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fixing poll expenditure Environmental issues should be prime poll agenda: Seechewal
Man held for posing as CBI inspector
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Akali leader’s son booked in Rs 18-cr paddy scam
Couple killed in accident
Trade ties between India, Canada getting stronger, says Canadian MP
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ECI to do video recording of Sonia’s rallies
Dharmendra Joshi Tribune News Service
Kapurthala, January 17 Even the expenses on erecting barricades for her security during her proposed election rallies will be added to the expenditures of those Congress candidates who will be present during the public meetings. While Sonia will address a rally at Moga during first half of Thursday, her helicopter is scheduled to land at Kapurthala at around 1.45 pm. She will address an election meeting at Grain Market. Deputy Commissioner-cum-DEO Paramjit Singh said, “According to the ECI directions, in case of a leader of a political party addressing an election meeting, the expenditure incurred will be distributed equally among a group of candidates present at the time for consideration as an election expenditure According to sources, as many as 10 Congress candidates of various constituencies located in Doaba and Majha regions - Kapurthala (Rana Gurjit Singh), Sultanpur Lodhi (Navtej Singh Cheema), Bholath (Sukhpal Khaira), Jalandhar Cantonment (Jagbir Brar), Nakodar (Amarjit Samra), Khadur Sahib (Ramanjit Singh Sikki), Adampur (Pawan Tinu), Dauya (Ramesh Chander Dogra), Tanda (Sangat Singh Giljian), Phillaur (Santokh Chaudhury) - will be present in the rally. The ECI instructions further stated, “If any candidates share a pandal with a star campaigner or his photo or poster with his name exhibited in a meeting, the meeting expense will be added to his account.” The DEO said, “The video recording of Sonia’s rally will be done for fixing the expenditure. It will also be watched if the public present in the gathering is offered any eatables by the candidates. If so, the cost of these items will be added to the expenditure of the candidates.” Meanwhile, Jalandhar DIG Pramod Bhan said adequate security arrangements for Sonia’s proposed rally had been made.
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Environmental issues should be prime poll agenda: Seechewal
Amritsar, January 17 Showing solidarity with the cause, scores of candidates which included Navjot Kaur Sidhu and Tarun Chugh, both from BJP, OP Soni (Congress) today vowed to take initiative in this direction during a special programme at Sant Singh Sukha Singh Senior Secondary School, here. This programme was conceptualised by ‘Vatavaran Ate Samaj Bachao Morcha Punjab’ and was formed by over 50 NGOs headed by Sant Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal, Giani Kewal Singh (Ex-Jathedar, Damdama Sahib) and Umendra Dutt to impress upon the political parties to commit themselves to work extensively for the promotion of green cover and eradicating social evils. Baba Seechewal said he would campaign among masses and ask voters to ensure their rights from the candidates. He also urged the voters to elect only those candidates who showed "sensitivity" towards the issues related to the state's ecology and promised to do something in this regard. “It is our fundamental right to live under healthy environment and it is the liability of the government to ensure it”, he said. Pointing towards the state's poor rating on environmental front, Seechewal said it should be the moral responsibility of the politicians to save the environment. “The UNO has asked every governing body globally to bring down at least 20 per cent pollution level by 2020. In India, the pollution control board has been constituted in 1974, but the lackluster approach of the board as well as the government has led to the polluting of the environment,” he said. “These circumstances were responsible for spread of cancer. The politicians should vow that they will make sincere efforts to stop the drainage of toxic effluents from industrial belts and sewer water into various water bodies and ensure the setting up of sewage treatment plants. Only then they can claim our vote and support,” he said. Others present on the occasion included Bibi Inderjeet Kaur, chairperson All India Pingalwara Charitable Society, Giani Kewal Singh, Umendra Dutt. |
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Man held for posing as CBI inspector
