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Thursday, Dec 23, 2004

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Janata Dal (U) ratifies move to end alliance

By Our Staff Correspondent

BELGAUM, DEC. 22. The Janata Dal (United) district unit has ratified the decision of its State unit to end its ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and go it alone in the elections in future.

A unanimous resolution was adopted in this regard at a meeting of party functionaries from Belgaum, Bagewadi, Khanapur and Uchagaon Assembly constituencies here on Wednesday.

Vasant Kulkarni, senior vice-president of the district unit of the party, presided over the meeting. M.P. Nadagouda, MLC, was present.

The party members, particularly Muslims and Dalits, said the party's poll tie-up with the BJPhad discouraged secular forces from supporting it.

The party suffered electoral losses for different reasons and its alliance with the BJP was one of them.

Kalsa-Banduri nalla

The party adopted a resolution urging the State Government to pressure the Centre to give early clearance for the Kalsa-Banduri Nalla project.

In another resolution, the party urged the Chief Minister, N. Dharam Singh, to lead an all-party delegation to New Delhi to impress upon the Centre to go by the recommendations of the Mahajan Commission on the issue of Belgaum.

The former Railway Minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief had sanctioned Rs. 50 lakhs for an overpass on Dharwad Road here in 1992.

But since then neither the State Government nor the Belgaum City Corporation made matching grants to start the work.

The party decided to launch an agitation in different forms from the first week of January.

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