Dehradun, September 13
The Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad has maintained its superiority in the DAV (PG) College Students Union elections winning the prestigious post of president.

The ABVP's Mahesh Jaguri defeated NSUI candidate Mohit Rawat by a margin of 359 votes in a bi-polar contest. Mahesh Jaguri polled 2,621 votes.

For the post of general secretary, Nitin Chauhan from the lesser known Pattu Group defeated Satish Mohan Pant of the Aryan Group with a margin of 312 votes. Nitin Chauhan polled 1,898 votes whereas Satish Mohan Pant got 1,586 votes.

As for the post of vice-president, Brijmohan Singh Negi defeated the Student Federation of India's Devendra Singh Rawat by a margin of 118 votes. Saurabh Mamgain won the University Representative post defeating Deepak Bisht by a slender margin of 20 votes.

For the post of joint secretary, Kumari Suman defeated Dhirendra Singh by a big margin of 1,057 votes. Suman polled 1,871 votes. Neha Bisht was elected as treasurer. She defeated Ashish Chamoli by 49 votes. Bisht polled 1,215 votes. For the post of Student Undergraduate representative, Pankaj Singh defeated Sachin Purohit by a margin of 262 votes.

Earlier, the counting began in the DAV (PG) College at 11 am amid tight security.

The results were finally announced at 5 pm by Chief Election Officer Anil Sinha. 

Dehradun September 13
Security was beefed up in and around DAV College where results for students body elections were announced today.

Barring a few incidents of minor lathi-charge, no untoward incident happened. The winning teams took out a victory procession from DAV College to Karanpur Road. The procession of the president of the student body was followed by the processions of the general secretary and the vice-president.

Contrary to the tradition of the past few years, where supporters of the winning team always had clashes with the losing one or violence broke out during procession, this time the groups fell into line set by police officials.

Despite being heavily drunk and riding high on the slogans of victory, they tore shirts of each other, applied Holi colours and danced on the drums of dhol. Their processions which was supposed to last till Survey Chowk was cut short this time. Superintendent of Police, Traffic, Ajay Joshi led the police force, where other police officials, including Circle Officer (CO), Dalanwala, Mani Kant Mishra, CO City TD Bella, Station Officer (SO), Nehru Colony, DS Rawat, SO, Kotwali, MS Negi, SO, Dalanwala, S Bhandari were also present.

At one point of time, students rejoicing in the victory procession began running helter skelter when police caned a few of them after a police personnel fell due to shoving by the students. The situation was brought under control. The police resort to lathi-charge when members of the defeated team NSUI gheraoed Principle of the college accusing him of colluding with the ABVP, winning party. Even at the time of filing of the report, the police was stationed in DAV College as NSUI students refused to budge, while demanding for re-counting of votes. The situation was tense.

Haridwar, September 13
Shravan Nath Math Jawaharlal Nehru College students elected a girl for the post of Student Welfare Union president for the second consecutive year.

Besides the union president, seven other posts also saw girl students proving their authority in the election in which only meritorious students were allowed to cast their votes.

Varsha Dhanik has been elected as the college union president while Radhika Sharma as vice-president. Meenakshi, Shilika Saini, Gayatri Pal, Aruna Prajapati, Nikita Saini and Rashi Babbar, all female, were elected members of the working executive body.

While Prabal Pratap Singh as secretary, Rohit Pandey, joint secretary, Nitish Kumar, treasurer, and Gautam Kumar, executive boy representative, were the male candidates that got elected for the 2012-13 academic session.

College principal Dr SK Batra and college management committee core member Mahant Ramanand Puri in the presence of teachers administered the oath to the newly elected representatives.

As student outfits, the NSUI, the ABVP and the SFI were demanding full-fledged open election. Heavy police arrangement was done on the college campus. Circle Officer Shah Jahan Khan Javed was present on the campus as students tried to create ruckus, demanding cancellation of the election.

