VOL. 100, NO. 66 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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THURSDAY NOV. 30, 1989
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Gandhi quits post as prime minister
The Associated Press
Opposition parties began trying to assemble a coalition.
NEW DELHI, India — Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi resigned yesterday, and for only the second time since independence in 1947 his Congress Party did not claim the right to form the next government.
Gandhi submitted his resignation to President Ramaswamy Venkatraman and said he was ready for the role of opposition leader.
"The people have given their verdict," he said in a televised speech last night.
Congress won more Parliament
"A new government will be formed. We extend to them our good wishes and offer them our constructive cooperation," said the 45-year-old Justice for the People who own Parliament seat overwhimingly for a third time.
seats in last week's elections than any other party but was far short of a majority.
The Congress Party has been out of office only once since independence from Britain.
National Front leaders predicted yesterday that they would choose the next prime minister, but differences arose among the five parties.
"There will be trouble in the party if V.P. Singh is not elected prime minister," said Jaipal Reddy of Janata Dal, or People's Party, largest of the five parties in the National Front.
Singh is a former Gandhi minister and ally who has become his most prominent political foe.
Left-handers encounter
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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 29, 1989
Modig, campus director of a planning, said that the fixed in lecture halls was a part of an package of a building.
and that he didn't recall the problem of lefying seating are halls had ever been to his attention but that his ad considered buying free- left-handed desks.
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waste management
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