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Sunday,
January 19, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Dhumal
predicts rout of Cong Congress
to go it alone CPI rules
out truck with HVC Charge
sheet against two ex-Health Directors filed |
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Plan
implementation reviewed Three held for
robbery Plea to
revoke Sec 144 from HPU campus 
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Dhumal predicts rout of Cong Chamba, January 18 Addressing an election rally here, Mr Dhumal said that despite the efforts of the Congress to stop the BJP’s “gaurav yatra” in Gujarat, the masses there rejected Mrs Sonia Gandhi and voted the BJP to power. Commenting on the issue of corruption, which the Congress wanted to be its main poll plank, Mr Dhumal asked that party to join the debate on the issue so that it could compare its performance with the BJP’s clean administration. Mr Dhumal accused the former Chief Minister, Mr Virbhadra Singh, of involvement in the land racket case. He asked the Congress to clarify its stand on the security of the country as it had opposed the enforcement of POTA in the Congress-ruled states. This showed that the Congress was allegedly involved in terrorist activities. The Chief Minister also alleged that had the security forces not been withdrawn from the border areas by the Congress government, the massacre of 1998 would not have occurred on the Chamba borders. He said that later the BJP deployed the security forces on the borders and created the Indian Reserve Battalion besides deploying more paramilitary forces. Blaming the previous Congress government for the
ordinate delay in the execution of the 300 MW Chamera Hydroelectric Project (Stage II), Mr Dhumal claimed that the BJP government saved Rs 600 crore by signing the agreement for Rs 1,700 crore instead of Rs 2,300 crore, as had been finalised by the Congress. Moreover, the Chamera project, which was expected to be commissioned by June this year, would be completed more than a year ahead of scheduled, Mr Dhumal said. Mr Dhumal announced that Mr B.K. Chauhan would be the BJP candidate for the Chamba assembly constituency. Mr Chauhan was a senior IAS officer from the Bihar cadre who belonged to Kundi village in the constituency. |
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Rajnath to visit state on Jan 21 Shimla, January 18 Spokesman for the BJP Ganesh Dutt said Rajnath Singh would address party workers and members of the state executive at the various sub-division headquarters of Kangra district on January 21 and 22.
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Congress
to go it alone Solan, January 18 The party observers comprising Congress Working Committee members Mr R.K. Dhawan and Mr Bhajan Lal, Punjab Cabinet Minister Chaudhary Jagjit Singh and party national secretary Satyajit Gaekwad who were here to start party’s poll campaign told The Tribune last evening that third front had no force in Himachal. On the issue of Chief Ministership they maintained that a decision on it would be taken by the party high command after the elections. Stating that no decision had been taken either on seat-sharing or pre-poll alliance with former Union Minister Sukh Ram’s Himachal Vikas Congress, they said this decision would also be taken by the high command in consultation with PCC chief Vidya Stokes and CLP leader
Virbhadra Singh. Expressing concern over differences between senior leaders of the party they said grievances of the party men should be settled within the party and not through the media. To forge unity between the two warring factions the leaders directed the CLP leader and the PCC chief to refrain from such outbursts in the media. The issue of organisational elections raked up by Virbhadra loyalists would be settled soon, they added. |
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CPI rules out truck with HVC Solan, January 18 Mr Bhardwaj was reacting to certain media reports that a five-party anti-BJP alliance had been formed after a meeting at Parwanoo last week. |
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Charge sheet against two ex-Health Directors filed Shimla, January 18 The investigation, it had revealed that sanction of Rs 2 crore and Rs 2.17 crore accorded by the state government on 31.3.98 under head “material and supplies” was obliterated by using correction fluid and altered to the head “machinery and equipment” and the said amount was drawn in the Directorate of Health from the treasury under head “machinery and equipment”, even though there was a balance of only Rs 16,000 under that head on that day. The said forgery in the account was found to be done by Mr Daler Chand using the typewriter of Health branch in collusion with other accused. Subsequently, while submitting proposals to the government for the utilisation of the above amount for purchases of machinery and equipment, the accused Kartar Singh Sohal and Sukh Ram Chauhan submitted false informations that the machinery and equipment proposed to be purchased were on rate contract with the controller of stores of HP and that requirements for these equipment had been received from field institutions of the department. |
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Plan implementation reviewed Shimla, January 18 He complimented the endeavour of the state government in effective implementation of the plan and added that the state was one of the few states doing well in terms of plan implementation. He stressed for striking a balance between achievement of physical targets and finance spending in each quarter. He said central-sponsored schemes and externally aided projects should also be given added priority in implementation. Mrs Rajender Bhattacharya, Chief Secretary, said reviews would go a long way in improvement and efficiency in implementation of plan schemes. |
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Three held for robbery Dharamsala, January 18 Giving details, Kangra SP R.M. Sharma told mediapersons here that Prithvi Singh and Mahesh Kumar of Ambala and Harvinder of Patiala had been arrested and two countrymade revolvers and a knife had been seized from their possession besides the amount they had looted from Mr Kamal Goel of Ambala, who had come to collect payments from here. According to him, the three youths had followed him from Ambala in a car. The incident took place near Ranital, when the three youths who were in car (PB-15-9458) accosted Mr Goel and forced him to stop his car. They looted Rs 66,000 at gunpoint and fled towards Jwalamukhi. Mr Goel reported the matter at the Ranital police station and an alert was sounded. The youths took their vehicle on a ‘kutcha’ road and were able to evade the police net. They later left the car and boarded a bus, which was intercepted by the police. All three were taken in custody and a case under the Arms Act and the Indian Penal Code was registered. |
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Plea to revoke Sec 144 from HPU campus Shimla, January 18 After discussions with union representatives, the committee was of the view that the district administration would be requested to lift Section 144. Regarding the expulsion of students, the committee assured the union representatives to consider the request of the students sympathetically on merit in each case. Representatives of the unions insisted that the process should be completed with in 15 days or they would observe a dharna again. The Vice-Chancellor requested union leaders to lift the dharna in the larger interest of the university. At this juncture, the president of
HPUTA, Dr Rajinder Singh Chauhan, walked away along with some other members. They wanted immediate revocation of the rustication orders of the students by the university administration. |
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Woman dies in mishap Mandi, January 18 The tractor fell on two women collecting scrap on the bank of Suketi, killing one of them Rajo Devi on the spot and injuring seriously the owner-cum-driver Tej Singh of Khadkalyan village and Veena Devi. |
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