Varun Baliyan, ABVP leader, even threatened of self-immolation if all students were not allowed to vote in the college union election. But after the college and administrative officers' efforts, the student was calmed down.

Outgoing student union chief Prerna Kainthola also expressed her displeasure as she was not informed about the election process, lashing out at the college principal for working in a tyrant manner.

“We want a peaceful and studious environment on the college campus, particularly during student elections.

Last year, no violence was reported as student wings were not allowed to participate in the elections,” said Dr SK Batra.

Dehradun, September 13
Scores of Tibetans today gathered at the Mindrolling monastery at Clement Town to welcome the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans living in exile. The monastery is the repository of the Gelug lineage associated with the practice of Vajrayana Buddhism and has a long association with the Dalai Lama.

Amid tight security, the Dalai Lama was welcomed by Tibetans and heads of the Clement Town monastery with robs, burning of incense sticks and frenzied dancing by Yamantaka Lamas. When about 100 monks fled Tibet and arrived in India in 1959, the task before the religious teacher was to re-establish the Mindrolling monastery. In 1965, Khochhen Rinpoche and a small group of monks began the process of re-establishing the Mindrolling monastery at Clement Town in Dehradun. The monastery attracts scholars from all across the world and has become an important study centre. The Dalai Lama had visited this monastery during the inauguration of a Buddha statue in 2002. “The current visit is important for the Tibetans, especially the youth, who have become very restive and will get solace in his presence. Besides participation in religious ceremonies, the Dalai Lama will be visiting Tibetan schools and Tibetan settlements in Mussoorie and Dehradun,” said Gyaltsen, Tibetan Welfare Officer.

Before making Dharamsala his home, the Dalai Lama along with his followers had spent some time in Mussoorie after they fled Tibet in 1959.

Earlier the Dalai Lama flew into Dehradun in the afternoon in a chartered plane and amid tight security was taken by a car to the monastery where crowds of Tibetan men, women and children were waiting to have a glimpse of the spiritual leader. 

Mussoorie, September 13
The two-day review meeting of the BJP State Scheduled Caste Front Working Committee concluded here today. Former Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Leader of the Opposition Ajay Bhatt addressed the meeting.

The two leaders criticised the six-month tenure of the Congress government in the state and termed it as incapable of ruling the state.

Nishank said the past six months had shown incapability of the the Congress government to rule the state as it was facing opposition from its own ministers and MLAs who were up in arms at several places on different issues.

He further said the government had made no achievement during the six month of its rule in the state. He also said it was trying to sabotage the Tehri bypoll by luring the voters with the cash that was confiscated by the police at Dehradun.

Nishank lamented the fact that the present government, with its decision of shutting down the programmes such as Atal Awas Yojna, had proved that it was only interested in using the SC community as a mere vote bank.

He further said the ministers in the government were themselves saying that the state government was in the ICU and would evidently fall following the Tehri bypoll. Nishank said the BJP was prepared for the bypoll and the downfall of the Congress government in the Centre would begin with its defeat in the forthcoming elections.

Ajay Bhatt, after attending the session here, said the BJP had gained acceptance in the SC community as many representatives were successfully performing their duty at senior posts in the party.

Bhatt further said due to the incompetent government, the state was in the state of utter chaos. He alleged that the Congress government in the state was not being run from Dehradun but from 10 Janpath which was really unfortunate.

Speaking on the agitation by government employee on the issue of quota in promotion, he said the present government had completely failed in resolving the matter. He said instead of taking rigid stand, the government should bring all concerned organisation on one table and try to settle the matter amicably. He further said people had scrutinised the working of the government and had made up their minds to oust it not only from the Centre but the state too. “The Congress government is on the verge of falling immediately after the Tehri Lok Sabha poll,” added Bhatt.

Speaking on the occasion, state president of the SC/ST Commission Suresh Rathore said the two-day review meting achieved the goals for which it was organised in the first place.

He said the SC community was aware that the Congress had used them as a vote bank but was not interested in providing them the due benefits.

