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Suspended MLAs may get chance to attend session
Punjabi manch demands seats in Assembly
Probe into CLU cases demanded
CD row: INLD, Cong turn heat on each other
CPM seeks probe into CD ‘scam’
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INLD playing dirty politics: Sampat
Delhi-Ludhiana Shatabdi will now halt at Jind
Women worst sufferers in state, says Bishnoi
Blackbuck falls prey to stray dogs
Haryana Insaaf Manch can go political: Rao
Gurgaon Excise Dept suspends three inspectors
Quiz contests on traffic rules for kids
Police clueless in murder case
Members of Dalit family beaten up
Govt staff protest in Rewari
Quota: Jats to hold ‘Akrosh rally’
Land grab: PM asks state govt to act
Youth held on rape charge
Youth killed in Sonepat
Three held for beating sarpanch
Cotton crop in good health where pesticides not used: Reports
Road blocked after villager’s murder in Karnal
Father foils bid to kidnap minor girl
Jawan held for bid to fleece job seekers
Income limit for SC students raised
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Suspended MLAs may get chance to attend session
Chandigarh, September 8 Haryana Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kuldeep Sharma said he was willing to review his decision "in the interest of democracy" provided the Opposition agreed to abide by the rules and refrained from defying the Chair. "I want to run the House but the Chair cannot be held ranson to a bunch of MLAs committed to unwanted disruptions. I repeatedly tried to reason with them and urge them to take up their issues after Question Hour, but they paid no heed. The business of the House was to be transacted and I had no option other than suspending them. I am open to the idea of calling them to attend the session if they agree to follow rules," Sharma said. Virtually the entire Opposition, barring four MLAs, was suspended on the opening day of the monsoon session of the Haryana Assembly for "irresponsible behaviour". Though leaders of the Opposition have also expressed desire to attend the session, the INLD's Ashok Arora said all that their legislators were demanding was an assurance from the government for an inquiry into the "cash-for-CLU scam" which did not come. "Instead, we were named and suspended for the rest of the session. At the meeting with the Speaker during the adjournment, we kept the same demand before him. We have decided to run a parallel session outside the Vidhan Sabha premises though we want to participate in the proceedings since the House meets for a very short duration," Arora said. While the INLD was trying to corner the government on the "sting operation", the treasury benches, too, came with a reply, the report of land given to the various trusts of the INLD chief Om Prakash Chuatala family. This being a part of their counter-attack, the Congress legislators, too, displayed the same aggression in the House. Though the foremost agenda seemed to drown the demand of the Opposition for a probe into the CD, the treasury benches maintained that the hullabaloo on the CD was the Opposition's plan of deflecting attention from the report on the land to the Chautala trusts. Whatever the agenda of the Opposition and the treasury benches, the bottomline is that little was achieved in the proceedings on day one of the session. Today's agenda
According to the business listed for tomorrow, Congress MLA Naresh Sharma’s call-attention motion will bring back the focus on the report on the land given to the Chautala trusts tabled in the House on September 6. This is likely to raise the hackles of the Opposition which is gunning for the government following the “cash-for-CLU scam”. Besides this, the House will also consider the Bill for regularising unauthorised colonies in Haryana among others.
INLD protests begin today
Chandigarh, September 8 State INLD chief Ashok Arora said the district units would hold protests on different days and submit memorandums to the respective Deputy Commissioners for the Governor. These protests were being held to reiterate the demand for an inquiry into the “expose” and to seek dismissal of the legislators shown in the clips and the Congress government in the state. Challenging some of the findings of the report on the trusts run by INLD chief Om Prakash Chuatala or his family members, Arora said it had not given a true picture.
BJP wants Cong MLAs arrested
Rewari, September 8 He regretted that as 29 opposition MLAs had already been suspended, this highly important issue could not be discussed in the ongoing session of the Vidhan Sabha. Yadav alleged that the Congress government was comprehensively indulging in property dealing as its members had read the writing on the wall indicating that the Congress would be ousted at the
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Punjabi manch demands seats in Assembly
Faridabad, September 8 The manch also demanded martyr’s status for those who preferred death over conversion of religion during the Partition. “Those who migrated to India at the time of Partition must be recognised as freedom fighters,” he said. The manch will convene a state-level ‘jan ekta' rally in Rohtak on September 15 to unite the community for its political and social empowerment. Addressing mediapersons, Batra said the manch also wanted construction of a memorial at every district headquarters in the state to commemorate the sacrifices made by the members of the community during the freedom struggle. He was here to mobilise support for the rally. “There were 18 Punjabi MLAs from the Congress in Haryana in 1991, but the number has dwindled to three in the present Assembly. In all, there are six Punjabi MLAs. In the last Assembly elections, the political parties denied tickets to Punjabis in the constituencies where they were in majority,” Batra said. Former Chief of Army Staff VK Singh would be the chief guest at the rally. The objective of the rally was to promote brotherhood among all sections of the society, besides highlighting the cause of the Punjabis, he added.
