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Modi failed to win hearts: Selja
Bipin Bhardwaj
Tribune News Service

Kalka, October 11
Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Kumari Selja blamed the Narendra Modi-led BJP government for price rise in just 100 days of its rule. “No doubt Modi won the Lok Sabha elections, but he failed to win the hearts of the people,” Selja claimed.

She alleged that Modi managed to form the government at the Centre by making false promises. But the BJP, which is riding high on the ‘Modi’ wave, will not be able to befool the electorate in the Vidhan Sabha elections.

Selja was addressing a public meeting at HMT in favour of Congress candidate Manvir Kaur Gill, here today.

Selja claimed to have helped the fund-starved HMT by procuring financial package of crores of rupees from the UPA government.

She said the unit was a dream project of Pt Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of independent India, and the Congress would never let it wind up.

She also blamed the BJP for its anti-industry policies. She alleged that a number of industrial units were being forced to close by the Union government following which the rate of unemployment had started registering a sharp increase.

The MP appealed to the public to vote for Congress candidate Manvir Kaur Gill.

Claiming to be a local candidate, Gill appealed the people to support and vote for her for the development of the area.

Leaders from the neighbouring state - Himachal Pradesh - also joined her election campaign.

Panchkula & Kalka Votes 2014
Time for change in Haryana: Rajnath Singh
Hina Rohtaki
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, October 11
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, while campaigning for BJP candidate Gian Chand Gupta, today said he was sure that the BJP would form the government in the state. The minister, who reached an hour late at his rally in Barwala, assured the residents of complete development of the constituency and permanent solution to the fly menace there.

He took on the Congress for allegedly demoralising the security forces on the border by saying that they were not giving a befitting reply to Pakistan. He said India never violated ceasefire and it was Pakistan which always did it.

Singh said people have lost trust in Indian politicians over the years. Now, the BJP has taken the challenge to restore that trust.

“I am not praising the BJP because I am part of the party. But a recent study shows that the BJP is the best party in the country,” he said.

Singh said: “Haryana had never seen a BJP government. It is time for a change, which is already being seen at the Centre in just four months”.

Case registered

The Panchkula Police registered a case against Kewal Garg and others in a brawl case on Friday night.

Wives campaign on Karva Chauth

Wives of candidates were seen campaigning for their husbands till late at night despite fasting. Anju Goyal, wife of Kulbhushan, campaigned throughout the day. Goyal took out time between 8 pm and 9 pm for the ceremony. Same was the situation with the wife of BJP candidate Gian Chand Gupta and others.

50 party workers join INLD

As many as 50 workers of various parties joined the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) in the presence of its candidate Kulbhushan Goyal here on Saturday.

Sat Prakash joins BJP

Sat Prakash Aggarwal, Congress councillor from Chandigarh, joined the BJP.

Bansal reaches late for campaigning

Pawan Kumar Bansal, former minister, reached over an hour late for campaigning for Congress candidate DK Bansal. Till then, many had left the venue in Sector 19 here due to Karva Chauth. Though efforts were made to hold back the crowd by showing folk dances, but all in vain.

Odisha cagers lift trophy
Tribune News Service

Patiala, October 11
In the last match of super league of the 28th All-India Postal Basketball Tournament that concluded today, Odisha beat last year’s winner Gujarat by 7 points. Odisha scored 56 points whereas Gujarat scored 49 points. Tamil Nadu secured the third position.

Chief guest Kulbir Singh, Chief Postmaster General, Punjab Circle, Chandigarh and President Punjab Postal Sports Board, awarded prizes to winners.

COURTS

Land acquisition of school in Sohana: HC quashes proceedings
Saurabh Malik
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 11
Turning over a new leaf in the history of one of the oldest schools in Sohana, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has closed the chapter of its land acquisition. Taking up a petition filed by Bhalwal Sarvhitkari Arya High School Managing Committee, a Division Bench of the HC has, in fact, quashed the land acquisition proceedings qua the institute.

The orders came on a petition filed by Bhalwal Sarvhitkari Arya High School through senior advocates Chetan Mittal and Vishal Garg.

The institute was seeking directions for quashing the notifications dated February 21, 2000, and February 2, 2001, issued under Sections 4 and 6 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.

As the case came up for hearing, the Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Ashutosh Mohunta and Justice Harinder Singh Sidhu was told that the rural-based society was running the school with 48 classrooms.

But their land was acquired for the development of Sectors 48 to 73 in Mohali.

