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assembly session concludes
MLAs corner govt on SC quota in promotions
Budget passed after two days of debate
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Assembly passes 15 Bills amid Oppn protest
AAP likely to contest bypoll; fissures already in Patiala unit
Ludhiana jail paid for wheat it never got
PTU set to lose control over 238 colleges
Warm send-off to CJ; cases now with fifth Division Bench
SGPC men reach Haryana shrines
SGPC member Surjit Singh Garhi and his supporters leave for Haryana from Rajpura. Tribune photo: JS Virdi
SAD ignoring death row
convicts, allege radicals
Cong protests in Warring's favour
Asstt Registrar, Coop Societies, held for graft
PSPCL nets Rs 61 cr as power theft penalty
Normalcy back in Phagwara after 3 days of tension
Medical university to hold special test to fill 550 seats
Balad Kalan PANCHAYAT land row
Villagers lock school gate in protest
Boy abducted from Jalandhar traced in R’sthan
2 boys escape from kidnappers’ custody
HC notice to Sampla on poll petition
The mangled truck after the accident near Ludhiana on Tuesday. A Tribune photograph
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assembly session concludes
Chandigarh, July 22 Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, who moved the Bill, said all state governments had been directed by the apex court to enact such a law. Under the Bill, the term "damaging act" means an act, agitation, strike, dharna, demonstration, procession or blockade of rail or road traffic by any individual, group of individuals, organisation or party (social, religious or political) that results in damage to any public or private property. The Bill is likely to become a law by the end of this week after the Governor accords his assent to it and the state government issues a notification in that regard. After that, anyone committing a "damaging act" in respect of any public or private property shall be punished with imprisonment up to one year and a fine up to Rs 1 lakh. Anyone committing a "damaging act" using fire or explosive substances can be punished with imprisonment ranging between one and two years. A fine of up to Rs 3 lakh could also be imposed him. Besides the awarded sentence, the guilty will also be liable to make good the loss caused to the property. A decision on the amount will be taken by the competent authority. The amount so determined will be recovered from the organiser of such an act and from those participating in it as arrears of land revenue, which means the amount can be recovered by selling the immoveable or moveable property of the guilty. The offence committed under the new law will be non-bailable and no accused will be released on bail unless the prosecution has been given an opportunity to oppose the bail. A videographic version of the "damaging act" will be considered sufficient evidence under the new law. Under the Bill, public property means any property owned by the Central Government, the state government, any local authority, corporation, board, company or society registered under any Central or state Act. The term private property will mean any property, whether moveable, immoveable (including any machinery) owned by or in the possession of, or under the control of any person, organisation, institution or entity. Trade union leaders say the proposed law has the potential to be misused by the state government to muzzle the voices of dissent against it. If a trade union gives a call far a bandh. Shopkeepers or others can file a complaint with the police that the perishable item lying with them got damaged as these could not be sold due to the bandh. They may claim compensation for the loss under the new legal provisions. In case some people block the road, public and private transporters may seek damages for the loss suffered by them due to non-plying of their vehicles. As the entire burden to manage protesters will be on the organiser, no one would like to organise any protest.
What the ‘tough’ Bill means for you
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MLAs corner govt on SC quota in promotions
Chandigarh, July 22 Unwilling to join the issue, the state government tried to appease the MLAs by expressing its willingness to implement the amendment without giving any assurance or timeframe for doing so. The issue has been hanging fire for several years and in spite of several high powered committees giving a go ahead to its implementation, the government has been withholding it. The issue was raised in the House on the concluding day of the Budget session after a calling attention motion was moved by MLAs Charanjit Singh Channi (Chamkaur Sahib) and Ajaib Singh Bhatti (Bhucho Mandi). The legislators wanted to know why the state government was unwilling to implement the amendment, thus delaying the promotion of many reserved category employees. SAD MLA from Adampur Pawan Kumar Teenu said policies that would benefit the poor should be implemented immediately. “But there is a lobby in the bureaucracy that does not want the policy of reservation in promotions to be implemented. It is for this reason that several reports favouring the reservation have been ignored,” he said. Som Prakash, BJP MLA from Phagwara, who is a former bureaucrat, said the typical bureaucratic answer for failing to implement the amendment was that the “file is untraceable”. Nirmal Singh, SAD MLA from Bassi Pathana, said the state had also failed to implement the reservation policy in appointments and that 45,000 posts meant for Dalits were lying vacant. He said there was no politics behind raising this issue, but they were demanding so for the benefit of backward sections. Just as Minister for Welfare of Scheduled Castes Gulzar Singh Ranike got up to reply, he was interrupted by Som Prakash, who demanded that a timeframe be given for its implementation. Enraged at being cornered by Opposition as well as his own party MLAs, Ranike told Som Prakash to listen to his reply and admonished him that he (Som Prakash, as a bureaucrat) himself never did anything against the law, and said a high-powered committee would be set up to work out modalities on the matter.
