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Delhi Poll Scene
Jolly challenges Sheila
Malhotra replies to EC notice
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Sportsmen bat for Malhotra
70,000 govt staff to cast postal ballot
Over 1,000 booths are sensitive
Cong office vandalised over ticket denial
6 Cong rebels file papers
Ghaziabad residents protest jeweller’s murder
Thousands of construction workers clamour for better facilities
JNU collaborates with British university
CBSE celebrates vigilance week
Jamia gets writings of Pt Banarsidas Chaturvedi
3 convicted of Cong leader’s murder
5 hurt in bus accident
Cop falls to death
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Delhi Poll Scene
New Delhi, November 11 The fact came to light today when Akali candidate from Shahdara constituency, Jitender Singh Shanty, went to file his nomination papers. According to sources, Shanty was accompanied by Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) chief ministerial candidate Vijay Kumar Malhotra. The returning officer refused to accept Shanty’s nomination papers under Akali Dal’s party symbol saying that the party was not registered. When he insisted that senior leaders of his party had been assured by the Central Election Commission (CEC) of allowing party’s symbol, the officers said that they did not have any order from the higher authorities concerned. The officer told him to contest either as an independent candidate or on the symbol of BJP, Akali Dal’s electoral ally. The issue could not be settled even after Malhotra talked to Delhi’s chief electoral officer Satbir Silas Bedi. However, the chief of the Delhi unit of Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), Manjit Singh denied this saying that his candidates would contest on Akali Dal’s symbol. When this correspondent talked to the chief electoral officer of Delhi, she said, “Symbols are issued by the CEC. I do not have information about this.” Deputy chief electoral officer Jai Kishan Sharma said, “So far Delhi election office has not received any message from the Central Election Commission for Akali Dal’s symbol. But it can be done till November 14, the last date for withdrawal of nominations.” |
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Jolly challenges Sheila
New Delhi, November 11 The affidavit filed by Jolly states that he has a total asset of Rs 1.8 crore which includes movable possessions of worth Rs 98,32,637 and immovable property worth Rs 85,00,000 as compared to his Congress competitor, Sheila Dikshit’s 1.2 crore, which includes movable and immovable assets worth Rs 34.60 and Rs 63 lakh respectively. Jolly challenging the Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit for a political debate told the media persons gathering here that he has also invested Rs 13,00,000 on bonds, debentures and shares in companies. Besides, he has also availed for the government saving schemes, including the public provident fund of worth Rs 5,40,000 and Life Insurance Corporation of worth Rs 25,99497 against the Delhi CM’s Rs 10 lakh each on PPF and LIC schemes. Again, it appears that Jolly doesn’t seem to rely much on gold and silver savings, as he owns 35 grms of gold worth Rs 55,000; however, the Delhi CM has a total possessions of gold, silver and gems of worth Rs 3.43 lakh. Then, Jolly has a Hero Honda bike of worth Rs 40,000 whereas Sheila Dikshit has no private vehicle. Again, the BJP nominee has Rs 28,52,830 in the form of deposits in banking and financial institutions, Rs 60,550 in cash and other assets amounted to a value of Rs 23,84760. Besides, Jolly has non-agricultural land of 210 sq. mt whose current market price is Rs 40,00,000 and commercial and residential structures in an area of 462.5 sq. ft. whose value is Rs 45,00,000 as per the market status. |
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Malhotra replies to EC notice
New Delhi, November 11 According to the Election Commission guidelines, the maximum number of vehicles allowed to come within the periphery of 100 m of the returning officer’s chamber is three. The maximum number of persons allowed in at the time of filing nomination is the candidate and four others. The EC yesterday issued a notice to Malhotra for violating these instructions. Malhotra filed his nomination from the Greater Kailash assembly seat Saturday afternoon at Jamnagar House on Shahjahan Road. Malhotra was asked to furnish an explanation by Tuesday evening as to why action should not be taken against him for the violation of the commission’s instructions. “We filed the reply to the EC on Tuesday afternoon around 2:30 pm. We have explained to the commission that V.K. Malhotra went to the returning officer’s office in his car with his wife and Delhi BJP chief Harsh Vardhan