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Bandh in Bhajan’s constituency
Hooda’s supporters increase in number
Return of freedom for Haryana MLAs!
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2 new courses in KU from next session: VC
3 dowry cases registered
550 students honoured at SD College function
324 schools in Karnal dist face closure
Blood donors honoured
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Bandh in Bhajan’s constituency
Hisar, March 5 Some supporters of Mr Bhajan Lal burnt two buses at the local bus stand while rail traffic was obstructed at Adampur late last night. Due to the disruption of rail traffic, the Kisan Express was stranded at the local railway station for more than two hours. The Delhi-Hisar national highway No 10 was also blocked in Hansi. The police personnel had to use force to disperse Mr Bhajan Lal’s sypathisers. Around six persons, including some Youth Congress activists, were injured in the police lathi-charge. As soon as supporters of Mr Bhajan Lal learnt that Mr Hooda had been named Chief Minister by the Congress high command, they went on a rampage, causing an extensive damage to public property. Barriers at several railway crossings were broken by the mob. Most shops and other commercial establishments remained closed today in response to the bandh call given by the Congress members backing Mr Bhajan Lal. The bus service was also hit as a result of the bandh call. Some women supporters burnt the effigies of the Congress president, Ms Sonia Gandhi, at three places in the constituency. Besides, many Congress workers took off party flags from their rooftops as a mark of protest. The record of a mini-bank at Khara Barwala village in Adampur constituency was damaged today in continuation of the protest demonstration. Mr Bhajan Lal’s supporters also damaged two buses parked at the Adampur bus stand. |
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Hooda’s appointment welcomed
Sonepat, March 5 The Haryana Jat Mahasabha has thanked Congress President Sonia Gandhi for Mr Hooda’s appointment, according to the vice-president of the mahasabha, Mr Ranbir Chaudhary. KARNAL: Sikhs have also welcomed the decision. The president of the Haryana Sikh Sangat, Jathedar Surjit Singh, said the decision was in the interests of the state and would lead to a clean administration. A wave of jubilation swept Sainik School, Kunjpura, from where Mr Hooda passed out in December, 1962. Commander L.K. Jain, officiating Principal of the school, said,” It is a moment to feel proud for the staff and students of the school.” PANIPAT: The BJP state President, Mr Ganeshi Lal, welcomed the appointment of Mr Hooda and hoped that he would provide a clean administration in the state.
Meanwhile, Mr Hooda was welcomed at several places in Panipat and Sonepat districts on his way from Delhi to Chandigarh on Saturday. A large number of his supporters waited for him for several hours at different places on the highway to garland him and to present bouquets. |
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Hooda’s supporters increase in number Panchkula, March 5 Not only did Mr Hooda’s supporters increase in number, but a large number of Congress men accompanied former City Congress chief and Mr Hooda’s supporter, Mr Krishan Nanha, to receive the new Chief Minister at Zirakpur. So even as the supporters of Mr Bhajan Lal continued to sulk and express their resentment, a number of leaders and Congress councillors joined hands with Mr Hooda’s supporters here. The changeover in the Congress has also meant that the Panchkula Municipal Council will not be disbanded. While Mr Bhajan Lal’s son and local MLA, Chander Mohan was in favour of the local body being disbanded, the Hooda camp here is in favour of the council. Mr Krishan Nanha, a close confidant of Mr Hooda and husband of councillor, Anita Aggarwal, today said the council should remain as it would lead to further development of Panchkula. He, however, said the MC President, Ms Seema Chaudhary, should resign as she had lost the mandate of councillors in the MC House. “She should have sent her resignation after the Vidhan Sabha results were declared and the INLD lost at the hustings,” he said. When questioned on who should be the next MC President, Mr Nanha said it was for the party high command to decide. Mr Nanha, while saying that Mr Hooda was a honest leader, said as against the belief that Panchkula would be ignored for development by Mr Hooda, he said this was not possible, considering that Panchkula was an important district. Meanwhile, Mr K.P. Singh, senior Vice-President of the Congress here, too, welcomed the AICC President’s decision of appointing Mr Hooda as the Chief Minister. “ We had sought votes on the issue of development of Panchkula and providing more job opportunities to the youth here. We will take up the matter with Mr Hooda and ensure that there was rapid pace of development in Panchkula,” he said.
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Return of freedom for Haryana MLAs!
