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Mayawati dubs BJP, Cong pro-capitalist
Kejriwal keeps campaign short in
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2 women candidates in fray from Kurukshetra
Chautalas stand for ‘jhooth’, loot: CM
Campaigning gains pace in Sirsa
‘Belan’ brigade takes out march in Hisar village
Bansi Lal’s clout still looms large in Bhiwani
Hooda, Modi birds of the same feather, says Kejriwal
Over 54% voters below 40 years in Faridabad
Rao Dharampal may face resentment of Congressmen in Rewari
Dowry death
No takers for liquor vends in Yamunanagar
Mustard yield likely to fall by 30% in Bhiwani
Sewage flows into Hansi branch canal
BJP ‘hoodwinked’ Duggal, alleges Gillankhera
Rather than collective support, khap leaders harp on individual connections
Poll code leaves printing press owners helpless
Hooda’s son-in-law campaigns for Tanwar
People seek dry fodder in lieu of votes here
Hooda visits Baroda
DHBVN shocker to consumer
Agri varsity to start entrance exam
Abhay seeks votes in Karnal
2 youths killed in Sonepat road mishap
2 labourers killed in building collapse
Biker killed in mishap
Body found in room
Boy crushed to death
Blind teacher booked on rape charge
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Mayawati dubs BJP, Cong pro-capitalist
Ambala, March 30 Mayawati said while the Congress had failed to ensure the country's development even after remaining 60 years in power, the BJP was promoting a candidate under whose rule Gujrat had witnessed the worst-ever communal riots. She asked the voters not to vote for communal force. She said the BSP was no longer a party of the Harijans as it represented the downtrodden, irrespective of their caste. She said the Congress and the BJP were being funded by established business houses, who use these parties for their own benefits. She said instead of working for the people of the country, the BJP and the Congress worked for capitalists. She said unlike these parties, the BSP was funded by its supporters and workers and was not under any pressure to formulate pro-capitalist policies. She said the party was in favour of reservation but the inclusion of prosperous castes into the list of reserved categories without increasing the overall reservation in jobs was a ploy of the opposition to deprive economical weaker sections of a fair chance. She said if voted to power, the BSP would support reservation even for the upper castes on economic basis. |
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Kejriwal keeps campaign short in
Ambala
Ambala, March 30 Kejriwal raised his folded hands to thank the gathering and left to spend the night at the house of local supporter Dr Ashawant. Not many reached the house, but a few who assembled outside could not meet their leader, who left for Chandigarh in the morning. Kejriwal told a few mediapersons, who managed to meet him at his place of stay, that time to change the system had come and the voters were ready to see a new government at the Centre. He said his meetings were receiving overwhelming response from local residents and party candidates would win by huge margins. He said the common man was feeling worn out by the unbridled corruption at all levels. He said the party’s aim was not to secure power, but to change the system. In reply to a query, he said the both the Congress and the BJP were misleading the people of the country. Kejriwal said scams and scandals had hit the Congress government hard as it had failed to provide a clean government. He said the AAP was contesting the elections on the issues on which the party had been constituted and it would continue to struggle till the aim was achieved.