only,” Delhi BJP legal cell head Hari Om Gupta told IANS. “There was no other car with Malhotraji. We explained to the EC that supporters were present at the place before he reached the Jamnagar House,” Gupta said. According to Gupta, the explanation given to the EC by Malhotra says: “When I entered the returning officer’s room, accompanied by my wife and Dr Harsha Vardhan, the returning office never asked others, including senior leaders, to go out. A simple request or an announcement to this effect would have sufficed. As a candidate, I could not be expected to start regulating people present there.” The commission had also ordered the immediate transfer of Greater Kailash returning officer Bans Raj Ram, assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Puspender Kumar and sub-inspector K.L. Yadav for failure to implement the commission’s
orders. — IANS |
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Sportsmen bat for Malhotra
New Delhi, November 11 BJP chief ministerial candidate Vijay Kumar Malhotra is a dynamic leader and he would be a boon for the requirement of development. The sportsmen who visited Malhotra’s residence are India hockey team chairman and selection committee of hockey federation of India Captain, Ajit Pal Singh, Commander Nandi Singh, Baljeet Singh Sethi, secretary-general of the Shooting Federation of India, Chetan Chauhan, veteran athlete Kamaljeet Sandhu, Chandgi Ram, Raj Singh, wrestler Ashok Pahalwan, Arjuna awardee badminton player Dinesh Khanna, shooter Jaspal Rana, Olympian Limba Ram and Satya Dev Prasad. They said Professor Malhotra’s vast experience, dedication and commitment to public service, and sports in particular, was essential for boosting the morale of sports fraternity. They feel that all ongoing projects for Commonwealth Games coming under the Delhi administration were behind schedule. The sportspersons, addressing newsmen today, said the contribution of Professor Malhotra in the development of sports has been remarkable. As a chief executive councillor of Delhi, he did good work for giving fillip to sports. During his five years’ tenure, many stadia, akharas and other sports venues and facilities came up and were upgraded in Delhi. |
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70,000 govt staff to cast postal ballot
New Delhi, November 11 Besides, about 70,000 police personnel will exercise their franchise in the similar fashion. Around 200 service personnel will be sent postal ballot by the Election Commission to enable them caste their votes in Delhi assembly poll. The Election Commission will soon be sending them the postal ballots. “On November 16, the postal ballots for the servicemen in army and other security forces will be sent. Along with the voters’ list, the postal ballots will be directly handed over to the post office for delivery to the individual serviceman,” said a senior Election Commission official. He also said that there will be around 70,000 government employees on poll duty in Delhi on November 29 when the Capital goes to poll. “The form 12 which is valid for the government employees on poll duty will be sent to each of them. These forms signed by the employees are being collected districtwise in the Capital. Once all the forms are collected, they will be dropped in a sealed box,” he added. He further said that postal ballots will be sent to the employees along with a pre-paid stamped envelope which is to be returned by them. Interestingly, the postal ballots of the government employees, police personnel and the servicemen will be first counted but their postal ballots must reach before the day of counting of votes. |
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Over 1,000 booths are sensitive
New Delhi, November 11 “We have entrusted the Delhi police to select these booths and the list is almost final. At least 10 per cent of Delhi’s polling stations will be declared sensitive,” Satbir Silas
Bedi, the chief electoral officer of Delhi, said. During the 2003 assembly election, Delhi had 211 sensitive polling stations and 29 others were declared hypersensitive. A polling station is declared sensitive or hypersensitive if there is reason to fear booth capturing or violence there. A total of 10.7 million people, nearly 25 per cent more than in 2003, will be eligible to vote across 11,000 booths this year to pick a new 70-member legislature in
Delhi. — IANS |
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Cong office vandalised over ticket denial
