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India Today issue dated August 30, 1999
August 30, 1999

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Elections 99

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"We communists don't give up. But health permitting, I will be there."
Jyoti Basu, West Bengal chief minister, saying he would accept prime ministership if offered to him after the polls, in a TV interview

"The model code of conduct is sometimes good as it helps in avoiding what we do not want to do."
Pramod Mahajan, I&B minister, on the restrictions put by the Election Commission during the polls

"This mai-baap theory that one or two families can run this country of 100 crore people...it's an insult."
Arun Nehru, BJP candidate from Rae Bareli, on his opposition to politics being made a 'family affair'

"People's representatives should be elected with the same care as one would delect a husband for one's daughter."
C Subramaniam, former Maharashtra governor, at a public function in Chennai

"This break has been good as two of our team members have got married."
Anshuman Gaekwad, Indian cricket coach, at the Chennai camp for the triangular series in Sri Lanka

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