This is the front page of The Indian Express published on September 5, 1984, Forty Years Ago.
A Supreme Court judge has been forced to stay in a Delhi guest house for the past few months following the disinclination of a former minister’s family to vacate the bungalow allotted to the judge as official residence. After his transfer from the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, Justice Khalid has made the two ground floor rooms of Kerala House his home.
A P Assembly
The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly is being convened on September 11 to test the claim advanced by Chief Minister N Bhaskara Rao of the majority support in the 294-member House. “It is people’s victory in saving democracy,” the deposed Andhra Pradesh chief minister, N T Rama Rao, said about the convening of the Assembly.
High Priests’ Demands
The withdrawal of the Army from the Golden Temple and a halt to “kar seva” by Santa Singh are among the three conditions set out by the five head priests to cancel the proposed march to the Temple on October 1. The priests also demanded restoration of the authority of the SGPC as the third condition. “If these terms were accepted, peace could return to Punjab”, they asserted. They said that their decision to take out the march was not political.
Rent Control
The economic administration reforms commission (EARC) headed by L K Jha says that the tenant is “overprotected” by the rent control legislation as it stands in the country. In its 11th report on rent control, the EARC says that a law to protect the weak can become an instrument of exploitation in the hands of the strong. Rent control in actual operation tends often to protect the “haves” against the “have nots”.
