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Gill intensifies mass contact campaign to get SAD ticket
BSP names candidates for Ferozepur, Fazilka
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Suspense over Zila Singh’s condition continues
Farmers start filling main channel with sand
Fazilka boy selected as ISRO scientist
New way to woo voters: Utensils for brides
Dhanak Samaj holds rally
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Gill intensifies mass contact campaign to get SAD ticket
Moga, December 11 The senior vice-president of the Youth Akali Dal and president of the Moga Municipal Council (MC) Barjinder Singh Brar, who is the son of senior SAD leader Jathedar Tota Singh, is also aspiring to contest the assembly election from here. Ever since Brar has started lobbying for the party ticket, the former top cop has accelerated his movement in the public just ahead of the December 18 rally, in which the party leadership is expected to announce the names of 50 candidates. The stakes are high for Gill who wants to keep alive the political legacy of his father, late Nachattar Singh Gill, the former MLA from here. Sources close to him revealed that he has become more active after Brar's claim for the party ticket. On Sunday, Gill was invited by Narotam Puri, president of the private bus operator's union. A few private bus operators and some members of the Puri family and their relatives were present to express solidarity with him. Former BJP leader Jagdish Puri, an octogenarian, who is the father of Narotam Puri, was said to be the key man behind organizing the show for Gill, announcing help him in the ensuing elections, if he was given the party ticket. For the past couple of weeks, Gill has also started visiting the houses of the local councillors personally so as to persuade them to help him. Most of the councillors had recently met party president Sukhbir Singh Badal demanding party ticket for Barjinder Brar, which has activated Paramdeep Gill to go for personal contact with the councillors. Meanwhile, Brar has also announced that he would soon start his ward to ward campaign to garner support by convincing the people about the development work he has carried out in the Moga town during the last two-and-half years. On the other hand, the chairman of the District Planning Board Tarsem Singh Rattian, a long time supporter of CM Parkash Singh Badal, has also expressed his desire to contest the election from here. |
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BSP names candidates for Ferozepur, Fazilka
Ferozepur, December 11 Other candidates include Jagtar Singh (Jalalabad), Mohan Singh Phalianwala (Fazilka), Master Kashmir Singh (Ballluana) and Dr Azad from Abohar. Seera said though the names of the candidates from Zira and Gururharsahai assembly segments have also been finalised, it would be announced next week. Seera further said the party has not entered any pre-poll alliance with any political party in the state, adding that people are disillusioned with both, the Congress as well as the SAD-BJP combine in the state. He said there was a large lumber of Dalit vote bank in this area so the party was standing a good chance of winning quite a few seats from these segments in Ferozepur and Fazilka districts, respectively. |
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Suspense over Zila Singh’s condition continues
Faridkot, December 11 However, it is still not clear whether Zila Singh is dead or alive. Zila Singh's family members say the 23-year-old youth was unofficially 'declared' dead on Thursday. But now, the doctors are not declaring him dead officially on the directions of the state government. The government fears that the news could led to massive protests by AIE volunteers. But the doctors in the medical college hospital said though physically Zila Singh was almost dead, but clinically he was still alive as electrical activities were detected in his brain. Zila Singh had observed hunger strike at Bathinda in May and then in July this year for a total of 57 days. He was demanding admission to the ETT course. Yesterday in the evening, after receiving Rs five lakh and an assurance of government job, the family members started demanding the restoration of the 'dead' body of Zila Singh but the doctors in the medical college went ahead with his electroencephalogram (EEG). EEG is a test that measures and records the electrical activity of the brain. The report was further sent to the Government Medical College in Patiala to assess the electrical impulses in the brain. Unable to make any firm opinion on the basis of EEG, the GGSMCH authorities today mooted a proposal to refer the patient to the PGI, Chandigarh. But the family members opposed the suggestion. "As per the directions of the state government, the doctors are not announcing my son as dead as the government wants to buy more and more time," said Balbir Singh, a daily-wager and the father of Zila Singh. The government apprehends that Zila Singh's death can further spur the agitation of the teachers, said Asha Rani, the state president of the Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) volunteers. Dr Gian Singh Ahir, principal, GGSMCH said there was always hope in the medical profession and so, Zila Singh can not be declared as dead. "We want to refer him to the PGI for advanced treatment but the family members are not agreeing," he said. However, Balbir Singh said on Thursday morning that doctors declared Zila Singh as dead but once an agitation was started by the unemployed teachers, the doctors started claiming that Zila's brain was still working. |
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Farmers start filling main channel with sand
