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Factionalism, wrong selection cost Cong dear
Cong blame game continues; now, it’s Indora
Workshop to motivate blood donors begins
Jind, Sirsa deserted Congress
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Down, but not out: BJP loser
BJP leader Chander Prakash Kathuria addresses mediapersons in Karnal on Saturday. Tribune photo: Ravi Kumar
Constable commits suicide
Authorities gear up to tackle malaria
Chhatrapati Case
Improve image, cops told
High Court
CME on ocular trauma
KU supplementary exams from Oct 28
Ratnawali fest from Oct 27
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Factionalism, wrong selection cost Cong dear
Chandigarh, October 24
Of course, it is a big consolation for the party that it has not been reduced to the single digit as is the wont of the Haryana electorate, which has given it the status of the single largest party. For the past several years, the Haryana electorate, which gave a good majority to a party, reduced it to the single digit number in the Vidhan Sabha in the next elections. In 1991, the Congress got over 50 seats, to be reduced to nine in 1996. The same year the HVP of Bansi Lal formed the government, but in the next elections, its strength in the assembly was reduced to two. The INLD got a majority despite contesting only 65 seats in 2000, but in 2005, its leader could not become even the Leader of Opposition because the party had one less than the mandatory 10 seats for getting this status. The electorate has saved the Congress from this fate, proving that there was little anti-incumbency against the party or its government. But the voters could not digest some of its sitting MLAs, whom they wanted to vote out. In the process, they voted for the candidate whom they thought was best suited to defeat the candidate the voters despised. Since the BJP, the HJC and the BSP were perceived to be “weak” parties in most of the constituencies, where the anti-incumbency prevailed against the sitting Congress MLAs, the INLD was the natural beneficiary of the voters’ anger against their non-performing or arrogant representatives. Where nominees of the other parties or Independents were considered to be “strong”, they won. When INLD president Om Prakash Chautala claimed after the declaration of the results that his party had received support from not one community but from members of all castes, he was not wrong. The angry voters, cutting across caste lines, voted for his candidates. That explains the INLD’s success in many of the so-called non-Jat constituencies. While the Congress faltered in the ticket distribution in about 20 constituencies, factionalism took its toll in others. Due to delimitation, areas under influence of particular MLAs went to the adjoining constituencies, but the former representatives of those areas did not help their colleagues, rather in certain cases, they worked against their own party men. The Opposition was also able to convince the electorate that development had been lopsided and in favour of a particular region. This charge was buttressed by certain leaders of the ruling party also, ultimately damaging the Congress. It seems that the voter also punished the Congress for the massive price rise between the Lok Sabha elections and that of the assembly.
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Cong blame game continues; now, it’s Indora
Sirsa, October 24 Sushil Indora, who lost to Charanjit Singh of the Shiromani Akali Dal from the Kalanwali (reserved) seat by a margin of 13,544 votes, today said he could not have lost the election, had all Congress leaders worked honestly for his victory. “I will not name those leaders here before the media but will send a detailed confidential report regarding the sabotage done by these leaders to party president Sonia Gandhi, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, HPCC chief Phool Chand Mullana and the AICC leader in charge of Haryana,” Indora said. Indora, who snapped his ties with the Indian National Lok Dal to join the Congress after the May parliamentary poll, said he joined the Congress after he was impressed by the high values Congress president Sonia Gandhi observed and the effective leadership of Hooda in Haryana and in fact got a lot of regard and support from leaders and workers of his new party. “The fact that I was able to get 46,520 votes despite virtually a direct fight with Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who landed in Kalanwali with his big army of workers and official machinery from
Punjab and former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, is enough to conclude that ordinary workers and supporters of the party gave wholehearted support
to me. But, certain senior leaders of the district sabotaged my election,”
Indora alleged. |
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Workshop to motivate blood donors begins