About the amendment
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Budget passed after two days of debate
Chandigarh, July 22 During two days of debate on the Budget, the treasury benches claimed it being inclusive and growth-oriented, besides aiming at fiscal consolidation, the Opposition Congress trashed the Budget as being “directionless and lacking vision”. As the discussion and voting on demands for grants relating to the Budget estimates began, members of both the ruling alliance and the Opposition demanded various schemes to be implemented in their constituencies from Budget outlays. MLAs cutting across party lines sought improvement in the education sector. They said the future of Punjab depended on well educated and qualified youth and for achieving this, they demanded that schoolteachers be made more accountable. MLAs Som Prakash (Phagwara) and Kuljit Singh Nagra (Fatehgarh Sahib) said rather than setting up new schools, the budgetary allocation should be used for the maintenance of existing infrastructure.
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Assembly passes 15 Bills amid Oppn protest
Chandigarh, July 22 It also withdrew three Bills, including the one regarding the CrPC that was introduced in 2008. On certain bills such as the Punjab Municipal Corporation and Municipal Bill, the ruling SAD-BJP coalition faced the ire of the Opposition which, led by CLP leader Sunil Jakhar, walked out from the House. Jakhar and other Congress MLAs, including Ashwani Sekhari, opposed the Bills. They urged the government that the property tax be abolished as the Jawaharlal Urban Renewal Mission, under which it was imposed, had already been closed. Even BJP MLA Manoranjan Kalia made some suggestions, which were not accepted. The Congress MLAs walked out from the House urging for doing away the property tax. However, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and Local Bodies Minister Anil Joshi told the House that soon the government would come out with new proposals on property tax and collector rate system. The Punjab Police (Amendment) Bill 2014, aimed at fixing the qualification and terms and conditions of service of chairperson and members of the state police complaint authority and divisional complaint authorities, also came under sharp attack. Jakhar said such authorities would be filled with retired state bureaucrats and original character of such bodies, as proposed by the Supreme Court, had been “drastically diluted”. Congress MLA Charanjit Singh Channi said already, the authorities had not been given any power and were recommendatory bodies in character and thereby, of no good to the public.
Prominent Bills passed
Two new universities The Assembly passed the Rayat-Bahra University Bill and the GNA University Bill to create two new universities. It also passed the Bill to rename Punjab Technical University as IK Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar
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AAP likely to contest bypoll; fissures already in Patiala unit
New Delhi/Patiala, July 22 The consensus to contest was reached at during a meeting of AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal, political affairs committee members Gopal Rai and Ashutosh and members of the Punjab state executive committee (ad hoc) in Delhi. Those present at the meeting held at Kejriwal’s Tilak Lane residence were committee’s national observer Jarnail Singh, senior advocate HS Phoolka, Dr Daljeet Singh, Sucha Singh Chhotepur and Yamini Gomar. The party’s four MPs, Dr Dharamvira Gandhi (Patiala), Prof Sadhu Singh (Faridkot), Bhagwant Mann (Sangrur) and Harinder Singh Khalsa (Fatehgarh Sahib) were also there. “We are likely to contest the Punjab byelections and a consensus regarding this was reached today. The decision has to be taken by the political affairs committee in a day or two,” said Jarnail. Meanwhile, fissures in the AAP’s Patiala unit have come to the fore with party leader Kundan Gogia announcing to contest the Patiala Urban byelection as an Independent candidate. Expressing resentment over the working of the party high command and Patiala MP Dharamvira Gandhi, Gogia alleged the party was drifting away from the spirit of swaraj as its senior leadership was working in an arbitrary and biased manner. “Even Dr Gandhi is favouring his close confidants and ignoring other party workers ever since his victory in the Lok Sabha poll,” he alleged. Gogia was the district convener of AAP’s Patiala unit and was among the 10 candidates short-listed for the Patiala constituency ticket. Dr Gandhi could not be contacted despite repeated attempts. Meanwhile, putting to rest rumours that AAP might not contest the Patiala bypoll, senior party activist Balbir Singh confirmed that the party would contest the election and the high command would shortly announce the name. Sources said at least 10 candidates have applied for the ticket and prominent among these were Dr Balbir Singh, Harjit Singh Adaltiwala, Jaswant Sharma and Mohanjeet Kaur Tiwana.
