POLITICS-Gathering of the Faithful

only Rs 30 lakhs, and that too largely during a particularly bad drought year. This was for the second time in three weeks that action had been taken against a senior IAS officer. Earlier, the commissioner of Jabalpur division had been summarily removed from his post for his alleged "failure to pay proper attention to implementation of the 20-point programme". He has been BOMBAY was plastered all over last month with posters heralding the first ever 'National Convention of the Intelligentsia'. The All-India Conference of Lawyers (AICL), organisers of the convention, invited the country's "intelligentsia" to gather and discuss the "serious threat posed to the security of India by the impending supply of US arms to Pakistan and the dangerous role of politics of agitation at this juncture".