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Month on, district administration fails to hold parking lot auction
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Newlywed demands arrest of husband, in-laws
Gujral Nagar residents continue strike
Depot holders to stage dharna on Friday
Snatching case solved in 36 hours, two arrested
Police officials show recovered cash, passports from the two accused in Jalandhar. Tribune Photo: Malkiat SIngh
Woman ends life, blames boyfriend for death
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Ward reservation: houseWives turn ticket seekers
Deepkamal Kaur Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, May 1 Most of these women, who have always been made to confine themselves to home, hearth and well-being of the children, are being taken along to social functions and introduced in the areas of the ward as an effort to brighten their prospects of getting a ticket. The SAD councillor from Ward 39, Gurdip Singh Nagra, said he had thought that his ward would go unreserved even this time as it did not fall in the 2,5,8,… sequence as was being proposed, but it came out in a different pattern. “I am left with no choice but to prepare my wife Jaspal Kaur Nagra for the contest. She has been a housewife throughout, but now I intend to take her along at social and political gatherings,” he said. Wards goes general, women sent back home
On the contrary, majority of the women who have put in work as councillors for the past five years on account of their wards getting reserved for the fairer sex are preparing to get into the shell again. Since their requirement is over, they are being sent packing at a time when they had started learning nuances of politics and working of the MC. Darshan Singh, father-in-law of Congress councillor Anup Kaur from Ward 34, is gearing up to seek a ticket as the ward which was reserved for women in the last tenure has been made general again. He, however, faces a tough battle for ticket from Sushma Gautam from the same party. Likewise, it is the husband of BJP councillor Yogita Gupta, Ashu Gupta, who is the contender for ticket from Ward 25. Interestingly, even earlier it was either Ashu or her father-in-law Gopal Pethewale who had been into a more prominent role. This, despite the fact that Yogita had even been nominated as the trustee of Jalandhar Improvement Trust. Just few months after she got elected as a councillor and nominated as a trustee, she had conceived her second son and had to remain away from political activities for almost a year. Ashu says, “This time it will be either him or his father. It will be a ‘family decision’.” For most people active in local politics, councillorship has to be within the family. In all those tenures that the ward is general, they prefer to contest themselves or else it is their better halves who are asked to step in as rubber stamps. Since Ward 6 of BSP candidate Hans Raj Rana has been made reserved, he is planning to rope in his wife Madhu Rana for the job. He adds, “She has been a councillor from 2002-07 as well when the ward was reserved.” Out of a similar compulsion, SAD councillor of Ward 29 Kuldip Singh Oberoi is preparing to field his wife Arvinder Kaur Oberoi for the job again. Working wife, so no choice
But there are some councillors who are not so lucky to have their wives or mothers available for the job. Since Ward 14 has been reserved, Congress councillor Kuljit Singh Babbi does not have a choice from home. He says, “My wife is a teacher in Doaba Khalsa School and my mother does not keep well. I will have to think of other options”. Kin of BJP MLAs likely to contest
Cousin of MLA KD Bhandari Dinesh Bhandari is likely to contest polls from Ward 27, currently represented by Congress councillor Mahesh Puri. There also are speculations of Jimmy Kalia, uncle of Jalandhar Central MLA Manoranjan Kalia, who is likely to contest from Ward 24, instead of Ward 26 from where he had contested unsuccessfully in the last MC polls. Jimmy has had to shift as Ward 26 has gone reserved for women. He remained a de facto councillor of Ward 26 as Congress councillor Sukhmeet Deputy went behind bars in a criminal case ever since he won polls. Will woman councillor be a Mayor?
It is perhaps owing to the fact that there are chances of a woman councillor to be taken as the Mayor that some husbands are thinking of handing over the baton to the women folk from the house despite their ward getting unreserved. Aruna Arora, sitting councillor from Ward 55, is likely to re-contest. Congress councillor from Ward 30 (general) Rajinder Beri, who had unsuccessfully contested Assembly polls recently, too is likely to field his wife Uma Beri. Will Mayor Rathour re-contest?