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2 women candidates in fray from Kurukshetra
Kurukshetra, March 30 Balwinder is making every effort to reach out to people by talking to people, particularly women, to know their problems. “I am confident that the ‘aam aadmi’ will support me and I will win,” she said. Kanta Alariya, the other woman candidate from the constituency said, “We are committed to becoming the voice of the oppressed class and are getting support from all quarters. The party has good a vote bank in the constituency and it provides better chances for us to serve the region.” The constituency witnessed its first election in 1977, which was won by Raghbir Singh Virk of the Bhartiya Lok Dal. As many as eight candidates contested the election; however, there are no woman candidate in the fray. It was in 1984 that two female candidates dared to contest against 18 male contestants. The BJP field Kamla, while Kala Devi contested as an Independent candidate. Harpal Singh of the INC won the seat, while Kamla stood fourth and Kala Devi seventh. Despite the fact that two female candidates contested in 1984, there were no female candidate in the 1989 and 1991 elections. In 1996, Kailasho Devi of the Social Action Party (SAP) stood out with 13 male candidates and stood second. OP Jindal of the Haryana Vikas Party won the seat. Kailasho Devi again contested from the Kurukshetra constituency in 1998, but this time on the Haryana Lok Dal (Rashtryia) ticket. She became the first woman MP from the constituency by defeating OP Jindal. She retained her office in the 1999 elections, which she contested on the INLD ticket. She was the only female candidate in 1996, 1998 and 1999. But in 2004, INLD fielded Abhay Chautala despite giving party ticket to Kailasho Devi and again there was no woman candidate in the fray. Naveen Jindal of the INC won the elections in 2004 and retained his office in 2009, while Sunita Dhariwal, the lone woman candidate, contested as an Independent candidate. She finished sixth. |
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Chautalas stand for ‘jhooth’, loot: CM
Goriwala (Sirsa), March 30 Hooda's 'rath' was scheduled to arrive here by 12:30 pm, but it was 1:45 pm. People said the Chief Minister had just left Jeewan
Nagar, 15 kilometres from here, after lunch. The crowd swells and people assemble on the roadside as vans carrying security personnel accompanying Hooda start
arriving. Hooda's 'rath', a fabricated air-conditioned bus, arrives and
Hooda, Congress nominee from Sirsa Ashok Tanwar and the Chief Minister's former OSD KV Singh appear on the roof. After brief speeches by KV Singh and
Tanwar, Hooda starts addressing the gathering. "Chautalas stand for
'jhooth' and loot. They looted the people of Haryana when they were in power. Now they are telling all kinds of lies to regain power," Hooda said. He referred to Narendra Modi's remarks at Gohana yesterday, where he warned people from misleading statements of the INLD to cash in on his name. "The other front in the fray is the BJP and the
HJC, which speak of a wave in their favour, but do not have their own candidates to contest the poll. They gave the ticket to those whom we had rejected," he said, with people cheering on his reference to opposition parties. "These parties can never think of the welfare of the people. It is only the Congress that thinks of 36
'biradaris' living in Haryana," he added, enumerating some of the people-friendly steps taken by his government. On way to
Dabwali, he addressed meetings in villages on the way from his front seat in the bus. He started his roadshow after addressing a meeting at the Congress Bhawan in Sirsa this morning. Congress leaders from all Assembly segments of Sirsa constituency were present. In a shot in the arm for
Tanwar, former minister LD Arora's daughter Sunita Setia and son-in-law Rahul
Setia, who had been keeping distance till now, offered their support to him. Speaking to The Tribune in his
'rath', Hooda claimed that the Congress would win all 10 seats in Haryana, as it did in 2004. He refuted the BJP claim of a Modi wave and said if there was any wave in Haryana, it was in favour of the Congress because his government had worked for the welfare of people in the last nine years. Referring to Modi's Gujarat model of development, Hooda said let anyone compare it with the Haryana model of development and find that the Haryana model was ahead in all parameters. "If Gujarat witnesses development, I will be a happier man because that state is a part of the country. However, statistics speak otherwise," he said, adding that India needed a national model of development. |
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Campaigning gains pace in Sirsa
