Saturday, June 14, 2003, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

Activists vacate Talhan shrine
‘Peace formula’ after 30-hour drama
 Activists leave Gurdwara Baba Nihal Singh at Talhan villageTalhan (Jalandhar), June 13
The tiff between the administration and about 75 Sikh devotees and activists of the Damdami Taksal, who had seized the Gurdwara Shahid Baba Nihal Singh, was resolved this evening when the activists left the shrine one by one, thus ending a 30-hour drama.

Activists leave Gurdwara Baba Nihal Singh at Talhan village after the gates of the shrine were opened on Friday evening. — photo S.S. Chopra

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Badal, Tohra factions unite
Loyalists not taken into confidence
Patiala, June 13
Former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and former Shiromani Committee President Gurcharan Singh Tohra today signed a formal declaration effecting Akali unity and appealing to party workers and leaders of both the Shiromani Akali Dal and the Sarb Hind Shiromani Akali Dal to forget differences and work unitedly for the welfare of the “panth” and Punjab.

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Mr Gurcharan Singh Tohra offers a "laddoo” to Mr Parkash Singh Badal after formal Akali unity at Patiala on Friday. 
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