Jalandhar, January 17 The accused has been identified as Manpreet Singh. A police official said the accused landed in the police net following an accident at Massand chowk in which he hit a motorcyclist. He was also booked by the police under Sections 279, 337 and 427 of the IPC. To show his influence on the police, the accused showed an identity card to the police. He told the police that he was employed with the CBI’s crime branch at Lodhi Nagar in New Delhi. Surprisingly, the accused managed to get a duplicate stamp of the investigating agency. The accused had also forged the signature and stamp of the Director General of Police on his identity card, the police said. During preliminary investigation, a 31-year-old accused revealed that he had downloaded the CBI identity card format from internet. “When we got suspicious, we contacted a CBI officer at Chandigarh who reiterated that there was no person named Manpreet Singh posted as an inspector with CBI branch in New Delhi and he also confirmed the identity card as fake,” said a police official. A case under Sections 419, 420, 468 and 471 of the IPC has been registered against the accused. The police has also seized his Nano car. |
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Akali leader’s son booked in Rs 18-cr paddy scam
Moga, January 17 An FIR under various sections of the IPC and the Essential Commodities Act was registered against Mandeep Singh Brar, owner of Avtar Rice Mill, Baghapurana, former Markfed DM Amarjit Singh Sandhu, branch manager Kamal Kumar and custodian Sham Lal at the Baghapurana police station. SHO Gurpreet Singh said that the accused were yet to be arrested. Mandeep Brar is the son of senior Akali leader Jagtar Singh Rajeana, who was an aspirant for the SAD ticket from the Baghapurana assembly constituency, while Mandeep's grandfather Sadhu Singh Rajeana was elected to the state assembly twice from the Baghapurana assembly constituency. According to information, as many as 338 wagons of paddy went missing from the mill in the past several months. The total loss has initially been estimated at Rs 17.40 crore, but this could exceed due to fluctuations in the prevailing market rates. Markfed District Manager HS Dhaliwal said that a team of senior officials of the department inspected the rice mill on January 14 and found that the paddy procured by the agency during 2010-2011 and given for milling was missing from the mill. Earlier, when the rice mill did not hand over the milled rice to the Markfed on time, it raised doubts in the minds of authorities. Inquiries made by the local unit smelled a scam. Dhaliwal wrote a letter to the Markfed MD on January 11, which led to on the spot inspection by senior authorities from the head office. Meanwhile, the Markfed authorities are assessing the exact loss so that recovery process could be initiated against the mill. |
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Couple killed in accident
Batala, January 17 Kewal Kumar Luthra along with his wife Shivangi and son Raghav were going to Quadian from Batala in their car (PJR-4092). Near Shahbad village the car driver applied sudden break to save a cyclist. The car skid off the road and struck a tree. The couple and the child were brought to the local Civil Hospital from there the couple was referred to Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, Amritsar, due to the gravity of the injuries. However, both succumbed to death on the way. The child is still in the hospital. The police have conducted proceeding under section 174 CrPC. |
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Trade ties between India, Canada getting stronger, says Canadian MP
Jalandhar, January 17 “The Canadian PM is expected to come to India next year. The two countries are working on better cooperation in IT, health and tourism sectors. The Canadian PM and his Indian counterpart are likely to sign fresh treaties in these sectors,” said Joe Daniel, who was on a visit to the city with Chungsen Leung, Canadian Parliamentary Secretary for multi-culturalism. Chungsen Leung, who is also a successful entrepreneur with vast experiences in the fields of business, disaster mitigation management, urban mass transit projects and building environment friendly houses, said Canada was a country having a multi-cultural social network. “We have people from 60 countries living in Canada and they are an epitome of multi-culturalism, diversity and tolerance,” said Leung. Talking about political system in Canada and India, Joe Daniel said 10 per cent of the 308 seats of parliament were for the people of non-Canadian origin and six of the MPs were Punjabis, four of the Chinese origin and one from Kerala. He said the Canadian political system was simple as compared to India. He expected a jump in the 4.6 billion dollar bilateral trade figure in the near future. |
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