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Maya plays quota card
HCS (judicial) exam on schedule
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Cong names 3 more nominees
Sirsa Seat
Arvind Sharma wins round 1
Arvind Sharma, Cong nominee from Karnal
Doc’s death puts dept in spot
INLD supremo and former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala pays tributes to his father and former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal on his death anniversary at Sangharsh Sthal, New Delhi, on Monday. A Tribune photograph
‘84 Riots
Runaway couple thrashed
13-yr-old gangraped; 4 booked
Bakery owner shot at
Congress meeting on April 10
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Maya plays quota card
Nuh (Mewat), April 6 “We have written to the union government to provide due job quota to the economically backward sections within the upper castes and the minority communities, but to no avail,” she maintained. The UP Chief Minister asserted that while she had implemented such a regime in her state, it would be done in the entire country when her party assumed power at the Centre. Mayawati termed the Congress as well as the BJP as “pro-capitalist” parties. She appealed to the people to vote BSP’s candidates to power if they wanted a positive change. Today’s rally was a show of strength by prominent local leader Zakir Hussain, who is also the BSP’s Lok Sabha nominee for the Gurgaon parliamentary constituency. Addressing the gathering, Hussain alleged that successive Haryana rulers had favoured their respective constituencies, while the Mewat-Ahirwal belt had remained neglected. “While Chautala worked for Sirsa people, Bhajan Lal did not look behind Adampur,” he said, adding that the Hooda regime had catered to the residents of Rohtak and Jhajjar areas. Leveling specific charges, the BSP leader alleged that of the 16,000 tube-well operators appointed in the water-supply division of the Public Health Department recently, more than 15,000 belonged to Rohtak and Jhajjar districts. BSP general secretaries Satish Chander Mishra and Maan Singh Manheda also addressed the gathering. Manheda attacked the Congress and the BJP on the issues of CBI’s clean chit to Jagdish Tytler and inflammatory speech of Varun Gandhi. |
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Harps on social equality
Palwal, April 6 Addressing a public meeting here to support party nominee Chetan Sharma from the Faridabad parliamentary constituency, Mayawati said her party was not casteist or hide-bound in terms of ideology. It was against the age-old inequalities in the social system of the country. She said her party aimed to bring about a social order in which every section of the society had equity and sense of equality. She said she was in favour of the reservation for poorer strata among the forward castes, adding that she was also in favour of providing the reservations for the Dalit Christians. She said if the BSP formed a government at the Centre it would try to root out the menace of all kinds of terrorism and Naxalism. She lashes out at the Congress and the BJP, along with their allies, for all ills plaguing the country. They have ruled the country for the past 61 years after the Independence and they were responsible for the present condition of the country, she added. She said her part had put up nominees in all 10 parliamentary constituencies. She said the BSP did not go in for poll alliance with any political parties as the organisation was confident about itself. The audience remained rooted at the venue braving the heat even though Mayawati arrived more than two hours behind the scheduled time. |
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HCS (judicial) exam on schedule
Chandigarh, April 6 The legal hitch in holding the examinations on April 11 ended today with a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissing a patent appeal against the process. In all, four appeals were filed before the Division Bench against the judgment of a Single Judge. As many as 5,170 candidates appeared in the preliminary examination conducted by the Haryana Public Service Commission
(HPSC) in 2008 for filling up 78 posts of civil judges (junior division). Out of the total, 830 candidates were short listed. In the petitions subsequently filed, the preliminary examination was challenged on grounds that certain questions were out of syllabus and answer to a question was incorrect. During the pendency of writ petitions, it was pointed out that 45 questions were out of syllabus; five had incorrect answers. The Single Judge had concluded four questions were wrong. Taking up the appeals, the Bench of Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice SS Saron asserted: “We do not find that the appellants are entitled to any indulgence in the present appeals.... According to the appellants, the questions said to be out of syllabus relate to the Constitution of India, international law, jurisprudence, torts and other statutes. “It cannot be said such questions are out of syllabus, as the candidates were made aware that they should have the ability to answer questions on current events of national and international importance, Indian legal and Constitutional history and governance…. Elaborating, the Bench further asserted: “It may be noticed that such examination is for recruitment of judicial officers in the state of Haryana. The questions are about the Constitution of India or other statutes. It cannot be said that such questions are not relevant to determine the aptitude and analytical mind of a candidate. The questions asked are not of physics, chemistry or economics unconnected with the syllabus or the purpose for which examination is being conducted. Therefore, we are unable to agree with the arguments raised by counsel for the appellants that 45 questions were out of syllabus. Before parting with the orders, the Bench asserted: “In respect of the argument that answers to certain questions were incorrect, suffice it to say the appellants have attempted most of the questions and attempted them right. “To argue that such questions should be excluded from the marking of all the candidates would be meaningless when the appellants themselves have attempted most of the questions correctly”. |