Sirsa, October 24 This is the motto of a two-day workshop for training of blood donor motivators and blood-camp organisers that began here today. Over 2,000 delegates from all over the state are participating in the workshop that has been organised jointly by the Haryana State Blood Transfusion Council (HSBTC), Indian Red Cross Society, Indian Society of Blood Transfusion and Immunohaematology, Indian Medical Association, Shiv Shakti Rakta Datta Samiti, Sirsa, Nehru Yuva Kendra, Sirsa Education Society and the National Service Scheme. Sirsa Deputy Commissioner Yudhvir Singh Khyalia, deputy director of the HSBTC Dr Jasjeet Kaur and patron of the Indian Medical Association Dr Ved Beniwal were the main speakers at the inaugural session of the workshop. “The basic aim of the workshop is to chalk out a strategy to motivate new blood donors and maintain quality of blood so that safe blood could be made available to those in need,” said Beniwal. He said blood raised from voluntary blood donors and collected by blood banks was considered the safest blood for transfusion as it comes from persons, who are regularly tested for various communicable diseases. “There are about 40,000 voluntary blood donors in Haryana, out of which more than half are from Sirsa district alone,” he said. Dr Jasjeet Kaur revealed that Haryana was among the 10 low-performing states of the country in the matter of blood safety as per the records of the National Aids Control Organisation (NACO), but at the same time lauded the performance of Sirsa district and said the performance here could be an eye opener for other districts. She added that Hisar, Yamunanagar and Panchkula are some other districts of Haryana along with the PGIMS, Rohtak, that were relatively performing better in this respect, while Gurgaon, Rewari and Mahendragarh were at the bottom of the table. She said the workshop would provide them an opportunity to formulate strategy for organising blood camps keeping in view the needs and present collection of blood in these areas. Anuradha Gupta, Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Health, and chairperson of the Haryana State Blood Transfusion Council, will be the chief guest at the concluding session tomorrow. |
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Jind, Sirsa deserted Congress
Chandigarh, October 24 Jind and Sirsa districts performed the worst with the party failing to open its account despite both having five seats each. In Panchkula, the party got one of the two seats in the district. Transplanted Congress candidate DK Bansal emerged winner and the party managed to retain this seat, which has always sent back a Congress candidate ever since the distrct was carved out. In Ambala, Ramkishen and Venod Sharma were re-elected but the Congress went down by two seats, losing that of Mullana and Ambala Cantt. In fact, the battle turned out be be interesting in Mullana where Congress state unit president Phool Chand Mullana and BSP’s state head Prakash Bharti lost to newcomer Rajbir Singh Barara of the INLD. While it got one of the four seats in Yanumnanagar, it went down by two seats in Kurukshetra. In Kaithal, Power Minister Randeep singh Surjewala saved the day for the Congress winning his seat while the party lost the three other seats in the district. Karnal, too, faced a similar situation where the state president of the women’s wing of the Congress, Sumita Singh, was the only one to win while the party lost in four seats. The party ended up with one seat each in Panipat and Fathehabad, losing four seats from these two districts. In Hisar, the Congress managed to maintain its record of four out of seven seats. From six seats in its kitty in the 2005 assembly elections, the party ended up winning only two seats in Bhiwani. The Congress loss was undoubtedly the INLD gain which wooing back the Baghri Jats from this belt. The Deswali jats of Rohtak, however, continued to support the Congress. Leaders within the Congress attributed this “failure” to CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s focus on Rohtak and the NCR region alone.
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Down, but not out: BJP loser
Karnal, October 24 Thanking people for their support, Kathuria, who finished third in the elections, said he had started working for the next elections, adding that he was not unduly perturbed by the result as victory and defeat were the two sides of the same coin. He said he would discuss the poll results with party workers to prepare the future strategy and admitted that the BJP would have fared better had its alliance with the INLD not broken. He said he would continue to raise the issues concerning the welfare of people and development and an intensive drive would be launched to strengthen the party at the grassroots. He said there was no slackness in the party campaign and an in-depth study was required to find out that why people did not vote the party candidates to victory. The BJP had failed to win any seat in Yamunanagar, Kaithal, Karnal, Kurukshetra and Panipat districts considered to be Punjabi-dominated areas, indicating that it had lost grip over rural, urban and Punjabi voters. |
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Constable commits suicide
Sonepat, October 24 A police party had been deputed as guard in Kilorad village after the murder of Praveen of the same village on September 13 allegedly by Satish, another youth of the village. After the murder, the family members of Praveen had blocked the Sonepat-Gohana road in Badwasni village just two days after the murder demanding immediate arrest of the alleged accused, who had allegedly absconded after obtaining bail from the court in another murder case. Meanwhile, the police has claimed to have arrested Manoj of Rathdhana village and Harvinder, alias Binder, of Gagsina village in Karnal district, who were allegedly involved in opening fire on former president of the Sonepat Bar Association Mastan Sharma on September 15. SP Mahender Singh Sheora said during interrogation the arrested youths confessed their involvement in the case and disclosed that Manoj’s brother Mukesh was shot dead by Anil, alias Monu, of Rathdhana village. Manoj suspected that Mastan Sharma had been helping the alleged accused and to take revenge, they opened fire at him. |
