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Sharma unanimously elected state BJP chief Ram Bilas Sharma, newly elected state
BJP chief
Farmers stop cane to mills, seek hike in MSP
State to name and shame rapists, others on website |
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Sushma behind Sharma’s rise
Plan to check waterlogging
Inmates
refuse meal to protest prisoner's death in Hisar
State to pay for Rewari rape victim’s treatment
Sirsa police to train women in martial arts
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Sharma unanimously elected state BJP chief
Rohtak, January 5 Sharma took over from Krishan Pal Gurjar, who remained the party
president for a period of nearly four years. Sharma was today elected for
the second time. He had held this position in 1991 when the term was of two years. Sharma was the only candidate to file his nomination papers for the post and he was elected unanimously in the presence of Kalraj Mishra, national vice-president, Harshvardhan, in charge of the state unit, Rattan Lal Kataria, election officer, members of the state executive and presidents of the district units. Presidents of as many as 13 districts supported his nomination. Several state level leaders, including outgoing president Gurjar, Atam Prakash Manchanda and national general secretary
Capt Abhimnayu, were among others present on the occasion. Sharma, a four-time MLA and former education minister of Haryana, said: “My aim is to ensure that the party gets stronger and plays a major role in formation of the next government in the state.” He said he was confident that the BJP-HJC alliance would bring the much awaited change in the state politics. Around 3,000 partymen attended the election held at the party office here, said Raj K Kapoor, leader of the district unit of
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Farmers stop cane to mills, seek hike in MSP
Karnal, January 5 “Not even a single farmer brought his produce to the sugar mills as repeated protests by cane growers for increase in MSP fell on deaf ears,” said Bhartiya Kisan Union
(BKU) national vice-president Rattan Mann. The decision to stop the supply of sugarcane from today was taken at a meeting, he said, adding that unless ‘adequate’ MSP was given to the cane growers, they would not bring their produce to the mills. The farmers also locked the Cooperative Sugar Mill here and sat on a
dharna. They demanded that the Swaminathan Committee report on MSP for agricultural produce should be implemented and the farmers must get 50 per cent over and above the cost of production. He said per quintal production cost of sugarcane was Rs 236 and the MSP should be Rs 354 per quintal as per the formula derived by the Swaminathan Committee. Mann said the state government was paying just Rs 240 per quintal, while Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand were giving Rs 290 and Rs 295 per quintal, respectively. He said the future course of action would be decided in a meeting at Radhor on January 11.
Sonepat: Hundreds of farmers locked the main gate of the Cooperative ugar Mill here and launched an indefinite dharna at the gate. State president, BKU
(Ambawat), Shamsher Singh and district president Rohtas Baniwal said the dharna would continue till their demands were accepted. Mill managing director Virender Lather said, “Keeping in view the decision of the
BKU, the crushing has been stopped.” He said the state government had given Rs 10 crore to the mill for payment for the last crushing season. Cane growers of Gohana region had also locked the main gate of the Chaudhary Devi Lal Cooperative Sugar Mill, Ahulana near
Gohana. Kurukshetra: Workers of the INLD, led by state president Ashok
Arora, joined the dharna organised by the BKU in front of the Shahabad Cooperative Sugar Mill. Former Haryana Agriculture Minister Jasvinder Singh Sandhu and Zila Parishad chairman Praveen Umri also joined the
dharna. Arora said a delegation led by INLD supremo Om Prakash Chautala would meet the Haryana Governor in Chandigarh on
January 8 to demand increase in support price of sugarcane and wheat. |
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State to name and shame rapists, others on website
Karnal, January 5 The Director, SCRB, Layak Ram Dabas, has sent letters to the principals of 50 colleges, urging them to organise debates and hold slogans, photographs and posters competitions and send the best 10 in all categories to the SCRB to be displayed in the exhibitions. The idea is to create awareness among the youth and senstise them on the issue, Dabas said. Dabas said that besides modernisation of the police methodology for detection of crime, prosecution, trials and better use of scientific tools, that in rape cases the onus of proof should be on the accused and not on the victim as in most of the cases there are no witnesses. A 'Hall of Shame' would be created by posting the names of 6,000 convicted persons in cases of crime against women, including rape, molestation and dowry deaths, during last 13 years on the official website of the Haryana Police Crime Record Bureau (SCRB) and also on various social networking sites. The idea is to make the society aware of such elements and to let people know that rapists do get convicted. As per the data of the SCRB, besides 2,500 convictions in rape cases, 1,000 persons, including 100 women, were convicted in dowry death cases, 1,000 in cases of cruelty against women and 1,500 for outraging the modesty of women in the past 13 years. |
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Sushma behind Sharma’s rise
Faridabad, January 5 Sources said Swaraj, who has a major say in the party in Haryana, was the only leader at the national level to back Sharma. Swaraj, along with BJP president Nitin Gadkari, was instrumental in effecting the HJC-BJP alliance. Hence, Sharma’s political line would be in tune with his two national leaders. “With Sharma’s re-elevation, the party wants to consolidate non-Jat votes in Haryana for the next elections in the state,” said a party insider. The HJC has welcomed Sharma’s elevation. Dharampal Mallik, chairperson of the coordination committee of the HJC-BJP, said: “The two parties will intensify their political programmes to dethrone the Congress.” |
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Plan to check waterlogging
Chandigarh, January 5 He said a pilot project was implemented in seven villages of Jhajjar and Rohtak with the help of the Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, and it had yielded encouraging results. It had been observed that central and western Haryana had waterlogging ranging from one to three metres. On this research, a scheme had been forwarded to the Centre to bring the affected area under waterlogging tolerant plants. |
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Inmates refuse meal to protest prisoner's death in Hisar
Hisar, January 5 Jagminder (41), a resident of Sultanpur village, who was serving imprisonment in the Central Jail, Hisar, had died of a heart attack on Friday. The prisoners, according to sources, requested the jail authorities to refer him to General Hospital or some other medical facility, but their pleas were allegedly not heard. The inmate died and when he was finally taken to the hospital, the doctors declared him brought dead. Irked, 350 of them boycotted their meals today. |
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State to pay for Rewari rape victim’s treatment
Rewari, January 5 He said he had received instructions from the Chief Minister in this regard. An 18-year-old student of a local college was allegedly raped by her Delhi-based relative here on November 3, 2012. When she tried to flee, the accused allegedly fired a bullet from his pistol which hit her the chest and got stuck there. The doctors have said the removal of the bullet could endanger her life. The DC said they were consulting specialists who were expected to remove the bullet. |
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Sirsa police to train women in martial arts
Sirsa, January 5 The training camp is being organised on the initiative of SSP Raj Shri Singh, who has roped in “The Tiger Marshal Arts Federation of India”, a local academy for this purpose. Coaches of the academy would provide the training free of cost. The SSP will inaugurate the training camp on January 7. She said the trained women would be able to deal with emergency situations. |
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Leaders and workers of the BJP unanimously elected Ram Bilas Sharma (63) as president of the state unit for the next three years during an organisational election here today.
Sharma took over from Krishan Pal Gurjar, who remained the party
president for a period of nearly four years. Sharma was today elected for
the second time. He had held this position in 1991 when the term was of two years.
