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Politics likely to divide khaps
Kanda’s poll manifesto has something for everybody
Rebellion fear forces Cong to delay first list
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Two-time INLD MP from Hisar joins BJP
Tanwar admits differences with CM on some seats
poll code
2 sustain head injuries in attack
Party will contest maximum seats, says RLSP president
Sirsa woman, ‘paramour’ commit suicide
Minor raped on pretext of employment
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Politics likely to divide khaps
Jind, September 13 They announced that they would organise a meeting of all khaps in Jind on September 28 to take a final decision to extend support to a political party, but some senior khap leaders objected to this politicisation. Leaders of the Satrol, Bura, Kundu, Khera, Hooda, Deswal, Benain
and many other khaps attended the meeting in Narwana. They said khaps should openly support a political party, which would ensure that their long-pending demands were met. Some khap leaders indicated that they could demand ticket for some candidates. “Khaps do not want to stay behind the scenes and want to directly participate in government formation. Around 50 khaps attended the meeting. We have called a meeting of all khaps in Jind on September 28 to take the final decision,” said Sube Singh Sumain, spokesman of the Sarv Khap Panchayat (SKP). Political pundits believed that khaps could tilt the scales in favour of any party as these had a strong base in most districts of Haryana. There are around 150 khaps in Haryana, which command influence in Bhiwani, Jind, Sonepat, Rohtak, Panipat, Mahendragarh, Gurgaon, Jhajjar, Karnal, Kaithal, Faridabad and Palwal areas. “Khaps should participate in politics. After winning elections, khap leaders can raise their voice in the Vidhan Sabha,” said Tek Ram Kandela, president of the Kandela
khap and national convener of the SKP. Khaps had never joined politics in Haryana, but many khap presidents had been active in politics for the last many years and had been supporting various parties. Some young khap leaders wanted to openly participate in politics and had started claiming that seniors were misusing khap names for their personal gains. The announcement did not go down well with some senior khap leaders. “Khaps are non-political and should remain this way. We will never back any move to support a party in elections,” said Kuldeep Dhanda, state SKP convener. Driving a wedge
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Kanda’s poll manifesto has something for everybody
Chandigarh, September 13 Terming the manifesto as an “oath document”, party president Gopal Kanda said his party was “zooming towards” forming the next government in Haryana. He did not rule out an alliance with like-minded people and other parties in the state keeping in mind interests of the state. He indicated that the party was in negotiations with some parties like the BSP on seat sharing and an alliance could be formed. He said the list of candidates would be out in the next three or four days. The HLP, which had been allotted kite as its election symbol, promised to hike wages of Haryana Police personnel and other employees on par with their counterparts in Punjab. It promised that every household would get 200 units of free electricity and students in class VIII and above would get free laptops. Announcing other sops in the manifesto, Kanda said his party would raise old-age pension to Rs 5,000. The manifesto promised “beti ghar ka chirag” scheme, which comprised payment of Rs 5,100 on the birth of a girl, Rs 1,000 per girl till her wedding and Rs 1.51 lakh as “shagun” at the time of wedding. The HLP promised to insure crops of farmers and all goods of traders and shopkeepers. Closed-circuit cameras would be installed in every market to safeguard property of traders, Kanda said. To harness talent in the state and to curb unemployment, a film city would be set up, he said. Several societies comprising 21 members each would be formed from among unemployed youth, who would be handed over mining operations, he said, It would end unemployment and check resources from being plundered by affluent politicians, he claimed. The HLP manifesto promised to pay 13-month wages to women on maternity leave. Liquor vends would be set up only in villages where women gave their consent, it added. All places of worship would get free electricity and water round the clock, it further promised. The party promised setting up three tax-free industrial zones in the state, where unemployed youth would be preferred for setting up industrial units. All clearances would be granted through a single window within seven days, Kanda said. Non-committal on the issue of probing land scams, he said tackling corruption would be his priority. He added that he was relying on himself to be the star campaigner for his party and was confident of getting an overwhelming mandate as people were familiar with “corruption” in other parties. |
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Rebellion fear forces Cong to delay first list
Chandigarh, September 13 Though the party’s Central Election Committee has reportedly zeroed in on 20 names, including some ministers and senior leaders, the list has been put on hold till next week, apparently pending approval from AICC president Sonia Gandhi, who is on a foreign visit. Sources, however, indicated that the official list was being delayed to curb dissension and rebellion in the party on the lines of the BJP and the
INLD. The Congress wants to avoid state wide rebellion on the pattern of the BJP and the INLD which is set to mar the chances of victory of the official candidates, a senior leader reasoned. The delay in the release of the list would provide lesser number of days to the rebels to create trouble in the run-up to the October 15 elections. The Congress, which is facing strong anti-incumbency, can ill afford a
rebellionm, which seems a certainty after the declaration of the list. Recently, the rebellion in the BJP and the INLD over ticket allotment seems to have rattled the party bosses. Meanwhile, the exit of senior leaders like Birender Singh and Avtar Singh Bhadana and rampant factionalism in the party pose other problems to the party to decide the right candidates for the assembly elections. Despite its dismal performance in the 2014 LS elections where it could retain only one of the 10 seats, over 1200 prospective candidates had applied for tickets for the 90 assembly segments. Besides, the ‘problem of plenty’ the high command would have to take certain difficult decisions like giving tickets for the MLAs accused of demanding money for the grant of change of land use
(CLU) permissions. Who winks first?
