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The Rediff Election News 1999 - part 3
The Rediff Election news, 1999 - PART 1
The Rediff Election news, 1999 - PART 2
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October 8, 1999
• Senior leaders discuss Maharashtra situation with Sonia
• DMK mulls over joining NDA government at Centre
• DMK front makes solid gains in TN
• Sunil Dutt wins in Bombay North-West
• Most stars fail to dazzle voters
• Congress has suffered losses: Sonia
• SDF heading for absolute majority in
Sikkim
• SDF sweeps Sikkim
• Sonia breaks all records in Amethi
• Sharad Yadav not interested in cabinet berth
• Anti-incumbency rules in Karnataka
• BJP inching closer to 300 mark
• Congress suffers total eclipse in Orissa
• BJP wins 29 seats in MP
• BJP win buoys markets
• Hung assembly in Maharashtra; Congress emerges as the largest party
• Sena-BJP wins 28 LS seats in Maharashtra
• Break for some, heartbreak for others
• Kith and kin battle for mantle
• UDF alleges Left foul play in Kannur, Kasargod
• CPI sinks without trace in Kerala
• Jaffer Sharief throws hat in Karnataka ring
• Bad show for BJP in Karnataka
• In Karnataka many bigwigs bite the dust
• Organisational problems caused Congress debacle in MP: Kamal Nath
• Kalyan owns 'full moral responsibility' for poor showing
• We will respect the public mandate, says Digvijay Singh
• TDP must join govt at Centre: Dattatreya
• Samosas will never taste the same again
• BJP alliance wins 40 in Bihar; Laloo loses
• Congress in Karnataka, TDP-BJP in AP, but it is a hung assembly in Maharashtra
• Congress sweeps Assam; AGP decimated
• TDP gets majority on its own in AP
• Spectacular show by TDP, BJP in AP
• TDP, BJP set to sweep AP
• BJP sweeps south Gujarat
• BJP bags just 29 seats, Congress nine, and the SP 24 in UP
• TDP sweep vote of confidence for Naidu
• BJP threatens to change Bihar's political profile
• Naidu becomes just fourth AP CM to return his party to power
October 7, 1999
• Mamata wins Calcutta South
• Vajpayee wins by 123,000 votes
• Tripura sees red
• DMK wins two seats in TN
• NDA comfortably ahead in TN
• Sensex sheds 11 points
• SDF gains absolute majority in Sikkim assembly polls
• BJP bags 15 seats in Rajasthan
• Akali Dal-Badal suffers setback, Congress
gains in Punjab
• BJP inching towards majority
• BJP wins 22 seats; Congress gets 7
• Congress faces rout in Orissa
• Pall of gloom over Manmohan's home
• BJP on a winning streak in MP
• Manmohan Singh loses
• BJP wins five seats
• BJP wins two LS seats in Maharashtra
• BJP leads the pack in Maharashtra with three wins
• Patna HC stays Madhepura result
• UDF makes gain in Christian, Muslim belts of Kerala
• NC swallows valley, set to take Ladakh
• J H Patel, Yediyurappa defeated as
Congress wins majority in Karnataka
• Congress wins 10 LS seats in Karnataka, set for more gains
• Jagmohan wins from New Delhi
• BJP-INLD combine sweeps Haryana
• BJP on a winning streak in Gujarat
• Goa elects BJP MPs for the first time
• BJP blanks out Congress in Delhi
• Vajpayee's men take the lead in Bihar
• It may swing either way in Assam
• TDP-BJP alliance seems set to sweep AP assembly
• TDP-BJP alliance may sweep AP
• BJP-TDP alliance leads in 16 LS seats
• TDP wins 5 assembly seats, Cong 2, BJP 2 and MIM 3 in AP
• BJP finds results 'satisfactory'
October 6, 1999
• Gill is happy with the way the election went
• Bihar poll ends in peace
• EC rejects Sharad Yadav's demand
• Sharad Yadav begins indefinite dharna
• Tight security for counting tomorrow
• EC acts on complaints about EVMs in Bangalore seats
• Elections saw the best of times, the worst of times
• HC judgement on booth-wise counting stayed
October 5, 1999
• Surjeet promises third front 'immediately'
• Six arrested in Orissa for booth capturing
• Amethi results on October 7
• NDA shouldn't be invited to form govt, says Swamy
• Repolling in 3 UP booths
• Sharad Yadav threatens indefinite fast
• EC orders repoll in 166 booths in Bihar
• Election Commission lifts Model Code of
Conduct
• 35 per cent vote in Outer Manipur despite
Naga boycott call
• 'This is happening because we are Muslims'
• 'Technology is not the issue... It is about managing the
change'
• NC polling agent killed as 14 per cent vote
in Anantnag
• 21 hurt; 7% polling in Anantnag
• 20 hurt in Anantnag
• Low turnout, violence mar Anantnag poll
October 4, 1999
• 40 pc polling in Rae Bareili till 1300 hrs
• Estimated 40 per cent polling, six killed in violence
• RJD leader killed in Bihar violence
• 5 policemen killed in Assam, 7 in Tripura
• 55-60 pc voting in Amethi; 28% in Lucknow
• Lucknow verdict may not thrill Vajpayee
• DD exit poll gives NDA 287 seats
• 56 pc polling recorded in final phase
• 55 pc polling recorded in Orissa
• Arunachal bucks the trend, sees peaceful polls
• About 65 per cent turnout in violence-marred Tripura polls
• 70 pc polling in Bengal despite shadow of violence
• 14 killed in final phase of polling
• Security forces on 'maximum alert' for Anantnag polling
• 51 per cent polling in UP
• 50 to 55 per cent voting in Hoshangabad and Vidisha
• 77 per cent polling in Sikkim
• 60 per cent voting in Narasaraopet
• 80 per cent cast their vote in Lakshadweep
• Gill is a satisfied man
October 3, 1999
• All the prime minister's men
• Longest ever poll process finally ends tomorrow
• JD-U asks EC to defer poll in Bihar
October 2, 1999
• 'My goal is to bring together Mulayam Singh and Kalyan Singh under a common banner'
• 'We will see him again during the next election'
• Black Cat on the prowl in Bansgaon
• Assam prepares for poll amidst fear of insurgency
• Get ready for some of the biggest electoral battles
• BJP urges EC to keep state ministers off Madhepura
• Election process will conclude by October 10
• Floods threaten polls in Bihar
• Tight security for the fifth phase
October 1, 1999
• Uma Bharti prefers Rabri to Sonia
• Sonia hopeful of a majority for Congress
• NDA is not an alliance, says Congress
• Another Anantnag candidate escapes militant attack
• ULFA ambushes Assam minister, 4 killed
• HC asks CBI to probe Narasaraopet blast
• Congress sure of winning 20 UP seats
• IAF choppers pressed into duty in Tripura
• Bihar takes special steps to prevent poll violence
• Ghosi: Where the Rais wash their dirty linen
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