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Poojary rules out early election

By Our Staff Correspondent

MYSORE May 30 . The KPCC President, B. Janardhan Poojary, today ruled out early election to the State Assembly even if polls to the Lok Sabha were advanced.

Addressing presspersons after visiting Marase village near here where a woman from the Naik community was shot dead recently, Mr. Poojary said the election to the State Assembly would be held after the Congress Government completed its term in September 2004. However, the Congress was preparing for early polls to the Lok Sabha.

Though the BJP leader, Pramod Mahajan, had hinted that the election to the Lok Sabha might be held in March 2004, it could be held earlier, possibly during this November, Mr. Poojary said, and added that the Congress was ready to face it. He categorically ruled out the possibility of the Congress Government in the State dissolving the Assembly and going for early election to coincide with the Lok Sabha polls.

Political circles here were agog with the speculation that the Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, will dissolve the Assembly before its term ended in September 2004 and would call for early election to capitalise on the disunity in the Janata Parivar.

Mr. Poojary said the Janata Dal was vulnerable to disunity and rifts. "They fight among themselves not only when they are in power but also when out of power," he added.

The Congress leader said the Janata Dal could not fool the people by uniting just before elections. "People will easily make out that they have united for the sake of power," he added.

Mr. Poojary was confident of the Congress returning to power in the State. The party would fight the election on the planks of stability and progress, he said.

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