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Avoid politics over memorials: CPM
Jalandhar, June 20
CPM centre committee member Suneet Chopra today warned against playing politics over building memorials while saying that a peace memorial should be constructed in memory of the 25,000 people killed during 15 years of terrorism in Punjab. Recently, the Congress made a plea that a peace memorial be constructed in the state but Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal opposed the move, saying it would disturb the peace in the state. Chopra said, “We should not politicise this sensitive issue.”

Suneet Chopra (L), CPM centre panel member Suneet Chopra (L), CPM centre panel member

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Panchayat polls
Filing of nomination papers begins
Hoshiarpur, June 20
The election process for electing 1,372 sarpanches and 7,448 panches has started in the district after the State Election Commission issued notification in this regard yesterday.

Teenaged girl abducted, one booked
Tarn Taran, June 20
The Patti police has booked Manpreet Singh, a resident of Bathinda city, for abducting a teenaged girl of Patti township, 25 kilometers from here.

Avoid politics over memorials: CPM
Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, June 20
CPM centre committee member Suneet Chopra today warned against playing politics over building memorials while saying that a peace memorial should be constructed in memory of the 25,000 people killed during 15 years of terrorism in Punjab. Recently, the Congress made a plea that a peace memorial be constructed in the state but Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal opposed the move, saying it would disturb the peace in the state. Chopra said, “We should not politicise this sensitive issue.”

The SAD-BJP alliance and the Congress have been sparring over constructing memorials in the state and in Delhi for some time now.

“Instead of building the Operation Bluestar memorial in the Golden Temple complex and laying the foundation stone of another in memory of those killed in the 1984 riots in Delhi, a single memorial should have been constructed for all those who died during militancy in Punjab,” he said.

Chopra also questioned the need to build a memorial for those killed in the 1984 riots after almost three decades. Suneet Chopra claimed neither the UPA nor the NDA would get a majority in the parliamentary elections scheduled to be held next year. He said the CPM would try to form a third front with other left wing and democratic parties.

Panchayat polls
Filing of nomination papers begins
Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, June 20
The election process for electing 1,372 sarpanches and 7,448 panches has started in the district after the State Election Commission issued notification in this regard yesterday.

Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Election Officer Varun Roojam said 10 nominations (nine general category and one reserved for SC woman) had been received for the election of sarpanches.

Thirty three persons filed their nomination papers (12 in general, 14 in women, four in Scheduled Caste (SC) and three in Scheduled Caste women categories) for the election of panches in the district yesterday, the District Election Officer told The Tribune.

Teenaged girl abducted, one booked

Tarn Taran, June 20
The Patti police has booked Manpreet Singh, a resident of Bathinda city, for abducting a teenaged girl of Patti township, 25 kilometers from here.

A case under Section 363, 366 A of the IPC has been registered against the accused. The police said the girl was alone at her home when the accused abducted her on the pretext of marrying her. The accused was known to the victim's mother. —OC