congress against partypresident Sonia Gandhi, but said the party was paying theprice for its destabilisation game.Without making any direct reference to the dramatic.....
- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
- Sonia's `foreign origin' will be a major poll issue, says Hegde - Indian Express - May 4, 1999
>>>BANGALORE, MAY 3: Lok Shakti president andUnion Commerce Minister Ramakrishna Hegdetoday indicated that the `foreign origin' ofCongress president Sonia Gandhi was going tobe a major issue during the election campaign.....
- PTI
- Vajpayee at his humorous best - Times of India - May 8, 1999
>>>NEW DELHI: In his characteristic style of humourand witty remarks, Prime Minister Atal BehariVajpayee had the packed audience at the NationalBank for Agriculture and Rural Development(NABARD) function here in peels of laughter, when.....
- Sonia PM's candidature security risk for country: BJP - Indian Express - May 16, 1999
>>>JAMMU: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) todaysaid Congress president Sonia Gandhi'scandidature for prime ministership was a''security risk'' for the country. A''foreigner'' heading the country will have a.....
- We'll clear Kargil, PM tells Sharif - Times of India - May 26, 1999
>>>PONDICHERRY: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayeesaid here on Tuesday night that he spoke to hisPakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif over thetelephone on Monday and told him that India wouldnot allow intrusion in Kargil, even as he.....
- Panchalee Thakur
- Cyber warriors slug it out over Sonia - Times of India - May 6, 1999
>>>NEW DELHI: If you thought an e-mail account isonly meant for personal letters, you are wrong.Presently, the medium is being used for apolitical campaign. The subject: Sonia Gandhi.In the past few days, many e- mail.....
- Pioneer News Service / New Delhi
- NAG adopted as BJP's manifesto - The Pioneer - May 3, 1999
>>>Endorsing the adoption of the National Agenda forGovernance (NAG) as its manifesto, the BJP decided tocentre its high-power poll campaign around Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee, who is seen as the coalition's USP.Addressing newspersons Union Home Minister L K Advani, who.....
- Opp threatened President to seek trust-vote: PM - The Pioneer - May 4, 1999
>>>Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has said that PresidentK R Narayanan had come under pressure from the Opposition'sthreat that it would not allow Parliament to functionunless the Government was asked to bring forward a trustvote......
- Reluctant leader can't lend helping hand: BJP - The Pioneer - May 19, 1999
>>>The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday ended its tacticalambiguity on Sonia Gandhi's foreign birth and slammed herresignation as a "sham" aimed at covering up the Congresspresident's haste to grab power.The BJP statement called the entire resignation drama as a.....
- PM rejects Sharif's plea to stop strikes - The Pioneer - May 30, 1999
>>>Prime Minister A B Vajpayee on Saturday made it clear thatNew Delhi had rejected Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif'ssuggestion to stop air strikes in Kargil and pave the wayfor talks to resolve the crisis.The Prime Minister said India would not stop till status.....
- PM accuses Pak of expansionist aims - The Pioneer - May 31, 1999
>>>The Indian Government is in "no hurry" to receive PakistanForeign Minister Sartaj Aziz in New Delhi as any suchinitiative could be considered only after foreign intrudersin Kargil have been rooted out and their encampmentsobliterated......
- Pioneer News Service / Rajahmundry
- PM cautions regional parties against Cong 'evil designs' - The Pioneer - Posted on Sun, 16 May 1999 17:29:11 -0500
>>>In a bid to woo regional political groups, Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee on Sunday compared the BJP'spro-regional party attitude against what he called the"contempt of Congress" towards them.He cautioned the local political groups against "evil.....
- Political Bureau
- BJP plans to outsmart Oppn with Pokhran-II - Economic Times - May 5, 1999
>>>NEW DELHI 4 MAYGOING ahead with its plan to make nationalsecurity a key poll plank, the BJP has decidedto despatch all its big guns to differentparts of the country on May 11, the first.....
- Be Indian, vote Indian, is BJP's new slogan - Economic Times - May 9, 1999
>>>Mumbai 8 MayBharatiya bano, Bharatiya chuno (Be Indian,vote Indian) will be the new slogan of theBharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) electioncampaign in the forthcoming Lok Sabha.....
- Pritish Nandy
- Sonia Gandhi: The Material Girl - Rediff on the Net - May 5, 1999
>>>Everyone I met during the past week grumbled about themidterm polls. What a waste of national resources! theycomplained. This stupid, greedy woman and her vaultingambitions have landed us in such a mess that it willtake India a thousand crores and at least a full year to.....
- Prof. Romesh Diwan
- Sonia Maino-Gandhi or Congress Nemesis - ???? - May 10, 1999
>>>THE ISSUEThe unethical manipulations to vote out Vajpayee's well functioninggovernment and Sonia Maino-Gandhi's [US Slang] "display of arrogantoverconfidence" has introduced a new phenomena in the psyche of the Indianelite. Hiranmay Karlekar identifies the defining moments. "Two televised.....
- Sonia Maino-Gandhi or Congress Nemesis - ???? - May 10, 1999
>>>THE ISSUEThe unethical manipulations to vote out Vajpayee's well functioninggovernment and Sonia Maino-Gandhi's [US Slang] "display of arrogantoverconfidence" has introduced a new phenomena in the psyche of the Indianelite. Hiranmay Karlekar identifies the defining moments. "Two televised.....
