Jalandhar, November 8
The BJP has decided to use for campaigning during the forthcoming Assembly elections the video CDs with “visuals of booth capturing and bogus voting in the recently-conducted Patiala bye-election”. This was stated by the BJP youth wing leader Vineet Joshi, while talking to The Tribune here today.

Mr Joshi said that BJP leaders, along with the leaders of its alliance partner SAD, would also meet Chief Election Commissioner to appeal to him to deploy para-military forces for smooth conduct of the Assembly elections scheduled to be held in February.

The sequence in the CDs conveyed the idea that what had happened at Patiala was just a small part of what was about to come in the Assembly polls, Mr Joshi alleged.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Punjab BJP had released another video CD with “visuals of bogus voting in the recently-conducted Patiala MC bye-election”. The CD also showed “manhandling of some women in the presence of administrative and police officers”.

Terming evidence on record in the latest CD, which is a sequel to the earlier CD released last week in Chandigarh, as “indisputable and irrefutable”, the party demanded cancellation of the bye-elections and strict action against the “culprits who had been caught on camera while indulging in mass-scale bogus voting and booth capturing at Patiala”.

Giving a graphic detail of the VCD released, BJP spokesman, Mr Vijay Sampla, alleged that the latest CD showed the “Congress henchmen” at their best in booth capturing. For the first time, the Congressmen had been seen openly stamping, folding and casting bogus votes in ward number 32 verandah outside the booth, he added.

Mr Joshi alleged that the brother of a Khadi Board member and son of a Congress Councillor had cast bogus votes in the verandah of the polling booth of ward number 32, as was shown in the CD.

Jalandhar, November 8
The Pakistan government has allotted 947 kanal of land to the Lahore Press Club, just four km from the Wagah check-post, so that all 932 members of the club could set up their houses near the international border.

The Pakistan government is also in the process of setting up an ultra-modern colony there for journalists and members of the Lahore Press Club.

This was revealed by Mr Baljit Brar, the head of the Punjabi Media Academy, and editor of the daily “Ajj Di Awaaz”, who has just returned from Lahore, where his primer on Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts was released by Mr Arshad Ansari, president of the Lahore Press Club.

“Mr Ansari told me that the new colony of journalists would act as a bridge between the people of the two countries. The Pakistan government has released a grant of Rs 20 crore for the upcoming colony.

This decision of the Pakistan government is being hailed by journalists of Lahore and Pakistani Punjab,” said Mr Brar.

He said his book would help the people of both Punjabs to decipher both Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi scripts with equal ease.

Hoshiarpur, November 8
The members of the Punjab Roadways Joint Action Committee (PRJAC), Hoshiarpur, led by Mr Kuldip Singh, vice-president of PRJAC, Punjab, organised a gate-rally at the local bus stand today to protest against the non-acceptance of their demands.

They demanded filling of all vacant posts, overtime and adding of a fleet of new buses. They also expressed their opposition to the “privatisation policy” of the state government. Later, they burnt the effigy of the Punjab government.

Jalandhar, November 8
Legal aid would be provided to as many as 109 applicants by the District Legal Services Authority during a Lok Adalat being organised by the authority on November 11.

As many as 14 benches are being established for the adalat said Mr Inderjit Kaushik, District and Sessions Judge-cum-Chairman of the District Legal Services Authority. He said the authority was also organising a Legal Literacy Week from November 10 to 16 and a seminar would also be organised during this period.

Mr Ravinder Singh, Senior Civil Judge-cum-Secretary, said any person belonging to scheduled castes and tribes, industrial workers, children, women and any person whose annual income was less than Rs 50,000 could get legal aid from the authority.

Jalandhar, November 8
The DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology (DAVIET) won the overall trophy in the PTU Zonal Youth Festival. The festival that began at Lovely Institutes yesterday concluded today.

Results of the events:

Western group song: Lovely Institute of Management (1), DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology (2).

Clay modelling: DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology (1), Lovely Institute of Management (2).

Cartooning: DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology (1), ACET, Amritsar (2).

Rangoli: Lovely Institute of Management Phagwara (1), Lovely Institute of Technology (2).

Mimicry: DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology (1), Apeejay College, and Ramgarhia Institute of Engineering and Technology (2).

One-act play: Lovely Institute of Technology (1), Lovely Institute of Pharmacy, and DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology (2).

Classical dance solo: DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology (1).

Classical vocal solo: Lovely Institute of Management (1), DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology (2).

Light vocal: DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology (1), Lovely Institute of Management (2).