Opinion February 21, Forty Years Ago: PM Visits Nellie
The river waters issue, which has been discussed for two days, was near solution but a hitch on one clause of the agreement stalled it.
With the Congress-I high command unable to decide on the change in leadership in Bihar, lobbying continued with the central leaders 
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While arrangements were being made for Mrs Gandhi’s visit to Nellie, and possibly Mangaldai, 45 more bodies were discovered in the Valley and the toll around Nellie was authoritatively put around 600 as the penultimate round of what has now become a four-phase polling ended with thin voting. The AASU and AAGSP gave a call for a 13-hour Gauhati bandh coinciding with the PM’s visit.
Akali Talks Fail
The tripartite talks between the Centre, the Akali Dal and leaders of Opposition ended without any settlement. Even an attempt to involve Rajiv Gandhi, MP, in the final settlement did not prove fruitful. The river waters issue, which has been discussed for two days, was near solution but a hitch on one clause of the agreement stalled it. Even the territorial claims which appeared almost settled could not make headway.
Crisis in Bihar Cong
With the Congress-I high command unable to decide on the change in leadership in Bihar, lobbying continued with the central leaders. The dissidents stepped up their campaign for the removal of Jagannath Mishra as the chief minister. Two dissident groups met the Prime Minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi, and submitted to her their grievances against Mishra, demanding his
immediate replacement.
N-fuel Reprocessed
India has been reprocessing spent nuclear fuel at the Tarapur reprocessing plant for the last two months, according to sources in the Department of Atomic Energy in Bombay. The spent fuel is from the Rajasthan atomic power plant. The quantity of fuel being reprocessed is not known. This is the first time that India has carried out commercial-scale reprocessing of spent fuel from power reactors.
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