The Bench was told that the acquisition was challenged by the petitioner earlier too.

Taking up the matter, the court in its order dated October 21, 2013, had noticed that the school was one of the oldest educational institutions in the area and the respondents should exempt the institute from the acquisition process. The direction, however, came with a rider.

It was subject to the condition that the school management deposited external development charges, along with the interest. The respondents were also directed to calculate the external development charges and inform the petitioner the amount payable by it.

The counsel for the petitioner told the Division Bench that the entire amount of external development charges had been paid to the respondent — Greater Mohali Area Development Authority. As such, the acquired land of the petitioner’s school should be released from acquisition.

The Bench observed: “The senior counsel for GMADA admits that the petitioner has deposited the entire amount of the external development charges.”

WHAT THE BENCH SAID

The bench stated: In view of the fact that the petitioner is running a school and has deposited all the external development charges, as demanded by the respondent, GMADA, the acquisition proceedings qua the petitioner are quashed.

Arrest warrants against promoter

Mohali, October 11
The Permanent Lok Adalat (Public Utility Services), Mohali, has ordered the attachment of the property of a promoter of a housing society and issued arrest warrants against him to compel him to comply with the orders of the adalat. The warrant of attachment and arrest warrants have been issued for October 13.

He received various amounts ranging from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 3.5 lakh from its members, promising to purchase land and construct flats thereon for allotting to them. Land measuring 16 acres was purchased in Sector 91, near Chapper Chiri village, SAS Nagar district, but no flats were constructed. The members had been demanding refund of the amount by the sale of land but no action was taken . Mehta in his reply admitted the facts and contended that the amount would be refunded only if the land was sold. As per orders dated February 1, 2014, Mehta was directed to hold elections within 30 days to the society, which had not been held since 2005, though the term of the governing body was only three years, and to sell the land and distribute the amount so received among its members. Mehta did not comply with the orders. The applicants then filed an execution application for compliance with the orders passed by the adalat on February 1.

A notice was issued. Mehta, respondent no. 1, appeared through his counsel and took several adjournments on one pretext or the other but to no effect. — OC

CRIME

PRETEXT OF MARRIAGE
25-year-old booked on rape charge

Chandigarh, October 11
The Chandigarh Police have booked a 25-year-old man for allegedly raping a woman on the pretext of marriage. The accused has been identified as Rajat Dahiya, a resident of Sector 22.

The complainant, a resident of NAC Mani Majra alleged that Rajat, who is the brother of her sister-in-law, had been raping her on the pretext of marriage since the past few months. She alleged that they also developed physical relations.

However, as Rajat is 10 years younger to the victim, his family was opposed to the wedding and hence Rajat also denied marrying her.

Following this, the victim lodged a complaint against the accused and a case under Sections 376 (punishment for rape), IPC, has been registered at the Mani Majra police station. — TNS

suicide attempt
Panjab varsity don booked

Chandigarh, October 11
The Chandigarh Police have booked a man on the charges of attempt to commit suicide. His condition is said to be stable. The police said the incident took place on late Friday night.

The accused identified as Manmohan Singh Chauhan, a resident of Sector 36, is a professor of German at the PU. He is admitted in the PGIMER. A suicide note was found from his house. A case under Section 309, IPC, has been registered. — TNS

SPORTS

The Tribune Cup
Mohit, Eklavya enter qualifier round III in tennis meet
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 11
Top seed Mohit Mayur and CLTA’s Eklavya Singh registered easy wins before moving to third round on the first day of The Tribune Cup National Ranking Championship Rs 2 Lakh Men’s and Women’s Tennis Tournament at the CLTA tennis courts here today.

In the second round matches, Mohit Mayur defeated Kapil Guraiya by 7-0 and Eklavya Singh beat Himanshu Sagar by 7-0 without conceding any game. Earlier, in his first round match, Eklavya Singh defeated Sarthak Jain by 7-1. In closely contested matches of the same category, Jasdeep Singh registered win against Harinder Singh by 7-6(2) in a tie-breaker. In another closely contested match, Hadin Bawa defeated Kamal Kishore Maderna at 7-5.