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Probe into CLU cases demanded
Sonepat, September 8 She demanded this while addressing a meeting at Ram Nagar. Citing the example of termination of the Lok Sabha membership of some of the MPs on the allegation of charging money for raising question in the Lok Sabha, she also demanded that the Assembly membership of the MLAs asking for bribe should be terminated. She said in the past nine years, over 27,000 cases of the CLU had been sanctioned and more than 10,000 acres were released from acquisition. “Under the allegations of bribe of Rs 2 to 5 crore in each case, one can imagine the amount of bribe involved in these cases,” she commented. State vice-president of the BJP Rajiv Jain said the people had made up their mind to change the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre and urged the people to participate in Narendra Modi’s rally at Rewari on September 15. |
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CD row: INLD, Cong turn heat on each other
Hisar, September 8 District Congress president Jai Prakash ruled out any harm to the party's image or the state government due to the clips. He demanded that the CDs must be scrutinised whether it were doctored or original. He maintained that the CDs had failed to harm MLAs' image and they were innocent until proven guilty. He said a fair probe was required to establish the authenticity of the clips while denying the charges that the CLUs were being given in lieu of a bribe. INLD district president Umed Singh Lohan, on the other hand, termed the whole episode a shame for the Congress, alleging that the video clips had exposed that the Congress MLAs from Hisar segment were neck-deep in corruption. The INLD leader said the party would carry out a demonstration in the town on Monday and also burn the effigy of these MLAs at Fawwara Chowk. "We will hand over a memorandum to the DC adressed to the Governor, urging him to seek resignations from these MLAs”. Meanwhile, the MLAs facing the heat in the CD row have dismissed the charges and threatened to take legal recourse against INLD leader Abhay Singh Chautala for maligning their image.
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CPM seeks probe into CD ‘scam’
Rohtak, September 8 Inderjit Singh, party state secretary, in a statement here today claimed that as the issue of rampant corruption was already in the public domain, the so-called "sting operation" expose through the release of the CDs had warranted an urgency of a high-level inquiry as granting of CLU was entirely under the power of the Chief Minister who could not escape his accountability in the land deals during his regime. The tenure of the present state government was known for a large number of CLUs given in an unprecedented manner. He said the CPM had been raising the issue of gross abuse of land acquisition provisions and arbitrary use of issuing CLUs for the sole motive of grabbing prime lands by private companies, powerful builders and politically influential persons. Announcing that the CPM would keep the scams relating to land grabbing as an issue during its month-long mass campaign being undertaken at all levels across the state, he said any claim of the state government would not be fair or accepted until it was supported by an independent inquiry into the matter, which, he said, had been quite crucial under the present political circumstances.
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INLD playing dirty politics: Sampat
Chandigarh, September 8 He said he would reply back to their false allegations by setting a trend for honesty in politics. Maintaining that in 1993, former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala along with Bhajan Lal had registered a case against him but could prove nothing. On registering a case of defamation against INLD leaders, he said he would conduct legal proceedings against them after discussing it with his lawyers. Meanwhile, Haryana Congress spokesperson Ran Singh Maan, said the CDs, sponsored by the INLD, could not undo the crimes committed by their leaders. The main motive behind issuing such CDs was to divert the attention of the people from the cases against them concerning disproportionate assets and the report of the committee on Chautala's trusts.