Abohar, December 11 A few daily wage earners were on Sunday found plugging leakage in the storage tank by putting sand bags. Meanwhile, water submerged the main road and entered the complex maintained by the FC to store grains. Notably, breaches on December 1 and again on December 8 in the main sewerage-water disposal channel, located on the Abohar-Killianwali bypass near the strategically important Defence Road (Abohar-Hindumalkot road), had wrecked havoc. Its ambit had enhanced from 500 to 700 acres of the prime agricultural land. Farmers including Sukhwinder Singh and Tony Brar said the administration had told them that the tenders to connect the channel with Sayeedwala drain by laying cement pipes were in the pipeline. They resented that no funds had been released for the last 50 months while the original plan had a provision of earmarking at least Rs 3 crore annually to complete the linking of the channel with the drain. The first phase of the work started in 2006 when the then Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh visited the town and sanctioned Rs 3 crore. Other farmers Karamjit Singh and Tek Chand said breaches had damaged the crops for over six times during the last four years but no compensation released. |
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Fazilka boy selected as ISRO scientist
Fazilka, December 11 Nitish is one of the two students from IIT Roorkee selected for the prestigious organisation. Probably, he is the only young scientist from Punjab to be shortlisted in the designing of the launch vehicle at the ISRO. He would be assigned the job of a flash engineer. He has been selected after a written test and interview conducted by the ISRO at the IIT Roorkee. About 400 students had undertaken the test. It may be recalled that Nitish, an outstanding student, had secured an all India rank of 1,318 in the AIEEE conducted in 2008. He joined mechanical engineering at the IIT Roorkee after being inspired by the Fazilka resident Dr Bhupinder Singh, retired professor from IIT Roorkee and patron, Graduate Welfare Association, Fazilka. Nitish Dhawan, son of Anil Dhawan, a bank employee and Bimla Dhawan, senior nurse at the Civil Hospital (Fazilka) has always excelled in his studies. He secured 91.8 per cent marks in class X from the local Sacred Heart Convent School. He secured 85 per cent marks in Plus Two from the Khalsa Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh. Nitish intends to work in the field of developing vehicles for launching rockets at the ISRO. He loves playing guitar. His sister Madhurima Dhawan, too has been a scholar, and graduated as a computer engineer from the Thapar University (Patiala) with a gold medal. She got the third rank in the Chandigarh zone in the SSC examination and was selected as an income tax inspector last year. |
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New way to woo voters: Utensils for brides
Faridkot, December 11 Rising above the state government sponsored “Shagun Scheme” for Dalit girls, Deep Malhotra, the SAD (B) candidate, has started donating a set of 45 utensils to all poor, Dalit and needy girls at the time of their marriage. In the big hoardings, dotting the rural and urban areas of the Faridkot constituency, Deep Malhotra seeks to give the 'utensils' to the needy girls in the memory of his late father, Om Parkash Malhotra. Besides giving utensils, Malhotra, a famous liquor baron of Punjab, is distributing sewing machines to the poor families and offering money to raise gurudwaras and temples in some poor residential localities of the town. While the political observers said this was a new idea of the SAD (B) candidate to draw attention and get his voice heard, in terms of impact, the effect is not clear, so far. After senior SAD (B) leader and former MLA from Faridkot, Kushal Deep Dhillon joined Manpreet's PPP and the SAD (B) failed to find a suitable candidate to contest against senior Congress leader and sitting MLA, Avtar Singh Brar, so the liquor baron was fielded as the party candidate. But instead of indulging in political mud-slinging, this greenhorn in politics is employing a new campaign strategy, that too without any subtlety. "Instead of attracting the voters with flashy promises I have joined politics with the promise that whether I lose or win, there would be no break in my endeavour to help the needy," said Malhotra. Talking about the high-decibel cacophony with mud-slinging in today's politics in Punjab, Malhotra revealed that different political parties had approached 12 top industrialists in the state and asked them to contest the election on their party tickets but the industrialists declined because of their view that he vocation was not for the upright. "My father also had the same notion about politics and he never showed any interest in it," said Malhotra. But until the young and educated join active politics, it would be difficult to stem the rot, said the liquor baron-turned-politician.
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Dhanak Samaj holds rally
Bathinda, December 11 The Dhanak Samaj failed to muster people in large numbers for the rally as many chairs at the gathering remained vacant despite announcements by its leaders from the dais. The Chief Minister announced to give a piece of land for the Dhanak Samaj to set up the Kabir Ashram where the children of the community would get education about their religion. Free stay of poor children, coaching for competitive exams and marriage functions of children of the community would also be organized at economical rates. The CM also announced provision of rest rooms for the labourers working in grain markets across Punjab. Later, talking to the media, the Chief Minister said that he wished that a Lok Pal, the way Anna Hazare is demanding, comes into force. The Mayor of Bathinda Baljit Singh Beerbehman, local SAD leader Sarup Chand Singla, state president of Dhanak
Samaj DR Bagri, Deputy Commissioner KK Yadav and SSP Sukhchain Singh Gill were among those present on the occasion. |
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Former DGP of Punjab, Paramdeep Singh Gill, now advisor to the state's Home Department, has intensified his movement in the public in the race to get the SAD ticket.
Faridkot, December 11
