November 15, 1984, Forty Years Ago: Tamil Nadu Cabinet recommends dissolution of TN Assembly

Children’s Day

THE COUNTRY PAID homage to its archetypal Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru connected his 95th anniversary. Throughout the day, determination was a changeless watercourse of visitors astatine his samadhi. Devotional songs were besides sung successful the day. In the morning, President Zail Singh and Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, accompanied by his family, offered floral tributes astatine the samadhi.

Nehru Award 1984

THE JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Award for International Understanding for 1984 was awarded posthumously to Indira Gandhi. The president of the assemblage and Vice President R Venkataraman told newsmen that she had astir eminently merited the award. Venkataraman said Indira Gandhi had provided outstanding leadership, unchangeable and antiauthoritarian authorities and captious stimulus for awesome advancement wrong the country.

Vajpayee On Congress

BHARATIYA JANATA Party President Atal Bihari Vajpayee regretted that the ruling enactment had “not learnt thing from the past” and was pursuing the way of “divisive and partisan politics.” He further said, “I person been receiving calls and letters asking whether the absorption parties had decided to boycott Indira Gandhi’s funeral. The information is that galore salient absorption leaders… were there… but the TV wholly blacked retired this fact.”