Results

Men’s (Round I): Ajinkya Bachhav bt Rohit Garg 7-0, Harjasleen Singh bt Shushant Mudgil 7-2, Jasdeep Singh bt Yatharth 7-5, Kartikeya Sharma bt Sidharth Kakkar 7-1, Gurvinder Singh bt Atishay Jain 7-6(3), Shalendra Rathore bt Gurkirat Layel 7-3, Rahul Singh bt Jotpal Singh 7-4, Rohit Sai bt Sudhir Singh 7-1, Shivam Dalmia bt Raghav Talwar 7-6(3), Mayank Yadav bt Padmanabh Ponkshe 7-0, Homit Bakshi bt Pringal Chechi 7-3, Eklavya Singh bt Sarthak Jain 7-1, Mrinal Mukherjee bt Sumit Kumar 7-0, Varun Sharma bt Paras Sandhu 7-4, Jagmeet Singh bt Swarandeep Dhodi 7-3, Garry Tokas bt Aryan Verma 7-1, Aditya Sharma bt Danesh J Gayakwad 7-1, Gautam Anand bt Anshuman Dutta 7-2, Koonwar Gupta bt Josh Bhasin 7-0, Javed Hazari bt Shekhar Sharma 7-0, Tushar Bali bt Keshav 7-2, Aman Shah bt Sukhdanish Singh 7-2, Anubhav Singh bt Kishan Kumar 7-5, Uday Pratap Chahal bt Ritvik Rana 7-2, Divye Chopra bt Saransh Bhatia 7-6(3), Anush Dheer Bhatti bt Arvind Singh 7-4, Rohan Punj bt Ghanisht Aggarwal 7-0, Chandan Agnihotri bt Ashish Mukherjee 7-6(3), Manjot Singh bt Abhishek Sardana 7-3, Alok Arnav Goyal bt Abraar Syed Nawaz 7-5, Karan Sabarwal bt Pranav Joshi 7-1, Bharat Sharma bt Pranav Joshi 7-1, Sultan Atwal bt Bharat Sharma 7-0, Rao bt Abhinav Sharma 7-0, Davinder Rana bt Rupesh Khokar 7-3, Krishna Rajput bt Karan Bhalla 7-1, Asif Khan bt Vinay Kajla 7-0, Ashutosh Lohia bt Jitendra Kumawat 7-1, Jobanjit Singh bt Kastubh Kumar 7-4, Jatin Bishnoi bt Rajeev Goyal 7-0, Utkarsh Mishra bt Banti Guleria 7-1, Abhimanyu Singh bt Prianshu Bhatia 7-1, Sahil Yadav bt Yuvraj Goyal 7-6(6), Abhishek Kumar bt Ravinder Dhiman 7-2, Osama Shaik bt Dinesh Suyal 7-1, Jaskaran Grewal bt Gurbaj Singh 7-3, Akashdeep Bhandari bt Abhimanyu Dabas 7-0, Mohit Jain bt Brijbhushan Yadav 7-2, Abhilash Anand bt Nambhari Gajan Singh 7-4; Round II: Mohit Mayur Jayprakash bt Kapil Guraiya 7-0, Shahrukh Khan bt Abhinav Kumar 7-0, Ajinkya Bachhav bt Jaideep Singh 7-2, Jasdeep Singh bt Harjasleen Singh 7-6(2), Himanshu bt Prasang Raheja 7-3, Kartikeya Sharma bt Anurag 7-4, Gurvinder Singh bt Nikhilesh Kumar 7-2, Yuvraj Singh bt Shailendra Rathore 7-0, Joseph Kuma bt Rahul Singh 7-5, Harinder Singh Bedi bt Manav Chakma 7-1, Himanshu bt Prasang Raheja 7-3, Shivam Dalmia bt Mayank Yadav 7-1, Homit Bakshi bt Gursharan Singh 7-2, Rakshit Rishi bt Ashish Kapoor 7-3, Gagan Sharma bt Amit Chauhan 7-1, Varun Sharma bt Farooq Mohammad 7-0, Jagmeet Singh bt Garry Tokas 7-1, Aditya Sharma bt Dharmender Yadav 7-0, Gautam Anand bt Shikharjot Singh 7-0, Barun Gill bt Koonwar Gupta 7-2, Taha Kapadia bt Nasir Malik 7-0, Rohan Gogoi bt Tushar Bali 7-4, Aman bt Anubhav Singh 7-0, Eklavya bt Himanshu Sagar 7-0, Uday Chahal bt Abhimanyu 7-0, Divye Chopra bt Manuvikram Singh 7-0, Rohan bt Jairaj Sirohi 7-2, Hadin Bawa bt Kamal Kishore Maderna 7-5 and Bruhad bt Ravinder Singh 7-3.