Sirsa, March 30 Haryana Agriculture Minister Paramvir Singh and district Congress president Randhir Singh also campaigned with the state chief. His wife Avantika Tanwar, state Congress delegate Hoshiari Lal Sharma, block president Bhupesh Mehta and Tek Chand Midha were also seen canvassing for Tanwar. Anjali Rai, a former Delhi Mahila Congress president, campaigned in Fatehabad for Tanwar. Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) nominee Charanjit Singh Rori campaigned in several villages of Fatehabad Assembly seat on Thursday. He alleged that Congress nominee Ashok Tanwar and the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) candidate Sushil Indora had done nothing for people when they had got a chance to represent them. Addressing people in a meeting at Chatargarh Patti area, Sushil Indora said people of the country had made up their mind to bring Narender Modi to the chair of Prime Minister. He said he had joined the HJC to strengthen cleaner politics in the country. BSP nominee Mangeram Dahiya’s daughter Indu sought votes for her father. She said a huge gathering at Mayawati’s rally at Hisar had shown that people wanted to bring her to power at the Centre. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Poonam Chand Ratti and senior AAP leaders Prahlad Singh Bharukhera and Suresh Mehta campaigned in Sirsa and sought votes for a cleaner politics free of corruption. CPM nominee Ram Kumar Bahbalpuria said in a rally in Fatehabad that BJP and Congress were not alternative to each other, but were two sides of the same coin. Meanwhile, Rahul Setia, son-in-law of former minister LD Arora, has called a meeting of his supporters to decide his future strategy, while Veer Bhan Mehta, a founder member of the HJC, who recently severed his relations with Kuldeep Bsihnoi, has started mobilising people for his April 1 show, when he is expected to join INLD in presence of Abhay Chautala. |
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‘Belan’ brigade takes out march in Hisar village
Hisar, March 30 Recognising the efforts, Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Electoral Officer ML Kaushik said they too had cracked down in a big way to curb this practice. "We have 42 teams which have been fanned out in the entire constituency to check illegal practice. So far, we have seized around 10,000 bottles of liquor," he said. Social groups need to come forward to join the Election Commission's campaign in this regard,” he added. Santosh Dahiya, a professor at the Kurukshetra University, who has been taking part in khap panchayats to press for the involvement of women in khap meetings, said women had usually stayed away from campaigning and men-folk vouch for their votes and accepted liquor in lieu of the favour. "We have to take initiative to stop this practice. During election season, men can be seen wandering in streets after getting drunk which also resulted in domestic violence," she said adding that they had been getting good response as it was the woman who suffered due to this illegal and unethical practice by politicians. Sumitra Devi, a middle-aged woman with a ‘belan’ in her hand, said ‘musal’ and ‘belan’ were the indigenous weapons which always remained handy with women in villages. “These are not only the utensils and we want to convey that we can use these to thrash those who have been indulging in distribution of liquor. We have also resolved to not to vote for the candidates who give such allurements to our men". Santosh stated that the manch had carried out such demonstrations in two constituencies and they planned to cover all 10 Lok Sabha segments by holding at least one such programme. "We have 300 members and the number has been growing rapidly. There are provisions against the use of liquor, but the inability of the Election Commission to effectively crack down on this menace has goaded us to reach out to villages". |
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Bansi Lal’s clout still looms large in Bhiwani
Bhiwani, March 30 "It was Bansi Lal who raised Bhiwani to a position of prominence by initiating several development works. His contribution towards the development of Bhiwani remains unmatched. However, the development of the area was hit when the reins of the government went to the leaders belonging to other areas of the state," said Rajpal Yadav, a Charkhi Dadri resident. The four-lane metalled road with state-of-the-art streetlights from Rohtak to Kalanaur suddenly gives way to a potholed single-lane road with no streetlights. Even during her election campaign, Shruti sought votes in the name of her late grandfather and father Surendra Singh, conveniently avoiding Hooda's name in her speeches. "The unprecedented development that took place during the rein of Bansi Lal and Surendra Singh was hampered during the tenure of other MPs," Shruti told a motley crowd at Dhirana Majra today. Interestingly, she repeatedly said in corner meetings that the attempts to include Bhiwani and Mahendragarh into the National Capital Region (NCR) were first made during the tenure of Bansi Lal and Surendra Singh. Bhiwani has been a high-profile constituency, being represented by the kin of Haryana's three famous Lals- Devi Lal, Bhajan Lal and Bansi Lal. While Bansi Lal represented the constituency three times, Surendra Singh (Bansi Lal's son), Ajay Chautala (Devi Lal's grandson) and Kuldeep Bishnoi (Bhajan Lal's son) represented Bhiwani during different times. In fact, during the 2004 LS elections, Surendra Singh, Ajay Chautala and Kuldeep Bishnoi made it a clash of Haryana's three big political families. Bishnoi emerged victorious in the contest. In the upcoming elections, the Congress and the BJP have fielded Jat candidates while the INLD has banked on an Ahir. The AAP, which is trying to transcend the caste boundaries, has fielded Lalit Aggarwal. Despite representation Bhiwani still backward Three ministers Kiran Choudhry, Rao Narendra Singh, Satpal Sangwa and two Chief Parliamentary Secretaries (CPS) Anita Yadav and Rao Dan Singh represent the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh segment . However, it continues to be a poor cousin of neighbouring
