LOK SABHA ELECTIONS volition beryllium held connected December 24 and 27 — but for successful Assam and Punjab. A abstracted programme volition beryllium fixed for them. This is the archetypal clip that 2 states are being excluded from a notification for the Lok Sabha elections. Chief Election Commissioner R K Trivedi said the notification volition beryllium issued connected November 20 and counting volition commence connected December 28 with results expected the aforesaid evening.
PRIME MINISTER Rajiv Gandhi called for depoliticisation of administration. Gandhi said 1 of the problems being faced by the authorities was “unnecessary politicisation of medication astatine each levels. We indispensable trim it and if imaginable get escaped of it.” He referred to the request for improving the prime of civilian services and politics, elimination of corruption and acquisition to beforehand a nationalist outlook.
Congress Candidates
THE AICC(I) GENERAL secretary, Arun Nehru, has said that the main criterion for the enactment of Congress (I) candidates for the Lok Sabha elections would beryllium their “goodness”, and not whether they were sitting MPs. Nehru, a adjacent advisor of PM Rajiv Gandhi told newsmen that property and caste would not travel successful the mode of giving tickets for election.
Swraj Paul’s Case
SWRAJ PAUL, THE industrialist, appeared to beryllium unnerved by the Bombay High Court’s judgement that upheld the close of Escorts not to registry the transportation of shares successful his sanction portion indicating that successful the concern woody overseas speech regulations had been violated. Paul said that the judgement had created 3 classes of shareholders, with 1 being nationalist fiscal institutions “which henceforth would person to enactment connected the sidelines of a company”.