This is the front page of The Indian Express published on October 14, 1984, Forty Years Ago.
The Akali leadership is not likely to agree to any settlement with the government on their political demands without the release of the SGPC president, G S Tohra. The government has been in regular contact with some Akali leaders who have been released and are managing party affairs. But the general public is agitated and it might be difficult for the present party leadership to go against their wishes.
AP House dissolution
Despite his repeated assertions to the contrary, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, N T Rama Rao, is likely to recommend to the governor next week the dissolution of the State Assembly. Rama Rao is credited with the view that he should seek Assembly elections along with the Lok Sabha polls. All 148 ruling Telugu Desam MLAs have been summoned to the city, presumably to make them agree.
Irish guerrilla attack
Firemen searched for a fourth body in the rubble of a Brighton hotel devastated by an Irish guerrilla bomb aimed at the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and other British government leaders. Fifteen of the 34 people injured in the pre-dawn blast were still undergoing treatment. Doctors said the trade and Industry Secretary, Norman Tebbit, widely regarded as heir apparent to the Conservative Party, was “stable and comfortable”.
BJP Calls Out Cong
The Bharatiya Janata Party held the Congress (I) government responsible for “jeopardising national unity, subverting democracy, creating conditions of near anarchy and corroding the moral fibre of the society”. In a draft resolution on the political situation, the BJP accused the ruling party of scaring the people with a “nightmare of instability”.
