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Doda village to host international kabaddi tourney
Sachin adjudged quickest programmer at IT fest
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Gidderbaha (Muktsar), September 21 The polling in Buttar Shrin and Karaiwala of Doda and Gidderbaha constituencies were cancelled amidst allegations of booth capturing and fake voting on September 18. So the re-polling in these villages was scheduled to be held on Wednesday. But there was no polling in the village today. As the total votes of these two villages in their respective constituencies was not going to make any impact on the results, so the election authorities in Muktsar feel that the residents of these two villages have no need to cast their votes. This voting exercise would be futile as the final election results is not going to get affected, feels Kamal Kumar, the SGPC returning officer in Gidderbaha. Therefore, there was no polling in these villages. Though the Gurdwara Election Commission is yet to officially declare the results of Doda and Gidderbaha seats but the unofficial results were declared, giving 4058 vote victory margin to Navtej Singh Kauni on Doda seat and 34,600 vote victory margin to Gurpal Singh Gora, both SAD(B) candidates. So when these candidates have already won the election with such a huge margin, the polling of 2000 votes in favour of any candidate on these two seats is not going to make any impact on the results, said Kamal Kumar. But the voters of Buttar Shrin and Karaiwala village are disappointed over being denied their voting right. This attitude of the authorities led hundreds of residents of Buttar Shrin village to stage a protest march and block the vehicular traffic on the Muktsar-Bathinda road. “It is highly disgusting that the residents of these villages were deprieved of their right to vote,” said Roop Singh Gurisnaghar, who contested the SGPC election as an independent from the Doda seat. “Repoll was to be held today, and since morning, we were waiting for the election officials and the polling staff to reach the village but no one arrived. We enquired about it and came to know that our votes do not carry any weight now,” said Santokh Singh, a resident of Karaiwala. “This is highly insulting and amounts to denying a democratic right to a citizen,” said Bibi Gurdial Kaur Mallan, a PPP leader in the village. Kamal Kumar said there was no official announcement for the re-polling in these two villages. |
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SAD candidate’s defeat in Dharamkot
Moga, September 21 A day after the polling, the revenue department officials of Dharamkot were under attack by the ruling party leaders. Tota Singh, former education minister and senior Akali leader in Moga district, accused a naib tehsildar and returning officer of Dharamkot area of deliberately deleting the names of 4786 voters from the list. Gurmail Singh Sidhu, the SAD(B) candidate lost the Dharamkot seat to Sukhjit Singh Kaka, an independent candidate. As all these ‘deleted’ voters were staunch Akali supporters, so deletion of these votes by the returning officer on vague grounds led to the party candidate’s defeat in the election, alleged Tota Singh while demanding that the Chief Minister should order a high-level inquiry into it. Jaspal Singh, the returning officer, said the votes were deleted a year back after due scrutiny. These voters were not eligible as per the Gurdwara Election Commission guidelines, he said. However, an inquiry, conducted by two senior officials, has revealed that the names of these voters were deleted without following the due procedure. Days before the SGPC election, four persons — Beant Kaur, Mukhtiar Singh, Jagtar Singh and Amar Singh of Dharamkot — lodged a complaint with the Gurdwara Election Commission against removing the names of the 4,786 voters, including theirs, from the voters’ list. On September 9, the Gurdwara Election Commission wrote to the DC Moga to conduct an inquiry into the allegations and five days later, the DC submitted the report to the commission, saying the votes were deleted without following the due process. Now Tota Singh is relying on the inquiry report to target the revenue officials who scrutinized the voters’ lists. However, the revenue officials said that more than 2,500 voters in the list were below the age of 21 years and that the other voters were not Keshdhari Sikhs as per the Gurdwara Election Commission guidelines. Moga Deputy Commissioner, Ashok Singla said that before deleting the name of these voters, they were not heard. No documentary proof is on the files to declare the over 2,500 voters ineligible for being below 21 years of age, said the DC. However, revenue officials who scrutinized the voters’ list said days after the deletion of these 4786 votes, in September 2010, there was a public notice, inviting objections from all voters. More over, in the last one year, when the SGPC voters’ list was being revised, there was no application from these deleted voters, said Jaspal Singh, returning officer,
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Doda village to host international kabaddi tourney
Muktsar, September 21 The state government is reportedly sending Rs 40 lakh to Doda village for the makeover of the only stadium there which is at present inundated with rain water. “Before the start of the games, we have to prepare the ground in the stadium. The work will start in the coming few days,”said District Sports Officer, Muktsar, Balwant Singh. |
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Sachin adjudged quickest programmer at IT fest
Abohar, September 21 Toppers in other events were Garima (IT radio), Shinky (Debugging), Umang (Paint brush), Pooja and Shweta (Rangoli), Sahil Sethi (Logo designing), Malika (IT cartooning), Auxara (Power point), Prabhjot, Manisha and Priya (IT models and web designing), Sahil (Seminar), Misha (Debate), Rakesh (Typing master), Gurpratap, Bharat and Rajpal (Quiz), Rimjhim (Face painting) and Sania (Tech poem). MLA Sunil Jakhar appreciated the talent that the IT students showcased in cultural items as well. — OC
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The rampant use of political ‘muscle’ power on the polling day for the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee (SGPC) elections in Doda and Gidderbaha constituency of Muktsar district has deprived over 2000 voters.
