NEIGHBOURHOOD

Penultimate day of campaigning
BSP candidate attacks rivals by name
Bipin Bhardwaj
Tribune News Service

Kalka, October 12
Vijay Bansal, chief of Shivalik Vikas Manch, Haryana, who is contesting the Kalka seat as an Independent, in his door-to-door campaign alleged that all the political parties have fielded outside candidates.

Bansal claimed that the Congress candidate, Manvir Kaur Gill, was based at Panchkula, BJP candidate Latika Sharma was from Naraingarh but she resides in Delhi, INLD candidate Pradeep Chaudhary was staying in Panchkula and HJCP candidate Shakti Rani Sharma was based at Chandigarh. The BSP candidate Satvinder Singh Rana was from Rajound, he added.

Bansal alleged that all candidates were power hungry and preferred to contest from Kalka considering it to be a soft target. He alleged that the leaders will not ‘show their faces’ after the elections were over and the area residents would again have to face disappointment and same problems.

Bansal, who contested the 2009 Assembly election on the BSP ticket, has raised people-related issues and exposed the ‘wrongdoings’ of the government by gathering information under the RTI Act.

Kalka, October 12
Reminding development works carried out in the area during the late Bhajan Lal’s regime, HJC chief Kuldeep Bishnoi appealed to the electorate to wipe out the Congress and the Indian Nation Lok Dal (INLD) for ignoring the Kalka constituency in the past 15 years.

Bishnoi, who reached almost two hours late to addresses a public rally seeking votes for HJC-HJCP candidate Shakti Rani Sharma, claimed that the previous governments even abandoned the projects taken up during the Bhajan Lala government.

The HCJ chief promised to put the Morni and Pinjore areas on the world tourism map if the alliance forms the government.

He also claimed to have personal relations with the area residents and considers the Kalka constituency as his own home.

Blaming the ruling BJP government for price rise and hollow promises by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bishnoi claimed that the ‘Modi magic’ was not going to allure voters this time.

While addressing the rally, Bishnoi claimed that the HCJ-HCJP alliance was going to form the next government as the INLD and the Congress had lost the faith of the people.

He appealed to the gathering to vote for HCJ-HJCP candidate Shakti Rani Sharma for overall development of the constituency.

The leader also listed the promises like abolition of interview system for government jobs, sub-divisional status for Raipur Rani, proper water supply and sewerage system, “pucca” road and streetlights in the rural areas, timely fertilisers and seed to farmers, employment to educated youth, frequent government bus service in the rural areas and some other, made by the alliance in this manifesto.

Shakti Rani also appealed to the public to vote and support her in the elections.

Chandigarh, October 12
The Chandigarh Police arrested two juveniles in two separate cases of mobile thefts.

According to the police, a Juvenile had stolen a mobile phone of Suraj Rawat, a resident of House No. 1844, Burail village, on October 10.

Another juvenile was involved in the theft of a mobile phone of Rama Kaushik, a resident of House No, 2006, Burail village, on September 25.

Earlier this week, two similar incidents of mobile thefts by juveniles were reported in Burail. Both juveniles have been sent to juvenile home in Sector 25.

Cases in both the incidents have been registered at the Sector 34 police station. In the past few days, the involvement of juveniles in crime incidents has been witnessed. Six juveniles were apprehended in three different cases this week, two cases were of mobile thefts by juveniles in Burail.

Chandigarh, October 12
As part of its diamond jubilee celebrations, the Central Reserve Police Force organised the Run For Unity half marathon in the city today, in which people for the armed forces, para-military organisations, sportspersons and the general public participated.

The run was flagged off from the Sukhna Lake by the CRPF Inspector General, North-West Sector, Suraj Bhan Kajal.

Balbir Singh Senior, triple Olympic hockey gold medalist was the chief guest on the occasion.

Constable Ramesh Kumar (India Reserve Battalion, Chandigarh, Sepoy Balbir Singh and Sepoy Laxman Singh (both from 16 Rajput Battalion) were the first three winners respectively.

There were awarded trophies and cash prizes. The first 10 winners were also awarded prizes.

Senior officers from the CRPF as well as the local administration were also present at the event.

Chandigarh, October 12
Unseeded CLTA trainee Eklavya Singh while continuing his winning spree defeated Harinder Singh Bedi in the final qualifying rounds to book his berth in the main draw league of the ongoing The Tribune Cup National Ranking Championship Rs 2 lakh Men’s and Women’s Tennis Tournament, being played at the CLTA courts in Sector 10 here today.