- Rai Singh
- Citizenship issue: Reciprocity does not exist - The Pioneer (letter to the Editor) - May 3, 1999
>>>This is apropos of the article, 'Home rule not Rome rule,Mr. President' (April 22), by A Surya Prakash. Provisionsfrom a number of state constitutions have been cited toemphasise that, by and large, only the natural born, and notthe naturalised citizens, can aspire to be the heads of.....
- Ram Jethmalani
- Is Sonia Eligible Under Law? - The Statesman - May 28, 1999
>>>ONE did not have to be an astrologer to predict that Sonia would withdrawher resignation. No sensible person believes or is expected to believe thatthe crowds that collected on Akbar Road weregenuinely on fast or intended to commit suicide or even seriously cared whobecomes the Congress President......
- S. Gurumurthy
- Not foreign hands any more, but its head. - Indian Express - May 4, 1999
>>>The Vajpayee government was voted out on a Saturday. The day after, onMonday, Predebon Maino flew into Delhi - not alone, but with four otherItalians. The burning heat of Delhi was hardly inviting. But Mrs. Maino andher companions were not fun loving tourists. They had come for a seriousbusiness to participate in the swearing in ceremony of Mrs. Maino's.....
- Sharat Pradhan
- BJP wants a statute against foreign-born PM - Rediff on the Net - May 11, 1999
>>>LucknowThe Bharatiya Janata Party is contemplating the need toamend the Constitution to debar persons of foreignorigin from holding the office of prime minister, formerinformation and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj said.....
- Special Correspondent
- BJP and allies form National Democratic Alliance (NDA) - The Hindu - May 16, 1999
>>>DELHI, MAY 15. The BJP and at least 13 of itsallies today formally renamed themselves the NationalDemocratic Alliance after a meeting of all the partiesand groups that had voted in favour of the confidencemotion moved by Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, Prime.....
- India condemns Ahuja's 'cold blooded murder' - The Hindu - may 31, 1999
>>>NEW DELHI, MAY 30. India today condemned the ``coldblooded murder'' of Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja whoseaircraft was hit by a Pakistani missile in the Kargilsector on Thursday, and the pilot shot and killed afterhe had parachuted on to the other side of the Line of.....
- TVR Shenoy
- The indispensable Congresswoman - Rediff on the Net - May 21, 1999
>>>Every cricket expert has been saying for months that thechief weakness of the Indian team is its over-dependenceon a single player -- Sachin Tendulkar. That is just astrue of political parties as of cricket teams, a pieceof common sense that hasn't yet sunk into the Congress......
- Tara Shankar Sahay
- BJP may file PIL on Sonia's citizenship issue - Rediff on the Net - May 14, 1999
>>>New DelhiThe BJP leadership is actively considering a publicinterest litigation against Congress president SoniaGandhi's Indian citizenship, top party officialsindicated Friday......
- Telegraph Bureau
- Curtain goes up on Bahu Vs Bahu - The Telegraph - May 14, 1999
>>>New Delhi, May 13The battle between Gandhi family Bahu I andBahu II has begun. The first to fire the shotis the junior bahu, Maneka Gandhi, who the BJPis trying to pit against Sonia Gandhi......
- The Times of India News Service
- Vajpayee sings coalition tune to counter Congress - Times of India - May 3, 1999
>>>NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayeehas promised to integrate the BJP-led allianceinto a cohesive force by attaching greaterrespectability and importance to the partners inan attempt to counter the ``one-party rule'' of.....
- Times of India News Service
- Like it or not, Sonia's foreign origin is an issue: Advani - Times of India - May 2, 1999
>>>NEW DELHI: Union home minister L K Advani hassaid that notwithstanding reservations in certaincircles, Congress president Sonia Gandhi'sforeign origin will be a major election issue.``Whether someone likes it or not, it has become.....
- UNI
- May 11 to be `Resurgent India day' - Times of India - May 3, 1999
>>>NEW DELHI: The BJP national executive has decidedto observe May 11 as ``Resurgent India day'' tomark the first anniversary of the Pokhran nucleartests.Announcing this here on Sunday after the.....
- PM blasts Congress on expulsion of three leaders - Rediff on the Net - May 21, 1999
>>>Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee hasdescribed as 'highly deplorable' the Congress WorkingCommittee's decision to summarily expel Sharad Pawar,Purno A Sangma and Tariq Anwar from the party.The three CWC members were expelled from the party.....
- V S Mahajan
- Fall at the wrong time - The Pioneer - May 10, 1999
>>>While opinions are divided on what constitutes goodgovernance, it would be broadly agreed that all theseelements like improving law and order situation, strongdefence mechanism, growing agriculture and industrialproduction, strong approach towards education in science.....
- Varsha Bhosle
- Divided Loyalties - Rediff on the Net - May 6, 1999
>>>The Great Maratha Milquetoast recently asserted that themid-term elections would once again throw up a fracturedverdict, and that "power and decision-making are gettingmore and more centralised" within the Congress. SharadPawar wasn't the only one to toss the gauntlet at the.....
- The fault is in ourselves, that we are underlings - Rediff on the Net - May 20, 1999
>>>It is well to remember today that the idea of an electedConstituent Assembly for India was first conceived byMahatma Gandhi as far back as 1922. 'Swaraj,' heprophetically declared, 'will not be a free gift of theBritish Parliament, it will be a declaration of India's.....
- Vishal Thapar
- Stars deliver a fractured verdict, but favor Vajpayee - Hindustan Times - May 9, 1999
>>>ASTROLOGERS read the stars differently as they look into thecrystal ball to predict the outcome of the 13th generalelections later this year."Atal Behari Vajpayee's horoscope is stronger than theBJP's. His stars are on the ascendant from March 1999 for.....
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