New Delhi, November 11 The former Delhi mayor and Congress leader Jayshree Panwar allegedly damaged the party office and smashed the glasses of Delhi Congress president J.P. Aggarwal’s car after the Congress announced its final list of 22 candidates for the November 29 elections, police said. According to party supporters, Panwar’s name was doing the rounds for the Greater Kailash constituency, but she was denied ticket. Former municipal councillor Jitender Kochar, a favourite of Aggarwal, has been given the ticket from the constituency. Kochar has been pitted against Bharatiya Janata Party’s chief ministerial candidate V.K. Malhotra from Greater Kailash. Trying to play down the incident, Aggarwal denied that those behind the vandalization were from the party. “I don’t know who are behind the incident. We have registered a complaint at the Indraprastha police station and asked for stringent action against those involved in it,” Aggarwal said. |
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Ghaziabad residents protest jeweller’s murder
Ghaziabad, November 11 Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari, who was part of the protest outside Indirapuram police station here, said in the past 12 days, two major crime incidents have taken place in Richmond Park locality. “Two major crime incidents of burglary and shooting have also taken place in the nearby India Today society,” said Tiwari, a senior lecturer at Maharaja Agrasen College at Delhi. He alleged that Indirapuram station officer Ashutosh Gautam spoke rudely. Tiwari said: “In his address, he (Gautam) said it would take about a week to tackle the crime.” Four unidentified armed men robbed jewellery worth Rs 2 million from a jewellery shop and shot dead the owner Amit Gupta when he resisted. The incident occurred on Monday at Shri Ram Jewellers, located at Reliable City Centre Market in Sector-6 Vasundhara residential locality of Ghaziabad. Family members said at about 11 am, four men armed with pistols, on two black Pulsar motorcycles, came to the shop. Three robbers, posing as buyers, entered the showroom and asked to be shown jewellery which had to be given as gift to their sister on her marriage. Meanwhile, one of their accomplices spoke to the jeweller’s brother Anil Gupta at his mobile shop which is adjacent. He too said that he wanted to buy a mobile phone for his sister. “When Amit displayed several jewellery sets, one of the robbers collected all the jewellery from the table and put it in his bag and started to flee. When Amit resisted, one of the robbers shot him in the abdomen,” said Anil. “We are checking bikers and teams have been constituted to nab the robbers. Richmond Park is an elite society in Vasundhara where the two brothers lived with their families. We will strengthen the security measures here,” said Vijay Bhushan, superintendent of police city.
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Thousands of construction workers clamour for better facilities
New Delhi, November 11 The workers demanded immediate implementation of the welfare scheme ensuring Rs 100 scholarship for children, simplification of registration procedure for the Delhi Construction Workers’ Welfare Board (DCWWB) and appointment of designated officials to ensure safety norms at construction sites. Though, the Congress is going to polls with a slogan of achieving development on all fronts, including welfare schemes, more than five lakh construction workers are still waiting the statutory enrollment by the government under the scheme for the DCWWB. The DCWWB was formed in September 2002 and the registration of construction workers started in October 2005. But even after three years of the launch of the welfare scheme for construction workers of the city, a mere 14,000 out of an estimated five lakh have been covered so far. Though the government has collected a cess imposed on construction activities going on in Delhi to the tune of 175 crore for the purpose, the registration of workers for benefits from the social welfare scheme has turned out to be highly disappointing. According the Commonwealth Games-Citizens for Workers Women and Children (CWG-CWC), no benefit has reached the workers, till date. “There are between six to eight lakh construction workers in Delhi, but only 14,000 have been registered so far. This is because the government has hardly done anything to spread awareness among the labourers,” said Swami Agnivesh from Bandhua Mukti
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BSES partners with schools to save energy
New Delhi, November 11 Under this initiative, BSES conducted a rally today in partnership with Somerville School of Vasundhara Enclave. About 350 students and 15 teachers of the school actively participated in the rally, displaying placards on energy conservation around the apartments of Vasundhara Enclave and Mayur Vihar Phase-3. A BSES official said that the initiative has received positive response from various schools of Delhi. The official said, “The response from the schools is very encouraging, and after Somerville school, around 200 students of Starex International School, Vasundhara Enclave will march for the cause of energy conservation on November 15. “Energy conservation is an integral part of BSES’ corporate social responsibility. For this, BSES has been continuously engaging different sections of society and stakeholders. Students can be good brand ambassadors for energy conservation,” said Arun Kanchan, CEO of
