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Chautala wants Governor’s removal BKU to work for INLD’s
defeat, says Nain BJP committed to weed out corruption HVP candidate opens poll
office Sanjay Dutt campaigns
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Candidates declare assets 13 in poll fray from Ambala Protest against attack on Cong office in J&K Jindal alleges irregularities,
writes to EC 15 vehicles impounded Separate queues
for elderly sought
Bihari labourer, family in distress School board exam results next
month Rs 2.60 lakh looted Youth shot dead 3 killed in road mishap
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Chautala wants Governor’s removal Hisar, April 26 Talking to mediapersons here late last night, he said the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) had taken a stern notice of Governor’s recent speeches and would submit a memorandum to the President in this regard soon. He said Babu Parmanand, who held a constitutional post, was violating the Constitution by asking people to vote for the BJP in his speeches. The Governor had reportedly criticised the state government on many other occasion too. He said though the President had set an example by canceling his all public functions due to elections but the Governor was touring the state and criticising policies of his government. He alleged the BJP had a secret understanding with the Congress in Haryana as the BJP had fielded weak candidates on some seats to give benefit to Congress candidates. He said though leaders of the Congress and the BJP were issuing statements against regional parties but these would register a strong presence at the national level in the coming elections. Later, he also addressed a public meeting at the Old Grain market here. Mr Sampat Singh, Finance Minister, also addressed the meeting. |
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BKU to work for INLD’s
defeat, says Nain Jind, April 26 An announcement regarding the BKU support to a certain political party in the Lok Sabha Election will be made at the rally. Later, addressing BKU workers, Mr Ghasi Ram Nain said the BKU would support that political party which would assure waiving of pending electricity bills of the farmers and fixing of new electricity rates for the farm sector in consultation with representatives of the farmers. He said the BKU would start its election campaign after the rally. Mr Ghasi Ram Nain said the Indian National Lok Dal came to power in the state with the support of the farmers, but it ignored their interests after coming to power. He said the INLD leadership had promised free power and water to the farmers. Instead, the government increased the rates of power considerably. He said when farmers launched an agitation in support of their demands the government curbed their agitation by adopting repressive measures. He alleged that the government had committed excesses against the farmers during their agitation. Mr Nain said while the INLD government claimed to be the well-wisher of the farmers, but it was pursuing anti-farmer policies. He alleged that the INLD government had fabricated cases against certain leaders of the farmers and arrested them. He said two BKU leaders — Mr Nafe Singh Igrah and Mr Pala Ram Gaur — were still in jail. He said the BKU would oppose the INLD in the elections and would work for its defeat. Mr Nain said the farmers were facing shortage of water and electricity for irrigation. He alleged that the government had failed to get the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal completed, which is lifeline of the farmers of the state. He said the financial position of the farmers was deteriorating as they were not getting remunerative prices of their produce. He said a majority of the farmers were under debt. He said the remunerative prices of agriculture produce should be given to farmers and the support prices of the agriculture commodities should be fixed taking into consideration the cost of production. |
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BJP committed to weed out corruption Kurukshetra, April 26 On this occasion, ‘laddoos’ were also distributed among hundreds of the BJP workers and the public. While addressing the gathering, Mr Saini appealed to the people to vote for the BJP, who was committed to eradicate terrorism, hunger and corruption from the country. The Election Commission (EC) had been asked to order deployment of Central security forces to avoid any disorder during the ensuing LS elections, he added. Mr Saini claimed that with the public cooperation and efforts made by the workers, the BJP would win the Kurukshetra Parliamentary constituency with a big margin. BJP media chief of the Kurukshetra constituency, Mr Ramdhari Sharma, said that Mr Saini had completed his second election campaign phase and would now tour 25 villages under Guhla Cheeka Vidhan Sabha constituency. Mr Saini was accompanied by among others, a former Haryana Health Minister, Mrs Kamla Verma, Haryana BJP, Backward section, State Vice President, Dr Harbans Singh Kamboj, Haryana BJP member, Mr Avtar Singh Warraich and Haryana BJP Women Cell, State General Secretary, Ms Saroj
