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Mohinder Kaypee files nomination papers
Christians, Dalits asked not to vote for BJP
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Agriculturists unhappy with pay commission report
Summoning of SGPC chief at Akal Takht sought
Hansraj gold medal for DAV school principal
Robber arrested, two escape
Cash, articles stolen
Procurement picks up
Woman murdered
Granthi found dead
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Mohinder Kaypee files nomination papers
Jalandhar, April 23 Earlier in the day, party workers conducted a road show and reached the District Administrative Complex (DAC) with a massive strength. They jostled inside the office, thereby leading to a violation of the model code of conduct. Congress Campaign Committee Chairman Capt Amarinder Singh, along with a battery of Congress leaders and workers, including Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, Shamsher Singh Dullo, Gurkanwal Kaur, Chaudhary Jagjit Singh and Tejinder Singh Bittu, was also present reflecting the party strength. Hoshiarpur: Mohan Lal of the Democratic Bharatiya Samaj Party and two Independents Mahinder Singh and Harmesh Lal filed their nomination papers before Returning Officer N.K. Wadhawan of the
5-Hoshiarpur parliamentary constituency for the Lok Sabha polls today. Eight candidates have already filed their nomination papers from this
constituency. With the filing of papers by the three candidates the total number of candidates has increased to 11 now. |
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Christians, Dalits asked not to vote for BJP
Amritsar, April 23 Daniel B. Das, co-ordinator, SEDP, claimed that writ of the SEDP ran not only on Christians but also the Dalits. Das claimed that the Christian community had about one lakh electorate in the Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency with a majority of them concentrating in the Ajnala assembly constituency. A subdivision, Ajnala has about 30,000 Christian voters followed by Attari and Rajasansi with 10 per cent each, he said. He said they were asking community electorate to put forth five demands to the Lok Sabha candidates - to hold a quarterly meeting to listen to their grievances, to implement Panchayati Raj Institutions Act in totality while seeking panchayats to be made accountable and transparent. The manch is in favour of removing lacunae in implementing scheme of giving five-marla land for raising houses and two marlas for garbage disposal to landless farmers, ensure setting up of toilets and provision for water supply at each Dalit house. He sought extending benefits of reservation to the Christians on the line of Dalits. Das called upon the minorities in general and Christians and Dalits in particular not to cast votes in favour of the BJP. He claimed that doublespeak of the BJP was visible during the anti-Christian riots in Orissa. He alleged that the saffron party and its offshoots, Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), let loose terror on Christians while BJP leaders based at Delhi were issuing misleading statements. He said the BJP honoured alleged perpetrators of riots against the Christian community in Orissa, Manoj Pradhan and Ashok Sahu, with Lok Sabha ticket. He said all the minorities in India must be united to stand against any high-handedness by the majority community. |
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Agriculturists unhappy with pay commission report
Hoshiarpur, April 23 Strongly criticising the pay commission’s recommendation, Dr Gurkanwal Singh, convener, Agriculture Technocrats Action Committee (AGTAC), Dr Chaman Lal Vashisht, general secretary, AGTAC, and Dr Avtar Singh, president, Plant Doctors Services Association, Punjab, said it had once again brought forth the deep-rooted anti-agriculture bias of the decision makers. The leaders emphasised that injustice with agriculture/horticulture services had been done at a time when national quality food security issues and increasing incidents of suicide of the Punjab farmer (due to declining profits) had necessitated the strengthening of agriculture research and extension. The leaders said the shocks of global recession could be absorbed by making agriculture in Punjab profitable which was only possible if justice was done to the agriculture services, which would attract talent to boost the economy of
the state. The leaders issued a strong note to the government not to accept the recommendations for the agricultural sector, and to provide justice to the farmers by placing the agriculture and horticulture services at a better position than the veterinarians and other technocrats, on the basis of their increased social importance, failing which agricultural technocrats would be compelled to launch a protest. |
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Summoning of SGPC chief at Akal Takht sought
Amritsar, April 23 Before filing his nomination papers for the Khadoor Sahib parliamentary constituency, Rana alleged that the SGPC president collected “huge money” in the name of religion from Mumbai for using it in the parliamentary elections. While answering a question, he alleged that SGPC employees were deputed in different constituencies to help the Akali candidates in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. He said he would raise his voice in Parliament for the upgradation of border areas. |
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Hansraj gold medal for DAV school principal
Amritsar, April 23 She was presented the award by Dr Karan Singh, politician, author, diplomat and former crown prince of the royal family of Jammu and Kashmir. A teacher and later headmistress in DAV Public School, Lawrence Road, here from 1982 to 1998, founder head of DAV International School, Amritsar, from 1998 to 2006, Neera rejoined DAV Public School, Amritsar, as Principal in 2006. She is also recipient of many prestigious awards. |
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Robber arrested, two escape
Tarn Taran, April 23 Harwinder Singh, DSP, Bhikhiwind, said here yesterday that three robbers went to the shop of Heera Lal and threatened him at pistol point to handover all his belongings. The shopkeeper raised an alarm and the villagers standing nearby along with the patrolling police party reached the spot. One robbers, identified as Pal Nath, was nabbed by the residents and two of his accomplices managed to escape. They have been identified as Jang Singh of
Balehar village and Roop Singh of Sangwan. |
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Cash, articles stolen
Nawanshahr, April 23 According to Pyare Lal, he along with his family had gone to Garhshankar to attend a jagran on Tuesday. But when they returned, they found the doors of their house open. They found articles, including gold ornaments weighing 7 tolas, silver ornaments, clothes, a CD player, watches and Rs 10,000, missing. The articles had been purchased for marrying off his daughter, said Pyare Lal, claiming that the total loss was about Rs 2 lakh. The matter has been reported to the police.
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Procurement picks up
Hoshiarpur, April 23 According to Deputy Commissioner N.K. Wadhawan, 1,24,720 metric tonnes of wheat had been procured in 61 procurement centres of the district by government and private agencies up to April 22. The payment of Rs 89.17 crore had been made to the farmers against the total price of Rs 98.32 crore of the aforesaid procured wheat.
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Woman murdered
Amritsar, April 23 The police said she was killed with some sharp-edged weapon by Sukhdev Singh of Makhu Gate
(Ferozepur), nephew of Daljit Kaur, who used to live with her. The bloodstained body of Swarn was found in a room.
Sukhdev decamped with Rs 1,500, which she had collected from her tenants. The police has registered a case under section 302 of the
IPC. Raids were being conducted to arrest him. — TNS |
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Granthi found dead
Batala, April 23 Nihang Baba Maan Singh identified the body and suspected that somebody had murdered him.
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