Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!shakti.ernet.in!ramani From: ramani@shakti.ernet.in Newsgroups: misc.news.southasia Subject: India News Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 91 21:46:26 GMT Sender: gaddam@remus.rutgers.edu Lines: 117 Approved: gaddam@remus.rutgers.edu =========================================================== MAJORITY FOR BJP IN UTTAR PRADESH ASSEMBLY LUCKNOW, JUNE 20 () THE BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY WON A MAJORITY IN THE UTTAR PRADESH ASSEMBLY, BAGGING 209 OF THE 400 DECLARED SEATS, WHILE RESULTS WERE EXPECTED FROM ONLY FOUR MORE CONSTITUENCIES, TONIGHT. THE JANATA DAL WON 90 SEATS, THE CONGRESS (I) 45, THE SJP 30, THE BSP 12, CPI FOUR, CPI (M), AND SSD ONE EACH AND INDEPENDENTS SEVEN. THE SHIV SENA, AN ALLY OF THE BJP, WON ONE SEAT. ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN COUNTERMANDED IN 21 ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES AND FRESH DATES FOR THE POLLS WERE TO BE ANNOUNCED LATER. IN THE REMAINING FOUR CONSTITUENCIES, FROM WHERE RESULTS WERE EXPECTED, REPOLLING WAS HELD IN ABOUT 50 POLLING BOOTHS TODAY. THE BAHUJAN SAMAJ PARTY (BSP) OF MR KANSHI RAM HAD WON 13 SEATS IN THE LAST ASSEMBLY. THE CPI VICTORY WAS TWO LESS THAN ITS TALLY OF SIX IN THE OLD ASSEMBLY. GUWAHATI CAL32 LS POSITION ASM 1700 HRS (LOK SABHA) STATE : ASSAM SEATS : 14 DECLARED : 12 PARTY CONTESTED WON INC 14 6 BJP 8 2 AGP 14 1 CPM 2 1 IND 14 2 END PRI GEN XXXX (ASSEMBLY) ST POSITION ASM 1700 HRS STATE : ASSAM SEATS : 126 DECLARED : 118 PARTY CONTESTED WON INC 125 65 AGP 121 17 IND 125 20 BJP 48 10 CPI 37 4 CPM 29 1 JD 96 1 MADRAS RAJIV-SUSPECT PAYAS GOT CALLS FROM LANKAN TAMILS IN FOUR COUNTRIES MADRAS, JUNE 20 () THE ONE-EYED MAIN ACCUSED IN THE RAJIV GANDHI ASSASSINATION CASE, SIVARASAN, WAS A REGULAR VISITOR AT THE HOUSE OF ROBERT PAYAS, ANOTHER ACCUSED IN THE CASE, AT SUBURBAN PORUR HERE, A NEIGHBOUR SAID WHILE A PROVISION STORE IN THE SAME AREA WAS THE 'DROP' POINT FOR MESSAGES FROM JAFFNA, ITALY, DENMARK AND CANADA THROUGH PAYAS TILL THE KILLING. THE KURTA-CLAD SUSPECTED ACCOMPLICE, SIVARASAN, SPOTTED AT THE ASSASSINATION SPOT BEFORE THE BOMB BLAST, USED TO STAY AT THE RESIDENCE OF PAYAS, A SRI LANKAN TAMIL, WHO WAS ARRESTED HERE ON JUNE 18, A NEIGHBOUR TOLD HERE TODAY. SIVARASAN WAS ALWAYS SEEN WITH DARK GLASSES, APPARENTLY TO GET OVER THE HANDICAP CAUSED BY THE LOSS OF HIS LEFT EYE, THE NEIGHBOUR ADDED. MEANWHILE, THE SPEICAL INVESTIGATION TEAM (SIT) PROBING THE RAZIV GANDHI KILLING, HAS BEEN INFORMED BY THE OWNER OF A PROVISION STORE AT PORUR THAT PAYAS REGULARLY RECEIVED CALLS AT HIS SHOP FROM SRI LANKAN TAMILS IN JAFFNA, DENMARK, ITALY AND CANADA UNTIL THE ASSASSINATION. NEWDEL POL-LD NOTIFICATION TENTH LOK SABHA CONSTITUTED NEW DELHI, JUNE 20 () THE TENTH LOK SABHA WAS CONSTITUTED TODAY BY THE ELECTION COMMISSION WITH 502 MEMBERS. AN OFFICIAL SPOKESMAN SAID THE +DUE CONSTITUTION NOTIFICATION+ DID NOT INCLUDE THE NAMES OF ELECTED CANDIDATES FROM NINE OF THE 511 PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES WHICH WENT TO POLLS. THEY WERE AURANGABAD, BANKA, SASARAM, BIKRAMGANJ, MONGHYR AND BEGUSARAI IN BIHAR, SALEMPuR IN U.P., DAVANGERE IN KARNATAKA AND GUWAHATI IN ASSAM. End of First Article ==================================================================== Calcutta st final party position wb Calcutta, June 20: PTI: following is the final party position in 294-member west Bengal legislative assembly : total seats : 294 declared : 294 C.P.M. -- 182 R.S.P. -- 18 F.B.L. -- 29 C.P.I. -- 6 S.P. -- 4 D.S.P. -- 2 M.F.B. -- 2 R.C.P.I. -- 1 (Left front's total 244) i.N.C. -- 43 S.U.C. -- 2 G.N.L.F. -- 3 Jharkhand -- 1 j.D. -- 1 ================================================================ Edited to Suit the needs of MNS ===============================================================