The biggest question that everyone is asking is whether Mayor Rakesh Rathour will contest or not. Rathour when asked about the same had a very diplomatic answer, “It is up to the party to decide on the issue.” Asked if he was interested, came the reply, “I will be interested only if the party is keen”. Told that he was too diplomatic with the answer, he said, “I have learnt the art as a politician.” |
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Month on, district administration fails to hold parking lot auction
Jalandhar, May 1 The old contractor, who has been allowed to use the complex for parking of vehicles, has been so far been using all ways to extract more money by levying charges even on Saturdays and government holidays. The administration on two occasions tried to get the auction done, but could not find response as the bidders demanded that either a parking site outside a side gate of the tehsil complex also be given as last year or the reserve price be brought down. The auction for parking lot at the district administrative complex was first put off on March 26 when 12 bidders who had come to attend the auction had raised the same issue. They were told that the Municipal Corporation authorities would hold a separate auction for the parking lot along the road near the side gate as they had claimed that it was their site. At this, the bidders demanded that the reserve price, which is equal to last year’s auction price, be slashed from Rs 19.16 lakh. But that was not accepted by the officials. Auction was held again two weeks later, but there was no response again. District Nazir Mahinder said the old contractor had been asked to pay up Rs 8,000 a day as the charges to the DC office till the time there was a re-auction. He said the next auction was due on May 3 for which the conditions were same so far, just that the reserve price will be lowered in view of contract which will be limited for 11 months.
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Newlywed demands arrest of husband, in-laws
Jalandhar, May 1 Gurpreet Kaur alleged that the police has not arrested her husband and in-laws even after booking them under Sections 307, 323, 498 A, 406 and 506 of the IPC. She claimed that since her marriage in October last, the in-laws tortured her for bringing dowry far below their expectations. She said, “My parents gave a Santro car and enough gold in my marriage. Even then my in-laws and husband kept on pressuring me to bring diamond ornaments and an Innova car.” On April 18, she alleged her husband and in-laws thrashed her and set her afire. She sustained burns on her stomach for which she has to be admitted to a hospital, Gurpreet alleged. The police recorded her statement and booked her husband Gurdarshan Singh, her mother-in-law, father-in-law and sister-in-law under Sections 307, 323, 498 A, 406 and 506 of the IPC. She said her husband, who owns a shop at Mandi Fantanganj market, goes to his shop, but the police has not arrested him.
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Gujral Nagar residents continue strike
Jalandhar, May 1 Residents Prerna, Usha, Bimla, Jagdish and Shammi were the ones to sit on the strike today. Addressing the protesters, labourer union leaders said the state government itself was discriminating with labourers in the name of development. While they were without roof, the police had even forcefully taken away the utensils of the poor, leaders alleged. Leaders exhorted justice-loving people to come forward for the help of the poor.
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Depot holders to stage dharna on Friday
Jalandhar, May 1 The president of Punjab Depot Holders Union, Gurjinder Singh Sidhu, stated this during his visit to Jalandhar for showing solidarity with the Jalandhar district of depot holders who have been sitting on chain fast since Monday. Sidhu demanded that the quota of kerosene for Punjab should immediately be restored for the benefit of the above poverty line families, depot holders and 225 kerosene wholesalers. |
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Jalandhar Youngsters take out an awareness rally against child labour in Jalandhar on Tuesday. Tribune Photo : Malkiat Singh Iken Scientifica: Mayor World School hosted Iken Scientifica round-II on the school premises on Tuesday where around 70 students participated with zeal and enthusiasm. The round-II was about model making. Iken Scientifica is conducted by Mexus Education Group in two reputed schools of the city with Mayor World School being one of them. Round-I was earlier conducted in the school on 17th January, in which around 121 students had participated. It was a written round. The winners of round-II will be competing at the national level, to be held in IIT Mumbai. Their performance will be tested from among 40 students coming from all over the country. All the charges for these students will be borne by the Iken Scientifica. If they are able to win the national level, they will move on to the international level to be held at bits Goa and if they are able to manage a position in this round they will be sent to NASA.Cricket tourney: The final match of Dr WR Bowry Memorial Cricket Tournament was played among the students of Innocent Hearts, at Innocent Hearts, Green Field, Loharan. This match was played between the students of Class XII commerce and Class XI commerce. The team of Class XI won the match. The management gave Rs 5,100 cash prize and a trophy to the winning team. Shivansh Khanna was adjudged the man of the match. He received Rs 1,100 cash prize from the management.Paper reading: A paper reading and paragraph writing competition was held for students of State Public School. For Classes III to V, an inter-house paper reading contest was conducted and for Classes VI to X an inter-class paragraph writing competition was held. The children enthusiastically participated in the competitions. In the paper reading competition, Ritika from Sahibzada Fateh Singh House bagged the first prize. The second position was bagged by Sharanjit Singh from Sahibzada Ajit Singh House. The third prize was shared by Deepika and Jaskaran from Sahibzada Zorawar Singh House and Pawanpreet from Sahibzada Fateh Singh House. In the paragraph writing competition, Riya Thakur from Class X stood first. Jaspinder Kaur from Class VIII stood second and third position was shared by Taranpreet Kaur from Class VII and Kushpreet and Pariksha from Class IX.
