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March 22, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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VAT will ruin small traders:
Hooda Change corrupt system: Medha Bhaniarawala case
adjourned Held for killing pregnant
wife BKU chief’s bail plea
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VAT will ruin small traders:
Hooda Chandigarh, March 21 Mr Hooda asserted that in a welfare state all the decisions should be taken weighing the pros and cons and keeping the interests of the people in view. He pointed out that when this Bill was placed before the House the Congress Party expressed its opposition to the Bill and demanded constitution of a committee of Members of the House to consider this Bill from all angles so that an acceptable decision could be reached. But the government did not pay heed even to this demand and got it passed on the basis of its brutal majority in the House. Mr Hooda said he was astonished when the so-called pro-trader BJP also endorsed the government stand. Mr Hooda further pointed out that because of the wrong policies of the State Government industries had been forced to shift to other states where the climate was conducive. The pharmaceutical industry was already shifting to other states because of heavy taxes in Haryana. Mr Hooda said if the cloth business was further burdened with taxes it could also think of shifting. The cloth business of Haryana had its own identity in the country. Markets of Ambala, Rohtak and Panipat etc. had a place of pride in this trade. He feared that because of this VAT system small traders would be ruined. Mr Hooda advised the government to study the consequences of this policy before implementing it in Haryana. He agreed that because of globalisation and liberalisation, certain changes in the policy were needed, “but this does not mean that we should destroy the social and economic structure of our society”. He said the decision of the traders to go on strike was but natural. He expressed full sympathy with them and asked the government to enter into a dialogue with the trading community to avoid the strike. |
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Change corrupt system: Medha Hisar, March 21 She was here as part of her countrywide tour to generate public opinion on current issues confronting the nation. The tour which began on January 26 from Kerala culminates on March 30 in Ayodhya. Addressing mediapersons Ms Patkar said the form of democracy in the country was not the real democracy. This democratic set up had been dominated by the game of numbers, power grabbers and the corrupt. As a result the nation was suffering. She suggested that people should set up small platforms at their village and constituency levels at which they could question the role of their elected representatives regularly. Only then the
common man would be able to change the system. She said communalism, globalisation and liberalisation were the result of the weaknesses inherent in the present system. Corrupt politicians were playing into the hands of foreign economic powers in the name of globalisation. In the process the country’s extremely rich natural resources were being offered on a platter to foreign companies. Ms Patkar said the situation had come to such a pass that even rivers were being privatised. Two rivers in Kerala and one in Chhatisgarh had already been handed over to private companies. More such contracts would follow soon. She lamented that the nation had been in the ‘reverse gear’ even since independence. The rapid urbanisation and industrialisation had only added to the problems of the people of India. In the beginning these policies apparently appeared good, but now it had been found that the main cause of joblessness had been mechanisation of every thing. As a predominantly agricultural society we should have and would have to pay attention to agriculture which had been neglected in the past five and a half decades. She said this was the only solution to the economic problems facing the nation. Later, she addressed a meeting of representatives of different sections of the society. She was accompanied by noted writer Surinder Mohan. |
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Bhaniarawala case
adjourned Ambala, March 21 On the direction of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, all cases registered against him in various police stations of Punjab had been transferred to the courts in Ambala. The Haryana Akali Dal has been demanding that the cases be transferred to some other place as the of presence Baba’s supporters, outside the court, created tension. SAD workers demonstrated outside the court today. However, following persuasion by the police, they stopped it. |
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Held for killing pregnant
wife Sirsa, March 21 District police chief Attar Singh Ahalawat said here yesterday that Sarla daughter of Ranjeet Singh of Guriakhera village married Rajesh of Roranwali village 8 years back and after three years Ranjeet Singh had got his younger daughter Sunita married to Rajesh’s youngest brother. In his complaint Ranjeet Singh alleged that both of his daughters used to be tortured for money. Sarla was asked to bring Rs 4.5 lakh and beaten up and turned out of the house. Ranjeet Singh went to the house of his daughters’ in-laws to bring the younger daughter back who was pregnant, but the in-laws did not send her. After three days on March 6 Ranjeet was informed that she had died. In his complaint to the police Ranjeet Singh had accused the in-laws of her daughter of poisoning her to death. |
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BKU chief’s bail plea
hearing adjourned Ambala, March 21 Mr Nain, along with 18 BKU activists, was arrested by the Ambala police on November 25 last when he had blocked the National Highway at Shahjadpur to protest against the non-payment of arrears of sugarcane producers of the Naraingarh area by the sugar mill management. All of the arrested BKU activists except Mr Nain were granted bail by a District Court but Mr Nain has been in the judicial custody in Ambala Central jail since then. The local unit of the BKU has announced the launch of an indefinite agitation at Shahjadpur demanding the release of Mr Nain. Some of the BKU units in some other districts are already staging dharna to press upon the government in this regard. |
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Notice to Rupan Deol Bajaj
Ambala, March 21
Chandigarh, March 21 |
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