INLD (73) and the BJP (43) are the only major parties which have released their first list so far. In fact, smaller political parties like the
HJC, JCP and HLP seem to be anxiously waiting for the Congress list as the influential leaders not making to the Congress’ official list would throng these parties for the tickets. Even in case the Congress does not nominate certain candidates, they would have the option to fight elections as Independents with the support of ‘like-minded’ parties. Why the delay
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Two-time INLD MP from Hisar joins BJP
Barwala, who had defeated stalwarts such as Om Prakash Jindal and Birender Singh in Hisar in the 1998 and 1999 Lok Sabha poll, has been
a known face in Hisar and Jind for the last three decade. Barwala joined the BJP yesterday in the presence of senior party leaders, including general secretary JP Nadda, Haryana co-in charge Anil Jain, Haryana election in charge Kailash Vijayvargiya and national secretary Capt Abhimanyu, who is also the party nominee from the Narnaund Assembly seat. His switching over to the BJP is also a major setback in the region, as he had considerable following at the personal level. Sixtythree-year-old Barwala has been elected MLA from the Lok Dal from the Barwala Assembly segment in Hisar in 1987.
He also served as a minister in the state Cabinet during 1990-1991. However, his victory during the Lok Sabha election in 1998 when he defeated stalwarts such as Om Prakash Jindal, who contested on the Haryana Vikas Party ticket, sitting MP Jai Prakash and Congress nominee Ranjit Singh brought him to limelight at the state level. He again won the seat for the INLD in the 1999 Lok Sabha poll when he defeated senior Congress leader Birender Singh. After joining the BJP, Barwala said he, along with his supporters, would campaign for the party in the state. |
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Tanwar admits differences with CM on some seats Sirsa, September 13 He, however, said the difference should not be construed as factionalism in the party, as the party, he maintained, was completely united to face the poll. “Two political leaders can have completely different views about one leader. Had there been no differences, there would have been no need of the lengthy exercises of ticket distribution,” he maintained. Tanwar, who was on a one-day visit to Sirsa, was speaking to mediapersons at a temporary helipad set up at Chopta village in Sirsa. When mediapersons asked about his stand on party ticket to Chief Parliamentary Secretary Sharda Rathore, who recently took a U-turn after holding meetings with senior BJP leaders Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah, Tanwar said anyone who had worked towards weakening the party did not deserve to be nominated. He said he was hopeful that the ruling party would come to power for the third time in the state. Tanwar said given the performance of Hooda government in the past two terms, the Congress was set to surpass its seats tally of 2005 and was likely to get two-third majority after the poll. Asked when the party planned to announce its tickets, Tanwar said the process was on and the Central Election Committee had cleared some of the names. He said the lists would be released within seven to 10 days. Women and youths would be given fair representation, Tanwar said.
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Officials told to remove hoardings
Tribune News Service
Rewari, September 13 Rewari Deputy Commissioner-cum-Chief Returning Officer RC Verma has directed the returning officers (ROs) of the Rewari, Bawal and Kosli Assembly segments to ensure the removal of political hoardings, posters and banners from public places with immediate effect. The ROs have also been asked to initiate official action against those who fail to remove their hoardings, posters and banners from the public places. Interacting with mediapersons here today, Verma said 15 nodal officers had been appointed to conduct the Assembly poll in free and fair manner. Fiftythree booths in three Assemblies of the district had been declared hypersensitive.
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2 sustain head injuries in attack
Kuruksehtra, September 13 Sonu said, “We three friends were at the KU market last night when we observed a group of over 25 boys following us. We rushed to the C Block of Narhari Hostel. While one of us managed to escape, we two got caught.” The injured were rushed to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital from where they were referred to a private hospital. Sonu and his friends claimed that the attackers were carrying pistols and they had opened fire, but the police have denied any such action. The police said a case had been registered. Meanwhile, three rooms of the C Block of Narhari Hostel have been sealed.
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Traders block road over waterlogging
Sirsa, September 13 Shopkeepers said their business was getting affected due the problem. Traders Rajinder Jagga, Rakesh, Jagat Soni and others maintained that stagnant water had made it difficult for people to walk on the road or enter their shops. |
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Party will contest maximum seats, says RLSP president
Chandigarh, September 13 Addressing a press conference here today, Sharma said RLSP would apply for an election symbol soon and could join hands with party upholding its principles of decentralisation of political power, economic power and the right to call back a political leader. “We want the rule of the people and will support any party committing to it,” he said. Sharma claimed he was receiving tremendous support
from the public after parting ways with the Aam Admi Party and floating his own outfit. He said he quit the
AAP along with his supporters because Arvind Kejriwal gave no weightage to democratic values within the party. |
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Sirsa woman, ‘paramour’ commit suicide
Sirsa, September 13 He said he got suspicious some days back and told him not to come again to his house. He said he found Malkiat with his wife Neetu (32) when he returned home on Saturday. Darshan said he told Malkiat to go. Darshan was at a distance from the house when he noticed Neetu and Malkiat crying and running towards him. They told him that they had consumed poison. He took them to a hospital, where they died.
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Minor raped on pretext of employment
Hisar, September 13 The police have registered a case against the two youths and arrested them. The accused lured the girl by promising to get her the role of a dancer in cultural programmes.
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The party's Central Election Committee has reportedly zeroed in on 20 names; the list has been put on hold till next week as it is pending approval from AICC president Sonia Gandhi
Hisar, September 13