Poll India: 2004
Rahul files and Sonia to follow today
Rae Bareli: Congress President Sonia Gandhi will file her nomination papers for the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency today. Her mother-in-law Indira Gandhi and father-in-law Feroze Gandhi had earlier represented the constituency. Her son Rahul Gandhi has filed his nomination from the adjoining constituency of Amethi.

Fernandes files from Muzaffarpur
Muzaffarpur: Defence Minister and NDA convenor George Fernandes has filed his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha polls from Muzaffarpur in north Bihar. Fernandes, president of Samata Party, had emerged victorious from the seat four times in 1977, 1980, 1989 and 1991 prior to shifting to Nalanda, which he has represented three times in a row in 1996, 1998 and 1999.

Govinda files from Mumbai North
Mumbai: Filmstar Govinda filed his nomination papers as a Congress candidate from the North Mumbai constituency in Maharashtra. Union Minister for Petroleum, Ram Naik of the BJP is the serving MP from the constituency. The actor had joined the Congress last month.

Manohar Joshi, Jayawantiben Mehta, Kirit Somaiyya, Gurudas Kamath file from Mumbai
Mumbai: Former Union Minister Jayawantiben Mehta, Kirit Somaiyya from the BJP and Gurudas Kamath from the Congress officially entered the election arena. Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi, is the Shiv Sena candidate from Mumbai North Central.
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S&P concerned over fiscal deficit
New Delhi: Standard and Poor's (S&P), the credit rating company has expressed concern over the finances of the Centre and State Governments. The agency's Managing Director, Paul A. Coughlin emphasised that the key to sustain the current growth momentum was "fiscal consolidation". The combined fiscal deficit of the Centre and States currently exceeds 10 per cent of the country's GDP.
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Jaswant: 10.4 per cent growth is sustainable
Thiruvananthapuram: The Union Finance Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, has said that the 10.4 per cent growth in the third quarter was "sustainable," and that the projected growth of more than eight per cent for 2003-04 would be achieved. He also said that the growth figures were not a "figment of my imagination. They have been arrived at by the Central Statistical Organisation."
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