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Privilege Motions
Villagers allege police inaction, block road
Tribune Impact
Exams cancelled at 10 centres
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Nalvi wants separate SGPC in each
state
This six-year-old ‘remembers’ her past life
Man gets life term for scribe’s murder
HJC seeks CBI probe into lathicharge
Panchayat expels four families
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Privilege Motions
The Congress was well aware that these motions could not gag a person, who is known for his oratory skills. The ruling party also knew that Chautala would not be cowed down by the motions, given the history of their fate in the past. Though the Privileges Committee is asked by the House to give its report on the first day of the next session, it seldom happens. The chairman of the committee requests for an extension, which is invariably granted by the House. The extension continues till the term of the House comes to an end. And with that the motions also lapse. In the history of the Haryana Assembly, it Then why did the Congress move the motions? What it hoped to gain out of this exercise? As Congress spokesman Ved Prakash Vidrohi said, the ruling party wanted to establish before the people outside the House that Chautala might be a good orator, but he took the support of falsehood to buttress his arguments. The first motion was moved by Kuldeep Sharma, working president of the Haryana Congress, alleging that Chautala had misled the House by stating that the government The issue of tax on salt has always been a touchy subject with the people of India because Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi had launched a movement against Though the ruling party had challenged the opposition leader when he had said so, its leaders thought that a privilege motion on the issue would be more effective. For the same reason Aftab Ahemd and Bharat Bhushan Batra of the Congress moved the privilege motions against Chautala for allegedly misleading the House by saying that no annuity was being paid to the farmers whose land was acquired for the special economic zone (SEZ) and that HUDA had not floated even a single residential sector ever since the Congress came to power in the state. Now, the Congress is planning that its leaders should highlight these privilege motions when they go to the people and tell them how Chautala has a knack of misleading them for his narrow political considerations. |
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Villagers allege police inaction, block road
Sirsa, March 19 Villagers from Kagdana and surrounding villages - Gigorani, Kumharia, Rampura Bagria, Shahpuria, Dusania and Nathusari - raised slogans against the police, sat on a dharna and blocked traffic. The shops situated along the road also remained closed during the protest. “A murderous attack was made on the Congress leader, but the police has not been able to find any clue about the assailants,” alleged Banwari Lal Gigorani, former chairman of the Nathusari Chopta Market Committee. Hari Singh Beniwal, former sarpanch of Kumharia village, alleged that the attack was politically motivated and the police was working under pressure by not showing any alacrity in solving the case. Eventually, the villagers relented after Gobind Kanda went there and assured that the culprits would be arrested soon. Meanwhile, SP Satinder Kumar Gupta has transferred Nathusari Chopta SHO Daljit Singh Beniwal, under whom Kagdana village comes, to the Police Lines and has appointed Ellenabad SHO Mauji Ram as the new SHO of the Nathusari Chopta police station. Gupta claimed that the police had come close to solving the case. “We have identified five persons and police teams have been sent for their arrests,” the SP added. He, however, said the motive behind the attack was not clear and it would be clear once the accused were arrested and interrogated. Meanwhile, Ram Singh Beniwal has been admitted to Apollo Hospital, Delhi, where he was operated today. “Both the bones of his right leg, one bone of the left leg and a bone of right arm were fractured in the attack. Besides, he suffered a number of lacerated and blunt weapon injuries,” said his brother Randhir Singh. Some unidentified assailants had attacked Beniwal in Kagdana village yesterday.
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Tribune Impact
Yamunanagar, March 19 Besides, the administration will also hire him as an instructor to train Below Poverty Line (BPL) families in herbal plantation and extraction of juice from fruits. It will also buy the multiprocessing machine for BPL families. Dharamvir got an overwhelming response from farmers of north India. “I have been getting calls since morning and farmers have expressed their desire to visit my multiprocessing unit to see my work and also to buy my machine,” he said. Additional Deputy Commissioner Narender Singh said after reading Dharamvir’s story that was published in The Tribune today they have decided to promote his work. “We will provide him assistance under the central government schemes to promote his innovation and also motivate him,” he added. Besides, Dharamvir would prove as a role model for BPL families and his success story would help poor families to work hard and achieve their goals. “We will send BPL family members for training at his unit and will pay him accordingly,” he further added.
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Exams cancelled at 10 centres
Bhiwani, March 19 A spokesman for the board said here today that the middle second semester examination had been cancelled at three centres, which included examination in English at Government Senior Secondary School, Nagina-2 (B-1), and Government Senior Secondary School, Nagina-3 (B-2) in Mewat district on March 13 and mathematics examination conducted at Government Senior Secondary School, Pingavan-2 (B-1) in Gurgaon district on March 16. He said the secondary second semester examinations had been cancelled at three examination centres, which included examination in Hindi subject conducted at Government Secondary School, Rabhra-1 (B-1) in Sonepat district on March 12, examination in social studies at Government Senior Secondary School, New Building, Berla-1 in Bhiwani district on March 15 and mathematics examination conducted at Suraj Government Senior Secondary School, Isarwal-1 (B-1), Bhiwani district, on March 10. The secondary first semester Hindi examination held at Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Charkhi Dadri-2 (B-1), and Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Charkhi Dadri-3 (B-2), in Bhiwani district on March 16 had also been cancelled, he added. He said the secondary first semester mathematics examination held at Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Charkhi Dadri-2 (B-1), and Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Charkhi Dadri-3 (B-2), in Bhiwani district on March 16 had also been cancelled. Senior secondary second semester examinations in English that was cancelled across the state due to leakage of paper, would now be held on March 30.
