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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5825)	8/25/1999 1:41:00 PM
From: Cynic 2005	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Check this out - the index finger of the pointing hand at the bottom of the page almost looked like the middle finger shown to Sania! LOL. indian-express.com ------------- Wednesday, August 25, 1999 Sonia can wait, Jaya is still on the road EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chennai, Aug 24: If ``milling crowds' prevented Jayalalitha from meeting Congress president Sonia Gandhi at Villupuram two days ago, there were no such excuses today. When Sonia Gandhi came to Chennai, Jayalalitha did not make a 10-km journey to meet her and instead sent two emissaries with a bouquet and a shawl. Jayalalitha made it clear to the world today that she was not inclined to meet Sonia at all. The AICC president was in Chennai for a 10-minute halt on the way to Nellore in Andhra Pradesh to address election meetings there. Jayalalitha had the opportunity of personally meeting Sonia and ironing out the problems caused by the Villupuram fiasco. However, she chose to keep away and instead deputed two party leaders Sedappatti Muthiah and Sathiamoorthy to meet her on her behalf. Sonia's private aircraft landed at Meenambakkam airport barely 10 kms away from Jayalalitha's Poes Garden residence. Chennai's political circles are looking at another possible reason for the Villupuram and Chennaiboycott by Jayalalitha. Jaya was unhappy over the way Sonia kept her waiting in New Delhi for three days for an appointment at the height of the political crisis a few months ago. Jayalalitha was sore and angry and is merely giving a dose of the same medicine to Sonia, according to sources. Neither the TNCC nor the AIADMK office-bearers indicated today that a date for a joint meeting by Sonia and Jayalalitha had been fixed. The ice remains to be broken. Meanwhile, Jayalalitha today filed a criminal complaint for defamation against expelled MLA R Tamaraikani before the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (EO-I), Egmore, K Balasubramanian. Tamaraikani had reportedly stated, after being expelled from the party on August 18 for anti-party activities, to a section of the press that Jayalalitha and her close aide N Sasikala had fixed an amount for giving seat to the party members for the LS polls. Alliance intact: Sonia Congress president Sonia Gandhi today declared that the Congress-AIADMKalliance was intact. Sonia, who transitted through Chennai airport from her electioneering in Andhra Pradesh, told reporters, ``there is no confusion about it. The alliance is there.' TNCC president Tindivanam K Ramamurthy and Sedapatti Muthiah said the alliance was intact and there was no confusion in the minds of Congress and AIADMK supporters. Copyright ¸ 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5825)	8/25/1999 1:44:00 PM
From: Cynic 2005	Respond to of 12475

Wednesday, August 25, 1999 Rape in UP Cong office; V-P resigns Amit Sharma -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LUCKNOW, Aug 24: An incident of alleged rape is rocking the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee. A Dalit woman was allegedly raped at Nehru Bhavan, the state headquarters of the party last week. The woman reportedly went back to her village in Gonda and no complaints were registered. The UPCC ordered an inquiry and suspended two office employees. No one in the Congress talked about it. On Monday, however, UPCC vice-president and former MP Harikesh Bahadur Singh submitted his resignation in indignation. In his resignation submitted to party chief Sonia Gandhi on Monday, the senior Congress leader pointed out that he was pained to see the state of affairs in the party office at Lucknow. He said he felt ashamed to continue as a functionary of the UP Congress Committee. ``This will be an insult to me if I continue in my post,' Singh's resignation said. The Dalit woman, who belongs to Gonda, had come to meet UPCC president Salman Khursheed on Independence Day. Salman did not meet the woman and flew back to NewDelhi after attending a couple of functions. The woman was assured by three employees of the UPCC that the party chief would meet her. She waited till night and was allegedly raped repeatedly by the employees. The rapists fled in the morning while the women narrated her tale to the party leaders who came to the office. The woman was sent back to her village, an inquiry was ordered and two employees, Babulal and Om Prakash, were suspended. The UPCC leaders did not even register a case with the police. Party spokesman Ram Kumar Bhargava refused to comment on the incident while the other leaders tried to evade questions. The party pasted a notice on the board that none should remain in the party office after sunset. The local police station, Hussainganj, did not take notice of the incident because no complaint was lodged either by the victim or the party office. ``We act on complaints and in this case none approached us,' said the SHO of Hussainganj. Copyright ¸ 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd. indian-express.com

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5825)	8/25/1999 7:12:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

When are they going to build the roads, eh???? A visitor to India recently told me that cars have proliferated so much in recent years that traffic can barely move at 5 mph during peak hours. And this is on surface streets in the cities (most Indian cities and towns have no concept of traffic lights, much less freeways and expressways). Perhaps the car dealers have to offer free "portable potties" when they sell their cars. The Indian drivers are gonna need them! <g>