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Ludhiana jail paid for wheat it never got
Bathinda, July 22 The state government had got conducted special audit for the years 2012-13 and 2013-14 in the working of Bathinda, Patiala, Ludhiana, Ferozepur, Jalandhar, Gurdaspur and Amritsar jails through internal audit (revenue). As per information procured under the RTI from the internal audit department, the fraud was detected in this special audit. Sample this: The Central Jail, Ludhiana, purchased 650 quintal wheat worth Rs 10.12 lakh. It even deposited money to Pungrain, but the jail neither received the wheat nor got its money back. In the same jail, financial irregularities to the tune of Rs 10.56 lakh have also been detected in the purchase of masalas, ghee and salt used in preparing vegetables for inmates. The medicines worth Rs 8.47 lakh already in stock of the Ludhiana jail were shown to have been re-purchased in 2012-13. Apart from it, the jail authorities illegally purchased medicines worth Rs 5.27 lakh without getting any approval. Another anomaly was that the soap and phenyl prepared by inmates in Ludhiana jail factory was found to cost about double the market price. The inmates prepared 12,000 kg soap. As per a letter written by DGP (Jails) on May 27 last year, the price to prepare soap was fixed at Rs 35.40 per kg and that of phenyl at Rs 20 per litre. The jail administration spent Rs 11.59 lakh in preparing soap and phenyl as costly material was used to prepare soap. The inmates, as per norms, were to use sodium silicate at Rs 11 per kg and soap stone at Rs 26.50 per kg. However, costly oils purchased for Rs 140 kg to Rs 209 per kg were instead used. No details have been given for purchasing the costly material. The Ludhiana jail administration had recovered fines of Rs 4.92 lakh from inmates, but these were not deposited in the government treasury. The Amritsar jail administration provided government accommodation to the Jail Superintendent, but it also provided Rs 97,692 as house rent allowance. No electric meter has been installed for 46 quarters of employees and power supply is through the meter installed at the residence of the Jail Superintendent. An amount of Rs 300 is being deducted from every employee, though there is no such provision. The Patiala jail administration withdrew Rs 11.93 lakh from the treasury on account of the labour of inmates, but the money was not distributed among the beneficiaries. The jail authorities purchased wheat worth Rs 96.86 lakh without floating any tenders. The Ferozepur jail administration withdrew labour expenses worth Rs 3.56 lakh, but it was not distributed among the inmates. The two female employees of this jail sent on deputation were not posted anywhere, but they were provided Rs 8 lakh as salary. The audit of the Bathinda jail is awaiting approval. When contacted, Punjab Jail Minister Sohan Singh Thandal said he was yet to receive the audit report. “Appropriate action will be taken when I get the report. All irregularities will be set right,” he said.
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PTU set to lose control over 238 colleges
Jalandhar, July 22 The state government has cleared all decks to set up a second technical university in the state - Maharaja Ranjit Singh State Technical University on the campus of Giani Zail Singh College of Engineering and Technology in Bathinda. The territorial restriction of the PTU will now be primarily confined to Doaba and Majha regions in addition to Mohali, Ropar, Ludhiana and Moga of Malwa belt. The new state technical university will have academic control over the colleges in Bathinda, Barnala, Faridkot, Fatehgarh Sahib, Fazilka, Ferozepur, Mansa, Muktsar, Patiala and Sangrur districts. The PTU will suffer a major revenue loss, with half of the 62,000 seats in the state going to the other university. Also the entire distance education module of the PTU will be overseen by the new university. The details of the division of work between the two universities have been defined in the Maharaja Ranjit Singh State Technical University, Bathinda, Bill 2014. The biggest worry for the university authorities is that even the 17 Punjab Institutes of Technology that the PTU had set up as its constituent colleges will also be split between the two universities as per the territorial restrictions. Four of these institutes at Dinanagar, Khooni Majra near Mohali, Bhikhiwind and Rajpura have opened for this session. The number of applicants for counselling has been falling each year with most candidates opting for management quota seats. The PTU has not held admission to its PITs through counselling as the students from the polytechnics are being admitted in the third semester through lateral entry system. The admission to MTech, which was to be held through counselling as per the government notification, too has been held by respective colleges at their own end. While the PTU had been slugging it out with the Distance Education Council of the University Grants Commission (UGC) so as to run the distance education centres outside Punjab for the past two years, the powers to run the centres now will be vested with the Bathinda state university. PTU Vice Chancellor Dr Rajneesh Arora said he had just received the details for the division of work.
