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75 pc polling booths sensitive in district
Police steps up security
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Candidates show their
might, end campaigning with grand show
Liquor contractors cash in on ban
Campaign on Facebook keeps voters posted
Man accuses police of inaction
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75 pc polling booths sensitive in district
Jalandhar, January 28 Phillaur Assembly segment has the highest number of sensitive polling boots, out of 230 booths here, 205 have been declared sensitive. Talking to The Tribune, DC-cum-DEO Priyank Bharti said: “All arrangements have been made to ensure free and fair elections in the district.” The ECI has directed that each sensitive polling booth is to be closely observed by Central government election staff. The DC said 1498 personnel of the paramilitary forces had been deployed at sensitive polling station. He said 424 central micro observers would also be deputed at sensitive booths. The stated that micro observe would directly report to the general election observer. Besides, 3,621 personnel of the Punjab Police will also be deployed at the polling booths. Of them, 1,973 will be armed. |
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Police steps up security
Jalandhar, January 28 The flag march was also taken out in the outskirts of the city to maintain law and order. The police took a halt at Kazi Mandi and other sensitive areas to mark its presence felt. Sharma said the flag march was an attempt to build confidence among general public so that they could exercise their right to vote fearlessly. The police has beefed up security in and around the city, especially around the polling stations and booths across the district. Additional forces have been deployed at sensitive and hyper-sensitive areas, the ADCP added. Elaborated arrangements have been made to check any untoward incident on the polling day. All entry and the exit points to Jalandhar are under tight
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Desperate candidates resort to mudslinging
Banga (Nawanshahr), January 28 At a gathering at Sandhwan village on Behram-Mahilpur road, Congress leader Raghbir Singh termed SAD candidate Ch Mohan Lal his own cousin’s ‘murderer’ and a ‘drug dealer’. Raghbir Singh launched an attack on SAD candidate alleging: “Ch Mohan Lal’s father Swarna Ram had accepted Rs 12.5 lakh as bribe for getting a work done. The BJP was still wise to remove him from the Cabinet and not allocating ticket to him from Phagwara, but SAD committed the biggest blunder by handing over ticket to Ch Mohan Lal overlooking such serious allegations against him”. Ch Mohan Lal, on the other hand has started the dirty game against Congress candidate Soondh, an ex-IFS officer, by raking up old cases of “issuing passports to wanted persons during his tenure as Passport Officer and having remained lodged in jail for the same”. Soondh, on the other hand, has even managed to take uncles and cousins of his rival into his fold as his last ditch efforts. Ch Mohan Lal is also harping on development of the area and also getting sub-division status for it. The candidate of this reserved seat has also tried to woo voters by evoking their religious sentiments by mentioning his plan of getting a memorial constructed in the name of Guru Ravidass and Bhagwan Valmiki in his list of promises. 6 booked for dual votes
The Nakodar police on Saturday booked six persons for having dual votes in the constituency. Those having dual votes have been identified as Charan Kaur, Gyan Singh, Joginder Singh Bhamra, Gurbaksh Kaur, Amarjit Kaur and Mandeep Bhamra, all residents of railway road. Police officials said the accused have been booked following a complaint by the Nakodar Sub-Divisional Magistrate. The accused had votes at the Railway road area and Bhagat Singh Nagar locality of the city. The police said that SDM had also sent evidence which verified the offence of the accused. A case under Sections 420, 465, 467, 468 and 471 of the IPC and 31 of Representation of People’s Act has been registered against the accused, who are still at large. The police said that raids were being conducted to nab them. A few days ago, the Nakodar police had booked seven persons for having dual votes. Dummy EVM
Ch Mohan Lal used a dummy electronic voting machine (EVM) with his name and party symbol to demonstrate its use to voters wherever he went. The machine has ‘ready’ light and other buttons exactly as in the original machine. NRIs to candidates’ aid
NRIs in this belt of Nawanshahr are back home to support their candidates. Even as most of them do not have votes, they have been called by candidates to influence their family members. Soondh’s gathering was held in the house of NRI Joginder Singh, who has returned from the UK. Other NRIs, including Sohan Singh, also from the UK, Harbant Singh and Buta Singh from Canada, and Parwinder Singh from Dubai also attended the event. |
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Candidates show their
might, end campaigning with grand show
