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River-linking taskforce chief quits

BSS, New Delhi, April 3
New Age
Sun, April 04, 2004
 

Suresh Prabhu has resigned as chairman of the taskforce on India’s controversial interlinking of rivers project that seeks to divert waters from all the common international rivers of South Asia for India’s benefit.
   
Prabhu cited contesting parliamentary polls as the reason for his resignation. He wanted to avoid being disqualified on the ground of “holding an office of profit” as the taskforce chairman.
   
He sent his resignation papers on March 31 and got it accepted by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Hindu daily reported.
   
He will contest in Lok Sabha, lower house of the parliament, from Rajapur in Maharashtra, which goes to polls on April 26, on the ticket of Shiv Sena, a coalition partner of the BJP-led NDA.
   
A chartered accountant by profession, he was a lawmaker from the same constituency in the last Lok Sabha. He is expected to file his nomination papers on April 5.

Source: New Age.

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