Hard blow
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Warm send-off to CJ; cases now with fifth Division Bench
Chandigarh, July 22 The development is significant as the cases heard by the first Division Bench are usually heard by the second Division Bench headed by the first Puisne judge, after the Chief Justice demits the office. A notice in the cause list released in the evening said: “All Division Bench urgent motion cases listed before first Division Bench from July 23, 2014, to July 25, 2014, will be taken up by special Division Bench comprising Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice Ajay Tewari”. The notice added that the special Division Bench would meet at 10 am from July 23 to July 25 and after doing cases of first Division Bench, regular fifth Division Bench would meet. Chief Justice Kaul was till today holding the Court with Justice Ajay
Tewari. Transferred to Chennai, it was Chief Justice Kaul’s last day in the office here. He is expected to be administered oath as the Chief Justice in Chennai on July 26. Previously in his absence, the second Division Bench headed by Justice Jasbir Singh would take up the cases heard by the first Division Bench, including petitions filed in public interest.
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SGPC men reach Haryana shrines
Patiala, July 22 SGPC sources said their men from Patiala and Fatehgarh Sahib continued to march towards Haryana. An armed supporter, leading a 10-member team to Haryana, said: “Our aim is to have 50 to 100-member task force to guard every gurdwara.” Another 70-member delegation headed by SGPC member Surjit Singh Garhi today left for Kurukshetra. “We do not want to take chances and we cannot trust the Haryana Government,” Garhi said. “We will not indulge in any violence, but we will not allow the Haryana Government to take control of any gurdwara,” he stated. Bir Devinder calls for restraint Meanwhile, former Deputy Speaker of Punjab Vidhan Sabha Bir Devinder urged Sikh high priests think of an amicable solution by “keeping the Akalis away”. “The Akal Takht should rethink its decision to excommunicate Haryana Sikh leaders so that an amicable solution is worked
out,” he said.
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SAD ignoring death row
convicts, allege radicals
There are reports in a section of media that Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will take a call on Rajoana’s clemency petition soon. Referring to these reports, Dal Khalsa spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh lashed out at Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal for “not requesting to the Centre officially for granting clemency to Rajoana”. He said instead the Akali Dal had channelised all its resources towards the HSGPC row, an issue that would deepen the “divide” in the community. Kanwar Pal said: “Reports suggest that the Punjab Government has neither said yes or no for executing Rajoana, a move which has exposed the dual face of the SAD government.”
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Cong protests in Warring's favour
Muktsar, July 22 The Congress activists gathered under the leadership of Narinder Singh Kauni also blocked the road for a while. The protesters demanded a CBI probe and also handed over a memorandum to Naib Tehsildar, Doda, Baljinder Singh. The protesters said they would intensify their stir if they state government continued its "vendetta" politics.
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Asstt Registrar, Coop Societies, held for graft
Fazilka, July 22 Sawan Singh complained to the Vigilance Bureau, Ferozepur, that Surjit was demanding bribe for settling the case in his favour. Acting on the tip-off, a Vigilance team led by Deputy Superintendent of Police, Vigilance Bureau, Ferozepur, Makhan Singh laid a trap and arrested Surjit Kumar while accepting the bribe from Sawan Singh in his office.
