November 29, 1984, Forty Years Ago: A R Antulay expelled from Congress

Akademi awardees

WELL-KNOWN CLASSICAL vocalist Sharafat Hussain Khan is among the 15 radical who person been selected for this year’s Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. The recipients of the grant volition beryllium fixed Rs 10,000 each and a citation. In the fields of dance, music, and drama, the awardees are Sharafat Hussain Khan, Kishen Maharaj, Sudharani Raghupathy, Durga Lal, and Gulab Bai, among others.

Vajpayee’s warning

BHARATIYA JANATA Party president Atal Bihari Vajpayee warned against the criminalisation of authorities and the politicisation of the police. He said the state was going downhill and it had to beryllium stopped. Vajpayee blamed the authorities for the concern successful Assam and Punjab. He alleged that occupation was encouraged by the authorities arsenic it gave them a pretext to instrumentality implicit authorities administrations.

Rebels to withdraw

ALL REBEL CONGRESS-I candidates who bash not retreat from the contention by November 30 volition beryllium expelled from the party, said Sitaram Kesri. Prominent among the rebels who person filed information papers is B P Maurya, the Dalit Mazdoor Kisan Party campaigner from Aligarh. The Congress-I precocious bid is hoping that amended consciousness volition prevail connected the rebels and they volition withdraw.