Monday, November 11, 2002, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Police enters Golden Temple complex
 
  NDA team to reach Amritsar today
 
  Crackdown continues
Chandigarh, November 10
Less than 24 hours before a five-member NDA team, led by union minister Sahib Singh Verma, could fly into the Holy City of Amritsar to oversee the conduct of next Tuesday’s annual election to the SGPC executive committee, Punjab policemen in plain clothes entered the Golden Temple complex on the pretext of searching all three serais (inns) there.

    Vedanti condemns police entry



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Devotees quit the sarais in the Golden Temple complex after the Deputy Commissioner ordered the police to vacate the sarais, hotels and guest houses Devotees leave sarais in the Golden Temple complex after the Deputy Commissioner ordered the police to vacate the sarais, hotels and guest houses falling within the periphery of 500 metres of the Golden Temple complex.
— Photo Rajiv Sharma

105 to be airlifted to Amritsar
New Delhi, November 10
Worried about a confrontationist situation arising in Punjab in the run-upto the elections of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, Amritsar, on November 12, SAD chief and former Chief Minister of Punjab Parkash Singh Badal is assembling his supporters in the religious body’s Executive Committee here tomorrow before flying them in a chartered aircraft to Amritsar.

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Badal, men determined to reach complex
Balasar (Sirsa), November 10
After performing ardas of victory in “amrit wela” (wee hours) tomorrow for the ensuing elections of the SGPC executive, scheduled for November 12, more than 100 SGPC members will leave for Amritsar to reach Teja Singh Samundari Hall in the Golden Temple Complex from the farmhouse of Mr Parkash Singh Badal here.

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Punjab briefs Centre
Chandigarh, November 10
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs today sought a report on the situation in Punjab in view of the SGPC presidential poll scheduled for November 12. Expressing concern at the possible breach of peace, causing threat to law and order, the ministry sought to know the steps taken to handle the situation.

5 more Badal men may be debarred
Amritsar, November 10
Even as five more pro-Badal SGPC members may be restrained from functioning or performing duty as members tomorrow, at least 50 cases are still pending in the Sikh Gurdwara Judicial Commission.

Punjab to call session on amendments
Mount Abu, November 10
The Punjab Government will call a special session of the state legislature to implement the 73rd and 74th Amendments to the Constitution dealing with devolution of powers to panchayats.

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