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Family Lies ; Deve Gowda's lust for power sees the first BJP government in the south collapse barely after a week in office. But with assembly elections now a certainty, the former prime minister's antics may well boomerang on him and his carefully crafted plans for his family.
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What Winston Churchill said in another context could well be said
of H.D. Deve Gowda, the humble farmer-turned-chance-prime minister.
Last week, the mysterious Gowda and his inscrutable family dragged
politics in the country to a new low when, exactly seven days after
submitting affidavits to Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Thakur
promising unconditional support to the new BJP government of B.S.
Yeddyurappa, Gowda's Janata Dal(S) pulled the plug on the saffron
party's first-ever government in th...
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Double Trouble ; With Deve Gowda hesitant in letting his son honour the power- sharing agreement with BJP and relinquishing the chief minister's chair, the Government may well be heading for a political crisis
India Today
; Much as in 1994, JD(S) chief H.D. Deve Gowda today, has a battle on hand. Thirteen years ago, he was troubled by bete noire Ramakrishna Hegde's supporters over the issue of chief ministership. He had then managed to hold on to his own. This time it is BJP. The state's Chanakya, Gowda is now trying
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Deccan Dynasty The Deve Gowda clan gets a second-generation chief minister who is at odds with the first. But problems could soon arise as coalition partner BJP is not likely to play second fiddle for long.
India Today
; Former prime minister and JD(S) veteran H.D. Deve Gowda had always harboured a secret ambition to anoint one of his four sons chief minister. However, not in his wildest dreams could he have imagined it happening so soon, and not quite in the way he may have envisioned. When H.D. Kumaraswamy, 46,
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Capital Convert Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan sheds his hardliner image and begins to woo investment, leaving his inner party detractors flummoxed and the Opposition smirking at the volte face
India Today
; Power speaks a different language. V.S. Achuthanandan, it appears, is no stranger to this dictum. Elected chief minister three months ago virtually on an anti-big business, anti-MNC plank, he is gradually realising it makes sense to do business with business. Shrugging off the mantle of an
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Azad named J&K chief minister
India Abroad
; Singh, Onkar India Abroad 11-04-2005 Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is from the Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, will take over from Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on November 2 - exactly three years after the Mufti took oath of office as chief minister. Mehbooba Mufti,
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ACT: Carnell quits as ACT chief minister
AAP General News (Australia)
; AAP General News (Australia) 10-17-2000 ACT: Carnell quits as ACT chief minister By Fiona Hamilton and Elizabeth Gosch CANBERRA, Oct 17 AAP - Kate ...
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India state of Kerala's chief minister completes 100 uneasy days in power.
Economic Times (New Delhi, India)
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The Art Of Survival After a shaky start and a few faux pas, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan appears to have found his footing with a few tough decisions
India Today
; Few chief ministers have entered office with the odds so heavily stacked against them. Not only was there the daunting challenge of emerging from the long shadow cast by former chief minister Uma Bharati but also a series of crises that would have tested a far more experienced politician. For
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Docked in Sabah. (Malaysian state; corruption trial of chief minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan)
The Economist (US)
; MALAYSIA'S ruling Barisan Nasional coalition does not take kindly to opposition. This is something that Sabah in Eastern Malaysia, one of only two opposition-run states in the country, has discovered to its cost. The fact that Sabah's chief minister, Joseph Pairin Kitingan, has been on trial since
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Two questions uppermost about the next Sabah Chief Minister
New Straits Times
; ... uppermost about the next Sabah Chief Minister Byline: Joniston Bangkuai Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2* Section: National Column: News analysis TWO questions have surfaced as Datuk Seri Osu Sukam's two-year term as Sabah Chief Minister draws nearer to a close ...
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ACT: Chief minister stares down no-confidence motion
AAP General News (Australia)
; ACT: Chief minister stares down no-confidence motion By Julian Drape CANBERRA, June 25 AAP - ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope has survived a no-confidence motion in the Legislative Assembly over his handling of a proposed $1 billion gas-fired power plant and data centre. The Liberal opposition never
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