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Hooda, Modi birds of the same feather, says Kejriwal
Kaithal, March 30 If there was such a wave, why did he decide to contest from two seats and why was he desperately looking for a "safe seat". The former Chief Minister of Delhi said he too could had contested from a" safe seat" of Delhi but he did not do so as he was confident that people anwhere in the country were ready to elect clean and efficient candidates. He said he had taken a stand against the government's move to increase the gas prices by three times as it would crush the common man. It would result in a hike in the prices of fertilisers and power tariff which would make our lives miserable. Kejriwal quipped that in Modi's state, 5,872 suicide cases of farmers had been reported. The AAP supremo also chided Congress candidate from Kurukshetra Naveen Jindal while addressing a gathering at Pehowa Chowk, saying that his name figured in the coal scandal. Referring to BJP candidate from Kurukshetra Raj Kumar Saini, he said the INLD had openly stated that they had once bought him for Rs 25 lakh. What more proof was required of the corruption prevalent in this state, he asked. He said in Shri Bhagwad Geeta it was written that whenever the earth was burdened with sins of human beings,God himself took steps to rid the planet of this evil. He said his party's victory in the Delhi elections God had started doing his job. He called upon people to vote for AAP to take God's move to its logical conclusion. A sizable crowd gathered wherever Kejriwal's cavalcade halted. |
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Over 54% voters below 40 years in Faridabad
Faridabad, March 30 According to the details available with the Election Department, the number of young voters placed in the age group of 18 to 19 years in this constituency is pegged at 48,753. Of these, over 9,000 will be first time voters. While the total number of voters placed in the age group of 20 to 29 years is 4,35,402, the number of such voters included in the age group of 30 to 39 years is 4,37,000, which is the highest in any category. The number of young voters falling in the age group of 18 to 39 years is thus 9,21,155, which comes to a little over 54 per cent of the total electorate in the constituency. The number of voters in the age group of 40 to 49 years is around 3,73,723 and those coming into the age group of 50 to 59 years are 2,34,813. While the number of voters placed in the age group of 60 to 69 years goes down to 1,24,368, it further recedes to 55,946 of the voters falling in the senior-most citizens category of the age group of 70 to 80 years. The total number of voters in this segment has swollen to 17,40,005 as per the last revision of voters list done by the department concerned. This includes the service voters in this segment. The total number of voters in the constituency was around 16.83 lakh. The number of men is around 9.69 lakh, while female voters are over 7.70 lakh as per the latest figures. Faridabad seat will have a total of 1,645 polling stations out of which 328 and 417 polling booths are placed in the hyper sensitive and sensitive categories, respectively. Tigaon is the largest Assembly constituency with a total voter strength of 2,20,131. While Badkhal is placed at the second spot with 2,14,679 voters, it is Faridabad NIT which is third in this regard, with a total voter strength of 2,08,623. Prithla is placed last among the nine constituencies with a total of 1,64,330 voters, as per the available statistics. Number of voters
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Rao Dharampal may face resentment of Congressmen in Rewari
Rewari, March 30 The supporters are annoyed with the party high command for not giving ticket to Ajay Yadav’s son Chiranjeev Rao, who was lobbying hard to get the ticket from the Gurgaon seat. Chiranjeev, who has served as president of Haryana Pradesh Youth Congress (HPYC), was so confident about the party ticket that he had even started electioneering to seek people’s support without waiting for the party’s decision. Moreover, Chiranjeev’s father-in-law and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav had also talked to Congress General Secretary and Haryana Affairs in charge Shakeel Ahmed and advocated the Congress ticket for him. But, the party high command did not seriously consider Chiranjeev’s name and left his supporters demoralised by announcing Badshahpur MLA Rao Dharampal as its candidate. “We are quite disappointed and upset over the party decision because it is not appropriate in the given situation. Chiranjeev should have been offered the party ticket as he could have created a dent in the Ahir vote bank to counter BJP nominee Rao Inderjit, who is banking upon Ahir votes,” said a loyalist of Ajay Yadav. Though Yadav has already announced full support and cooperation to the Congress nominee, it is a fact that not a single poll meeting has so far been organised by Yadav or Chiranjeev in Rewari to seek votes for Rao Dharampal ever since he has been made the party candidate. However, Yadav attended the inaugural ceremony of Rao Dharam Pal’s election office in Rewari last evening but his son Chiranjeev and supporters maintained distance from the programme. As per the sources, Rao Dharampal is also aware of this fact. Hence, he has roped in his loyalists to prepare a list of such annoyed Congress workers in Rewari so that they could be persuaded by using different channels. |
