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Manpreet didn’t understand how elected govts were run, says Sukhbir
2 girls gangraped, 10 booked
Tarn Taran to get major facelift
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Poll in Bihar, labour pangs in Punjab
3 booked in another rape case
Man sets himself ablaze
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Manpreet didn’t understand how elected govts were run, says Sukhbir
Kanhuwan Chamb (Gurdaspur), October 23 He was accompanied by a dozen of his cabinet colleagues and members of the SGPC, including its chief Avtar Singh Makkar. Sukhbir for a major part of the speech remembered the sacrifices of the martyrs, before he went off in a tangent during the fag end of his discourse and resorted to Manpreet Badal bashing. Interestingly, every time he castigating the former Finance Minister, Sukhbir was careful to address him as “mera chotta veer”. He said Manpreet’s contention was that subsidies should be withdrawn and added that “how the poor and marginal farmers could survive without the state government giving them subsidies, including free power?” Making a sarcastic reference to his “mera chotta veer”, Sukhbir said, “The SAD is a 90-year-old party run on some principals. It is not the fiefdom of any particular individual and anybody who tries to belittle the party’s sanctity will have to leave it lock, stock and barrel. Manpreet is paying the price for being naïve and there was no place in any political party for individuals who were not well versed with the running of elected governments.” Earlier, Sukhbir Badal laid the foundation stone of a state-of-the-art monument to be built in memory of the martyrs of the Chotta Ghallughara (lesser holocaust). Nearly 10,000 Sikh warriors were slew on the orders of Mughal Cheftain Lakhpat Rai in 1746 after trapping them in a swampy forest near the present day
Kanhuwan Chamb. The function was held at , 2 kms away from where the Deputy Chief Minister laid the foundation stone of the monument. The memorial will come up in an area of 10 acres and will be constructed at a cost of Rs 10 crore by construction giant Larsen and Toubro (L&T). The original venue had to be shifted to the gurdwara hall as yesterday evening’s high velocity hailstorm flattened the makeshift pandal set up by the district administration. Local Bodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia, after paying tributes to the Ghallughara martyrs, indulged in Congress bashing. “It is only the SAD-BJP combine that has come out with plans to construct monuments in memory of Sikh martyrs. The Congress remained in power for so long but it never thought it prudent to remember Sikh martyrs. History will not forget what the Congress has done.” |
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SAD flayed for browbeating Manpreet
Hoshiarpur: The Socialist Janata Party has condemned the efforts of the SAD leadership for browbeating its former Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal. National vice-president of the party Balwant Singh Khera here appealed to all like-thinking parties and forums to come together to thwart the dictatorial tendencies of the state Akali-BJP government.
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2 girls gangraped, 10 booked
Amritsar, October 23 The police has registered a case under Sections 376 and 120-B of the IPC. The victim, a resident of Nehru Colony, in her complaint stated that on October 20 Bittu asked her to go with Sanjana and another girl for a programme at Batala. She alleged that Sanjna took her to a house saying that they had to perform there only. She said five unidentified persons, who were badly drunk, entered the house and raped her. Davinder Singh, SHO, Chheharta police station, said the police had launched a manhunt to nab the culprits. Meanwhile, a minor girl of Vandala Johal village was kidnapped and raped by five persons of same area. The Jandiala police has registered a case under Sections 363, 366-A, 376, 342, 506 and 120-B of the IPC on the statement of the victim. The girl alleged that Ajay, Dogar, Labbu, Ramandeep and Rahul, all residents of the same village, bundled her into a Maruti car when she was returning home after getting her mobile phone recharged. She alleged that the accused took her to Amritsar where they raped her and threatened to eliminate her if she told about the incident to anyone. The police authorities said the accused were at large.
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Tarn Taran to get major facelift
Tarn Taran, October 23 Disclosing this here today, Bhupinder Singh Khera, President of the Municipal Council, said the tenders had been called for the developmental works and the works would be started soon. The MC President said storm sewerage would be installed on both the sides of the main road of the town with Rs 14.5 crore besides installing sewerage in the rest parts of the town deprived of this facility particularly in the slum areas with Rs 31 crore. He added that the main road on the National Highway No 15 passing through the town would be given a facelift with Rs 40 crore with which this five-km road would be widened to four lane besides widening the two bridges built on this road. Khera said footpath would be constructed at both the sides of the road at this National Highway from Chabal bypass to Harike bypass. Signboards would also be installed at the corner of every road, street and bazaar to facilitate the visitors here. As much as Rs 15.5 crore would be spent on giving new looks to roads, streets, drains, streetlight system etc in the town. He said footpaths would be constructed on all link roads of the town. |
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Poll in Bihar, labour pangs in Punjab
Jalandhar, October 23 Potato sowing season is on in the state but due to labour shortage, the sowing of potato has been hit in most parts of the Doaba and Malwa regions. Doaba is the largest producer of potato. Farmers in the Malwa region, especially in the Rampura phul belt, also
sow potato. “In the absence of adequate labour, we had to buy three potato planting machines, which cost us about Rs 2 lakh, ” said Harvinder Singh Hundal. He said these planting machines would be used only for 10 days and then these would remain out of use. He said three Bihari contractors had been working for his family for the past many years to arrange labour. “But this year only one contractor turned up with 10-12 labourers, whereas our demand was of 45 labourers daily to sow potatoes on 360 acres by this month-end, which is considered as the best period to sow potatoes,” he said. The labour has also jacked up its rates. “Earlier, they used to take Rs 450 to sow one acre but now they have increased the amount to Rs 600 per acre,” said Sukhjit Singh Bhatti, a potato grower. A group of 15 labourers can sow four-five acres in a day. “Owing to labour shortage, both sowing as well as the harvesting of potato is affected”, said Bhatti. The industry is also suffering because of labour shortage. “Our production has been severely hit due to labour crisis,” said a local exporter. |
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3 booked in another rape case
Tarn Taran, October 23 The accused have been identified as Kulwant Singh, his wife Bhupinder Kaur and their farm labourer Gurjant Singh. The victim, 13-year old daughter of a migrant labourer couple, was living with Hardeep Singh, a farmer of the same village. Hardeep Singh in his complaint to the police alleged that Gurjant Singh in connivance with Kulwant Singh and Bhupinder Kaur had been raping the girl for the last sometime. Some days back the girl complained of some uneasiness in her stomach to the accused as she had been regularly visiting their house. The accused, after sensing that the girl was pregnant, gave her some medicine and aborting her foetus and then eliminated the evidence by throwing it in the sewerage.
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Man sets himself ablaze
Hoshiarpur, October 23 He did not open the gate of the house to restrict the entry of them. He was seriously wounded and was admitted to the Civil Hospital. According to hospital sources, Karamjit Singh got 60 per cent burn injuries and his condition is serious.
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