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PSPCL nets Rs 61 cr as power theft penalty
Jalandhar, July 22 Data compiled by the PSPCL shows a revenue leakage of whopping Rs 110.47 crore on account of the thefts, of which Rs 61.87 crore has been recovered as penalty from erring consumers. The maximum cases were detected in west zone comprising Bathinda and Muktsar whereas least were found in central zone, which includes the industrial city of Ludhiana (see table). A detailed study of the figures available shows that in 2013-14, a total of 12,92,004 electricity connections of different categories of consumers were checked in the five zones --- west, north, south, border and central. The west zone, comprising Bathinda, Faridkot, Ferozepur, Muktsar, Mansa and Moga, topped the chart in terms of power theft whereas the central zone comprising Ludhiana and Fatehgarh Sahib figured at the bottom. In the west zone, which includes the home district (Muktsar) of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, a total of 17,194 power theft cases were detected. The revenue leakage in the west zone stood at Rs 38.22 crore. The border, south and north zones figured at number two, three and four. “We have not segregated the category wise figures of power theft but reports from the Enforcement Wing and the Operations Wing, which are mainly responsible for checking power theft, suggest the main culprits are from the domestic category,” said PSPCL Chief Managing Director KD Chaudhri. Chaudhri said power was mainly stolen through ‘kundi’ connection and meter tampering. “Once all the electricity meters are shifted outside the houses, the problem will be automatically curtailed,” he said. Giving details about the present status of the meter shifting process, Chaudhri said there were almost 58 lakh domestic consumers in the state. “Already, 34 lakh meters have been shifted while the rest will be shifted by next year,” he claimed. Fresh guidelines from the PSPCL suggest that electricity meters would be installed on special pillars outside the premises of a consumer in order to avoid any kind of tampering. “It is domestic consumers who mainly indulge in power theft. Once the electricity meters are shifted out, cables will replace all low tension lines and hence, no one will be able to put any ‘kundi’ connection,” said Power Corporation officials. Private firms fail to bring in reforms: Engineers Patiala: In its executive body meeting, the Northern India Power Engineers Federation (NIPEF) today said the Prime Minister should introduce a new energy policy to meet the growing challenges and reduce emphasis on privatisation. They said the over dependence on private sector for bringing in power sector reforms in generation, transmission and distribution did not augur well for the country. Padamjit Singh, chief patron, AIPEF, said that power tariffs would remain low only when the central and state government utilities would account for 70 per cent of the total power generation vis-à-vis private companies.
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Normalcy back in Phagwara after 3 days of tension
Phagwara, July 22 Representatives of both the communities that were at loggerheads over the Baltal incident today came together on a single platform and pledged to maintain harmony. The situation had turned ugly on Saturday when members of one community pelted the shrine of the other with stones following a protest march in the town. The civil and police administration succeeded in defusing tension after several rounds of talks between the two communities. “A 16-member action committee comprising members of both the communities was formed to resolve the issue,” said Superintendent of Police Gursewak Singh Brar. A heavy police force was deployed in the town to prevent any untoward incident. The police authorities have assured that law and order would be maintained at all cost.
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Medical university to hold special test to fill 550 seats
Faridkot, July 22 On May 4, the CBSE conducted the All India Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Entrance Test (AIPMET). The candidates who scored minimum 50 per cent marks (45 per cent for differently abled and 40 per cent for SC/BC categories) in the AIPMET were eligible for admission in dental and medical colleges. However, as there were not enough eligible candidates in the state, 516 BDS seats and 34 MBBS seats remained vacant in the first round of counselling conducted by the BFUHS from June 21 to June 25. The university will conduct the Special Entrance Test on August 24. Though it will be an easier test, both in content and structure, in comparison to the AIPMET, the eligibility criteria will remain the same i.e. minimum 50 per cent marks for general candidates, sources said. On June 27, the university had written to the state government asking it to either allow relaxation in the minimum eligibility criteria or to conduct a special test to fill these seats. On July 16, the state government issued a notification, allowing the BFUHS to conduct the test. In the 10 dental colleges in the state under the BFUHS, only 205 BDS seats of open, SC and BC category have been filled so far. Only Government Dental College, Patiala, could fill all its 28 open, SC and BC category seats. Though management quota seats generate big revenue for medical and dental colleges due to the hiked fee, some colleges could not fill even a single such seat. Out of the total 262 management quota BDS seats in eight private dental colleges in Punjab, only 18 seats have been filled so far. Not only for BDS, even for MBBS seats, some private medical colleges did not get eligible candidates for management quota seats. A total of 34 SC quota management seats are lying vacant at the DMC, Ludhiana (2); Adesh Medical College, Bathinda (19); and Gian Sagar Medical College, Banur (13). Against its quota of 72 MBBS seats for NRI candidates in seven medical colleges of Punjab, there were only two eligible applicants so far.
