Monday, July 6, 1998
Kashmir gets Rs 250 crore Central aid
The Centre has announced a Rs 250 crore assistance to Jammu and Kashmir to help overcome the state's financial crisis and resolved to meet the state's expenditure to combat militancy. The Centre will meet the state's Plan requirement by bridging resource gaps and providing funds for a suitable Plan size and will also provide additional funds to restore infrastructure damaged by militancy under a bailout plan finalised at a high-level meeting chaired by Home Minister L K Advani.
Pawar rushes to Delhi as MPCC war hots up
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sharad Pawar, rushed to New Delhi from Pune last evening cancelling his earlier scheduled stopover in Mumbai, amidst simmering differences over the appointment of the new MPCC president. The selection of the new chief, following Ranjit Deshmukh's resignation, may turn piquant with the anti-Pawar camp stating that it did not want "a Pawar loyalist like Deshmukh as the next MPCC chief."
Vajpayee, Jaya meet will be held shortly
A meeting between Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and AIADMK president J Jayalalitha is likely to take place shortly to sort out differences between the two parties that had put a question mark on the continuance of the BJP-led government. The possibility of a meeting between Vajpayee and Jayalalitha was the outcome of discussions, two ministers of the BJP-led coalition had with the AIADMK chief in Chennai.
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