The World - News from May 9, 1986
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The government in India’s troubled Punjab state suffered a setback when 27 legislators broke from the ruling Sikh party, the Akali Dal, to protest a police raid on the Golden Temple at Amritsar. The 27 rebel legislators were immediately recognized as a separate political party by the Speaker of the Punjab assembly. The split did not immediately threaten Chief Minister Surjit Singh Barnala’s government, which has the support of several of the state’s opposition parties, including Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress-I Party.
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