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Cong names 3 more nominees
New Delhi, April 6 Though the names had been finalised last night, a formal announcement was made today. The AICC today said Ashok Tanwar, the Youth Congress chief, would contest the reserved Sirsa seat, replacing sitting MP Atma Singh Gill. This was expected as Gill was never in the reckoning for the ticket. Union Minister of State for Defence Production Rao Inderjeet Singh will contest from Gurgaon. He is the sitting MP from Mahendragarh and had opted to shift to Gurgaon that has been newly carved out following delimitation. Despite having made some pro-BSP statements in the past, sitting MP Arvind Sharma has been retained to contest the Karnal seat. The fight continues for the Sonepat seat and also for the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh seat. Last time the Congress had lost Sonepat while its MP from Bhiwani Kuldeep Bishnoi floated his own party. |
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Party MP to contest as Independent
Sushil Manav Tribune News Service
Sirsa, April 6 Talking to The Tribune, Gill, who was today denied the ticket to accommodate Indian Youth Congress chief Ashok Tanwar, said denying the ticket to him would cost the Congress dear in Haryana and its impact would be felt all over the state. “The Congress has done a blunder by giving both Sirsa and Ambala reserve seats to Scheduled Castes (category B) candidates and those belonging to category A are angry at the decision of the party. The category will now teach the Congress a lesson,” the MP said and added that Ashok Tanwar, whom the party had fielded, was an outsiders and he would not be acceptable to the local voters. Atma Singh Gill, who is the lone MP to have been denied the party ticket so far, said he had no complaint against Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who, he said, had sent only his name in the panel. “However, the party high command has betrayed me to favour an outsider,” said a bitter Gill, whose ticket had come under a cloud ever since he was involved in a rest house controversy. He said he would start a tour of all nine Assembly segments of the Sirsa parliamentary constituency from tomorrow and would mobilise Sikhs, Punjabis and Scheduled Castes (A category) voters in his favour.
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Arvind Sharma wins round 1
Karnal, April 6 Sharma, a vocal voice of dissent in the Congress, had caused great embarrassment to the party at the time of the trust vote in Parliament on the nuclear deal and kept the Congress leadership on tenterhooks till the last minute. Finally, he voted against the no-confidence motion but fully utilised the opportunity to express his resentment against the state leadership. Sharma, who had won the Sonepat Lok Sabha seat in 1999 as an Independent, was given the Congress ticket from Karnal in 2004, ignoring the claim of Kuldeep Sharma (at present working president of the HPCC). He won the election defeating ID Swami of the BJP and also Kuldeep Sharma, who revolted against the party and contested as an Independent. Later, the party not only revoked the expulsion of Kuldeep Sharma, son of veteran Congress leader Charanji Lal Sharma, who won four times in a row from Karnal, but also made him the working president of the HPCC. This was like showing a “red rag to the bull” and reacting sharply, Arvind Sharma opened a front against the Chief Minister and his utterances brought the infighting in the party to the fore. He started holding workers’ meetings and made the Chief Minister his main target of attack, accusing him of discriminating against North Haryana in jobs and developmental works. Even in the case of lathi-charge on guest teachers, he took a stand, divergently opposite to the official stand and spared no chance to embarrass the government. During his rally at Karnal on September 14 last year, he announced convening of a meeting of his supporters on November 30 to chalk out the future course of action but in the meantime behind-the-scene efforts to cool him down succeeded and he softened his stand. Consequently, the November 30 meeting was not held and the outbursts of Arvind Sharma against the Chief Minister and the government stopped sending clear signals that something was cooking. Various lobbies were working against Sharma but he was confident of getting the party ticket and remained unruffled. His rapport with some high command leaders and patch-up with the state leadership helped him get the ticket. Sharma will take on his old rival, former Union Minister of Home ID Swami of the BJP and it will again be a battle between two Brahmins. In the last elections, the BJP and the INLD had contested separately and lost but this time the BJP and INLD have forged an alliance.
