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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (42711)	5/24/2002 3:38:44 PM
From: arun gera	Respond to of 50167

Iqbal: You can do better than sounding alarm signals about Sati. And how is the Hindu fundamentalist going to introduce this practice. You are getting shrill. There are more real faults in India that one can find. Arun

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (42711)	5/24/2002 4:39:26 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Sonia says..No war was the message that the country’s main Opposition party sent out to the government at its AICC session on Friday, maintaining that diplomatic channels had to be explored first. In saying so, however, Congress president Sonia Gandhi also sought to warn Pakistan that India would not tolerate cross-border terrorism anymore. Making clear that on matters of national security the nation was united, she nevertheless held the Vajpayee government responsible for the situation the country found itself. "The BJP-led coalition has failed both in Jammu and Kashmir and the Centre in ensuring internal security, which is why we are vulnerable to external forces," the Congress chief said in her presidential address. Sonia, veteran leader Natwar Singh who drafted the party’s resolution on foreign affairs, and other speakers pulled no punches in blaming the Vajpayee government squarely for the border situation and reiterated that war was no option. "We want a peaceful solution not war," said Natwar Singh. The party has asked the government not to "in haste foreclose future prospects of dialogue in the spirit of the Shimla Agreement" and demanded that people must be taken into confidence. Sonia stressed yet again on the need to involve the international community: "We have to make sure the world understands our problems." Later, partymen requested her to go out and undo the "damage done by the BJP-led government to India's image through incidents like the Gujarat violence." Gujarat was also a big issue in the Congress’ political resolution, which tore apart the government’s "partisan role" in the riots after the Godhra incident. For the first time, the party demanded that Gujarat be put under President’s rule immediately, "so that all semblance of civilised behaviour is not lost". Vowing to defeat communalism, Sonia also dwelt at length on secularism.