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SC frowns on Sonepat court for making casteist remarks
R Sedhuraman Legal Correspondent
New Delhi, March 30 A Bench comprising Justics KS Radhakrishnan and Vikramajit Sen also found fault with the reasoning of the Punjab and Haryana High Court for upholding the trial court verdict by observing that the constable was guilty of cruelty as he had left his wife with his parents in Madhuban village in Karnal district instead of keeping her with him at the place of his posting in Baroda village of Sonepat district. “An educated girl of a business community was left in a village life in the house of lower community people whose way of living, talking and behaviour is not at par with family of Seema, since deceased,” the trial court had noted. The HC had observed that the convict Mangat Ram “after enjoying sex with her, must have deserted this lady.” He would not have married her if it was known to him that she suffered from epilepsy. The SC rejected this theory. The SC accepted the contention of Advocate Satinder Gulati, who argued for the convict, that the trial court and the HC were prejudiced against the accused for having entered into an inter-caste marriage and this evident from the remark that such marriages would result in discontentment and unhappiness. “We fail to see how the failure of a married person to take his wife along with him to the place where he is working or posted, would amount to cruelty leading to abetment to suicide by the wife. Taking the wife to a place of posting depends upon several factors, like the convenience of both and availability of accommodation,” the apex court held. Setting aside the conviction, the SC said the possibility of accidental death could not be ruled out since she was suffering from epilepsy. “Evidently, she was in the kitchen and during cooking she might have suffered epileptic symptoms and fell on the gas stove,” it reasoned.
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No takers for liquor vends in Yamunanagar
Yamunanagar, March 30 The Punjab and Haryana High Court had directed the state government that the liquor vends located along the national highways, state highways and service lanes running along such highways should not be visible after March 31 this year. Accordingly, the liquor vends in the Municipal Committee or Municipal Corporation areas will be removed along the highways. Sources said 68 liquor vends, including 41 of the country liquor and 27 of the Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL), had been affected in the district. Contractors got renewed licences of 15 vends of the country liquor and one of the IMFL and one each of the country liquor and IMFL were allotted through tenders. The state government offered to present licences to get their licence renewed after the court verdict with new terms and conditions. After the court's verdict, the state government had invited tenders for the remaining 50 vends, including 25 of the country liquor and 25 of the IMFL last week and the last date for submitting the applications was March 29. Sources said no bidders showed interest in the
50 vends. A contractor said the high cost involved in running the business was the reason for the poor response. Sources said the government would now have to reduce the reserve price to attract the bidders and it might cause a huge loss to the state. Deputy Excise and Taxation Commissioner, Yamunanagar, Dr Sunil Kumar, confirmed that they received no application for the 50 liquor vends. |
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Mustard yield likely to fall by 30% in Bhiwani
Bhiwani, March 30 The worst affected villages are Milakpur, Kungar, Badsi, Kheri Daulatpur, Siwana, Alakhpura, Talu, Durjanpur etc. Rampal Singh, a resident of Alakhpura village, said his mustard crop on three acres was almost ripened and he had planned to reap it in a day or two. "But the hailstorm has completely battered the crop and entire produce is gone," he lamented. Atma Ram, Deputy Director of the Agriculture Department, said initial reports indicated that the production would go down by 25-30 per cent in the district even though they had achieved the target of area under the mustard crop. "It is for the third time in this season when weather fury has caused damage to crops, especially the mustard in the district. The mustard produce last year was around 17 quintal per hectare,” he said. The Revenue Department has started preliminary survey of the damage to the crop. Sources said around 20,000 acres in the district had been affected by the recent rain. |
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Former DUSU chief campaigns for Tanwar
