Wedneday, April 30, 1958


Nehru Desires To Quit Office
New Delhi, April 29.

Prime Minister Nehru told a Congress Parliamentary Party meeting here today that he must have a period “when I can free myself from this daily burden and can think of myself as an individual citizen of India and not as Prime Minister.”

Mr Nehru said that the time had come when I should place “this rather personal matter before the party and seek its guidance.”

‘No Good Conduct Release’
New Delhi, April 29.

After a battle royal among Congress members themselves in the Lok Sabha, Home Minister Pant withdrew government’s support to Congress member Mr Jaganatha Rao’s amendment to the Probation of Offenders Bill, which would have authorised the courts to release government servants guilty of corruption on probation of good conduct.

Saturday, April 30, 1983


‘Drop PD Ordinance Move’
Our Staff Reporter
Bangalore, April 29

Janata Party leader George Fernandes today came down heavily on the State Government’s move to promulgate a preventive detention ordinance and wanted the idea to be abandoned forthwith.

“The move will be opposed with all the strength at our command, both inside and outside if the Janata Government persists with it,” he declared at a press conference here.