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Chandigarh July 23:
Taking a serious view of party MP Sukh Dev Singh Libra's abstention during the trust vote in the Manmohan Singh government, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on wednesday said stringent action would be taken against him.
Libra's abstention was a serious matter and the party would take tough action against him soon, a visibly perturbed SAD supremo Parkash Singh Badal told reporters here. "During the debate on the confidence motion in the Lok Sabha, Libra was present on the first day. But, on the second day he left the House after signing the attendance register," he said.
His action needed to be thoroughly condemned, the Punjab Chief Minister said. Asked what action would be taken against Libra, he said the party would take a decision in this regard soon. On the trust vote, Badal said 14 MPs from various parties voted in favour of the ruling UPA.
Eight NDA MPs abstained from voting, he said adding these were four from the BJP and one each from the Shiv Sena, the TDP, the SAD and the SDF. On the outcome of the confidence vote, Badal said "numerically the Congress-led government has won but, it has suffered a huge moral loss."
"The ruling coalition has won but the country and the democracy have lost," the SAD leader said charging the UPA with subverting the democratic exercise through corrupt means like horse-trading.
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Punjab Mail Online
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News Date :
July 23,20
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Chandigarh July 23:
Rail and road traffic were paralysed in several parts of Punjab on Wednesday even as supporters of Dera and Sikhs clashed in Haryana's Fatehabad during the day-long bandh called by a Sikh group in Punjab and Haryana.
Activists of Sant Samaj, a conglomerate of various Sikh organizations, squatted on rail tracks near Vala village in Amritsar district during the bandh and demanded arrest of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
Thousands of passengers were stranded at Amritsar railway station as bandh supporters blocked the Garib Rath Express and forced cancellation of nine other trains including 2014 Shatabdi Express, 2460 Super Fast, 5708 Amrapali Express, 2716 Sachkhand Express, 2929 Paschim Express, 1058 Dadar Express and 2054 Jan Shatabdi, a report from Amritsar said.
Some private educational institutes remained closed at various places in Punjab as precautionary measure. Traffic on national highways and other roads were also disrupted at 20 places including Fatehgarh, Phagwara and Moga, Patiala, Faridkot and Ropar, officials said, adding that emergency vehicles and ambulances, were however, allowed to pass.
In Haryana's Fatehabad, Sikhs and Dera supporters clashed when the former tried to forcibly close shops leaving three persons injured as the two groups pelted stones at each other. Authorities have made tight security arrangements at different places in Punjab and Haryana in view of the bandh.
The Sant Samaj has given a bandh call seeking arrest of the Dera chief for his alleged involvement in the killing of three Sikhs including one each in Mumbai and Dabwali in the state recently.
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Punjab Mail Online
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July 23,20
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Chandigarh July 23:
The Punjab Government today announced the Punjabi Sahit Shiromani Awards for the years 2007 and 2008 and has selected noted novelist Mr. Jaswant Singh Kanwal and writer Dr. Dalip Kaur Tiwana for this award. Besides this 26 literary personalities from different fields have also been selected for various 13 Shiromani Awards.
Presiding over a meeting of State Advisory Board Languages department Punjab, Dr. Upinderjit Kaur Education and Languages Minister Punjab said that 28 personalities have been selected unanimously by the advisory board for 14 different Shiromani awards. She said that the name of Punjabi Sahit Shiromani Award has been rechristened as Punjabi Sahit Ratan to which the board members endorsed in unanimity.
During the meeting held here Mr. Jaswant Singh and Dr. Dalip Kaur Tiwana have been selected for Punjabi Sahit Shiromani Award, Mr. Kartar Singh Suri and Mr. Pargat Singh Sidhu for Shiromani Punjabi Sahitkar Award, Dr. Chander Trikha and Mrs. Virender Sandhu for Shiromani Hindi Sahitkar Award, Mr. Prem Kumar and Dr. Nashir Naqvi for Shiromani Urdu Sahitkar Award, Dr. Brij Bihari Choube and Dr. Ravinder Kaur for Shiromani Sanskrit Sahitkar Award.