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HVP candidate opens poll
office Fatehabad, April 26 The HVP supremo, Mr Bansi Lal, was to inaugurate the office and address a rally but the party later announced the cancellation of the visit. Meanwhile, the BJP candidate for the Sirsa parliamentary constituency, Mr Mahavir Prasad, today received a shot in the arm when Mr Pawan Khanda, an HVP leader, announced his decision to join the BJP. Mr Khanda, state general secretary of the SC wing of the HVP had earlier quit the party (HVP) in protest against the denial of ticket. Addressing mediapersons at the local BJP office, Mr Khanda said the regional parties did not function in a democratic manner and workers had to suffer due to the whims of leaders. Mr Bharat Bhushan Midha, president of the local unit of the BJP, welcoming Mr Khanda to the party fold, said the party had divided 145 villages of the Fatehabad assembly segment in seven mandal-level zones and each zone was being manned by mandal heads of the party. |
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Sanjay Dutt campaigns
for INLD Kurukshetra, April 26 Sanjay Dutt in “Munnabhai MBBS” style, “Apun bolta hai... kya, Abhey ko jitane ka hai, kya bola... haan, dhyan rakhna.. yeh Munnabhai MBBS se ki gayee zubaan hai... dhokha nahin dene ka... kya bola... Abhey bhai ko zaroor jitane ka Hai.” He visited his native Mandoli village in Yamunanagar district. Aaditya Pancholi also appealed the people to vote for Mr Chautala. He said Sanjay Dutt and Mr Chautala were like his elder brothers. The INLD unit president, Mr Sher Singh Badshami, Haryana Transport Minister Ashok Arora, Haryana Health Minister M.L. Ranga, Mrs Kailasho Saini, MP, and the Thanesar Improvement Trust Chairman, Mr O.P. Khurana, addressed the rally. |
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160 left in the fray
after withdrawals Chandigarh, April 26 Official sources said the maximum number of 24 candidates were for the Rohtak seat, followed by 20 each for Karnal and Sonepat and 16 each for Bhiwani and Hisar, 15 for Kurukshetra, 14 each for Faridabad and Mahendragarh, 13 for Ambala (SC) and eight for the Sirsa (SC) seat. |
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Candidates declare assets Ambala, April 26 The INLD candidate, Mr Balwant Singh, is one of the few candidates who has invested in the stock market by buying 100 shares of the Oriental Bank of Commerce, while the candidates of other major parties have steered clear of the stock market. The candidates have spread out the risk by investing in different instruments. They have played safe by having fixed deposits in banks, LIC policies, IDBI bonds and National Saving Certificates. Agricultural land as well as non-agricultural land tops the list in which most of the candidates have invested. The Congress candidate Ms Selja owns agricultural land in Hisar, Sonepat and Alwar in Rajasthan. Besides, she owns two plots in DLF Gurgaon, a plot in Urban Estate Hisar and land in Silokra village as well as Ballabhgarh. She also owns a flat in Safdarjung Enclave in New Delhi worth Rs 22 lakh. The INLD candidate, Mr Balwant Singh, owns two pieces of land in Ghel village, land in Chuhurpur village and four pieces of land in Bhogpur village. The total ownership is of 6 acres and 4 marla worth Rs 18,70,000. Mr Ratan Lal Kataria, BJP candidate, does not own agricultural land but his son owns 1.75 acres in Rauanhera in Kaithal district. Mr Kataria has a 1 kanal plot in Sector 4, Panchkula, whose current market value has been pegged at Rs 10 lakh, according to the affidavit. The BSP candidate, Mr Chander Pal, owns 32 bighas of land in Belgarh village worth Rs 26.67 lakh, 30 kanals of land in Doiwala village worth Rs 15.13 lakh, 11 kanals 4 marlas of land in Doiwala village worth Rs 5.60 lakh and 2 kanal 7 marla in Doiwala village worth Rs 1.18 lakh. His son, Narinder Pal, owns 34 kanals 7 marlas in Deodhar village worth Rs 4.29 lakh. Congress candidate Kumari Selja has 15 tolas of gold while BJP candidate Mr Ratan Lal Kataria and his wife jointly own 200 gm of gold and SAD Haryana candidate Mr Raunaq Singh and his wife jointly own 17 tolas of gold. INLD candidate Mr Balwant Singh owns 380 gm of gold. Mr Raunaq Singh of Shiromani Akali Dal Haryana has just one Bajaj Chetak scooter while the INLD candidate Mr Balwant Singh owns three vehicles, including a Scorpio with a market value of Rs 4.6 lakh, an Accent car with a value of Rs 6 lakh and a motor cycle worth only Rs 2000. The BSP candidate, Mr Chander Pal, owns a Ford Ikon car worth Rs 4.25 lakh, a motorcycle worth Rs 15000 and a truck worth Rs 90,000. The BJP candidate, Mr Ratan Lal Kataria, owns a Toyota Qualis, Congress nominee Kumari Selja owns a old disposal military jeep worth Rs 15000. |
