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Bhajan’s no disappoints Cong men
Abohar, January 16
Congress workers in the Balluana Reserve constituency are dismayed over the decision by the Bhajan Lal family not to campaign in favour of party candidates in Punjab.
Dharam, Hema to pitch in for BJP
Chandigarh, January 16
The “muscleman” of the Hindi cinema Dharmendra, and the “dream
girl” of yesteryear, Hema Malini, will be among several star
campaigners and top leaders of the BJP, who will be wooing voters in
Punjab.
EC allows teachers to join service
Chandigarh, January 16
The Chief Electoral Officer, Mr Sundaram Krishna, has allowed hundreds of teachers, appointed before December 29 when the Model Code of Conduct was enforced, to join service.
poll chase
Personal touch — Jr Mann’s style
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Fatehgarh Sahib, January 16
Mr Emman Singh Mann, SAD (Amritsar) candidate from the Sirhind Assembly constituency, has launched his election campaign, but in a different style. A graduate from an American university, Mr Mann goes to the people alone early in the morning and attends small corner meetings.
SAD (A) candidate Emman Mann holds a corner meeting with voters of his constituency.
— A Tribune photograph
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DSGMC FALLOUT
Bhai Ranjit Singh not to campaign
Amritsar, January 16
Virtually stung by the drubbing in the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee elections, Bhai Ranjit Singh, former Jathedar of the Akal Takht, has decided not to campaign in the Punjab Assembly elections and the byelection to the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat.
The twice cursed
Thousands of border farmers are facing starvation. The compensation of Rs 2,500 per acre given to them by the Central Government in 1998 has been stopped. There are no takers for such land while land prices elsewhere in the state have skyrocketed. They want their voice heard in the cacophony of electioneering, say
Varinder Walia and Gurbax Puri
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Parties get the dollar boost
Jalandhar, January 16
This winter is witnessing the maximum homecoming of NRIs to their native villages in Punjab. They are back not just to meet their kin, take care of their land or marry off their children, but to take part in the election process by donating funds to political parties and canvassing.
Weary voters say ‘yes’ to all
Gurdaspur, January 16
Political parties are raising the issues of development and job promises and levelling charges of corruption against each other as their main poll planks.
Poll khol
Babus vanish
Chandigarh, January 16
Even as the state gears up for the elections, senior bureaucrats in Punjab have decided to take it easy and wait for the results to pour in.
What otherwise can explain the scant presence of babus in their offices located
in the Punjab Civil Secretariat.
Two panchayats resolve boycott of Dalits
Barnala, January 16
Mr Surjit Singh Dhillon, Deputy Commissioner has ordered a probe into the Daraj-Daraka issue following a complaint from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) CPI(ML) Liberation Front which alleged atrocities on Dalits.
Roof structure collapses
Abohar, January 16
The concrete structure of a roof for a dharamshala collapsed a few minutes after completion at Bahavwala
village, near here, today. Two walls used for the construction of the roof also
collapsed. However, no one was injured.
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