Jalandhar, January 28 SAD candidate Pargat Singh of the same constituency also took out a procession in a similar fashion. PPP candidate from Jalandhar (Central) Kuldeep Singh Cheema took out a road show for over an hour. He started the road show from Mahavir Marg. The procession passed through colonies and Ladowali Road before concluding at his party office. BJP’s Jalandhar (West) candidate Bhagat Chunni Lal, however, remained busy in the rally to be addressed by actor-turned politician Shatrugan Sinha this evening. |
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Pre-election booze party on
Jalandhar, January 28 Yesterday the police seized 5,109 bottles of liquor 20,000 kg of lahan and 7,350 boxes of liquor in the district. At least 6,850 boxes were also seized from a godown in Rama Mandi yesterday. One kg of opium and 4.5 kg ganja was also recovered. With just one day to go for the polls, liquor is expected to flow freely across the district. The police has also recovered 351 gm of smack, 623 gm of intoxicant powder, 61 vials 61, 20 gm of heroin, 78 bottles of cough syrups, 800 injections and over 20 lakh intoxicant tablets/capsules from across the district. |
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Liquor contractors cash in on ban
Jalandhar, January 28 When this correspondent, posing as a customer, went to buy liquor at one of the wine shops near Company Bagh, he found that the liquor bottles were being sold at much higher prices. A liquor bottle which was sold for Rs 220 on any
other day was being sold at Rs 350. Though election commission has strictly instructed the liquor contractors to sell only two bottles per person, many liquor vends were found violating the EC’s instruction. “Though two bottles per person are allowed, still I bought three bottles, and no personnel at wine shop objected to it, said one of the customers. |
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Hoarding war at peak
Jalandhar, January 28 Hoardings having pictures of party bigwigs and photographs of works done can be seen at all key points in the city, including BMC Chowk, BSF Chowk, PAP Chowk, Rama Mandi and Company Bagh Chowk. The Congress hoardings with pictures of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and AICC president Sonia Gandhi are already there at various unipoles in the city. SAD, BJP and Congress candidates have got the space booked on these poles. While BJP’s Jalandhar (Central) candidate Manoranjan Kalia has put up a hoarding highlighting his candidature at PAP Chowk, his Congress rival Rajinder Beri, too, has fixed a hoarding at Kamal Palace Chowk. At some of the places, hoardings of the rival parties can be seen right across one another. Phillaur Congress candidate Ch Santokh Singh has used a huge air balloon in Goraya for publicity. The district election office has fixed an amount of Rs 32,000 per hoarding for each candidate. |
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Campaign on Facebook keeps voters posted
Jalandhar, January 28 In the last phase of election campaign, the state not only witnessed high-profile campaigning, but also social networking war between various candidates on Facebook. Such is the craze of politicians to post interesting poll details that even candidates who never had a Facebook page earlier have managed to do so through their party workers. ‘Jaggi Jeeta’ campaign of the Congress to ‘Jhootha Thaggi’ details, net savvy PPP chief Manpreet Badal, Jalandhar (North )candidate KD Bhandari to Manoranjan Kalia, almost everybody has turned ‘Facebook friends’ of voters these days. As one goes through Facebook pages, what attracts the eye on first account is hilarious attacks of Congress and SAD-BJP on each other. Jeeta Jaggi states: “Akali Bhajpa wale jhooth bol ke thak gaye ne, hun jhooth bolan layi unhane ‘Jhootha te Thaggi’ rakh laye ne.” Congress workers have also uploaded a picture on the ‘Jija- Sala duo’ Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal and Bikamjit Singh Majithia, which states: ‘Sari khudai ek taraf, joru ka bhai ek taraf’ On the other hand, the ‘Jhootha Thaggi’ campaign of SAD-BJP government has been hitting the congress hard through facts and rhythmic slogans but it has no separate page on Facebook. Rakesh Sharma, the state convener of BJP IT Cell said, “Just today we uploaded the link of ‘Jhootha Thaggi’ campaign on our official website BJP Punjab. The page will become active by tommorow and we added all the advertisements on it.” Similarly, Punjab People’s Party (PPP) chief, Manpreet Badal who is one of the net-savvy politicians has shared amazing slogans. One such slogan hitting out the SAD was- “Meri Patang jaye 'Badal-on' ke paar’. Manpreet has been actively interacting with his supporters and urging them to bring a change in the state. His one such common slogan on Facebook is- ‘Be the change. Vote for Change’. Another name in the list of active facebook users is BJP candidate from Jalandhar North, K.D. Bhandari who can be seen wishing a warm ‘Good Morning’ to his supporters to motivating his party bandwagon. Bhandari has also uploaded a sizeable number of news clippings of various newspapers so as to inform the voters about his share in the development of the constituency. Just recently, Bhandari also uploaded his status- ‘Vande Mataram Happy Independence Day to all my friends’. But amidst this, he too does not leave the chance of lashing out at Congress led UPA government. He has shared a picture of ‘How petrol prices have been sky rocketed in India, courtesy UPA government’. Ayesha Pathania a