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13 in poll fray from Ambala Ambala, April 26 On the last day of withdrawal of nominations today, the candidates who opted out were Haryana Vikas Party covering candidate Rajbir Singh, Ekta Shakti covering candidate Nar Singh and Independent candidates Jagwanti Devi and Jagdish Chandra. Symbols were allotted to the candidates by the Returning Officer as the directions of the Election Commission. Congress candidate Selja was allotted hand as symbol, BJP candidate Ratan Lal Kataria lotus, INLD candidate Balwant Singh spectacles and BSP candidate Chander Pal elephant. Haryana Vikas Party candidate Aman Kumar Nagra was allotted boy and girl as symbol, Samata Party candidate Sanjeev Gharu was flame, Ekta Shakti candidate Ranbir Singh Bhumbak axe, Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha nominee Arvind Kumar car and Lok Janshakti Party candidate Hemraj bungalow. Shiromani Akali Dal (Haryana) candidate Raunaq Singh was drum, Mr Jaswinder Singh book, Mr Ram Swaroop cupboard and Mr Sunil Kumar bridge. |
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Protest against attack on Cong office in J&K Ambala, April 26 Mr R.K. Bindra, state unit president, said there was need to put an end to terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. He said he had written a letter to US President George W.Bush, asking him to strongly direct Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to stop terrorism in India. He said Kashmir was an inseparable part of the country. Among others, Mr Inderjit Singh, Mr Ravi
Shukla, Mr Dheeraj Kohli, Mr Dinesh Ahuja, Mr Bajinder Malhotra, Mr Vikram Singh and Mr Vishwanath Yadav were present. |
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Jindal alleges irregularities,
writes to EC Yamunanagar, April 26 He alleged that gross irregularities were being conducted by Mr Abhay Singh Chautala, INLD nominee, and his associates. He said the INLD candidate was not only misusing the government machinery, but was trying to influence the electorate through government employees. He said government vehicles, especially those belonging to the police, were being misused. He said he had requested Mr Bhajan Lal to campaign for him. He claimed that there was a Congress wave in Haryana and the Congress would win all seats. Meanwhile, Mr Mohammad Kasim, Rashtriya Janata Dal leader, has joined the Congress and extended his support to Mr Jindal. |
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15 vehicles impounded Karnal, April 26 According to Mr Doon, these vehicles were not notified with the District Election Officer. —
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Separate queues
for elderly sought Ambala, April 26 Citizens Council Chairman Dr N.C. Jain today observed it was difficult for senior citizens to stand in the queue for a long time, specially due to the heat. “A separate queue for the elderly will be helpful,” he said. He suggested that the postal ballot can be introduced for senior citizens and applications can be forwarded to the returning officer. |
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Bihari labourer, family in distress Fatehabad: A teenaged youth lying in the general ward of the local General Hospital with both his arms amputated from near the shoulders and the sufferings of his aged parents tell a story of gross neglect and human insensitivity of those who matter. Dhanraj, an 18-year-old youth from Muzaffarpur district of Bihar, came here with his friends in search of some work. He got a job in a rice mill on the local Sirsa road. While he was working in the mill on February 28, his both hands were trapped in the belt of a machine. He was allegedly made to work for two shifts in the night and the next morning and the accident occurred when he was working with sleepy eyes. He was taken to a private hospital where both his hands had to be amputated. He also received injuries on his vertebral bones. Lying unattended in the hospital, Dhanraj asked his fellow labourers to call his parents from Bihar. His aged father, Jhakkarmukhia, reached here with his wife on March 2. As the bills of the private hospital were prohibitive and the family had