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- From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
- Subject: India - By-elections in April
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 22:01:12 GMT
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- Source : The CGI
- Date : Jan 21, 1993
- Country : India
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- * Election Commission Revises Decision, Schedules By-polls for April
- * Presidency college turns 175
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- * Election Commission Revises Decision, Schedules By-polls for April
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- New Delhi - April 21: The election commission has revised its earlier
- decision and decided to hold by-elections in three parliamentary and 14
- assembly seats in different parts of the country in the first week of
- April.
- The commission has, on the request of the cabinet secretary,
- issued orders for holding these by-elections in the constituencies not
- affected by any court proceedings.
- The commission also passed orders for intensive revision of
- Andhra Pradedesh barring Karwan and Chandrayangutta (both in the state
- capital Hyderabad) assembly constituencies by 24th of next month.
- In its earlier decision on Jan 11, the commission decided to
- restrict the Feb 15 polls to general elections to the state assemblies
- of north-eastern states of Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura.
- The decision based on the specific request of the cabinet
- secretary for the postponement in the light of the delicate situation
- in the country following post-mosque demolition developments.
- While by-elections will be held for Parliamentary seats in
- Ottapalam -Kerala, Jalandhar in Punjab and Palani in Tamilnadu, the
- 14 assembly constituencies to go to polls are : Rayachoti and Panyam
- (Andhra Pradesh), Goh (Bihar), Rapar, Gadhada, Kundla, Jhalod and Jambusar
- (Gujrat), Narwana (Haryana), Guhagarm Chinchpokli, Parel, Kinwat and
- north Solapur in Maharashtra.
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- * Presidency college turns 175
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- Calcutta, Jan 20 - West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, arch rival
- S.S.Ray, Ashok Mitra, Amlan Dutta, Sukanta Chawdhary, Amartya Sen,
- Veteran journalists R.P.Goenka, Pritish Nandy, --- all spent their youth
- in the corridors of the Presidency college here.
- They all get together again at their alma mater on Wednesday
- when the college celebrates its 175th anniversary to muse over the
- cataclysmic role it played in the socio-political history of Bengal.
- The nostalgia to dwell on the legends, traditions and
- memorabilia associated with the college whose history is entwined with
- movements like the Bengal renaissance and the Naxalite uprising, must
- engross them.
- The Hindu college, set up in 1817 to tutor 'sons of
- respectable Hindus in the English and Indian languages and in the
- literature and science of Europe and Asia' was its predecessor. The
- Hindu college was rechristened Presidency College in 1855.
- An architectural splendour with its improvised doric columns,
- neo-greek arches, fluted pillars and antiquated cast-iron gate, the
- main building of the college is truly built in the colonial style,
- complete with a turret clock, repaired at a huge cost for the
- anniversary bash.
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