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Delhi-Ludhiana Shatabdi will now halt at Jind
Chandigarh, September 8 Hooda, who travelled in the train from New Delhi to Jind today, said the new stoppage would help commuters of the area who frequently travel to Delhi and Ludhiana. Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge, addressing a rally at Hansi near Hisar on July 28, announced the train would have a halt at Jind. Hooda told reporters in Jind that the work on Jind-Gohana-Sonepat railway line is expected to be completed by year-end. "In the last Railway Budget, approval was given for electrification of the Rohtak-Jind-Jakhal line. After completion of the work, an EMU train will run between Jind and Delhi," he said. — PTI
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Women worst sufferers in state, says Bishnoi
Jhajjar, September 8 Addressing a gathering during a women’s rally organised by the women’s wing of the HJC at Beri town today, he said the party would ensure women’s security and protection of their rights if it was voted to power in the Assembly poll. “Women play a crucial role in the formation of government. They had contributed a lot in the formation of the Bansi Lal government in the state in 1996 and it is a matter of shame that women are the worst sufferers in the state,” said Bishnoi. Over 4,000 cases of crime against women like rape, molestation and eve teasing had been reported in the past eight months, he said. “How can you expect justice for women from the government whose ministers and MLAs were accused of committing crimes against them? Women resent the state government for not taking any firm step to ensure their safety,” said the MP. Holding Hooda and his local MLAs responsible for the sensational Apna Ghar incident in Rohtak, state BJP chief Ram Bilas Sharma said when Hooda was not able to check crime against women even at his home town, one could easily gauge their situation in other parts of the state. He called upon women to teach a lesson to the Hooda government in the next Assembly poll. Chief of the HJC women’s wing and convener of the rally Kusum Sharma presented a charter of demands to Kuldeep Bishnoi and Ram Bilas Sharma during the rally, wherein she demanded a women police station in every district, Rs 1 lakh for holding marriages of girls belonging to poor families and a women’s college at Beri town.
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Blackbuck falls prey to stray dogs
Fatehabad, September 8 Rameshwar Delu and Krishan Kakar, president and secretary, respectively, of the ABJRBS, who have been sitting on dharna demanding protection of these animals, alleged that despite several requests, nothing had been done to save blackbucks in the area. Activists of the ABJRBS had started their dharna in July after seven blackbucks were killed when NPCIL fenced the site. |
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Haryana Insaaf Manch can go political: Rao
Rewari, September 8 Replying to a query at a press conference today, Rao said all options regarding his joining any political party or seeking an alliance of his own He also said the INLD’s video clips pertaining to cash for the CLU ‘scam’ should be probed. Expressing his views on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s Rewari rally on September 15, he said its political impact would be gauged by the turnout at the rally. |
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Gurgaon Excise Dept suspends three inspectors
Gurgaon, September 8 Recently a special team conducted raids in the Sohna and Bhondsi areas and found around five vends functioning without a licence. The inspector of the area, Subhash Kaushik, was suspended with immediate effect. While the suspension was aimed at making other officials more vigilant, it failed to have any impact as the department had to suspend two other inspectors, Hansraj and Rakesh Sharma. The action has taken the department by storm as officials now blame "internal politics" for it. There was no complaint from anybody against the trio, but it was people from our own department who made these complaints. The action has not only ruined the working environment but made the staff crunch worse," said an official. With the suspensions, the department, responsible for thousands of vends, pubs and bars, has now been left with just three other inspectors and if speculations are to be believed, even they may run into trouble soon. It, however, will surely make the officials to put their act together. Their alleged toothlessness has been a major cause of trouble by leading pubs, bars and vends in city. "There have been many cases in the past few months where top-notch pubs and bars were found guilty of not only serving liquor to the underage but even violating closure deadlines. The issue of illegal liquor vends especially near rural Gurgaon has been pending for long as these are key sites of late night brawls, eve-teasing etc. We have many a time requested the Excise Department to keep a regular check on these outlets especially notorious ones but nothing happens. The defaulters are not worried about the Excise Department and continue to be nuisance," said DCP of Gurgaon police.