After going down, in the first set (1-6), Eklavya came back strongly and while using his experience posted win in other two games (6-1 and 6-3). Earlier, in the 4th round match, Eklavya Singh defeated Rohit Jain in a straight game (8-5) while in the 3rd round, Eklavya defeated 10th seed Gaurav Bhatia. In a closely contested match, Eklavya posted a 8-7 victory in a tie-breaker.

Chandigarh, October 12
A neck-to-neck fight between Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu (boy’s side) took an ugly turn towards the end of the last quarter round when players from both sides started playing a rough game. The approach from both sides led to a minor scuffle in which a Tamil Nadu player, Pradeep, received an injury on his left eye.

He was rushed to the GMSH, Sector 16, here, after administering first-aid.

“When we were leading with 20 points in the last quarter, the Maharashtra players started playing a rough game. The opponents were deliberately playing a foul game to disturb us and towards the end of the match they started hitting us,” said Pradeep, who plays at point guard position.

The manager of the team, who accompanied the injured member, said: “We will submit a written complaint to the Basketball Federation of India. Their behaviour was not acceptable” he said.

Maharashtra’s assistant coach said: “The Tamil Nadu coaching staff is presenting a wrong picture. Their players started approaching for foul game.”

“However, our players played calmly. No player was attacked after the match,” said Ramesh Dhotre, the assistant coach.

In another incident, Rajesh Patel, coach of the Chhattisgarh girls’ team, suffered an epileptic fit in the third round of the quarterfinal match between Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh. He was rushed to the GMSH, Sector 16, and is stable and out of danger.

Chandigarh, October 12
After directly qualifying for the 2016 Rio Olympics Games, the Indian hockey team is now looking ahead to finish the Olympics’ medal draught, said Sardar Singh, the team’s captain.

Feeling confident after a gold medal finish in Asian games at South Korea, Sardar Singh feels that the team is moving in a right direction to perform well in the 2016 Olympics Games. At the hockey stadium in Sector 18, here, to boost the morale of the Chandigarh police team, which is going to participate in the All-India Police Games in December, Sardar preferred to maintain the confidence of regaining the ‘Olympics champion’s title’.

“The team is working hard and would surely display courage in front of opponents. To regain supremacy in Olympics is our main target now after finishing high in the recently held Asian Games,” said Sardar.

Sardar maintained confidence of facing European teams in a tough manner during the upcoming tour to Australia.

“The upcoming tour to Australia will help the side to gain some experience before the Olympics. Europeans teams are tough to handle and since being the Asian champions, we have to perform well. The tour would also expose us to make new strategies in handling tough teams,” he said.

The Indian team will start preparing for the same tour from October 15. On the recent final against Pakistan in the Asian Games where the team claimed the podium’s finish via tie-breaker, Sardar said: “It was a tough match and we held our nerves. The success finally made us confident of shifting our focus to the Olympics. The Indian hockey has went through many rough patches. However, the team members are putting their best to pull back the golden days.”

Later, the Indian skipper also shared some light moments with RP Upadhyaya, IGP, UT police.

Chandigarh, October 12
The girls team of Andhra Pradesh comfortably defeated Punjab (67-41) to advance in the quarterfinals of the ongoing 31st Youth Basketball National Championship being held at the basketball courts of Sector 42, here, today.

For the winning side, M Lakshmi contributed 22 points whereas for Punjab, Prabhjot Kaur reduced the margin by contributing 16 points. The winning side named the first two sets at ease (13-11 and 11-5) while tasted defeat in the third set (14-18). In the last set, the winning side extended their lead 29-7.

Chandigarh, October 12
In the ongoing CBSE North Zone-I Roller Skating Championship, Shubham Aggarwal, Ansh Pathak, Faith Goyal and Rushat Parihar claimed the top positions in the 5,000-m race for boys (U-19) here today.

In the boys’ (U-16) 5,000-m patch, Gurpreet Singh, Akshat Rajvanshi and Paras Rathee bagged the top spots.

In the girls’ (U-19) 5,000-m race, Manswinee R Thakur and Aditi Negi bagged the top positions while in the girls’ U-16 category Prakriti Saxena, Jassica Kadyan, Somaya Sharma and Jaya Dutt Mehta claimed the top two positions.

Chandigarh, October 12
Rupali Khurana of Tribune Model School, Sector 29, and Urvashi Khurana of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 16, finished first in the girls’ U-17 and U-19 road race events, respectively, during the inter-school cycling championship being held here.