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Poll confusion
Stage set for star campaigners in Mansa
EC, admn educate voters against bribery
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Smuggling of narcotics
Meritorious service
Three held for distributing advt material
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Poll confusion
Badal (Muktsar), January 25
As per the electoral rolls, procured by The Tribune (after the latest scrutiny on January 1, 2012), not only these four sons of Gava Singh, a large number of people having their “valid” votes in other nearby villages, have also been listed as voters at Badal village. Interestingly, most of these voters in question have registered their votes at the address of the Congress candidate Maheshinder Singh Badal. Maheshinder Singh Badal and his own family members have their votes in house number 391 and these questionable people have also shown house number 391/1/A as their residence. Like Gava Singh’s family, one Genda Singh, his wife Gurnam Kaur, son Jasvir Singh and daughter-in-law Sukhpreet Kaur, all residents of house number 113 at village Beedowali, have also listed their voter address as house number 392/1, village Badal. Besides, one Jangir Kaur, also a voter of Beedowali village, has been made another voter at Badal village, mentioning house number 392/1/B, as her residence. Similarly, Bhopa Singh, his wife Binder Kaur, sons Gursewak Singh and Manjeet Singh, all voters of Beedowali village, have been made voters at Badal village, giving their house number as 393. Meanwhile, one Sukhpal Singh, Manjit Kaur and Jasvir Kaur of Kaljharani village in Bathinda district, have also got their votes registered at village Badal with the address given as 392/1/A. The anomalies in the electoral rolls of this VVIP village do not end here. A number of voters from Mann village have also been made voters here. When contacted, Maheshinder Singh Badal said, “All those persons who have been made voters on my residential address are my relatives. And as per my knowledge, Gava Singh’s family has been made voters in Badal village alone. I am not aware whether they have votes in Rajasthan or not.” Sandeep Rishi, Returning Officer, Lambi, said, “We have not received any complaint in this regard, but we will definitely probe and prepare a list of such persons so that they do not cast their votes here.” He, however, added, “At this moment, a vote can't be cancelled. What we can do is to direct the polling staff not to accept their votes.”
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Stage set for star campaigners in Mansa
Mansa, January 25 Candidates of various political parties have been wooing the voters in the Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Mansa by organising meetings and door-to-door campaigning. While the SAD candidates are eulogising their government for ushering in development, candidates of the Congress, PPP, BSP and other parties are highlighting the issues related to the long-pending demands of the people. Apart from the scourge of cancer, drug addiction, rampant corruption, poor infrastructure, lack of industries and the absence of employment opportunities are the issues, on which, the opposition harps upon. While the SAD candidate claims the successful staging of the World Kabaddi Cup in Mansa and setting up of the multi-purpose stadium among his achievement, the residents of the area say that the medical, road and educational facilities could have been strengthened using the government funds. SAD candidate from Sardulgarh, Dilraj Singh Bhunder and Congress candidate Ajitinder Singh Mofar were seen going for hectic campaigning, seeking votes from the residents. They visited the markets and addressed people during their door-to-door campaigning. Candidates from Mansa, Gurpreet Gagowal of the Congress, Hardev Arshi of Sanjha Morcha and SAD candidate Prem Mittal too had gone for hectic campaigning seeking votes for their parties. Congress leader Jagsir Singh said the star campaigner of the Congress and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi would visit Mansa on January 27 to address a huge gathering. Former finance minister and president of the Peoples’ Party of Punjab (PPP), Manpreet would hold door-to-door meeting while the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal would address the public at the local grain market.
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EC, admn educate voters against bribery
Faridkot, January 25 “To create awareness among the voters about the power of their vote, a catchy audio-video song has been released at a public function called “Voter Jagrukta
Abiyaan” under the Systematic Voter Education and Electorate Participation
(SVEEP) programme of the ECI,” said Ravi Bhagat, district election officer. The opening lines of the song aim to arouse passion among the people to exercise their franchise by the words: “Vote Milli Nahin Beekh Ya Daan
Sannu. Vote Milli Hai Naal Kurbaniyaan De.” Inspired by the popularity of the Youtube that is being used by the political parties and other organisations to reach out to the masses, particularly, the tech-savvy youth of Punjab in the poll-frenzied state, the district administration and Election Commission have also joined the technology bandwagon, releasing the song-cum-video on
youtube- Punjab Vote 2012. “The Faridkot Election Office is trying to educate the voters under the SVEEP programme of the Election Commission,” said Ravi
Bhagat. Sung by the local folk singers Harinder Sandhu and Kulwinder
Kanwal, in their rustic voice on a peppy Punjabi Bhangra Beat, the four-minute song penned by Dr
Kewal, is inspiring. The main focus of the lyrics is to highlight the equal importance of everyone’s votes. The song is being played on a special vehicle, which is going from town to town and village to village and showing the video on a projector in the evening, along with the clippings of Jaspal Bhatti made by the
ECI. The vehicle also bears banners of slogans on educating the masses. “Last time, the total polling was 83 per cent in
Faridkot. This time we have a target of making 90 per cent polling,” said
Bhagat.
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Smuggling of narcotics
Abohar, January 25 Briefing the media in the presence of Rajasthan Frontier, BSF IG, KL Meena, the officials said 18 kg of heroin was smuggled three days back near pillar 275/4, located at a walking distance from the Punjab-Rajasthan border. Three such instances were reported during the last year. The drug mafia active in Pakistan managed to arrange the supply of heroin and opium from Afghanistan to smuggle it through the Hindumalkot border, linked with Abohar by road. The BSF had originally planned to carry night dominance operation by the end of this month but it will have to be extended in view of the recent developments. Additional force has already been deployed around the Hindumalkot-Abohar road suspecting spurt in the activities of smugglers on the eve of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha polls. |
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Meritorious service
Bathinda, January 25 These provisions changed the face of the campus and improved the living conditions for the jawans. The battalion at Bathinda was also assigned the task of training the recruits. Also, RK Verma, in collaboration with DAV College, Bathinda, has taken up the challenge of planting one lakh saplings in the surrounding areas. Meanwhile, Arun Kumar Mittal, AIG, Intelligence, Punjab, has also been awarded the President's police medal for meritorious service on Republic Day.
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Three held for distributing advt material
Bathinda, January 25 A case under Sections 188 and 34 of the IPC has been registered in this connection against two of the three persons, including Suminder and Harminder. Investigating official in the case, SI Gurjant Singh said the arrested accused were released on bail last night. Senior police functionaries are further investigating the matter.
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