Dr. Harinder Singh Mehboob and Mrs. Sukhwinder Amrit were selected Shiromani Punjabi Kavi (poet) Award, Mr. Karnail Singh Thind and Dr. Jaswinder Singh for Shiromani Punjabi Gyan Sahitkar/Alochik Award, Mr. Parminder Sodhi (Japan) and Janab Fakhar Zaman (Pakistan) for Shiromani Punjabi Sahitkar (overseas) Award, Mr. Chotu Ram Moudgil and Mr. S Saki for Shiromani Punjabi Sahitkar Award (out of Punjab), Mr. Jasbir Singh Jass and Dr. Sukhwant Kaur Mann for Shiromani Punjabi Bal Sahitkar Lekhak (writer) Award, Mr. G.S. Sidhu Damdami (Punjabi Tribune) and Mr. Paramjit Singh Sasan (Ajit) for Shiromani Punjabi Patarkar Award, Bhai Banta Singh Ragi and Bhai Gursharn Singh Ragi for Shiromani Ragi/Dhadi/Kavishar Award, Mrs. Gurmeet Bawa and Mr. G.S.Sachdev (flute) for Shiromani Punjabi Singer/Musician Award, Mr. Amrik Gill and Mr. Jatinder Brar has been selected for Shiromani Punjabi TV/Radio/Theater/Natak/Actor/Producer/Writer Award.
The Minister said that the awardees of Shiromani Puraskars would be honoured on August 8, 2008 in a function to be held at Chandigarh and Chief Minister Punjab Mr. Parkash Singh Badal would present these awards to the selected personalities. She added that the prize money for the Punjabi Sahit Shiromani Award has been doubled from Rs. 2.5 lac to Rs. 5 lac and for other Shiromani awards it has been increased from Rs. 1 lac to 2.5 lac.
Among others Mr.Jaspal Singh Secretary Higher Education and Languages, Mrs. Balbir Kaur Director Languages Department Punjab, Dr. Surjit Patar, Bhai Baldeep Singh, Gulzar Singh Sandhu, Dr. Deepak Manmohan Singh, Dr. Satinder Noor, Sardar Panchi, Mr. Satnam Manak(Ajit), Mr. Sidhu Damdami (Punjabi Tribune), Mr. N.S. Parwana, Dr. Satinder Singh and Bibi Kiranjot Kaur were also present in the meeting.
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Punjab Mail Online
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News Date :
July 23,20
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Chandigarh July 23:
The persistent demand of the farmers, the Punjab State Electricity Board had re-introduced Voluntary Disclosure Scheme (V.D.S) for Tubewell Consumers to regularize un-authorize loads of higher size motors/submersible pump sets used by them.
Disclosing this here today an official spokesman said that special camps were also being organized at many places to regularize such loads at nominal charges without any penalty. Regularization Charges have been fixed Rs. 1000/- for per BHP for extended load only. However the rates of security would remain Rs. 200 per BHP for extended loads only.
Tubewell connections released within last 3 years either under general category or any other priority category should not be entitled to get un-authorized load regularized under VDS. However such consumers were allowed to get their load regularized at the rate of Rs. 3000/- per BHP, except for connections released under discretionary quota of Chairman, the rate for enhancing load would be Rs. 5000/- per BHP.
For these farmers should contact the concerned field office to regularize their un-authorized tubewell loads, on the spot by getting entries made in their pass books, before 31-7-2008, because no further extension would be given before this.
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Punjab Mail Online
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July 23,20
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Chandigarh July 23:
Security has been stepped up in Punjab and Haryana to prevent any untoward incident ahead of tomorrow’s Sant Samaj-sponsored bandh across the two States.
The day-long bandh call had been given by Sant Samaj, a conglomerate of various Sikh organisations, to force the Centre, Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra Governments to immediately arrest the Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh for his alleged involvement in the killing of three Sikhs recently, sources said.
While Sant Samaj maintained that the bandh will be peaceful, police along with paramilitary forces conducted flag marches at several places, including Dabwali, Moga and Bagha purana.
“The Sant Samaj activists will not block rail traffic and not hamper the functioning of medical institutes but educational and commercial establishments will not be permitted to function during the day,” Sant Samaj convener and Damdami Taksal chief Harnam Singh Khalsa said here.
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Punjab Mail Online
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July 23,20
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New Delhi July 23:
The CPI(M) on Wednesday expelled veteran leader Somnath Chatterjee from the party, following his defiance to continue as Lok Sabha Speaker and preside over the July 22 trust vote in Parliament.
