COVER
STORY
Spit and Run
As the voters queue up for what is widely billed as
the final and greatest democratic carnival of the millennium, the 13th general election is
increasingly an unseemly free for all in the mud pit. Election '99 will be remembered as
the dirtiest in recent memory.
ELECTIONS 99
Ladies in Poll Combat
From 599 contestants contestants in the 1996 polls, the number of women candidates
dropped to 274 last year. This year, if the picture looks a shade brighter, the credit
should go largely to the Congress. A look at some of the women in the fray.
Poll Diary
News, Views, Footloose
Selling Hard
Key national player,techno-
savvy moderniser, mass leader -- Naidu positions himself to make the assembly polls a
contest for him as CM, Vajpayee as PM. |
