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Monday,
September 22, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Bhajan Lal
may skip Rewari meeting DIG meets
deceased scribe’s family
Sampat
mobilises support for Karnal rally |
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Tackling
infanticide through radio
Plan to
build houses, shops Armed
youths loot occupants of car Rajasthan
girl abducted, raped
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Bhajan Lal may skip Rewari meeting Gurgaon, September 21 He is also not likely to attend another meeting organised on the same day by Congress leader Rao Inderjit Singh. This will spare the Congress major embarrassment as the General
Secretary of the All-India Congress Committee (AICC) and in charge of party’s affairs in Haryana, Mr Nawal Kishore Sharma, and the Leader of the Opposition in the Haryana Assembly, Mr Bhupider Singh Hooda, are all set to attend the public meeting organised by Rao Inderjit Singh. The venue of the two meetings are at a stone throw from each other. The ruling INLD in the state and the Haryana Vikas Party (HVP) have also thrown their hats into the muddled Ahirwal politics of south Haryana encompassing Gurgaon, Rewari, Faridabad, Mahendregarh, Jhajhar, and Bhiwani districts. While the General Secretary of the HVP, Mr Anil Rao, has decided to offer floral tributes to the statue of the 1857 local hero, Rao Tula Rao, here along with hundreds of party activists, the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala, will address a public meeting at Nasibpur in Mahendregarh district on the same day. According to sources, the Congress politicking in the Ahirwal belt has become farcical with leaders trying to prove their individual popularity. The president of the Sarvo Jati Janata Panchayat, Mr Rahu Yadav, whose supporters say is angling to join the Congress, is close to his once bete noire, Mr Bhajan Lal. In fact, since his mobilisation campaign, he has maintained that Mr Bhajan Lal will be the chief guest at the public meeting being organised by him. Yesterday he publicly stated that while Mr Bhajan
Lal would be the chief guest, the Congress MLAs, Capt Ajay Yadav, Rao Narender
Singh, Rao Dharam Pal and Mrs Anita Yadav, would also attend the meeting. However, Capt. Ajay Yadav, who is also Deputy Leader of the Congress in the Haryana Assembly today ruled out his participation in either of the two meetings at Rewari. Significantly, Capt Yadav is a Congress MLA from Rewari. He said the organisers of the two meetings, including Mr Rao Inderjit Singh, were trying to draw political mileage by invoking the name of Rao Tula Ram. Like him, Rao Dharam Pal, the MLA from Sohna in Gurgaon district, is unlikely to attend any of the meetings in Rewari. According to sources, Capt Yadav plans to organise a separate public meeting on another date to prove that he is more popular than Rao Inderjit Singh. While the Congress is mainly divided between Mr Bhajan Lal and Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda at the state level, in the Ahirwal belt it is literally Rao Inderjit Singh versus many of the leaders in the organisation. The former has now aligned himself with the anti-Bhajan Lal camp at the state level. |
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DIG meets deceased scribe’s family Chandigarh, September 21 According to sources, Mr Ahlawat met members of the family of Mr Goyal at Kaithal for a few hours yesterday. It is not known what the victim’s sons, Naresh, alias Goldy and Naveen, alias Rinku, had told the DIG. Sources say the Goyals, who had rejected the investigation by the bureau, are not cooperating with the SIT fully. The Goyals are stated to have expressed fears about their lives. To allay their fears, the police has provided them with security. Sources say the SIT has conducted several raids in the past two days for certain known criminals of Kaithal and the surrounding areas. The SIT is also inquiring if Mr Goyal, who spent several months in jail following his arrest in two corruption cases, had developed any special association with any criminal lodged in the jail. Mr Goyal, who came out on bail on September 9, his family members allege, was falsely implicated in these cases. The bullet recovered from Mr Goyal’s body is stated to be of .315 bore, which is prohibited. It bears words. “KF 96”, which show that it was made in the Khikhri factory in 1996. The SIT will try to find out from arms dealers of the area tomorrow if any of them had sold the bullets of this batch recently and to whom. It could not contract the dealers today as their shops were closed. According to the post-mortem report, the bullet entered the mid-auxiliary region, rupturing liver. It penetrated the diaphragm, the right lung, the heart, the arch of aorta, the left lung and was lodged under the soft tissue, causing instantaneous death. |
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Sampat mobilises support for Karnal rally Fatehabad, September 21 He also addressed public meetings in several villages of his Bhattu Kalan constituency in connection with mobilisation of support for the September 25 Karnal rally to be organised on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the former Deputy Prime Minister Chowdhary Devi Lal. Mr Sampat Singh said that the INLD government in the state was committed to implement the policies of Devi Lal. He said that the present government had been providing sufficient power and irrigation water to its farmers. Efforts had also been made to take water to farms located on a height by raising the level of minors and distributaries. He said that Chowdhary Devi Lal was not an individual but an institution unto himself. He said the late leader had struggled throughout his life for ameliorating the standard of living of farmers. He said that if the farmers were getting remunerative prices for their crops today it was all due to stand taken by ‘Tau’ during his lifetime. He said that Chowdhary Devi Lal not only improved the lot of farmers but brought about a revolution by awakening the farmers about their rights. He said that the Haryana Government was celebrating his birth anniversary at Karnal on September 25. |
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Tackling
