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EDUCATION

Colleges gear up for poll
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Oct 16 — The colleges of the city have geared up for the forthcoming student elections on October 20. DAV College, Sector 10, was the most active, while major activity was virtually missing in girls’ colleges.

Activists of the two opposing groups visited the colleges today. This set the ball rolling for campaigning by various parties.

D.P. Randhawa, president of SOPU, Panjab University, addressed a rally outside DAV College and declared his party’s support for the DAV Students Union (DSU). The candidates being fielded by SOPU here are Kushaldeep Singh (Johny) for president, Divakar Verma for vice-president, Nirbhay Garg for general secretary and Sahibjeet Singh for joint secretary. The DAV Students Association is being supported by the ABVP. It is fielding Gurpreet Singh Brar for president, Nishu Dubey for general secretary, Kuldeep Negi for joint secretary. The DAV Students Party is fielding Sanjeet Narwana for president.

In other colleges, the fight is not so hot and the number of candidates is not more than two for the same post. Sajjan Singh is the common candidate for the post of President of Government College for Men, Sector 11, while at SD College, Rajinder Kumar and Jagdeep Singh Babloo are fighting for the post of the college president, Renu and Amita Brar for the post of vice-president, Parminder Sodhi and Ritesh Arora (Raka) for the post of general secretary and Marut Sharma and Geetika Gupta for the post of joint secretary.

Upkar Singh, Vishal Mehra and Charanjit Singh are fighting for the post of president, Government College, Sector 46, while Amit Sharma and Satish Kumar are fighting for the post of general secretary. Neera Nishal is standing for the post of vice-president and Rakesh Kumar for the post of joint secretary. Pradeep Singh is the candidate for the post of president, SGGS College, Sector 26.

The election fever seems to have had not much effect on the girls’ colleges of the city. It was business as usual today, except for a brief visit of SOPU activists to Government College for Girls, Sector 11. Neeelkamal Daroach is standing for the post of president, Aman Sekhon for the post of vice-president, Ripujit Sidhu for the post of general secretary and Tapasya for the post of joint secretary.

SOPU fields Pooja, Jagtaran
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Oct 16 — The Students Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) today named Pooja Goel, an MA-I student of economics and Jagtaran Singh of the Department of Biochemistry as the two candidates for the posts of vice president and joint secretary to the Panjab University Campus Students Council in the forthcoming elections. These two will face Mukta Sharma and Harpreet Singh (Bobby), respectively, of the PUSU-HSA-ABVP combine.

Fielding questions of mediapersons in a press conference held at the students centre here today, the president of SOPU, D.P. Randhawa, said the Panjab University unit of Students Federation of India had decided to support SOPU in the forthcoming elections. The SOPU was being supported by the SFI, the Panjab University Students Welfare Association, the HIMSA and the Panjab Vidyarthi Jathebandi.

Denying allegations made by the Warden of hostel 4, Mr J.K. Chauhan, that Randhawa was occupying his room illegally, Randhawa said all formalities regarding his readmission to the hostel had been completed and the warden was not signing it. Randhawa also denied that the party was being advised and helped by certain members of the Syndicate, He stated that the opposing group had, till a few years back, made Senate and Syndicate members patrons of their party.

Replying to a question regarding the case pending against their presidential candidate, Bhupinder Beniwal, Beniwal stated that he had been cleared by the police in most of the cases. Written proof had been given to the police regarding the kidnapping incident.

100 cadets participate in plantation drive
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Oct 16 — A sapling plantation drive was undertaken by cadets of No1 Chandigarh Girls NCC Battalion at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dhanas, during their annual training camp today.

According to the Camp Commandant, Lieut-Col Harjit Singh, nearly 100 cadets took part in the drive. As many as 213 NCC girl cadets from various schools and colleges of the city are attending the camp, which began on October 10.

Besides learning basic professional subjects like operating wireless equipment, first aid and home nursing, drill and firing of .22 rifles, guest lectures on subjects like AIDS awareness, traffic sense, women in defence services, fundamental rights and duties of a citizen are also being organised. Counselling on personal hygiene by a medical officer, Dr Rekha Zacharia, is also being organised.

COURTS

Rigorous imprisonment in theft case
From Our Correspondent

CHANDIGARH, Oct 16 — Ramesh Kumar Prahlad Kumar were sentenced to six months’ rigorous imprisonment by the UT Judicial Magistrate (first class) in a theft case. Another accused Deota had been acquitted in this case because of lack of evidence.

The complainant, a doctor at the PGI, had alleged that the accused had stolen items on December 12, 1994. The Judge sentenced Ramesh Kumar and Prahlad to six months’ rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 300.

Remand extended

The UT Judicial Magistrate (first class) extended the judicial remand of four accused — Dhanu, Jinder, Ravi and Satpal — till October 30 in a murder case. It was alleged that the accused had murdered Narinder Singh at Mauli Jagran. The victim was a resident of Rajiv Colony, Panchkula, and was a student of Class X.

6 months’ RI

Anil Kumar of Mani Majra was sentenced to six months’ rigorous imprisonment by the UT Judicial Magistrate (first class). The complainant, Jitesh Kumar, alleged that the accused had broken her shoulder on September 29, 1997, over some dispute.

Bail granted

The UT Additional District and Sessions Judge, Mr RC Godara, accepted the anticipatory bail application moved by city resident Shiv Jaiswal in a criminal intimidation case. It was alleged that the accused had instigated rickshaw-pullers to set the shops of the Sector 18 on fire. It was further alleged that the rickshaw-pullers had attacked many shop owners the same day.

The case against the accused had been registered under Sections 147, 148, 323 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code.