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Badal wants Centre to withdraw hike
Liquor quota scam surfaces in Moga
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Advani to touch 10 towns in Bathinda, Barnala dists
Tributes paid to Sajjan Singh Dhillon
Congress leaders paying tributes to Sajjan Singh Dhillon during a bhog ceremony in Barnala on Friday. A Tribune photograph Appointed  Bathinda, November 4
The ruling SAD has nominated Gursewak Singh Sidhu, a local lawyer, as general secretary of the legal cell of the party. Earlier, Sidhu was general secretary of the Bathinda Bar association. His nomination has been welcomed by senior leaders of the SAD, including Sikendar Singh Maluka and president of the bar association Rajan Garg. — TNS
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Increase in petrol price
Mehal Kalan (Barnala) November 4 Speaking at a Sangat Darshan programme here, Badal said the sixth hike in quick succession within a year would hit the economy badly. He accused the UPA government of trying to benefit the private oil barons by recklessly recommending the hike in the price of petroleum products without showing the least concern for the common man. Badal asserted that rather than hastily increasing the price of petrol, the UPA government should have taken an initiative to build consensus by discussing the issue with all the political parties. He said that the totally unwarranted hike in petrol price would not only break the back of the common man who is already suffering but will also unleash fresh inflationary trends which in turn would dampen the economy and further slow down the growth rate. Badal lamented that the spiralling inflation had already touched the double digits and was beyond the control of the UPA government despite its hollow assertion of controlling it. The Chief Minister also pointed out that reports of the Centre's plan to hike the price of diesel and LPG would further hit the common man. He said that former Chief Minister Surjeet Singh Barnala and PPP President Manpreet Singh Badal would never succeed in misleading the people. Their "Sanjha Morcha" would meet the same fate as that of the Panthic Morcha, he added. Referring to the "dismal" performance of the Congress party during its previous tenure as compared to unprecedented development during the present regime of the SAD-BJP, Badal said that it would meet the same fate as the party faced the worst ever debacle in the recently concluded Hisar by-election in Haryana. This was perhaps for the first time in the political history of the country that the official candidate of the ruling Congress failed to save even his security deposit, Badal added. He said that the federal structure of the country should be restored and the states given more financial power and equitable share in the resources. The Chief Minister also announced sub-tehsil status for Mehal Kalan and disbursed a grant of Rs 9.14 crores for the execution of various ongoing development works in 75 villages of the area. |
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Liquor quota scam surfaces in Moga
Moga, November 4 Confirming this, A. Venu
Prasad, Excise Commissioner, revealed that he ordered a random checking in the districts in view of the modus operandi adopted at Moga in the scam. "I have asked Param Pal Singh, deputy excise and taxation commissioner, to hold an inquiry and report to his office for further action,” he said. Meanwhile, Hardeep
Bhamra, assistant excise and taxation commissioner of Moga revealed that an office executive posted here issued five liquor permits of L-13 pertaining to additional quota in the name of H & H Wines,
Bathinda, a firm running liquor shops in Moga, without depositing the excise duty. Instead of handing over these permits to H & H Wines, they were handed over to a liquor contractor of Bilaspur who is a local leader of the Congress for lifting the issued quota of liquor illegally from the distilleries. "I got information a few days back and stopped the lifting of liquor from the distilleries to prevent revenue loss. The permits have been seized and the office executive suspended,” she said. When asked about the role of excise and taxation officer who signed the permits, Bhamra said the office executive used the login and password of the ETO and the inspector concerned, given to her for routine work, from her computer terminal to enter online details of the issued quota and also managed to get the signatures of the ETO in good faith, she said. The
ETO, Jagtar Singh, claimed that he even made written objections on the application of H & H Wines demanding additional quota which is on record. "In the rush of work, the office executive managed to get my signature in good faith,” he said. Interestingly, these permits were issued on October 24 but the contractors did not purchase the issued liquor quota till October 29 raising doubts on whether they were 'sold' to other contractors who exceeded their limits. "I have stopped this practice asking officials to take appropriate action,” said the excise commissioner. The suspended office executive could not be contacted. |
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Advani to touch 10 towns in Bathinda, Barnala dists
Bathinda, November 4 According to Sunil Singla, media coordinator of the yatra here, BJP activists would welcome Advani at all these places. He would touch Pathrala, Sangat, Jodhpur Romana, Bathinda, Bhucho, Rampura Phul, Tappa, Handiyaya, Barnala and Mahal Kalan before entering Ludhiana. He is expected to address wayside rallies en route. After his overnight halt at Ludhiana, Advani would proceed to Jalandhar and Kapurthala and reach Amritsar in the afternoon. He would proceed to Pathankot on November 15. During the three days of Rath Yatra in Punjab, Advani would address public meetings at Ludhiana, Amritsar and Pathankot. Meanwhile, a meeting of the District unit of the Bharatiya Janta Party (Rural) was held under the presidentship of its president Dayal Dass Sodhi at the Circuit House here. The meeting was held for making preparations to welcome L.K. Advani's Jan Chetna Yatra that will enter Punjab on November 13. Sodhi said this Yatra would enter Punjab from Haryana through Doomwali barrier where it would be welcomed by state president of the BJP Ashwani Sharma, party MLAs and others. After that Advani would address a public gathering at the Grain Market at
Pathrala.
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Tributes paid to Sajjan Singh Dhillon
Bathinda, November 4 Speaking during the occasion, Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh shared fond memories of Sajjan Singh. Local residents, political leaders from different political parties and others attended the bhog ceremony. — TNS |
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Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today lambasted the Congress-led UPA government for increasing the price of petrol by Rs. 1.82 per litre and demanded the immediate withdrawal of this hike which he said was unnecessary.
People from all walks of life today paid tributes to the leading industrialist Sajjan Singh Dhillon, father of Congress MLA from Barnala.
The antim ardas and bhog ceremony of Sajjan Singh took place at the Barnala residence of Congress MLA, Kewal Singh
Dhillon.