The decision to expel Somnath was taken by the CPI(M) politburo at a meeting in New Delhi, which took place a day after the Left parties, along with other opposition parties, failed to bring down the UPA government in the trust vote. A formal announcement of the politburo decision to expel Somnath is expected soon.
Somnath can continue as Lok Sabha Speaker as per the 10th Schedule of the Constitution despite being expelled from his party. He can only be removed by a notice initiated by 100 members of the Lok Sabha and then it has to be ratified by two-thirds majority present and voting. Somnath remained defiant on Wednesday too and made it clear that he won’t step down from the constitutional post as of now.
Somnath reportedly told West Bengal Left Front chairman Biman Bose over telephone that he wanted to continue as the Speaker and if he is pushed too hard to quit the post, then he will even resign from party itself. The remarks came in response to the attack by Bose, who had said yesterday, “What is the justifiability of his (Somnath) continuing in office after withdrawal of support to the UPA government?”
Somnath on his part was very angry that the party included his name in the list of Left MPs, who had withdrawn support to the UPA government. His contention was that as long as he is the Speaker, he should be kept above party politics. Following the row, the CPI(M) left his name out of the list of MPs that had been issued the party whip. Somnath had his way by presiding over the trust vote as the Speaker and therefore omitting himself from voting during floor test.
Moreover, Chatterjee was not willing to go along with the Left’s idea of voting with the BJP to pull down the government as it is Left’s long held view that it wants to keep communal forces at bay. He had yesterday told media persons that CPI(M) cannot give him a notice because he is not a politburo member. It looks like the veteran leader has made up his mind to fight it out with his party.
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Punjab Mail Online
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July 23,20
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New Delhi July 23:
The Left, UNPA and BSP on Wednesday said they will launch a nation-wide campaign against the UPA government on nuclear deal, price rise and agrarian issues and described the trust vote win in Lok Sabha as "immoral".
"The UPA government might be patting itself for whatever happened yesterday. But at the same time, it is the defeat of the democracy," BSP supremo Mayawati told a press conference after a breakfast meeting with leaders of Left parties, TDP, TRS, RLD and JD(S) among others.
Reading out from the statement adopted at the meeting, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said that the "UPA government may have won the vote in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday but has lost the trust of the nation in the immoral manner in which it has engineered this win.
"The Manmohan Singh government has lost its moral authority. All the political parties present decided to launch a national level campaign on pressing issues before the people," Karat said. The statement was adopted by leaders of ten parties -- BSP, TDP, Forward Bloc, RSP, Janata Dal (S), RLD, IMLD, JVM, CPI and CPI(M).
The campaign will be launched against price rise, inflation, agrarian crisis leading to farmers suicides, Karat said. "We are also against Indo-US nuclear deal, against communal forces, against gross misuse of government institutions like CBI," the CPI(M) leader said.
Condemning the "murder of democracy", N Chandrababu Naidu (TDP) said it was a "national shame" that the government has stuck to power by indulging in horse-trading, manipulation, threat and blackmail". "If you take into account the cross voting, the opposition has a clear majority," Naidu claimed.
Naidu asserted that the coming together of these parties showed that "we are the real alternative to Congress, UPA and NDA. We will be number one in the coming days". In a similar statement, RLD leader Ajit Singh said "this will provide an alternative to UPA and NDA and create a real force in the country".
Speaking in Hindi, former Prime Minister and JD(S) President H D Deve Gowda assured full cooperation of his party to the joint campaign. Asked who will lead the new group, Mayawati evaded a direct reply saying all were equal. On whether AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa would be invited to join the group, Bardhan said the issue had not been discussed. "We are proceeding step by step," he said.
The breakfast meeting at Mayawati's residence was also attended by A B Bardhan and D Raja (CPI), Debabrata Biswas (FB), T J Chandrachoodan and Abani Roy (RSP), K Yerrannaidu (TDP), Ajay Chautala (INLD), Babulal Marandi (JVM) and Sitaram Yechury ((CPI-M). The meeting constituted a committee to conduct the nationwide campaign, the dates of which will be announced "very soon".
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Punjab Mail Online
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News Date :
July 23,20
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