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Snatching case solved in 36 hours, two arrested
Jalandhar, May 1 Sushil Kumar was employed at some foreign exchange firm and Vishal was working with an advocate. The duo along with another accomplice allegedly snatched a purse containing Rs 86,000, a mobile phone and five passports from a rickshaw-borne woman, Kulwinder Kaur, on April 29 at the Green Model Town locality. A case was registered at Police Division No. 4 in this regard. The police has also recovered a black coloured Pulsar bike used in the crime. The woman was in the immigration business and passports were of her clients. RK Sharma, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, City I, said the police has not found the remaining cash amount (Rs 36000). Sushil had a criminal past, he said. The police also suspects that three accused were involved in six snatching cases that took place on Sunday. ACP NK Dogra said the police was able to arrest the accused through the registration number of their motorcycle.
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Woman ends life, blames boyfriend for death
Jalandhar, May 1 The police today recovered a suicide note in which the deceased, Harjinder Kaur (32), held her boyfriend,
Kapil, responsible for her death. Ram Singh, deceased’s father, said his daughter was a computer operator at Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences
(PIMS). She left the job a year back on her boyfriend’s request. Narrating the woes, the father said
Kapil, a jeweller from Uggi village, had promised to marry his daughter and asked her to leave the job. The father alleged that the boy kept on making hollow promises to his daughter. Recently, Kapil rejected the marriage proposal. Harjinder was suffering from depression ever since the rejection, said the father. “Yesterday she was alone at home; she took the extreme step,” said the grieving father. He also said Harjinder was observing fast the day she decided to end her life. The police had registered a case under Section 306 of the IPC against the accused and were conducting raids to nab him. Some lines of suicide note read: “Mere Shiv Shankar prabu insaaf karenge mere sath aur Kapil ko apne papon ki saja jarur
denge.” (My God Shiv Shankar will do justice to me and will punish Kapil for his sins). ‘Marriage promise not kept’ The deceased’s father alleged that the boy, identified as
Kapil, a jeweller from Uggi village, did not keep his promise to marry his daughter. She went into severe depression and took the extreme step, he added.
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One held with stolen bike
Jalandhar, May 1 When the person was unable to produce documents, the police suspected a foul play. The accused later confessed that he along with his friend Gagan had stolen the Hero Honda Splendor (PB 36 F 1302) bike from Phagwara. A case under Sections 379, 411 of the IPC has been registered against the accused.
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month since the contract for parking at the district administrative complex lapsed, but the administration has failed to hold auction for the re-allotment of the contract.
Protesting their ouster from their homes, residents of Gujral Nagar sat on a hunger strike for the 2nd consecutive day outside the Municipal Corporation office here today.
With the arrest of two persons, the city police today claimed to have solved a snatching case after 36 hours of the incident. The police has also recovered Rs 50,000, a mobile phone and five passports from the duo, identified as Sushil Kumar (23) and Vishal (24), both residents of Saidan Gate here.
