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Indian Express
3 days ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
June 3, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Talks On Tamil Issue
India and Sri Lanka are said to be inching towards a solution to the Tamil ethnic issue after the talks that began in New Delhi between PM Rajiv Gandhi and President J R Jayewardene. The two sides were not able to indicate what stage the talks were at, though according to them, all aspects of the problem and ways and means to find a negotiated political settlement were being discussed. Choosing A CM A large number of legislators, including ministers, urged the AICC (I) observers to entrust the choice of Maharashtra's new chief minister to the outgoing CM, Vasantdada Patil, it is reliably learnt. Legislators from Patil's group are understood to have recommended the names of two of his cabinet colleagues, Sushil Kumar Shinde and Sudhakar Naik. Indications are that the new CM will be chosen from among the elected MLAs or MLCs. Heat On Bachchan Superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who has had little time for either his constituency or Parliament since his election to the Lok Sabha last December, may soon face a movement seeking his recall for betraying voters' trust. A senior Congress (I) partyman, Sant Bux Singh, brother of Finance Minister V P Singh and a former MP, has fired the first salvo by asking Bachchan to quit politics If he does not like it. Attacks in Sri Lanka Separatists stormed a police station and blew up a bridge in eastern Sri Lanka only a day after killing at least 50 people in raids on Sinhalese villages in the same area. Guerillas sprayed gunfire and threw bombs last night as they attacked the station at Kuchchaveli, about 30 km from the east coast port of Trincomalee town, a senior government politician told reporters.
Indian Express
4 days ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
June 2, 1985, Forty Years Ago: Patil Resigns as CM
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vasantrao Patil resigned following the party high command's decision to appoint Prabha Rao as the MPCC (I) chief. When asked about his successor, Patil said it was for the high command to decide. The four AICC (I) observers failed to dissuade him from submitting his resignation. Patil maintained that he could not work with Rao, who had criticised Indira Gandhi. 'Bluestar Week' Prayers and 'akhand paths' held in gurdwaras by the Akali Dal to observe 'Operation Bluestar Week' passed off peacefully on the first day in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh amid tight security arrangements. Three jawans — two of the Punjab Armed Police and one of the CRPF — were injured in an exchange of fire between them at Ferozepur, while the Amritsar police arrested three Pakistani nationals in three different places in border areas. Pak attacks Ladakh Pakistani troops have renewed their attacks on Indian positions in the north of the Nubra Valley in Ladakh. According to sources , the Indian security forces, guarding the strategic glacial region, have repulsed the Pakistani attacks. Pakistan air force planes also repeatedly intruded into the area but they were chased away. Tornado In US At least 84 people were killed and more than 30 reported missing after tornados yesterday swept across Pennsylvania, Ohio, and northwestern New York state. At least 18 others died in Canada and hundreds were wounded, according to an incomplete count by officials in Ontario. With winds blowing up to 150 km per hour, the twister razed thousands of homes, crushing bodies in the debris and flattening entire villages.
