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NEWSNOTES
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“Organisers
of beauty contests are welcome to hold their shows in my party office
where they need have no fear of the state police.”
Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi Party chief, taunting the Uttar
Pradesh Government’s decision to ban such shows in the state
“He
can’t promote me but he should feel happy that his deputy is working
so hard.”
Chhagan Bhujbal, Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister, when
asked why he did not inform Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh about the
arrest of film financier Bharat Shah
“If the United States can improve trade relations
with communist China, why not with Marxist-ruled West Bengal?”
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, West Bengal chief minister, in reply to
US Ambassador Richard Celeste’s remark that American firms will not
invest in the state until the labour situation improved
“He
sees one of my old films every evening. I don’t want to subject him
to greater torture.”
Amitabh
Bachchan, actor, whose father is yet to see the television game show
Kaun Banega Crorepati, in Filmfare
VIS-A-VIS
“I
have done a lot for kho kho, kabaddi and kushti. Now the time has come
for me to do something for cricket.”
Sharad Pawar
President, Nationalist Congress Party
“Cricket
is in desperate need of a revival and who better than a former national
captain to ensure that?”
Ajit Wadekar
Former Indian captain and coach
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