Build bridge, urges BJP leader
JAMMU, May 29 — Senior BJP leader and Lok Sabha member Chaman Lal Gupta has urged Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to pass an order for the construction of a bridge across the Ravi at Basohi and to for provide jobs to children of those who had been dislocated after the construction of the Ranjit Sagar Dam.

4 infiltrators, 2 Army men killed

SRINAGAR, May 29 (PTI) — Four armed infiltrators and two Army men have been killed in skirmishes along the LoC as the security forces effectively repulsed Pakistani efforts to push in militants into Jammu and Kashmir where a civilian was killed in shelling from across the border.

Two infiltrators were killed as Army personnel engaged a group of over 10 youths who were trying to sneak into the Indian side in Nowshera in Rajouri district last night, official sources said. The others, however, escaped.

The security forces gunned down two more infiltrators while Pakistani troops were trying to push them into Indian territory in Bhimber Gali in Poonch district, they said.

However, two soldiers were killed in mortar fire from across the border as they were trying to repulse a third infiltration bid in the Kala area of Rajouri last night, the sources said.

Pakistani troops continued heavy shelling on civilian areas in different places along the LoC since yesterday, killing a civilian, Bagh Hussain of Khari Karmara in Poonch district, and injuring another.

There was a mass exodus in Manjakkote, Pelwan, Kalai, Menka, Dabbar, Pokhra and Mangral villages in the Sunderbani and Nowshera sectors where over a hundred families migrated to safer areas today, the sources said.

Those fleeing the areas were being accommodated in schools and panchayat ghars and other government buildings in Rajouri, they added.

Build bridge, urges BJP leader
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JAMMU, May 29 — Senior BJP leader and Lok Sabha member Chaman Lal Gupta has urged Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to pass an order for the construction of a bridge across the Ravi at Basohi and to for provide jobs to children of those who had been dislocated after the construction of the Ranjit Sagar Dam.

In a letter to the Prime Minister, he said even though the inauguration of the dam would solve the problems concerning power generation, the problems arising out of its construction should not be ignored.