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Monday,
June 23, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Shankaracharya's advice to India,
Pak Venkaiah to inaugurate
BJP function today Governor visits
Raghunath Temple President’s Jammu visit from June 26 |
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Policemen carry away Tehzim Dar who made an unsuccessful attempt of self-immolation in Jammu on Sunday.
— photo Sarabjit Singh Strengthen VDCs, says
Sinha Parliamentary panel visits
Kashmir
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Shankaracharya's advice to India, Pak Jammu, June 22 "The leaders of both countries need to understand the ground realities and give up their respective arrogance to resolve the issue so that common people in Jammu and Kashmir do not suffer any more", he told reporters here. The Shankracharya, who performed a week-long "nachhatresy yagna" for world peace at the border town of Rajouri, said unless the two neighbourers came to terms to resolve the outstanding issues, including Kashmir, people will continue to suffer in India and Pakistan. Favouring talks by central government with Kashmiri militants, he asked "if government could hold talks with the Naga leaders outside the country, what is the harm in talking to separatist leaders in Kashmir”. Attributing the growth of secessionism and militancy to injustices to common people, the religious leader said: "where governments fail to provide justice to its citizens separatism and militancy is bound to spread there", and referred to the turmoil in Sri Lanka and Palestine. Blaming the central and state governments for miseries of common people of Jammu and Kashmir, he said the authorities must create conditions to end the killings of its own people, whether they are innocent citizens, securitymen or militants. Criticising politicians for exploiting godmen and saints for political purposes, Shankracharya said: "our role basically is to give spiritual guidance to people. Yet, the leaders of many political parties are exploiting the religious preachers or saints during elections", he said alleging" even the Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani has been doing it”.
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Venkaiah to inaugurate
BJP function today Jammu, June 22 The function, which was earlier being organised by the dissidents led by a senior leader, Lala Shiv Charan Gupta, is now being held officially by the BJP. However, none of the dissident leaders has been given permission to address the public meeting in the presence of Mr Naidu. The speech of Mr Naidu will be preceded by speeches of Mr Nirmal Singh, state BJP chief, and Prof Chaman Lal Gupta, Minister of State for Defence. Prof Gupta had created ripples in the BJP circles by participating in the function, which was organised by the dissidents for the celebrations. The dissidents had set up an organisation "Parayas" for celebrating 50 year of Dr Mukherjee's agitation. The state BJP took a serious note of this and initiated disciplinary proceedings against Lala Shiv Charan Gupta, Mr Chander Mohan Sharma, vice-president of the party, and four others. However, the action was stalled following the intervention of the BJP high command, which summoned the warring groups to Delhi. It has now been decided that the function would now be celebrated at the party level. A BJP leader said that functions would be held at the district level and Dr Nirmal Singh would visit many areas to highlight the "pro-terrorist" and "anti-Jammu" actions of the coalition government headed by Mufti Sayeed. |
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Governor visits
Raghunath Temple Jammu, June 22 Mr Sharma said Raghunath Temple was the only temple in India, which had preserved images of 33 crore gods and goddesses. He said the trust was at peresent looking after 150 temples situated at Hardwar, Varanasi, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. |
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President’s Jammu visit from June 26 Jammu, June 22 The President will also present colours to the Jammu and Kashmir Police at a function in Udhampur and visit the Regional Research Laboratory of the CSIR here and interact with scientists. He will also interact with a group of about 50 school children who have been selected from many schools in border areas. During his three-day visit to the state Dr Kalam will tour some areas of the Kashmir valley and also address troops at a border post in North Kashmir. |
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Immolation bid by KAS
aspirant Jammu, June 22 The Public Service Commission (PSC) is holding the main examination for the KAS tomorrow. Dar alleged that as 125 candidates had not been able to appear in the examination because of the problem created by the PSC. The aggrieved candidates had announced that they will self-immolate during the visit of the President, Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, here. Some candidates have already filed a petition challenging the notification of the PSC for 138 posts of KAS. They have alleged that the PSC has violated the norms by not adhering to the reservation formula. They have demanded that the main examinations should be postponed till the dispute was settled. |
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Strengthen VDCs, says
Sinha Jammu, June 22 Addressing a gathering at Kathua, Mr Sinha emphasised the need for strengthening village defence committees (VDCs), especially in border areas of the state, in order to check infiltration from across the border. He stressed the need for strengthening the VDCs not only for the purpose of defence, but also for better information network. The Governor said the security forces well rendering yeoman’s services by fighting militancy in the state. He said optimum utilisation of man power and other resources should be ensured to launch successful offensive against militancy, particularly in mountainous areas. The Governor appreciated the introduction of telemedicines facility in the District hospital, Kathua, by the Health Department and hoped that the people of the area would be benefited by it. |
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Parliamentary panel visits Kashmir Srinagar, June 22 The 11-member committee, headed by Margarat Alwa, interacted with women artisans and entrepreneurs at Manigam, Preng, Wusan, Mammer and Kangan and sought feedback about the working of women self-help groups and other handicraft centres. They expressed pleasure over the formation of self-help groups, which are gaining momentum in the valley and supplemented the income of women. The state Minister for Rural Development, Gharu Ram, senior officers of his ministry and social welfare and handicraft departments accompanied the committee members.
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