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betting on poll outcome
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Ludhiana, February 14
As the fate of candidates gets
sealed in ballot boxes, heavy betting has started in the city over the
possible outcome of poll results for the 12th Vidhan Sabha poll. As
everyone waits for February 24 to see the outcome of yesterday’s
polling, city gamblers have not let the opportunity to bid stakes pass
by. The wide variation in polling per centage between constituencies
like Samrala and Qila Raipur on the one hand and Ludhiana west and rural
has given rise to a lot of speculation, notwithstanding the exit poll
results.
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Paramilitary personnel guard a room in the Government College for Boys, Ludhiana, where EVMs have been kept. |
Impersonators
shatter voters’ faith
Ludhiana, February 14
When Ms Sunita and her husband,
both residents of Jamalpur Colony, Focal Point, reached their polling
booth, number 99, at about 10 a.m. to exercise their right to vote they
were shocked to learn that Sunita’s vote (number 266) had already been
cast. However, her husband’s vote had been spared by
“impersonators”. The experience shattered voter’s faith in the
whole exercise
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creche which is a home away from home
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Ludhiana, February 14
On March 1, 1997, due to the
efforts of a doctor Betty Cowen, a creche came in to existence in
the CMC residential area. Many of the workers of CMC were finding
it difficult to leave their children at some good, neat, clean
place and go to work peacefully as such a place was not available.
Dr Cowen who has worked in CMC for 38 years as a Professor of
medicine, finds it hard to sever her ties with the hospital. She
returns every year from Scotland to take up a project for the
welfare of the patients and the residents of the hospital. |
Dr Betty Cowen, Sister Mathews and other helpers with children at a creche at CMC, in Ludhiana.
— Photo Inderjeet Verma |
CITY SCAN
Democracy
rooted in history
WITH the elections over,
the heat generated by electioneering is cooling down. With greased palms
losing shine, false ego is cracking. The liquor consumed is going down
the drains, bits of sense are returning. During campaigning all teach,
few learn. The final count is awaited, though not so breathlessly. At
surface things may mislead. The objective observer seldom misleads.
Pre-poll survey has added a new dimension to the democracy.
Driven
by ‘rasbhari’
Ludhiana, February 14
For young Ashok Kumar, who is a
driver by profession, yesterday was definitely a different day. As
instead of driving the car of his employer, he was driving vehicle for
the Congress and transporting voters to the polling booths. Narrating
his once-in-five years experience yesterday, he told this correspondent
that since his family had been staunch supporters of the Congress all
these years, his services were requisitioned by the area’s Congress
candidate.
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