This is the beforehand leafage of The Indian Express published connected November 20, 1984.
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PM’s Message
PRIME MINISTER RAJIV Gandhi said that Indira Gandhi’s decease should beryllium avenged not by unit and choler but by strengthening the state against forces of disintegration. In his archetypal nationalist code aft assuming office, helium said that though Indira Gandhi was physically dead, her ideals lived: “Her execution was not to region 1 person,” helium said, “but to disintegrate and weaken this country.”
Judges’ Secret Visit
THREE JUDGES OF Delhi and Chandigarh High Courts reached Pachmarhi to conscionable the detained Akali leaders Parkash Singh Badal and Surjit Singh Barnala. The intent of their sojourn has been kept a intimately guarded secret. The sojourn is specified a hush-hush matter that adjacent the section Intelligence Bureau brag was making frantic efforts to uncover the “mystery.”
Congress’ LS List
THE CENTRAL PARLIAMENTARY committee of the Congress (I) has cleared the names of a bulk of the sitting MPs erstwhile considering the lists for the Lok Sabha seats from northeastern states. This wide signifier is contrary to the fears expressed by a ample fig of sitting MPs. It besides shows the cardinal leadership’s anxiousness to avert immoderate imaginable large-scale rebellion against the authoritative candidates by the sitting members.
Warning For Pakistan
THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT told Pakistan that it regarded the encouragement fixed to Sikh extremists from Western countries to indulge successful anti-India activities arsenic an “unfriendly act.” The Pakistan Ambassador successful Delhi, Humayun Khan, was told by overseas caput Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra astir India’s “unhappiness, indignation and concern” astatine the mode successful which Sikh extremists from 3rd countries were allowed to indulge successful anti-Indian activities.