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Right
time to grab MC land
Fatehgarh Sahib, February
5
The election time has become a
boon for those who encroach upon the municipal land in Sirhind
constituency, courtesy politicians and municipal officials.
Flouting
EC rules, employees canvass
Chandigarh, February 5
Flouting the Election
Commission's guidelines on conduct of government employees during an
election, hundreds of Punjab Government employees are actively
participating in the election campaign for their favoured candidates.
And in a run-up to the Assembly elections, attendance in various
departments, boards and corporations is increasingly becoming thin.
 Poll
mud-slinging, Bhatti style
Chandigarh, February 5
To keep the voters on their
heels, Jaspal Bhatti’s Nonsense Club is back with yet with another
blow on the present electorate system — this time on the declining
standard of the poll campaigns adopted by various parties for the
forthcoming Punjab Assembly elections.
Jaspal Bhatti, the fake election commissioner, asks the candidates to begin the mud-slinging match at a street play organised by Nonsense Club in Sector-17, Chandigarh, on Tuesday.
— Tribune Photo Pankaj Sharma
Cops
trained to combat biological weapons
Phillaur
Intensive training to combat
hi-tech terrorism including chemical and biological terrorism, coupled
with upholding the human rights are part of the syllabus at the Punjab
Police Academy where NGOs, IAS and IPS officers are trained.
Sushma
plays Hindu-Sikh unity card
Bathinda, February 5
The Union Minister for
Information and Broadcasting and senior BJP leader, Ms Sushma Swaraj,
played the Hindu-Sikh unity card while addressing an election rally in
support of the SAD-BJP alliance candidate, Mr Chiranji Lal Garg, here
last night.
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In
video: The
BJP, facing a tough political competition in Punjab, uses Union
ministers Shahnawaz Hussain and Sushma Swaraj to spearhead the
election campaign in Malerkotla district.
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 Where
royalty mingles with the masses
Patiala, February 5
Once a city of maharajas and
maharanis which still addresses the erstwhile royalty by the same
name, Patiala is seeing a demystifying of the royal legend through a
“Maharani’’ who is making an all-out effort to blend with the
people minus the royal tag.
Capt Amarinder Singh shows the Congress manifesto at a function in Patiala.
Tohra
promises ‘clean’ govt
Amloh, February 5
After a whirlwind tour of
Chamarthal Kalan, Ranghari, Jhambala, Bhari Panchan and Tandha Badha
with his team of supporters, Mr Gurcharan Singh Tohra president,
SHSAD, addressed a well-attended rally at Badhouchi Kalan village
held in favour of Panthic Morcha candidate, Mr Harnek Singh Dhiwana,
contesting from the Amloh (Reserved) Assembly segment.
Ambika
not in race for CM post
Balachaur, February 5
“I am not in the race for
chief ministership,” says Mrs Ambika Soni, general secretary of
the AICC, maintaining that her “only vested interest was that the
present SAD-BJP government should be voted out of power"”.
Temple
issue bait to garner votes: Buta Singh
Phagwara, February 5
Former Union Home Minister and
Congress stalwart Buta Singh last night alleged that the Vishwa
Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the BJP were using the temple issue as a
bait to garner Hindu votes and misleading the public, particularly
the NDA partners.
KEY CONSTITUENCY
Situation
fluid in Ferozepore
Ferozepore, February 5
The Congress vote bank in the
city constituency appears to be in a state of uncertainty. The
voters foresee a battle for supremacy between Mr Sukhpal Singh Nannu,
the adopted son of BJP MLA Girdhara Singh, and Mr Bal Mukand Sharma
of the Congress, who enjoyed a Cabinet berth in the government of
the late Beant Singh.
FIRST-TIMER
A
foreign-returned social worker
Sangrur, February 5
Before entering into the
current Assembly poll fray as a Congress candidate from Sangrur
Assembly segment, he was known as a social worker in the district.
About four years ago, he set up the Umeed Khanna Foundation, a
social organisation with pilot project “Health at the doorstep”.
Bir
Devinder tainted, says Cong rebel
SAS Nagar, February 5
Striking a rapport with the
rural voters, a dissident Congress leader, Mr Balbir Singh Sidhu,
who is contesting the Assembly elections from the Kharar seat as an
Independent candidate, today listed the development works undertaken
by him in the area in the past five years.
Show
of strength at Sohi’s rally
Door-to-door
campaign by Kanwaljit’s kin
Reports
on rly overbridge ‘true’
POLL
BRIEFS
MC
men prevented from removing flags
Bathinda, February 5
Employees of the local
Municipal Council (MC) engaged in removing flags and other
election-related material from government property in the city are
finding it difficult to do their job due to the opposition of
supporters of political parties.
It
is langar time for rural voters
Patiala, February 5
Elections couldn’t have come
to the state at a better time for the ruralites. The farmers as well
as landless labourers are participating in the elections with gusto
on a daily diet of “langar’’ and “daaru’’.
LHRI
split on case against Bhattal
Bathinda, February 5
Mr Jatinder Rai Khattar, former
president of the District Bar Association and Organising Secretary,
Lawyers for Human Rights International (LHRI), has said the
corruption case registered against former Punjab Chief Minister
Rajinder Kaur Bhattal should be withdrawn as she is innocent.
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cops shifted for flouting poll code
Rampuraphul, February 5
In an unprecedented move, the
district police authorities today transferred three police
officials, including two station house officers (SHOs) of two police
stations falling in this Assembly segment for allegedly violating
the code of conduct. The Punjab Power Minister, Mr Sikander Singh
Malooka, is facing a tough fight from a youth leader, Mr Gurpreet
Singh Kangar, in this segment.
Missing
man found murdered
Jalandhar, February 5
Panic spread among residents of
the city when Amarnath (40), who had been missing for the past two
days, was found murdered in the fields at Khurla Kingra village this
evening. This is the second murder in the past three days here.
Illicit
liquor seized in Lambi
Lambi (Muktsar),
February 5
Six residents of the home
constituency of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, from where he is
contesting in the coming Assembly elections also, have been booked
under the Excise Act for possessing illicit liquor allegedly to be
used to woo the voters.
 GND
varsity wins overall trophy
Amritsar, February 5
Host Guru Nanak Dev University maintained its supremacy in cultural filed by retaining the
overall championship in the All-India Inter-varsity National
Maharaja Youth Festival-2002 which concluded here today. It also won
music and theatre trophies.
Participants
exult at the conclusion of the inter-varsity youth
festival on Tuesday. — photo Rajiv Sharma
Students
protest against alleged harassment
Patiala, February 5
Saru Rana, a student of Fine
Arts department of Punjabi University, who has alleged harassment by
the university authorities, today protested outside the Fine Arts
Department along with her mother and dozens of university students.
Gallery
with a difference
Patiala, February 5
 There
is every reason for Patiala’s Punjabi University to be proud of
its latest addition. It is the only university in India to set up a
botanical photo gallery recently. The gallery displays over 600
photographs of diverse plant species — sacred, diseased,
medicinal, poisonous, common and endangered — as also of famous
scientists involved in botanical research. The gallery, with an
aesthetic design, offers an ambience reminiscent of an art gallery.
A view of the botanical photo gallery in Punjabi University, Patiala
Cultural
team arrives from Tripura
Patiala, February 5
A 34-member cultural team from
Tripura, under the aegis of the North Eastern School Student
Cultural Exchange programme arrived here today.
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