11.  Bombs explode in office of pro-government Tamil party in Sri Lanka,

12.  But other Tamil parties have welcomed the proposal.

13.  Congress wants Gujral to punish the Tamil party because it supported Sri Lankan separatists who are believed to have killed Gandhi.

14.  Gujral will write to the Congress Party that he will not oust a Tamil party from the government, Reddy said in an interview.

15.  Government ministers had consulted Tamil political parties last week on banning the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the Sunday Leader newspaper said.

16.  Gujral said he was retaining the finance post for himself for the time being, and was still hoping to persuade the Tamil party to return to the government.

17.  Gujral said he would reject a threat by the Congress Party that he expel the Tamil party from the coalition.

18.  However, the UNP stands a better chance of opening a dialogue with the LTTE since it has several Tamil political parties as political allies.

19.  In a preliminary report, judge M.C. Jain indicted a Tamil regional party of supporting the Tamil Tiger rebels of neighboring Sri Lanka.

20.  In the capital, Colombo, five Tamil political parties Monday called for a ceasefire in the war.