Test on August 24
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Balad Kalan PANCHAYAT land row
Sangrur, July 22 He also asked the administration to give the right to cultivate land to 142 Dalit families of Balad Kalan village (near Bhawanigarh) as they had formed a committee for this purpose. This was stated in an official press note. It was stated that a list of bidders for the Balad Kalan village land (reserved for SCs) was today handed over to Verka. As per the list, the land had been given to five members of a family (out of 12 bidders) in the auction while there were 142 Dalit families in the village that had not been allowed to participate in the auction. Inspector General of Police (Crime) Nageshwar Rao, Sangrur Senior Superintendent of Police Mandeep Singh Sidhu, AIG (Law and Order) RK Sharda and District Development and Panchayat Officer (DDPO), Sangrur, Baljit Singh appeared before Verka during the hearing. Verka said among successful bidders, five persons were from a single family while Onkar Singh was a “rehriwala” and influential people were behind him. He said the district administration’s role was “not good” in the case. He instructed the administration to resolve the issue.
NCSC ruling
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Villagers lock school gate in protest
Sangrur, July 22 The protesters resented that their wards, especially girls, would have to take admissions in Arts stream or in other far-away schools. They said they had approached the higher authorities asking them not to do away with science stream but to no avail. The move comes due to the rationalisation policy-2014 of the state government, according to which there should be at least 25 science students in classes XI and XII. However, this school has only 17 students in these classes (11 in Class XI and 6 in Class XII). District Education Officer (Secondary) Nirmal Singh Sidhu confirmed that they had discontinued with the science stream in the school as per the government’s policy. District Science Supervisor Rakesh Kumar said the Physics lecturer had been shifted to Government Senior Secondary School (Girls), Dhuri, while the Biology lecturer had been shifted to Government Senior Secondary School, Kuthala. However, Chemistry lecturer was still posted at the Saron village’s school, he added.
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Boy abducted from Jalandhar traced in R’sthan
Abohar, July 22 The police have arrested Sarbati Devi and her daughter Asha Devi. Investigation indicated that Sarbati had got the child kidnapped through Shahkot resident Surjit and a woman Thakuri Devi, both of whom have also been rounded up. They were paid Rs 20,000 as Sarbati desired to have a son. — OC
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2 boys escape from kidnappers’ custody
Abohar, July 22 They said they recovered from semi-conscious state as the car was parked near Ghantaghar Chowk, near the railway station in Abohar. Finding the window partly open, the boys said they slipped out and ran. They said the kidnappers chased them to some distance but seeing the crowd gathering around, they fled in the car. They were noticed by some railway policemen, who took them to police station. Their parents reached there on being informed. Deputy Superintendent of Police Jagdish Bishnoi and other policemen too reached there and flashed a message to all the police posts on national highways and surrounding areas. — OC
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HC notice to Sampla on poll petition
Chandigarh, July 22 Seeking setting aside of Sampla’s election from Hoshiarpur (SC) parliamentary constituency on the BJP ticket, voter Inderpal Singh claimed he got election advertisements issued on TV channels “using the sacred religious symbols of the Sikh religion”. He said the prescribed expenditure limit was Rs 70 lakh. “However, the returned candidate spent Rs 74, 07,193, which was beyond the limit prescribed under law. Therefore, his election was liable to be set aside on this ground also. In his election expenses account submitted before the District Election Officer, Hoshiarpur, the returned candidate has shown expenditure of only Rs 45, 59,393,” the petitioner said.
Trouble for SAD-BJP winners
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Truck rams into another, 4 killed
Ludhiana, July 22 The incident took place at 5 am when three labourers were attaching ropes to tow away the truck that had broke down in the middle of the road. Sources said a truck belonging to a bottling unit rammed into the stationary truck killing the three - Sewa Ram, Brajesh Kumar and Amit. The truck driver, Darshan Singh of Rasulpura in Jagraon, also died. A case has been registered. The bodies have been handed over the families of the victims.
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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is gearing up to contest the Patiala and Talwandi Sabo Assembly
bypoll. The elections are slated for August 21. The names of its candidates are likely to be announced by the party during its three-day national executive committee meeting in Sunam beginning July 25.
The consensus to contest was reached at during a meeting of AAP national convener Arvind
Kejriwal, political affairs committee members Gopal Rai and Ashutosh and members of the Punjab state executive committee (ad hoc) in Delhi.
Despite an assurance by the Haryana Government that it would not use force to implement the Haryana Sikh Gurdwaras (Management) Act, 2014, the SGPC continues to send its members and supporters to guard gurdwaras in
Haryana, raising fears of violent clashes.
Residents of Saron village, near Sangrur, today locked the main gate of the local Government Senior Secondary School to protest the discontinuation of science stream. The gate remained locked for about an hour. It was opened after District Science Supervisor Rakesh Kumar pacified the villagers saying they would send a proposal to the education authorities to restart the stream.
Amritsar, July 22