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Quiz contests on traffic rules for kids
Fatehabad, September 8 Fatehabad SP Shiv Charan Attri yesterday called a meeting of principals and headmasters of government and private schools of the district in the police lines. Over 200 heads of educational institutions attended the meeting. |
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Police clueless in murder case
Kaithal , September 8 The special investigation team (SIT) is still groping in the dark aven though the assault victim admitted
to the PGI has survived and given her statement to the police. Beero Devi and Pushpa were attacked by criminals with sharp-edged weapons in their house around
4 pm on August 29. They slit the throats of both women, leading to Beero’s death on
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Members of Dalit family beaten up
Sirsa, September 8 Victim Anoop (23), his wife Manju (21) and grandmother Jamuna Devi were allegedly beaten up with lathis and fan belt of a jeep. Anoop Kumar alleged that the attackers entered his house yesterday and started beating them. The attackers, allegedly, used abusive language about his caste. The accused, as per Anoop's allegation, dragged him, his wife and grandmother out of their house and beat them up mercilessly. He said 20 days back, one of the attackers had accused him of ogling at a woman of his family. He maintained that though the allegation was false, he had apologised to end the matter. In charge of the Jamal police post said a case under various provisions of the IPC had been registered against villagers Madan Lal, Pawan Kumar, Bharta, Bhal Singh, Chander Singh Sahab Ram and Manoj Kumar. |
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Govt staff protest in Rewari
Rewari, September 8 The demonstration was led by Raj Singh Dahiya, state president, Amar Singh Yadav, state general secretary, Kanwar Singh Yadav, state joint general secretary of the HKM, and other senior leaders of various employees’ unions. Shouting slogans against the state government, the union leaders flayed the state government for ignoring genuine demands of the employees and making their life miserable through privatisation, contractual system, outsourcing, rationalisation and other such measures. They criticised the government for delaying the regularisation of ad hoc and other employees in various departments, besides pushing under the carpet the removal of pay anomalies . In the absence of the Power Minister, they presented their memorandum to his son, Chiranjiv Rao, a former Haryana Youth Congress chief.
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Quota: Jats to hold ‘Akrosh rally’
Sonepat, September 8 Addressing a meeting of the samiti office-bearers and other activists at Gohana, he said if the government did not accept the legitimate demand of Jats, the future line of action would be announced in the rally. He, however, maintained that their agitation would be peaceful. Owing to small land holdings, Jats were not in a position to educate their children and improve their socio-economic condition.Moreover, they had hardly any share in central government services for want of reservation. — OC
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Land grab: PM asks state govt to act
Karnal, September 8 Responding to the pathetic appeal of the harassed family whose 25 acres had shrunk to just four acres during consolidation (Chakbandi), allegedly due to connivance of some revenue officials with land mafia, the Prime Minister has reportedly asked the Director General, Consolidation, Haryana, to take action. The Director General has directed the Karnal DC to settle the issue within 15 days or set a time frame for the resolution. The family members, who sat on a one-day fast in front of the Mini-Secretariat, along with hundreds of villagers from Kalram, Bharatpur, Ariapura and Lalupura, on August 8 had alleged that the response of the administration was disappointing and they had been running from pillar to the post for many years for rectification of revenue records. The aggrieved family members had even threatened to launch a fast in front of Rashtrapati Bhawan if justice was not done. Head of the family Sri Ram said during the consolidation in 1965, the family possessed 25 acres of land but it was reduced to just four acres in the fresh consolidation in 1999 and all their efforts to retrieve 21 acres yielded no results. The villagers rued that their agricultural land in their villages had been grabbed and they had been dispossessed even from the land bought by their ancestors before Independence. "We have been holding and cultivating our land for decades but some unscrupulous revenue officials changed the girdawari in April 1999 in connivance with the land mafia and made entries in the names of other persons. However, the possession of the land is still with us", the villagers said. The case is pending in the court but a false case was registered against 40 villagers on June 18 last and goons of the rival party even destroyed the crops and took away farm implements, said Pradeep Kumar, one of the victims.
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Kaithal, September 8 Surjewala said this stadium comprising a basement and four storeys in 50000 would be constructed in two-and-half acres at a cost of Rs 30.4 crore. This project would be completed by the end of 2014. The minister said an outdoor stadium having volleyball and basket ball grounds and an open air theatre would be constructed on land adjoining Bidhikyar pond. The management of HCTM here had started constructing a 400-bed hospital.
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Youth held on rape charge
Sirsa, September 8 The girl narrated the incident to her mother when she retuned home. The family did not approach the police immediately as it tried to sort out the matter outside the legal system. The girl’s mother approached the police yesterday. The police arrested Gurpal and produced him before a magistrate, who remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days. |
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Youth killed in Sonepat
Sonepat, September 8 Three of his family members sustained injuries while saving him. Later, villagers sought help of the police and fire brigade. The Deputy Superintendent of Police, Gohana, Yash Pal Khatana, and Baroda police station SHO Kuldeep Deswal also reached the spot and stayed there till the body was retrieved.
