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Admn complex inaugurated
Ferozepur, November 12
The SAD-BJP combine will contest the forthcoming assembly elections in the state on the issue of “communal harmony and peace,” stated Parkash Singh Badal while talking to the media persons here today. Badal was here to inaugurate the District Administrative Complex ( DAC) constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 56.91 crores and an Old Age Home constructed at a cost of Rs 55 lakhs by the District Red Cross Society on the premises of the Home for the Blind, here.

Cops did not provide us food: Arrested linemen
Gidderbaha, November 12
A day after the Gidderbaha police arrested 124 unemployed linemen for their attempt to disrupt Chief Minister’s Sangat Darshan programme here, they were sent to the Faridkot jail for five-day judicial custody. The protesting linemen were arrested under Sections 107, 151 of the CrPC yesterday. Most of the arrested linemen alleged that the police did not serve them any food in the past 24 hours in the police lock-up in Gidderbaha and Kotbhai police stations.

Admn complex inaugurated
Anirudh Gupta

Ferozepur, November 12
The SAD-BJP combine will contest the forthcoming assembly elections in the state on the issue of “communal harmony and peace,” stated Parkash Singh Badal while talking to the media persons here today.

Badal was here to inaugurate the District Administrative Complex ( DAC) constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 56.91 crores and an Old Age Home constructed at a cost of Rs 55 lakhs by the District Red Cross Society on the premises of the Home for the Blind, here.

Badal was accompanied by Irrigation Minister Janmeja Singh Sekhon, Sher Singh Ghubaya MP, Sukhpal Singh Nannu CPS (Revenue), Kamal Sharma, general secretary, BJP, besides scores of other senior SAD-BJP leaders.

Badal said that the state of Punjab had borders Pakistan on the one side and Jammu and Kashmir on the other, adding that at both these places, terrorism and social unrest was prevailing. Notwithstanding this, the atmosphere in Punjab has remained peaceful during the five years of the SAD-BJP regime, he said.

While blowing his own trumpet, Badal said that his government has embarked on massive employment drive in the state under which hundreds of teachers, policemen and officials in other departments have been appointed in a transparent manner.

Cops did not provide us food: Arrested linemen
Balwant Garg
Tribune News Service

Gidderbaha, November 12
A day after the Gidderbaha police arrested 124 unemployed linemen for their attempt to disrupt Chief Minister’s Sangat Darshan programme here, they were sent to the Faridkot jail for five-day judicial custody.

The protesting linemen were arrested under Sections 107, 151 of the CrPC yesterday.

Most of the arrested linemen alleged that the police did not serve them any food in the past 24 hours in the police lock-up in Gidderbaha and Kotbhai police stations.

After these linemen were arrested by the police yesterday, 65 of them were sent to the Kotbhai police lockup and 59 were in Gidderbaha police station.

Today, when they were produced before the SDM court, they were served fruits and lassi by their companions in the Unemployed Linemen Union, Punjab.

While the police denied allegations of not serving any food to the accused linemen in the lock-up, Hardeep Singh, one of the arrested linemen, said the police even did not allow their companions to meet them in the police lock-up to serve the eatables.