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Nalvi wants separate SGPC in each
state
Panipat, March 19 He said the AISGPC would soon hold a meeting with the Union Minister for Minorities and then with chief ministers of different states to pursue this demand. He said Sikhs residing in different parts of the country had the right to manage their own religious shrines. The Amritsar SGPC had been against a separate SGPC as its intentions were to keep the Sikhs all over the country depended upon them for every requirement, he said. He said this was completely unacceptable to Sikhs of Haryana, UP, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, HP and Chandigarh, who had recently joined hands to form the new committee. Nalvi said the AISGPC would seek passing of legislations from chief ministers of various states which could pave way for the formation of a separate committee. Taking a dig at the Punjab legislature which had recently passed a resolution to seek grant of the first language status for Punjabi language in Chandigarh, Nalvi claimed that the move had come in the wake of grant of due status to Punjabi language by the Haryana government. He said he would like to congratulate the Akali leadership for taking up the issue, even though it took 44 years for them to reach this stage. He said the grant of due status to Punjabi language in Haryana would lead to creation of thousands of jobs for Punjabi teachers, as they would be appointed in educational institutions across the state, which was a great step forward. |
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This six-year-old ‘remembers’ her past life
Sirsa, March 19 “When she was three, Kareena started talking about her parents during her ‘previous birth’ and later she mentioned Ramgarh village in Rajasthan where, she said, she was ‘born’ to Kamla and Sahib Ram,” claimed Ravish Kumar, father of the girl. “Initially, we did not believe the girl’s father when he narrated her story, but later we decided to confirm it,” said Ravish’s friend Rajinder Bhambu. He said after talking to the girl, they enquired from Ramgarh village near Nohar in Rajasthan and found a couple named Kamla and Sahib Ram. They also confirmed that their daughter Nirmala had died 20 years ago of severe stomachache. Incidentally, Kareena also suffers from bouts of acute pain in the stomach at times. “We took the girl to Ramgarh, where she located the house of her ‘previous birth’ from a distance and met her ‘parents and two brothers’,” claimed Bhambu. He said Kareena identified her “parents” and “brothers” in a crowd of hundreds, who had assembled in Ramgarh village on listening to the news of their arrival. However, when asked, Kareena answered questions like a small girl, who has learnt her lessons well. “This is totally nonsense. There is nothing as a rebirth,” said Shamim Sharma, Principal of the Mata Harki Devi College for Women at Odhan in this district. “Talks of rebirth have been initiated by unscrupulous people in many parts of the country several times due to their vested interests. But, these claims do not stand the test of scientific theories,” she added.
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Man gets life term for scribe’s murder
Kaithal, March 19 A fine of Rs 5,000 has also been imposed upon him and if he failed to pay the fine, he will have to undergo further imprisonment for one year. Some other accomplices of Baljeet were sentenced to life imprisonment a few years ago by the then ADJ, Subhash Goel, but Baljeet had fled to South Africa and was later declared a proclaimed offender. The then Kaithal SSP, Navdeep Singh Virk, who monitored the case traced the location of Baljeet in South Africa and informed his counterparts in SA about the activities of Baljeet and his accomplices. The South African police raided the hideout of criminals in a suburb and nabbed Baljeet and his other accomplices. Following extradition proceedings, the accused was brought to India by a joint team of the India and the South African police and put on trial. Three armed motorcycle-borne persons shot dead Parmanand Goel, a Kaithal-based reporter, on September 18, 2003. |
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HJC seeks CBI probe into lathicharge
Chandigarh, March 19 In a statement issued here yesterday, Bishnoi said in a memorandum to the President that the leaders also urged her to intervene and secure the release of party demonstrators lodged in Burail jail and to give adequate compensation for those critically injured as also for those whose vehicles were damaged by the police during the protest. |
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Panchayat expels four families
Fatehabad, March 19 The panchayat allegedly blackened the face of a youth belonging to one of the families, Amarjeet, and forced him to go on a donkey’s back in a procession through the streets of the village. Amarjeet was accused of eve-teasing a married woman of his community. Former CPM MLA Harpal Singh, who hails from Akanwali village, today demanded protection for the families so that they could come back to their houses. He alleged that certain villagers, who were not even elected representatives of the people, issued diktats to terrorise the families for their vested interests. Meanwhile, no complaint has been made to the police by any of the parties. |
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Residents of Bharokhan village near here believe that six-year-old Kareena from their village is a reincarnation of
Nirmala, who died in a Rajasthan village 20 years ago, though their rebirth story is not finding any takers among intellectuals.“When she was three, Kareena started talking about her parents during her ‘previous birth’ and later she mentioned Ramgarh village in Rajasthan where, she said, she was ‘born’ to Kamla and Sahib Ram,” claimed Ravish Kumar, father of the girl.
Chandigarh, March 19