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Doc’s death puts dept in spot
Rohtak, April 6 Neelam, wife of the doctor, in a statement issued here today, alleged that her husband died due to negligence on the part of the department which, she said, had delayed the release of the financial aid required to purchase the life-saving equipment. Seeking action against those responsible for his untimely death, she said her husband could not bear the shock he received when he was told that his salary had been withheld by the department, while no action had been taken in response to his application for financial help from the department. She claimed that her husband had written to the Commissioner and Secretary of the Health Department on March 17 seeking help for his treatment. He had been admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi on March 12, where doctors had advised him special treatment, including an operation for which an amount of Rs 8 to 9 lakh was required. He had e-mailed his request for the financial aid on March 17, but did no receive any message from the office in Chandigarh. Doctors and members of the HCMS Association have expressed grief over the death and have supported the demand for justice made by the doctor’s wife. The association has convened a meeting here tomorrow to chalk out the further course of action in this regard. |
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Tributes paid to Devi Lal
Sirsa, April 6 A prayer meeting was held in Jan Nayak Chaudhary Devi Lal Vidyapeeth, where Director-General Kuldeep Singh Dhindsa, Registrar KK Sirohi, Chief Executive Officer RS Tada and SC Sachdeva, Director of The Sirsa School, garlanded the statue of the late leader. Schoolchildren recited prayers to mark the occasion. A “sarva dharma” prayer meeting was held in the town park here today in which prayers of all religions were performed by their religious gurus. INLD district chief Padam Jain, BJP district chief Renu Sharma, INLD women wing chief Krishna Fogat and several other leaders of the NDA were present. Student leaders belonging to the Indian National Students Organisation (INSO) garlanded the statue of Chaudhary Devi Lal on the
Chaudhary Devi Lal University campus. INLD workers observed the day by planting saplings and cleaning Chaudhary Devi Lal Park at Ellenabad town in this district. |
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Protest against clean chit to Tytler
Tribune News Service
Sirsa, April 6 Activists of various Sikh organisations today met at Dasham Patshahi Gurdwara under Sukhwinder Singh Khalsa, state president of the Shri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Sabha. Sikh activists Hardam Singh, Sher Singh, Major Singh, Jagsir Singh, Balkor Singh, Kashmir Singh, Balraj Singh, Balvinder Singh and Parkash Sahuwala were present. The protesters then marched towards Lal Batti Chowk with an effigy of Tytler and torched it there. “The Congress has fielded a person responsible for carnage of thousands of Sikhs. The party has also managed a clean chit for him from the CBI for fielding him. The Sikhs will boycott the Congress throughout the country in case the party did not change its decision to field Tytler,” the agitators maintained. They alleged that those who should have been “hanged for their sins” were being honoured by the Congress by giving them the party ticket.
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Runaway couple thrashed
Fatehabad, April 6 The couple was given a sound beating in presence of the commuters waiting for their buses by woman’s husband Harjinder Singh and his elder brother Harjit Singh. The couple was later handed over to the police. The woman, in her early thirties, was married to Harjinder Singh, a resident of Shehnal village, for eight years and had two children. She was allegedly having illicit relations with a village youth Ninda. The two allegedly left the village around 1 am and reached Fatehabad bus stand on feet. The woman’s husband came to know of his wife’s disappearance some time later and after lodging an FIR in the Ratia police station in the early hours came to Fatehabad with his brother on a motorcycle to search for his missing wife, when he found the couple waiting for a bus outside the bus stand. In the police post, the woman said she did not want to live with her husband and alleged that he had beaten up her in full public glare. The couple was later handed over to the Ratia police for further
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13-yr-old gangraped; 4 booked
Yamunanagar, April 6 Police sources said the case against the three youths and the woman was registered following a complaint by the victim’s mother. The victim’s mother alleged when she had gone out of her village her daughter was abducted and raped by the three youths. The victim’s mother alleged that the youths had threatened her daughter of dire consequences if she reported the matter to the police. |
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Bakery owner shot at
Gurgaon, April 6 According to eyewitness accounts, a youth came out of a black Esteem, shot at Tarun, who was sitting at the counter, thrice, took the cash and ran away. Local shopkeepers today closed their shops and blocked the Sohna Chowk road and the Sadar market in protest against the incident. Ramesh Swaika of the Beopar Mandal said they had sought the arrest of the accused and strict action against him. DCP Rakesh Arya reached the spot and assured the protesters that the police would arrest the criminal soon.
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Congress meeting on April 10
Chandigarh, April 6 The meeting will be presided over by party chief Phool Chand Mullana. It will be attended among others by AICC general secretary Prithviraj Chavan, who is in charge of the party affairs in the state, and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Former Himachal minister Anita Verma and former Jammu and Kashmir minister Gulchain Singh Charak, who have been appointed observers for the Lok Sabha elections in Haryana by the party high command, will also attend the meeting.
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Burn injuries
Gurgaon, April 6 |
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Woman raped by neighbour
Sirsa, April 6 The police has registered a case under Section 376 of the IPC after a medical examination of the woman confirmed rape. The woman has complained to the police that a neighbour, Surender, alias Kalia, kept an evil eye on her and he allegedly barged into her residence in the absence of her husband and
raped her. |
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The defiant Congress MP from Karnal, Arvind Sharma, a bete noire of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh
Hooda, has won the first round by getting the Congress ticket but he has a bumpy ride ahead to realise his dream to make a hat-trick.