local student who has been an active follower of the political pages said, “Although many politicians have facebook pages but not everybody is involved in using it as a medium to reach out to the masses. Barring a few politicians, usually these pages are being run by the party workers, which should nothing short of befooling the voters again.” Among those candidates, who are not active on Facebook but using the medium are - Congress candidate from Jalandhar North, Avtar Henry, SAD candidate from Jalandhar Cantonment, Pargat Singh and BJP candidate from Jalandhar Central, Manoranjan Kalia. All these candidates have just uploaded their pictures with no friends at all. Pargat’s party workers said, “We have made a page ‘Support Pargat’ for garnering support of the electorate. It was formed the day after his name was announced from the Jalandhar Cantt seat.” |
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Man accuses police of inaction
Jalandhar, January 28 Addressing a press conference, victim Taari, a daily wage earner, said on January 16 when he was riding home, two bike-borne persons who were standing on the road allegedly stopped him on the way and manhandled him. “When I protested, one of the persons punched on my face. The punch was so hard that my tooth broke,” the victim alleged. The same day, the assailants along with their accomplices reached his home and started using abusive language against him and his family members. He said the assailants started throwing bricks at his house. He alleged that his daughter-in-law Kamaljit was injured in the process. “Now, police officials of Shankar village are not
filing our report and are forcing us to strike a compromise,” the victim alleged.
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Bhajji’s academy to hone youngsters’ cricketing skills
Jalandhar, January 28 The ground has eight wickets and an Astroturf. The academy will work in sync with the Jalandhar District Cricket Association (JDCA) and Bhajji’s coach Davinder Arora will train youngsters. Harbhajan, who was at the academy to make the announcement, said he would come to the academy whenever in the city. “I also plan to bring in my Mumbai Indians teammates Jonty Rhodes and Shaun Pollock. Besides, Viru and Yuvi, who run their own academies, will also visit the academy as part of our mutual collaboration,” said Harbhajan. Regarding the fee to be charged from trainees, he said: “I am not here for profit making. My aim will be to nurture young talent not just from the city, but from the entire state.” Chairman of FC Sondhi & Company PC Sondhi said he would gift cricket kits to 11 boys whom Bhajji would select. Surjit Rai Bitta, secretary JDCA, also attended the event. Regarding the programme ‘Ring ka King’ to be telecast on Colors channel from today featuring 30 international wrestlers, Harbhajan Bhajji said that he was the goodwill ambassador of the
programme. Forms to be out soon
Forms for enrolment in the academy will soon be available at Bhajji’s Reebok showroom in Model Town, Jalandhar. Applicants can also download forms from www.hsic.in <http://www.hsic.in> and www.finalscoreindia.com <http://www.finalscoreindia.com>. |
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Basant Panchmi celebrated Students of Cambridge International School celebrated a colourful Basant Panchmi. Students participated in a kite flying contest and the highest kite flyers and those with the most colourful kites were given prizes.. Basant festival was also celebrated at Seth Hukam Chand SD Public Senior Secondary School, Kapurthala Road, Jalandhar. Students of the pre-primary wing dressed in yellow and brought yellow eatables. A kite flying competition was also organised. The festival was also celebrated at the Manav Sehyog School. A special morning assembly was organised by students. A kite-making competition was also organised. Students of APJ School Rama Mandi also celebrated the fetival with aplomb. Dressed in yellow, the students and staff spread the message of kite-flying without Chinese string, to avoid mishaps. Republic Day celebrations
Republic Day was celebrated at Delhi Public School, Jalandhar; Governemnt High School, Patara; DIPS School, Urban Estate; Manav Sehyog School, Shahpur; Mayor World School; Emm Aar International School; APJ School and Eklavya School among others. Students presented patriotic dances on the occasion. The national flag was unfurled at most of these schools and patriotic cultural programmes were held on the occasion. Workshop
A workshop for primary teachers of English was organised at the Dayanand Model School, Model Town, Jalandhar on Friday. Almost 40 teachers from Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Jammu and Kashmir participated in the workshop. Meanwhile, a one day workshop for school principals on ‘professional excellence’ was conducted at the Ramgarhia College of Education, Phagwara. The workshop was organised by Alpha Institute, Phagwara, in collaboration with Ramgarhia College of Education. To empower school principals to handle stress, to set oneself as a role model, to know about optimum utilisation of human resources and to set milestones towards perfection. Around 30 principals participated in the workshop and discussed various problems faced by them in schools. |
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