He also said that the representation of the SC committee in the BJP should be increased so that more people could join the party and help in strengthening it.

President of the BJP state Scheduled Caste front Ajay Tamta said the discussion here were fruitful for the party and more of such review meetings would be held soon.

A separate meeting was held between the general secretary of the BJP state organisation Sanjay Singh and workers from the SC community from the Tehri constituency. The workers were given the instruction to spread the message of the misrule of the Congress government in order to emerge victorious in the Tehri bypoll.

Dehradun, September 13
The Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC) has become a defunct entity. All development works have stalled.

It has been, for last one year, the contractor lobby assigned for the development tasks. It has been opposing the tender process, first on the demands of the increase in the construction costs in the bidding and later on the issue of payment of their pending dues. No action has been taken till date on the fresh tender, which was invited on August 6.

The comparative analysis of bidding could take place in two-three days and thereafter the work orders could be placed. But nothing has moved in this direction. The payment to be given to the contractors for the development works under this fresh tender to the tune of Rs 5.5 crore have also been sent by the state government to the DMC but the officials are not keen on distributing them. Another installment of Rs 7 crore is also in the pipeline.

The funds for work under the previous tender process had not been issued for many wards. Vinay Kohli, councillor, Karanpur, is among them. He has not received funds for the development work in his ward since December last year.

The MNA tried to seek refuge of the excuse of modal code of conduct in the wake of the Tehri byelections but Kohli made it clear that 11 wards of the city did not come under the embargo. Mayor

The fund of Rs 50 lakh for the purchase of electrical items have also reached the DMC, still the material was neither being purchased nor distributed in the wards.

Most of the electrical timers have become obsolete. Councillor Rama Gaur said the election for the new DMC Board was due for March next year but the councillors were unable to face the voters for not being able to provide them facilities.

The city does not have any place to bury the dead children as well. Councillor Anup Kapoor said, “I have been demanding the allotment of some land from the DMC for the purpose of burial ground for children but to no avail. The officials said they had no land while the DMC land was being encroached all over in the city.”

Councillor of Gandhi Gram Jagdish Dhiman complained of massive drainage problem due to blockage of drainage in his area.

He said his area remained waterlogged during the monsoon but the DMC did not provide any manpower to clear the drainage.

The roads under the DMC domains are in pathetic condition. The stray animals are disrupting traffic by sitting in the middle of the roads.

The DMC machinary was least bothered, he lamented.

Dehradun, September 13
The Dehradun Council Football Tournament being held in St Joseph's Academy saw its last set of qualifying matches today.

In the first match, St. Joseph's Academy (SJA) beat St Thomas College by 2-0. Mridul of SJA scored two goals in the 17th and 42nd minutes.

The match between Presidency International School and Selaqui World School ended in a 3-1 win for Presidency International. Shubham scored the first goal for Presidency International in the 21st minute followed by the two successive goals by Himanshu in the 34th and 47th minutes. Mohit scored one goal for Selaqui World in the 39th minute.

The Doon School defeated Raja Ram Mohan Roy Academy by 3-0. Rakshit scored a goal for The Doon School in the 8th minute, followed by Sachdev and Arjun in the 21st and 32nd minute. The Doon School established a fabulous victory over Raja Ram Mohan Roy Academy by 3-0.

In the last match, Seven Oaks School won against Guru Nanak Academy by 3-1. From Seven Oaks School, Piyush scored the first goal in the 19th minutes and Shubham scored the next two goals in the 25th and 34th minutes. Pratyush scored one goal for Guru Nanak Academy in the 28th minute.

The quarterfinal matches will be played on Friday. The matches will take place as follows: The Doon School v/s St. Jude's School; Moravian Institute v/s The Doon Presidency School; Col. Brown Cambridge School v/s St. Joseph's Academy and Cambrian Hall v/s Seven Oaks School. The winning teams will play the semi-finals on Saturday.