Fatehabad, March 30 "This election is not between personalities, but a fight between two different ideologies. On one hand, you have the Congress, that has always believed in strengthening the secular fabric of the country. On the other, there are the BJP and its allies which have always tried to plunder people's votes with the help of communal forces," Ragini said. She added that on one hand, there were politicians who believed in centralisation of power in politics and on the other, there were leaders like Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi who believed in empowering workers at the grassroots. "Rahul Gandhi has always believed that the fate of over 80 crore voters of the country should not be allowed to be in the hands of 50 political leaders who decide whom to field from which constituency. This is the reason he has advocated primaries at the grassroots first," she added. |
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Sewage flows into Hansi branch canal
Jind, March 30 The residents alleged that it was not for the first time that the Health Department is allowing this. A few months ago, the department had started polluting the canal but stopped discharging sewage into it after a protest by the residents. However, the department allowed it again. For the speedy discharge of sewage, the authorities have fitted two pump sets. “It has been going on for the past many days. The canal water is even unfit for washing of clothes, “ said Dilbag, a farmer. Though no one in Jind is using the water for household purposes, farmers of many villages like Ikas, Ram Rai and Anupgarh depend on the canal for the irrigation of their fields. Though it could not confirmed when the Health Department started discharging the sewage into the canal, the foul smell emanating from the canal indicates that it has been going on for the past many days. “We request the authorities to register cases against all the officers responsible for it,” said Ram Kishan, a farmer. When contacted, executive engineer Dalveer Dalal, expressed ignorance. “I do not have any information about it . If it’s happening, we will take strict action against the officers responsible for it,” said
Dalal.
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BJP ‘hoodwinked’ Duggal, alleges Gillankhera
Fatehabad, March 30 An Indian Revenue Service officer, she had quit her job for the BJP ticket from Sirsa, but was left out at the last minute when the party and the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) swapped Sirsa with Karnal. Duggal was Assistant Commissioner for Income Tax at Sonepat when she resigned to seek the BJP ticket after being approached by party leaders. She was in the reckoning from the beginning, but on March 20, the day the Centre accepted her resignation, the BJP and the HJC swapped Sirsa with Karnal and Kuldeep Bishnoi’s party fielded Sushil Indora. Duggal had a long association with Fatehabad and she had been attending social functions in the area in the last five years. CPS Prahlad Singh Gillankhera alleged that the BJP had shown its true face to the people by “hoodwinking” 45-year-old Duggal, who had a promising career ahead of her.
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Rather than collective support, khap leaders harp on individual connections
Jind, March 30 Khaps have a strong base in many districts, including Bhiwani, Jind, Sonepat, Rohtak, Panipat, Mahendragarh, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Faridabad and Palwal. Some senior khap leaders said collective support to a single political party was impossible as their attempt for a ‘collective decision’ could cause irreparable fissures among the social bodies as many khap leaders did not want to change their political bosses. Almost all khap leaders have gained prominence only because of being leaders of these social institutions but they still claim that their political connections are at ‘individual’ level and khaps have played no role in strengthening their relations with political parties. “I have been supporting INLD at my individual level. I never use the name of my khap as it does not have any connection with politics,” said Tek Ram Kandela, president of Kandela khap and a known INLD supporter. There are many who are simultaneously working as politicians and khap leaders but refuse to give any credit to their respective khaps for their political career. For the forthcoming elections, many tried to enter politics by using the names of their khaps, but failed. “I am a BJP leader and wanted ticket from Sonepat. But I never used the influence of my Khap and always kept both of them separate as in khaps there is no place for politics,” said Bhale Ram Narwal, president of Narwal Khap. But political pundits believe that a majority of khap leaders are known and respected by political parties only because of their influence over voters and individually they stand nowhere. “Since parties want to garner votes, politicians use these leaders to influence the voters of their respective khaps,” said Ankush, student of a local college. |
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Poll code leaves printing press owners helpless
Jhajjar, March 30 The EC’s strict vigil has almost shattered the hopes of the printing press owners for earning money by publishing posters, flexes, pamphlets and other publicity materials. With just two weeks left for the elections, candidates are yet to get their publicity materials printed. “The Lok Sabha and Assembly elections always used to give a boost to our business, but strictness of the EC has taken a toll on our business prospective this time as political leaders are not coming for getting poll materials printed,” said Fakir
