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Cong. plans blackflag demo during Advani visit

By Our Special Correspondent

Chennai Aug. 5. Tamil Nadu Congress leaders and cadres will show blackflags to the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K.Advani, during his visit to the State on August 25, the TNCC president, S.Balakrishnan, announced today.

Mr.Advani is expected to participate in a function to mark the culmination of a rath yatra organised by the Tamil Nadu BJP.

Talking to the media here, Mr.Balakrishnan said the demonstration was to condemn Mr. Advani's alleged role in the demolition of the Babri masjid at Ayodhya and his recent "anti-secular'' remarks.

On the recent hunger-protest by a section of Youth Congress cadres and counter-feasting protest by another group, Mr.Balakrishnan said the party's disciplinary committee had taken cognisance of the incidents. Later in the evening, he left for Delhi along with the working president, E.V.K.S.Elangovan, the former MP, Peter Alphonse, and the former MLA, K.S. Alagiri, to "inform the high command" of the membership drive and other activities taken up by the TNCC chief.

His trip comes a week after the AICC secretary, G.K.Vasan, led a group of MLAs and former MPs to complain to the president, Sonia Gandhi, that the party was not functioning at all under the dual leadership of Mr.Balakrishnan and Mr.Elangovan.

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