received no financial assistance from the mill owner, Jhakkarmukhia shifted his son to Rohtak Medical College for treatment. But soon the family fell short of money and with the compensation promised by the mill owner not coming, Jhakkarmukhia brought his son back to Fatehabad and admitted him in General hospital. The youth and his parents have been lying in General Hospital for the past 15 days. What to speak of providing proper treatment to their son, the old couple do not have money to arrange for the meals of the threesome. Attendants of other patients in the hospital often provide some chapatis and dal to them, but when there is no such patient in the ward they have to pass the day without meal. Talking to this correspondent, Jhakkarmukhia alleged that he had approached the mill owner many times for financial aid, but the mill owner told him that his labour was insured with an insurance company and he would get the claim as and when it was sanctioned. His repeated requests of some interim help had fallen on deaf ears of the mill owner, he alleged. He said that he approached the District Red Cross authorities when he came here. The authorities did provide him ambulance for shifting his son to Rohtak but that was not sufficient to mitigate his woes. No voluntary organisation of the town has come forward to help the family in distress. The condition of his young son and the plight of family have made Jhakkarmukhia mentally abnormal. While talking about the accident of his son and the plight of the family after the incident, Jhakkarmukhia goes in fits of madness and starts behaving in an abnormal manner. Dhanraj needs a surgical operation of his spine once his wounds of amputation get healed. That also involves a handsome expenditure as the facility of neuro-surgery is not available at Fatehabad. He will have to be shifted to Hisar or Rohtak for the surgery. But poor Jhakkarmukhia wonders how it would be possible when he does not have the wherewithal to feed the three mouths of his family. |
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School board exam results next
month Chandigarh, April 26 While stating this here today, an official release said the schools would get the result gazettes at 11 a.m. and display the results at 3 p.m. on the day of declaration of results. The schools would issue provisional certificates free of cost to regular students on demand that very day. The results of private candidates would be available at 3 p.m. in the offices of the District Education Officers. The release said the results would be available on interactive voice response system on telephone No. 011-24357270 on which 60 lines would be provided. A helpline on telephone No. 951664-254000 with 10 lines would be set up at the board office at Bhiwani. Mobile users could know their results through SMS from the BSNL, Reliance, Reliance R-World and Escotel. The results would also be available on internet at http://results.nic.in, http://haryana.nic.in and website of the board, http://hbse.nic.in, stated the release. |
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Rs 2.60 lakh looted Kaithal, April 26 According to a complaint lodged by Bhagwana Ram, clerk of mini bank, Buchi, he was going to Rasina to deposit cash which was kept in his motorcycle glove box. Near Ahmedpur village, three youths stopped his motorcycle. They demanded keys of the box. When he refused they fired a shot in the air and looted the cash after breaking it. They were riding a motorcycle without a number plate. A case under the Arms Act has been registered. |
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Youth shot dead Hisar, April 26 According to reports, Anil Kumar of Sainipura village and his friend Gulshan Kumar of Hansi were returning here from Gangwa village on a motor cycle. As they reached near Mini Secretariat, two unidentified person, who were already standing there, opened fire at them and fled from the spot. Anil Kumar succumbed to injuries on the way to the hospital. The police have seized a pistol and some cartridges from the spot. |
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3 killed in road mishap Kaithal, April 26 According to information, Subhash of Pai village was coming to Kaithal town along with his wife Kelo and friend Krishan of Balla village when a bus coming from the opposite direction collided head-on with his car. While Kelo, and Krishan died on the spot, Subhash was rushed to the Kaithal Civil hospital, where he succumbed to injuries. The bodies have been handed over to the kin of the deceased. The driver fled from the scene to the accident. The police has impounded the vehicle and registered a case. |
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