Chand, owner of Khohal Printing Press. He said, “We had to hire extra labourers to meet the high demand of the political parties. They used to work round-the-clock, but this time, we are missing work.” Expressing similar experience, Mahesh, owner of Mahesh Printing Press, said: “Earlier, politicians used to approach us much before the elections. But this time, no one is coming to us even after the first round of the poll campaign. Hence, we have no other option but to wait for the leaders in the given
situation.” Vikas Narula, owner of Lawrence Printing Press, said the elections had brought dejection to the printing press owners who had pinned high hopes for a significant rise in their business. |
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Hooda’s son-in-law campaigns for Tanwar
Fatehabad, March 30 “Besides Rohtak, where my brother-in-law Deepender Singh Hooda is contesting, Sirsa is the only constituency I have visited. This is because Hooda saab considers Tanwar like Deepender and
wants him to win this election by a margin higher than 2009 elections,” said Bhadoo while addressing an election meeting at Dhani Gopal village of Fatehabad. He said Tanwar was far more educated than other candidates contesting the poll and would raise issues of the area in the Parliament in a better way. Tanwar had a very good equation with the Chief Minister and hence he had been able to get several big projects for the area, Bhadoo added. He exhorted people to vote for Tanwar for better development of the constituency. |
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People seek dry fodder in lieu of votes here
Yamunanagar, March 30 "Main demands of voters are works related to development and government jobs. However, we are surprised to hear the demand for dry fodder being made by a number of people in rural areas," said a senior politician canvassing for the candidate of his party. A number of villages of the district had faced the fury of floods last year. Farmers said after their dry fodder was damaged by the floodwater, they were now feeding their livestock with green fodder. However, the sugarcane crop had almost come to an end now, following which they were facing acute shortage of fodder. "The position is so bad that we are forced to harvest our standing wheat crop to feed livestock for want of fodder," said farmers Bhushan, Vipin Kaushik and Gaje Singh. The scarcity of dry fodder has shot up the rates of wheat straw from Rs 500 to Rs 1,500 per quintal. It has also led to hike in rates of milk from Rs 40 to Rs 45 per kg. |
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Hooda visits Baroda
Sonepat, March 30 Rousing the sentiments of the people, Hooda said they should not look here and there, “Look at me and vote for Congress candidate Jagbir Singh Malik on the polling day,” he said adding that other matters should be left to him (Hooda). Chief Minister for over nine years, Hooda said he promised development and fulfilled it. “The opposition leaders should learn to digest the truth and not mislead the people by leveling false allegations,” he added. Jagbir Singh Malik, Baroda MLA Sri Krishan Hooda and Pradeep
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DHBVN shocker to consumer
Fatehabad, March 30 Showing his bill of Rs 4,73,652 from January to March 2014, which includes arrears of Rs 4,73,437 from the last billing cycles, Shyam Sunder alleged that he has merely two tube lights of 15 watt in his house and a refrigerator, which is lying in off mode due to cold weather. ?When I went to the DHBVN several times last month regarding my complaint, they changed my meter, but the bill I received was again showing the arrears. Shivraj Singh, SDO of the DHBVN admitted that meters of certain makes did have such problems and that was the reason the authorities had changed the meter. Regarding the correction of the bill, the SDO said he would look into the matter. |
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Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati today called upon supporters to remain wary of the Congress and the BJP and instead vote for the party that intended to work for the betterment of all sections of society.
Over 100 people sit on plastic chairs while some others hang around at the Goriwala bus stand on the Ellenabad-Dabwali road as Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda's roadshow is expected to reach there in a few
minutes.
Members of the All India Mahila Shakti Manch today took out a ‘musal’ and ‘belan’ march at Ladwa village of the district to mobilise women against the use of liquor and money by politicians to lure voters, especially in villages.
The women carrying the wooden utensils marched through streets of the village urging the women to boycott those candidates who offer liquor and cash to lure voters.
lintel when one of the pillars supporting the frame gave in and the under-construction building came down on the ground. The two fell down and died.
Eyewitnesses said the victims were pulled out of the debris and were rushed to the Civil Hospital where doctors declared them brought dead.
The police said contractor Balkar had been rounded up for questioning. The bodies were handed over to relatives after autopsy.
— TNS
