THE 19th of March was a particularly bad day for Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao. He received two clear rebuffs from two separate constitutional authorities. The first came in the morning from President Shankar Dayal Sharma, who declined assent to the two ordinances which had been sent to him by the Government for approval. In the afternoon, the Election Commission turned down the Government's request to delay the announcement of the schedule for the 11th general elections to the Lok Sabha.