BSES. |
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JNU collaborates with British university
New Delhi, November 11 The universities signed a memorandum of understanding at the JNU campus. “The MoU commits the two universities to a three-year programme of active collaboration in six academic areas,” said Poonam, PRO, JNU. The six areas are: language; literature and culture studies; social sciences including philosophy; arts and aesthetics including theatre studies; law and governance; international studies including international legal studies. The collaboration includes exchange of faculty, exchange of students, joint research activities, participation in seminars and academic meetings and exchange of academic materials. “JNU is looking forward to an academically driven collaboration matching the academic interests of JNU faculty and those of Warwick faculty and hope that the collaboration is beneficial to faculty and students of both universities,” said Ramadhikari Kumar, rector, JNU. |
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CBSE celebrates vigilance week
New Delhi, November 11 The programme was inaugurated by Vineet Joshi, IAS, secretary/chairman, CBSE. The CBSE also celebrated the National Education Day today. Different programmes were conducted for officials of the board in recognition of the contributions of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. Discussions and essay writing were held to highlight the percepts and practice of education. All the affiliated schools organized seminars, symposia, essay writing, elocution competitions, workshops, rallies etc to celebrate the day. Joshi also distributed awards to winners of various competitions during the celebration of National Education Day and the Vigilance Awareness Week. |
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Jamia gets writings of Pt Banarsidas Chaturvedi
New Delhi, November 11 The collection was given to the university by Pandit Banarsidas’ grandson Apoorva Chaturvedi. “The valuable collection includes the writer’s published and unpublished manuscripts and typescripts, letters, diaries, rare books, monographs and copies of journals he edited. There is valuable material on immigrant Indians, a concern the writer regularly voiced,” said Rakshanda Jalil, media and culture coordinator of Jamia. The collection also includes rare photographs of freedom fighters and well-known literary personalities of the time, which have not sjuts been collected but also photographed by Pandit Banarsidas himself. Apart from Banarsidas, JPALC houses private papers and photographs of national leaders like Shaukat Ali, Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar, MA Ansari, Zakir Hussain, Asaf Ali and the private collection of Urdu writer Qurratulain Hyder. |
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3 convicted of Cong leader’s murder
New Delhi, November 11 Additional Sessions Judge S.K. Sarvaria held accused Sushil Pehalwan, Suresh Pehalwan and Dalip guilty under Sections 302 (murder), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Surender Gupta, 40, who was also a property dealer, was shot at and stabbed near his house in South Extension in 2003. He died in a hospital later. The court, however, acquitted another accused Lekhraj for want of evidence. The court is likely to pronounce the quantum of sentence against the three convicts on November 19. The court had reserved its order on September 15. According to the prosecution, the convicts, who were armed, forced the victim to come out of his car near his house around noon on May 31, 2003. Sushil first fired twice at the victim and later Suresh stabbed him nearly 16 times, inflicting fatal injuries, the prosecution had
said. — IANS |
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5 hurt in bus accident
New Delhi, November 11 The residents claimed that at around 9 pm, a speeding bus first hit two parked motorcycles and eventually drove into the residents of Block 17 of Trilokpuri. The eyewitnesses said that the driver of the bus fled from the spot after the accident. The incident sparked off tension in the area when the other residents of Block 17 pelted the bus with stones and beat up two unidentified men. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital where condition of two is critical. |
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