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Three held for beating sarpanch
Karnal, September 8 In his complaint to the police, sarpanch of the village Ramesh Verma had alleged that while he was conducting demarcation of the Baba Wala temple on Friday, three youths of the village attacked him and beat him up, following which a case was registered against them. However, panch Vidya Vati said villagers had religious sentiments attached to the temple. The five acres attached to the temple were leased on contract and income accrued was used for its maintenance, he said. The sarpanch said it was a land of the panchayat and a scuffle ensued over the issue. |
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Cotton crop in good health where pesticides not used: Reports
Jind, September 8 This was revealed during a one-day ‘field classroom’ held for farmers at Rajpura Bhain village in the district today. Jind, a leading producer of cotton, has around 60,000 hectares of land under this crop this year. Addressing a gathering of farmers, Dr Kamal Saini, Development Officer of the Agricultural Department, said reports from various parts of the district had revealed that the crop was in better health where the farmers had avoided the use of pesticides and insecticides this time. He said a survey had revealed that the use of pesticides and insecticides by farmers to kill pests, including the whitefly, jessid and thrips, had only resulted in poor health of the crop that had either been left with stunted growth or nearly damaged. He said it was perhaps the lack of awareness among the farmers about the use of pests and insecticides that had made dozens of farmers in Hisar district to uproot their standing crop from hundreds of hectares after they failed to control the cotton virus attack. On practical classes under the banner of ‘Kisan Khet Pathshala’ in some parts of the district, he said a large number of farmers had given up the use of pesticides and it had provided positive and motivating results. Saini said no insecticides had been used on nearly 500 hectares of cotton crop this year and the health of the crop had been extremely fine. Ranbir Malik, a farmer and leading practitioner of this concept, said the recovery rate of pest-affected crop after use of insecticides was only 7 per cent while the cost of production for a farmer went up by several thousands of rupees for each hectare. He said the farmers were required to provide a dose of zinc, urea and DAP at certain interval to the cotton crop and desist from using insecticides which were only harmful to the crop.
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Road blocked after villager’s murder in Karnal
Karnal, September 8 The deceased Pawan died last night under mysterious circumstances and his brother Chander Lal had alleged that three persons had allegedly conspired to kill his brother. Chander Lal said one-and-a-half-year back, Pawan sold a piece of agricultural land to Sumer Chand who got the land registered in his name by taking Pawan into confidence but did not pay the total amount. Pawan frequently visited Sumer for money but he made some excuse or other and later he was booked for his daughter-in-law’s murder and jailed. Chander Lal said on Saturday, Pawan came to Karnal to meet Sumer’s brother Sukhbir who owns a travel company near bus stand and alleged that Sumer and Jasbir hatched a conspiracy to kill his brother. “Sukhbir and his companion allegedly mixed some poisonous substance in Pawan’s drink and he was not well when he came back last night and was admitted to a private hospital in Karnal where he died.
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Father foils bid to kidnap minor girl
Kaithal, September 8 SHO Vishnu Prashad rushed to the spot and later visited the victim in the hospital and took her statement and the police registered a case against the youths today. In another case, the police has registered a case against some persons for allegedly alluring a 16-year-old girl from her residence in Chakku Ladana village. A woman had lodged a complaint with the police that she went away from her house leaving her daughter alone on September 6. When she came back she found her daughter missing and could not be traced. |
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Jawan held for bid to fleece job seekers
Bhiwani, September 8 He was handed over to the authorities at Hisar Cantonment. The accused entered Bhim Stadium wearing a JCO's uniform and was trying to impress upon Army aspirants to extort money for helping them in their recruitment. MI sleuths got suspicious about his activities and detained him for questioning. During questioning, he failed to produce his identity card and turned out to be a jawan from Bikaner who was on leave. The intelligence wing had been keeping watch around the recruitment rally and even seized intoxicants and drugs used by aspirants to enhance their performance during the physical tests. |
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Income limit for SC students raised
Chandigarh, September 8 Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the income ceiling had been raised under the Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan for the academic session 2013-14. — TNS |
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Jhajjar, September 8
Another blackbuck fell prey to stray dogs at Badopal village in Fatehabad today.
Vinod Kumar Karwasara, district president of the People for Animal (PFA) and an activist of the Akhil Bhartiya Jeev Raksha Bishnoi Sabha
(ABJRBS), said the blackbuck was hounded by stray dogs at the site acquired by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited
(NPCIL) for its residential colony.
The incidence of pests attack on the cotton crop has come down sharply in the areas where farmers have avoided the use of pesticides and insecticides this season in the district.
