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Punjab Guv, Badal mourn Bhajan Lal’s death
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Abhey Chautala accuses Sirsa SP of taking bribe
CPM suspends Gorakhpuria
Health varsity staff strike work
Bid to loot Rs 10 lakh
Two clubbed to death
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Punjab Guv, Badal mourn Bhajan Lal’s death
Chandigarh June 3 In a condolence message, the Chief Minister said Bhajan Lal's death would leave a big void in Haryana political circles. The Chief Minister also sent a personal message of condolences to members of the bereaved family and prayed to the Almighty to give strength and courage to bear this irreparable loss and grant peace to the departed soul. The Deputy Chief Minister also shared heartfelt sympathies with the bereaved family in this difficult hour. Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administrator Shivraj Patil expressed profound grief and sorrow over the demise of Bhajan Lal. In a condolence message, Patil said Bhajan Lal was a seasoned politician and good administrator, who strived for the uplifof the poor. Capt Abhimanyu, general secretary of the BJP, mourned Bhajan Lal’s death. PPCC President Amarinder Singh and Congress Legislature Party leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal condoled the untimely demise of Bhajan Lal.
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Chandigarh, June 3 He was a great political survivor till he was piped to the post of Chief Minister by Bhupinder Singh Hooda in 2005. After that Bhajan Lal, who had earlier politically outmaneuvered veteran Haryana leader Devi Lal twice, first in 1979 and then in 1982, could not come anywhere near the top post. It was his survival instinct that led him to merge the almost entire Haryana Janata Party Legislature Party with the Congress in 1980 when Indira Gandhi regained power at the Centre. That he was able to endear himself with Indira again after bitterly criticising her during the election campaign speaks volumes of the charm he could cast even on his bitter opponents. Once considered to be part of the powerful “three Bs” (Bansi Lal, Bhajan Lal and Banarasi Dass), he fell out with Bansi Lal after the latter allegedly implicated the former in a rape case. In January 1977, a few months before the Emergency was to be lifted, Bhajan Lal joined the Congress for Democracy (CFD) of Jagjivan Ram. Two years later, the man, who started his political career from the panchayat level, became the Chief Minister of the state after he took a large number of Janata Party MLAs on “Bharat Darshan”. He remained the Chief Minister for 12 years in three stints. During this time, he became the political voice of non-Jat sections of Haryana’s populace. Somehow, he could never come close to Rajiv Gandhi, who inducted him in his Cabinet as Agriculture Minister in order to remove him from the Haryana scene. After Rajiv’s death in 1991, Bhajan Lal again became the Chief Minister and ruled the state for five years. He was close to PV Narsimha Rao and was involved in winning over JMM MPs to save the Rao government when it was facing a no-confidence motion. His closeness to Rao was perhaps the reason why the Congress high command (read Sonia Gandhi) did not favour him for the top post in the state in 2005 though the Assembly elections were contested under his leadership. Bhajan Lal was a broadminded politician, who did not believe in political vendetta. He believed in winning over his opponents and not harassing them. Many persons, who contested elections against him from Adampur, later joined his camp because he did not hesitate in offering them lucrative terms. He credibility with the MLAs was quite high, who tend to believe his word more than that of his rivals. This was the main reason why he could win over Independent MLAs as well as the MLAs from the other parties before the anti-defection law was enacted. Many believe that Bhajan Lal carried his business ethics of “earn and let others earn” to politics also. He made liberal use of his discretionary quota of HUDA plots to oblige people in high places. It must be said he was equally liberal with subordinate staff of his office as well as that of the AICC and the Prime Minister’s offices.
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Abhey Chautala accuses Sirsa SP of taking bribe
Sirsa, June 3 Though the SP has termed the accusation as “nonsense”, adding that he did not need to give any reaction to such “unfounded” allegations, Chautala asserted that he could provide the bank account numbers from where the money had been drawn and the persons through whom the money had been paid to the SP. — TNS INLD calls for Sirsa bandh
The INLD has given a call for “Sirsa bandh” on June 11, the day when Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda is scheduled to lay the foundation stones of development projects in the town. The INLD has announced that the entire district will remain closed on June 11 in protest against the “police inaction” in the double murder case at Ellenabad, where a woman and her granddaughter were murdered in the house on May 5. |
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CPM suspends Gorakhpuria
Fatehabad, June 3 The party has served a charge sheet to Gorakhpuria, in which the CPM has accused him of going against the party’s stand of supporting the Gorakhpur farmers agitating against the acquisition of their land for the nuclear power plant, individualistic way of functioning and acting in a manner unbecoming of a communist leader. Gorakhpuria, who contested elections for the state Assembly four times, was once elected member of the Zila Parishad. Gorakhpuria said he had served the party for over 42 years and remained member of the district committee, state committee as well as the state secretariat, so he would not speak against the party’s decision from a public platform. He said he had not received the charge sheet issued by the party leadership and he would make a detailed reply to the allegations only after going through it. |
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Health varsity staff strike work
Rohtak, June 3 The employees had gone on strike this morning in protest against the non-acceptance of their demand and the police action against the staff trying to stage a demonstration at a function held to mark the third foundation day of the university yesterday. The strike paralysed the non-clinical work at the varsity. The association has, however, threatened to go on strike again if the demand of revision of the patient care allowance is not met within a month. The police had rounded up 40 employees and resorted to a mild canecharge after they attempted to wave black flags at the function in which the Governor of Haryana was the chief guest yesterday. According to Surender Hooda, secretary of the association, the staff struck work this morning in protest against the treatment meted to them by the authorities, who used police force against the staff trying to highlight their grievances. The employees were not only cane-charged, but were also arrested by the police. He claimed that the employees were left with no option, but to hold a protest on the occasion in which the Vice-Chancellor of the health university was present as the officials here had overlooked the issue for long. He said the Vice-Chancellor invited them for talks this afternoon and an agreement was reached regarding their pending demands. The association called off the stir after the VC assured of redressing the problem, he said. Sources said after the function here yesterday, Governor Jagannath Pahadia had summoned the authorities and asked them to resolve the issue. However, the non-teaching staff went on a day’s strike today to lodge its protest over the incident and make the authorities realise the importance of their demands, claimed an employee.
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Faridabad: Three miscreants fired at two employees of a local businessman, injuring his gunman in an attempt to loot Rs 10 lakh withdrawn from the State Bank of Patiala (NIT-3 branch) here on Friday. According to an eyewitness, one of the miscreants opened fire when the two employees were about to keep the money in a car. One of the shots hit the gunman’s hand following which the miscreants took away the polythene bag containing the money. Before the miscreants could escape, the gunman opened fire, forcing them to flee on motorcycle, leaving the money behind. — TNS
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Two clubbed to death
Faridabad, June 3 The bodies were spotted this morning by an inmate of the farmhouse lying in a pool of blood in a room.The heads of the two bodies were badly bruised. A cricket bat with blood stains was found lying there. The police suspects former employee Shyam Singh of Bulandshahar(UP) in the case as he had been dismissed from service about a fortnight back by the farmhouse manager. — TNS |
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Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today expressed profound grief and sorrow over the demise of former Haryana Chief Minister Bhajan Lal in
Hisar.
Chandigarh, June 3