Chandigarh, March 5 By having Bhajan Lal to attend the swearing in ceremony of Bhupinder Singh Hooda as Chief Minister today, the Congress’s central leadership tried to send across the message that the state unit of the party was united. Murmurs of discontent, though, could be heard all the same. A pro-Bhajan Lal MLA, just before leaving for Raj Bhavan to attend the function, accosted a reporter with the complaint that it had been erroneously written that 20 MLAs had stayed away from the CLP meeting yesterday in which Hooda was elected the Chief Minister. If he was to be believed, 22 MLAs had stayed away (a neutral MLA, however, said in reality it was 20 MLAs only as two MLAs left the Bhajan Lal camp and went to attend the CLP meeting). Two other MLAs also did not hide their reservation about the choice of the CLP leader. That a grand welcome ceremony for Hooda was being organised close by and a number of staunch Hooda supporters were within earshot did not prevent these MLAs from airing their views. At the venue of the ceremony, a senior Congress MLA said he would not join the Hooda-led ministry because the CM was his junior in politics. However, if the post of Speaker was offered to him, he would give it a thought. The Congress leader went on to claim that till about 2.45 pm yesterday, he was the front-runner for the CM’s post. The calculations, he claimed, got upset due to Bhajan Lal’s decision to stay away from the CLP meeting. All this, while indicating that Hooda has a challenging task before him, was a welcome change from the previous regime when Chautala kept MLAs as well as ministers under a tight leash and hardly gave them any real power. |
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2 new courses in KU from next session: VC
Jagadhri, March 5 The KU will conduct the examinations for the migrated students and not the Sirsa university. The examination centres for such students have been made at DAV Girls College, Yamunanagar, and S.A. Jain College, Ambala. The examinations of the undergraduate courses of KU will start from April 1 and of postgraduate courses from May 2. Earlier, the practical examinations of the undergraduate classes were to start from March 29 but they have been advanced to April 1 as the convocation of the university is scheduled for March 29. Prof Satish Chandra, an academician, will be the chief guest at the convocation. This was stated by Prof A.K. Chawla, Vice-Chancellor, KU, who was here in connection with a joint convocation of Maharaja Agrasen College and Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Management and Technology, Jagadhri, today. He said KU would be conducting the exams of the students who shifted to Sirsa university following a court
order. Prof Chawla informed that the university was all set to issue mark sheets bearing the photograph of the candidates. To check the cases of impersonation during the annual examinations, the information sheet sent to various centres would also bear the photographs of the candidate. The Vice-Chancellor informed that two new undergraduate courses in journalism and theatre would be introduced from the next session. He said if any college was interested in introducing the subjects, it would have to obtain no-objection certificate from the Director, Higher Education, Haryana. Earlier, 400 students of B.A, B.Com, B.B.A, B.C.A, M.B.A, M.C.A, M.Sc, M.A, M.Com and M.B.E courses received their degrees from Prof Chawla. Dr Raj Kumar, Principal of the college and Honorary Director of the institute, also spoke on the occasion. |
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3 dowry cases registered
Rewari, March 5 The cases have been entrusted to Inspector Umesh Bala, in charge of the women’s cell here for further investigation. The first case pertains to the complainant Sarika Saini, resident of Balluwara mohalla here. It has been registered against Bhupender Saini (husband), Bhom Singh Saini (father-in-law), Santosh Saini (mother-in-law) and Beeno Saini (sister-in-law), all residents of Alwar (Rajasthan), while Bhoj Raj, resident of Kishangarh town of Alwar district has been made the fifth accused. The second case of harassment for dowry has been registered against Sri Krishan (husband), Jagan Nath (father-in-law) and Maya Devi (mother-in-law), residents of Rewari city, following a complaint filed in the court by Sonia, daughter of Surender Kumar, resident of the Double Phatak area here. The third case has been registered against Dinesh Kumar (husband), Khairati Lal (father-in-law), Jamna Devi (mother-in-law), Chander Prakash ( brother-in-law) and Sushila (sister-in-law), residents of Banjarwara mohalla here, on the basis of a petition filed in the court by Usha Devi, daughter of Krishan Lal, who is a resident of Shukarpura mohalla here. |
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550 students honoured at SD College function
Ambala, March 5 As many as 550 students, including 23 NCC cadets, 28 NSS volunteers, 106 sports persons, were given awards for excellence in the field of academics, sports, cultural and other co-curricular activities. The Principal’s medal was awarded to Mr Gaurav Sharma of BA III. Medals were given to Manjit Rana and Rita, both of BA I students for being best sportsman and best sportswoman, respectively. Surekha Rana was awarded a cash prize of Rs 7000. She had represented India in Uzbekistan in rhythmic gymnastics. Gold medals were awarded to Ritika of BSc IT (Hons) part II, Akanksha of BSc IT (Hons) Part I, Zaheera Begam of BSc (Home) Part I and Aarti of BCA I for standing first in the University. A silver medal was awarded to Bharti Arya for standing second in the university. Vishal Gupta of BSc III and Hema of BA III were awarded a college colour for their excellence in dramatics and singing. Tulsi Verma and Tarun Bajaj, both of BA III, were given a college colour for dance in female and male categories, respectively. Gaurav Sharma of BA III and Jasbir Singh of BSc III were given a college colour for NSS activities. NCC senior under officer Hemant of BA III was awarded college colour for best NCC cadet. Corporal Bhupinder Jaglan of BA II and Corporal Avinash of B.Com II bagged college colours for their participation in the Republic Day camp. In sports, college colours were awarded to Ishpreet of BA II, Deepa of BA III and Pooja of BA II for athletics, Surekha and Renu of BA II for gymnastics, Sunaina of BA III and Deepa of BSc III for cricket (women), Prince Kieve Karamjit Singh of BA III for cricket (men), Rahul Puri of BA II for football, Ashu Pundir of BCA III for handball (men), Isha of BA III for handball (women). |
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324 schools in Karnal dist face closure
Karnal, March 5 The District Magistrate, Mr R.S. Doon, has issued orders that these schools be closed with effect from April 30, 2005, keeping in mind that students in the current academic session did not suffer. According to Mr Doon, 108 primary schools, 132 middle schools, 73 high schools and 12 higher secondary schools had been asked to stop functioning from the next academic session. With the implementation of these orders, at least 40,000 students would have to change school. The district administration has also asked respective district education officials to implement the orders of the apex court. However, every possible effort would be made to help provide admission to the affected students in other schools.
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Blood donors honoured Ambala, March 5 Dr J.G. Jolly, former Head of the Department of Transfusion Medicine, PGI, Chandigarh, was the chief guest on the occasion. As many as 170 blood donors were honoured at the function. Mr Rajinder Garg, who has donated blood 122 times, and Mr Srikrishan Saini a donor on 62 occasions, were given a warm welcome by the audience. Sunita Jaiswal and her daughter Pallavi Jaiswal, Divya Arora and her daughter Neha Arora, Hari Bagga his wife Geeta Bagga, Moolraj Aggarwal and his wife Manisha Aggarwal, Rajan Garg and his wife Rashi Garg, Manmohan Singh and his wife Gurpreet Kaur were also honoured for donating blood many times.
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