infanticide through radio Chandigarh, September 21 The radio programmes to be aired for three months were formally launched today from Chandigarh FM radio. The programmes will also be aired from Rohtak, Karnal and Hisar AIR stations to cover the entire state. “Since we have already made use of the print media, we decided to experiment with radio, which has the widest reach and is economical too,” remarked Mr Sarban Singh, Special Secretary Environment, Haryana. “The radio programme module will later be taken to government schools where workshops will be held to carry a message on environmental issues like rainwater harvesting and recycling, industrial pollution and waste sanitation management,” said Mr Sarban Singh. Later, the focus would be on the issue of female foeticide, with Haryana having the second lowest sex ratio at 879 and three of its districts — Kurukshetra, Sonepat and Ambala — figuring in the list of 10 districts in the country with lowest sex ratio. The programmes will focus on female infanticide, education of the girl child and girl child marriage. Chandigarh-based Mantra Productions, has been entrusted with the responsibility of making these programmes. “It will be a 15-minute play titled “Baate Bade Kaam Ki”. It will be aired every Sunday at 3 pm, with the story revolving around issues confronting an ordinary middle class family,” said a spokesperson of Mantra Productions. The script for the programme has been written by Sapna, a lecturer at Government College for Girls, Sector 42, here. The environment related issues include bio-medical waste management, Renewable energy sources, industrial pollution (air and water), water conservation and rainwater harvesting and recycling. |
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Haryana
confers Kala Ratan Awards on four Chandigarh, September 21 The four artistes were selected for their contribution towards the promotion of Haryanavi folk and classical music traditions at the national and international level. The award comprises a citation, a shawl and Rs 21,000 each. Mamman Khan, born at Kharakpunia village in Hisar, has been honoured for adding new dimensions to the age old art of sarangi vadan. A traditional sarangi player, Mamman Khan belongs to the Panipat gharana. He has been contributing to the enrichment of music for the past over 20 years. He has also travelled to Ghana, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt for presentations. Pt Tule Ram from a small Sonepat village of Jatti Kalan is the son of famous Haryanavi folk theatre artiste Pandit Lakshmi Chand. He took “saang” and folk music training from his father. Known for raising funds by making musical presentations, Pt Tule Ram is famous as a social worker also. He is also the recipient of Central Sangeet Natak Akademi. Ustad Jhamman Khan, from Sisna village of Sonepat, was honoured for excellence in nagada vadan. The only folk musician to be honoured with the Sangeet Natak Akademi award, Ustad Jhamman Khan, took his early training from guru Hassan Khan of the Azrara Gharana. He has been working with the saangis ever since he was 16. Having represented Haryana in various inter-state and international cultural exchange programmes, Ustad Jhamman Khan is now busy passing on the techniques of nagada vadan to the younger aspirants. The final award of the evening went to famous theatre artiste Kamal Tewari, who has contributed to the music of over 60 theatre productions. Having worked with celebrated theatre directors of the order of Ebraham Alkazi, Mohan Maharishi, B.V. Karanth, Ram Gopal Bajaj and M.K. Raina, Kamal Tewari is also the recipient of the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi award. A passout from the Department of Indian Theatre, PU and then from the National School of Drama, Kamal Tewari also has the credit of presenting Haryanavi folk to the international audience for the first time. The Kala Ratan Awards were given away by Haryana Financial Commissioner Meenakshi Anand Choudhary. Following the award presentation ceremony, the evening was filled with melodies from Turkmenistan. A special music and dance show structured by elegant dancers and impressive musicians from Turkmenistan was presented by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
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Plan to build houses, shops Fatehabad, September 21 Mr Batra said considering the housing problem being faced by the local people and an artificial spurt in the prices of immovable property created by some unscrupulous property dealers, the Trust had decided to provide residential plots to people at affordable prices. He said the Trust had already selected sites for that purpose, but refused to divulge the sites as it could prompt the property dealers to create an artificial hike in the prices of immovable property in those areas. The residential as well as commercial sectors would be developed on the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) pattern, he added. The Improvement Trust Chairman also informed that the Trust would soon auction plots of booths and shop-cum-flats in Phase 2 of its scheme Number 1, which is known as Tau Devi Lal market. He said the new phase would be named after Lala Lajpat
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Armed youths loot occupants of car Jind, September 21 According to reports, Mr Charat Singh, Mr Gurdeep Singh and Mr Gurcharan Singh were going from Rohtak to Punjab via Jind in their car when some armed youths intercepted the car near Kilazafargarh village and reportedly looted the occupants at pistol point. When the car occupants resisted the youths attacked and injured them. The injured have been admitted to the local General Hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, the district police arrested five armed youths while they were planning to loot traders of Uchana town in the district yesterday. Those arrested have been identified as Karam Singh, Kuldeep, Shamsher, Joginder and Manish. The police has recovered two pistols and 11 cartridges from them. |
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Rajasthan
girl abducted, raped Rohtak, September 21 The victim reported the matter to the police, which booked the couple on charges of abduction and rape. While the alleged rapist, identified as Ashok, hailing from Loharu in Bhiwani district, was absconding, his wife Santosh was arrested.
— PTI |
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Student’s
body found, probe on Sirsa, September 21 According to sources, the body was seen lying near Panniwala Motta
village. The police reached the spot and identified the deceased as
Naveen, a student of B.Tech (Computer) at GJU, Hisar. He belonged to
Kot Kapura in Punjab. |
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