Rama Rao maintained that he continued to enjoy majority support in the Assembly. The governor took the extreme step of dismissing the ministry as Rama Rao refused to resign.
The Andhra Pradesh Governor, Ramlal, dismissed the Telugu Desam ministry headed by N T Rama Rao and immediately administered the oath of office of Chief Minister to the former finance minister, N Bhaskara Rao. Rama Rao maintained that he continued to enjoy majority support in the Assembly. The governor took the extreme step of dismissing the ministry as Rama Rao refused to resign.
Oppn On TDP
The Opposition leaders and members of Parliament strongly reacted to the dismissal of the N T Rama Rao Ministry in Andhra Pradesh and called the action of the Governor “politically immoral and constitutionally invalid.” The strongest criticism of the dismissal came from the general secretary of the Communist Party of India, C Rajeswara Rao, who said it was yet another instance of “murder of democracy” and attributed it directly to the Prime Minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi.
New DPCC President
The All-India Congress Committee-I’s general secretary, Kajendra Kumari Bajpai, announced that Tajdar Babar, Deputy Chairman of the Delhi Metropolitan Council, has been made president of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee-I in place of Dalip Singh with immediate effect. Singh’s removal has brought to the fore the infighting in the ruling party.
100 Dead in Accident
Over a 100 persons were killed when five bogies of the Jabalpur-Gondia passenger train fell down from a bridge, which was reportedly washed away in floods, into the swollen nahar nullah on the Jabalpur-Gondia narrow gauge line. Around 25 bodies had been fished out from the water, the director general of the Madhya Pradesh police, B K Mukherjee, told ENS.
