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Fearing
fund-seekers, businessmen flee
Ludhiana, January 22
With electioneering picking up and
the candidates in desperate need of funds, most of the leading
industrialists and businessmen of Ludhiana have reportedly fled the city
to avoid the fund seekers. As the demand for the funds soars, the
businessmen, it is learnt, have preferred to stay away till the
elections.
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Alliances
that were not to be
Chandigarh, January
22
Contrary to expectations, new
political alliances in the state politics for the February 13
Assembly elections have crumbled even before they could be
formalised. The announcement of the list of 80 candidates by the
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo, Mr Kanshi Ram, has taken the wind out
of the sails of not only the Panthic Morcha but also the Congress. |
PROFILE OF
CONSTITUENCIES
Dissensions
may spring surprises
Amritsar
With no clear-cut wave, coupled with dissension in rank and file in the
ruling Shiromani Akali Dal and Congress, the results of the forthcoming
Assembly elections may spring a surprise in the border district of
Amritsar, which was once a hotbed of militancy.
Amarinder
wins back rebels
Mansa, January 22
Contrary to expectations, the
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief, Capt Amarinder Singh, has
been able to carry along the dissidents who were sore at being denied
tickets for the Assembly elections. This was evident from the number
of angry party leaders present at the first election rally, he
addressed at Joga yesterday.
Amarinder
shares dissidents’ dejection
Ludhiana, January 22
Ruling out any change of
candidates in any of the Assembly segments the Pardesh Congress
Committee president, Capt Amarinder Singh, said today that he also had
some reservations regarding the final list of candidates, but it had
to be accepted since it was the decision of the party high command.
Badal
tells rebels to return
Malout, January 22
The Punjab Chief Minister and
Shiromani Akali Dal supremo, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, said his partymen
would not allow a single drop to flow to other states at any cost.
While claiming not to be bothered about contempt of court proceedings
by any court and subsequent jail in connection with SYL canal, Mr
Badal emphasised that the SAD was committed to protect the interests
of state.
Rebels
file papers as Independents
Ropar, January 22
The winning prospects of the
Congress from the Chamkaur Sahib Assembly constituency received a jolt
today, when a former MLA and prominent leader of the party, Mr
Shamsher Singh Rai, filed his nomination papers as an Independent
candidate today.
Sohi files papers amid fanfare
Dera Bassi, January 22
The Congress candidate from the Banur Assembly constituency, Ms Sheelam Sohi, today filed the nomination papers at the Returning Officer’s office here
today. Escorted by hundreds of supporters, she reached Ramlila Ground and left for the Returning Officer’s office in an open gypsy along with her mother-in-law, Ms Harjinder Kaur, her son and other
supporters.
NGO
drive for drug-free poll
Kotkapura, January 22
“Aao ral mil morcha laaiye,
ghar ghar vichchon nasha bhajaiye; jinha lai nashiyan di aut, unna nu
na paiyo vote; jehda nashe vande, paen us nu dande.” (Come together
to launch a movement against those who are taking the help of drugs in
the poll and teach a lesson to those who have been distributing the
drugs to woo voters). These are some of the slogans coined by the Guru
Gobind Singh Study Circle, a non-governmental organisation in Punjab.
HC
orders inquiry in ransacking case
Chandigarh, January 22
Mr Justice K.S. Garewal of the
high court today directed the Deputy Inspector General of Patiala
Range to personally look into the ransacking of a computer centre by
relatives of the owner after she married outside her caste.
Rail
traffic blocked over boy’s death
Sunam, January 22
Residents of Lehra town, about 25
km from here, today observed a partial bandh and blocked rail traffic
in protest against the death of a 12-year boy who was crushed by a
truck engaged for carrying foodgrain from FCI godowns to the railway
station yesterday.
PSEB
told to pay compensation
Mansa, January 22
The District Consumer Disputes
Redressal Forum here has ordered the PSEB to pay a cost of Rs 1,000
and a compensatory cost of Rs 10,000 to Mr Lachman Singh, a consumer,
for illegally raising Rs 72,118 from him. The forum also directed the
board to recover the said amount from the erring official and to take
necessary action against him.
POSTINGS/ TRANSFERS
New
SDM for Gidderbaha
Chandigarh, January 22
The Punjab Government today
issued posting orders of three officers. Mr Amarjit Singh Dhinda, PCS
has been appointed Deputy Secretary, Health and Family Welfare,
against a vacant post.
5
cars recovered, thief held
Sangrur, January 22
The district police has arrested
a car thief, Rama, and seized five cars from his possession. The cars
were allegedly stolen by him for smuggling intoxicants like poppy
husk.
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