Hisar, November 12
Nominees of the Congress and the INLD today filed their nominations for the byelection to the Adampur Assembly seat in the district.

The INLD nominee, Ram Singh Baswana, was accompanied to the office of the Returning Officer, Amardeep Jain, by former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala.

The Congress nominee, Kulbir Singh Beniwal, was accompanied by Rajya Sabha Member Ram Prakash, minister Randeep Singh Surjewala and Chief Parliamentary Secretary Dharambir Singh.

Addressing party supporters after the INLD nominee filed his papers, Chautala said there was a discernible anti-Congress wave in the state and the Congress nominee was sure to lose his security deposit in the byelection.

He said the HJC-BJP nominee was also likely to meet the same fate as the voters appeared intent on bringing the INLD back to power in Haryana.

He said the Hooda government was sure to be ousted after the byelections to the Adampur and the Ratia seats.

Baswana said he would serve the people of the constituency with all humility and ensure development of the area.

Congress nominee Beniwal said, if elected, he would ensure proper development of the area during the remaining three years of the tenure of the Congress government.

Claiming that his win was certain, he said the Bhajan Lal clan had only served its own interests during the past 43 years.

He said the Adampur electors had made up their minds to end the hegemony of the Bhajan Lal family.

Incidentally, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was not present when Beniwal filed his nomination. 

Ratia (Fatehabad), November 12
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today set in motion the poll campaign of Congress candidate Jarnail Singh by throwing an open challenge to INLD supremo Om Parkash Chautala on the matter of development of the Ratia Assembly segment.

Addressing a public meeting after the Congress nominee filed his nomination papers, the Chief Minister rolled out official figures claiming that Chautala spent a sum of Rs 78.51 crore on Ratia, when he was the Chief Minister of Haryana between 1999 and 2005. In contrast, his government, Hooda said, had already spent Rs 272.92 crore on Ratia from 2005 till date.

“These are all official figures, and if these statistics are found wrong, I will quit politics; otherwise, he should retire from politics and sit at home for befooling people,” Hooda said, throwing an open challenge to his bete noire Chautala, who has been alleging during his public meetings that Ratia has remained without any development during Hooda’s regime.

Hooda alleged that the condition of farmers was pitiable when Chautala was at the helm, and villagers were put in jail for their failure to repay short-term agriculture loans for which the banks charged 11 to 12 per cent rate of interest.

However, he reduced the rate of interest on these loans to 4 per cent and made a policy that no farmer would be put in jail and none’s agriculture land would be attached and auctioned for failure to repay the short-term cooperative loans.

His government’s land acquisition policy, Hooda said, had made small farmers ‘crorepati’ overnight as the rates of their lands had gone up from Rs 2 to 3 lakh per acre earlier to Rs 30 to 35 lakh per acre now.

Ashok Tanwar, MP from Sirsa, who is in charge of the campaign here, pooh-poohed LK Advani’s Jan Chetna Yatra, and said the BJP veteran should set his own house in order first.

Gurgaon, November 12
City bus service will be introduced in Gurgaon and Faridabad in the first fortnight of the coming February.

According to official sources, a fleet of 100 buses would be pressed into service on 8 to 10 routes in gurgaon with a frequency of 10 minutes. Similarly, about 150 buses with10-12 routes would be introduced in Faridabad.

The Chief Minister has approved the proposal and the state government has decided to introduce electronic tickets in these buses.

Procurement of 60 low-floor airconditioned as well as non-airconditioned buses for Gurgaon has been approved. Sanction has also been granted for the posts of General Manager, Works Manager, Traffic Manager and other supervisory staff and multi-skill workshop staff for smooth operations of these buses in the two cities.

The state government had also approved employing 250 drivers and 250 conductors for Gurgaon, as also 350 drivers and 350 conductors for Faridabad on contract basis.

Ambala, November 12
Despite tall claims about development, girls continue to suffer from malnutrition. This fact came to light when about 200 girls, mostly college students, could not donate blood here today as their weight and hemoglobin were found to be below the minimum required standard.

The girls had come to donate blood at a blood donation camp organized by a local NGO, Ambala Health Care and Welfare Society, in the memory of Kedar Nath Sharma, father of local MLA Venod Sharma.

The camp turned out to be the biggest ever blood donation camp organized in the city in which the number of donors crossed 500. In total, 510 persons, including 65 girl students, donated blood.

The camp was inaugurated by former minister Venod Sharma.

A star blood donor Rajender Garg was honoured for donating blood for 153 times. Principal SA Jain College Pardeep Snehi and Principal SD College Desh Bandhu were honoured for donating blood for more than 100 times each. 

Chandigarh, November 12
The Haryana Government today transferred two IAS and 13 HCS officers, including seven Additional Deputy Commissioners (ADCs), with immediate effect.

J. Ganesan, ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Rewari, and M. S. Yadav, ADC-cum-CEO, DRDA, Mewat, will swap their places of posting. Pankaj, SDM, Ellenabad, becomes SDM, Rohtak, vice Jagdish Sharma who goes as Secretary, RTA, Rohtak and Hisar. Anita Yadav ADC-cum-CEO, Faridabad, will be new Joint Commissioner, MCF, Ballabgarh; R.C. Bidhan, ADC-cum-CEO, Bhiwani, and Sujan Singh, ADC-cum-CEO, Rothak, will swap their places of posting. A.S. Mann goes as Estate Officer, HUDA, Rohtak, and Joint Commissioner, MC, Rothak relieving Ashima Sangwan of these charges. Pradeep Godara, City Magistrate, Faridabad, becomes ADC-cum-CEO, Faridabad, vice Anita Yadav.

Ashok Kumar Bishnoi, ADC-cum-CEO, Panipat, goes as Joint Director, HIPA, Gurgaon, against a vacant post. P.K. Sharma, Secretary, HUDA, Panchkula, goes as ADC-cum-CEO, Kaithal. R.S. Verma, Secretary, Backward Classes Commission, has been posted as ADC-cum-CEO, Panipat, vice Ashok Kumar Bishnoi.

Roshan Lal, SDM, Sirsa, and Estate Officer, HUDA, Sirsa, will look after the work of SDM, Ellenabad, vice Pankaj. 

Panipat, November 12
The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Vani Gopal Sharma today found a city doctor guilty of removing a kidney of an unsuspecting patient and sentenced him to an imprisonment for three years.

The doctor had earlier been held guilty by the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate JB Gupta, in September 2009, who had also imposed a fine of Rs 7,000 on the doctor, who runs a nursing home in the district.

According to the case, Suresh Kumar, a resident of UP, had filed a complaint alleging that his wife, Komal, had reported pain in her abdomen, following which she was admitted to Geeta Nursing Home in June 2003. Dr SN Gupta told them that his wife had a stone in the kidney and she had to be operated upon at the earliest.

Kumar got his wife operated at the nursing home, but she again reported pain in the abdomen in November 2005.

Suresh got her examined by doctors at the PGI, who reportedly told him that one of her kidneys was missing, following which he and his relatives held a protest outside the nursing home.

The police registered a case under Sections 326, 420 and 406 of the IPC and Sections 18 and 19 of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act against the doctor in November 2005.

The couple then moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking justice from where the case was referred to the lower court. After hearing the prosecution and the defense counsel, the local court had held the doctor guilty.

However, the doctor then moved the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge, which stated that there was sufficient evidence on record to hold the doctor guilty of the wrongdoing and pronounced the verdict against him.