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This is an archive article published on September 8, 1999
Chandigarh Headlines
Help us ban exit polls, Gill tells SCThe month-long ban on exit and opinion polls continues, even as the Election Commission today moved ...
Help us ban exit polls, Gill tells SC
The month-long ban on exit and opinion polls continues, even as the Election Commission today moved the Supreme Court seeking a clear directive on making the ban on media publication of such polls applicable for the duration of the elections.
The application was posted for hearing tomorrow after it was mentioned before a bench headed by Justice S. P. Bharucha today.
BJP Anantnag nominee killed
The Bharatiya Janata Party candidate for the Anantnag constituency and two others were killed this afternoon when his vehicle was blown up in a powerful land mine explosion at Bijbehara. The elections in the constituency are now expected to be adjourned8217; to another date.
PM criticises Cong dirty talk8217;
Filing his nomination papers in Lucknow today, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee severely criticised the Congress for its 8220;character assassination8221; campaign against him.
8220;My 50 years of political life is an open book,8221; he said. Referring to the allegation that he had bowed to the Britishers for his release in 1942, he said that everyone in Lucknow knew that as a newsman, he was arrested in 1942 and was released unconditionally.
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