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Authorities gear up to tackle malaria
Fatehabad, October 24 The population of mosquitoes is also on the rise in the district with the change in climate during the past few days. Reports regarding cases of malaria and dengue in some other parts of the state are also causing worries to the residents of this district that witnessed over a dozen dengue deaths in Tohana last year. “The health department is in the process of purchasing new fogging machines and will start fogging of the affected areas within three days,” said Dr OP Arya, Civil Surgeon, Fatehabad. He said he had requested for sending insect collectors to the district so that the type of mosquitoes being found in the affected areas could be ascertained. He maintained that the situation was under control and whatever cases had been found were of plasmodium vivax, the lesser harmful type of malarial parasites and not a single case of plasmodium falciparum causing cerebral malaria had been found. |
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Hearing adjourned till Nov 7
Our Correspondent
Ambala, October 24 Ansul Chhatrapati , son of Ram Chander Chhatrapati, who is a key witness in the case, was present in the Ambala court. Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was charged under Section 120-B of the IPC in connection with the case. CBI Judge AS Narang, after hearing the arguments of both the parties, adjourned the hearing till November 7. The cross-examination of Anshul Chhatrapati was continued today. The defense counsel raised several queries on the statement of Anshul Chhatrapati. The cross-examination could not be completed today. The CBI counsel was also present in the court during the hearing. The hearing on the cancellation of the bail application of the dera chief could not be discussed today. The court has fixed November 14 for it.
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Improve image, cops told
Kurukshetra, October 24 Ramana said the police should reform itself and act as per the rule of law by dealing equally with everybody - rich or poor. The police should not use abusive language while dealing with innocent persons. It should do the right and should never forget that it was being watched by the government, media and the public. Ramana lamented that the police was becoming ruthless day by day and this behaviour should be curbed. SI Jai Narayan was declared first in the declamation contest organised on the above said topic, PSI Kewal Singh came second and Anant Kumar and Satish Kumar came third. |
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High Court
Chandigarh, October 24 Taking up the appeal by the corporation against the July 23 order, Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice Daya Chaudhary observed: The appellant is aggrieved by interim order passed by the Single Judge staying operation of order dated March 31, deciding to stop payment of pension/family pension. A decision was taken to stop the pension scheme with effect from November 1, 2007. Challenging the decision, the affected employees filed writ petition, and the court stayed operation of order dated December 5, 2007. During the currency of stay order, fresh order was passed on February 10 by the state government declining to permit payment of pension, which order was also challenged by amending the writ petition. The Bench asserted: In view of the fact that pension scheme has already been in operation for the past 13 years and the writ petition is likely to be heard within three months, no ground is made out to interfere with the impugned order. The appeal is dismissed.
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CME on ocular trauma
Chandigarh, October 24 Inaugurating the event, Lt-Gen MS
Buttar, Chief of Staff, Western Command, stressed the importance and relevance of ocular trauma in the present-day scenario. He also released a souvenir. Delivering the keynote address,
Maj-Gen DP Vats, senior ophthalmologist, called upon eye surgeons to be ready to take up the challenge of tackling the growing spectrum and presentations of ophthalmic trauma. Prof Amond Gupta, Head, Advanced Eye
Centre, PGIMER, elaborated on the changing trends in the diagnosis and management of eye trauma over the years. |
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KU supplementary exams from Oct 28
Kurukshetra, October 24 Stating this here recently, KU Director Public Relations Professor Brajesh Sawhney said roll numbers along with the datesheet had been dispatched to all eligible candidates by the university and if a candidate had not received his/her roll number, they might collect the duplicate roll number slip from the result branch concerned during the office hours. |
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Ratnawali fest from Oct 27
Kurukshetra, October 24 Stating this here yesterday, director of KU Youth and Cultural Affairs Department Anoop Lather said: “This four-day “Mahakumbh” of Haryana’s rich culture is being continuously organised by the department for more than two decades and today it has to its credit a participation of more than 3,000 students drawn from all affiliated colleges of Haryana in 22 events.
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After Ranjit Singh and LD Arora, now another Congress leader, who contested from this district and lost, has held a section of the local Congress leaders responsible for his defeat.
