Sunday, November 10, 2002, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

All entry points sealed
Crackdown on SAD workers continues
Amritsar, November 9
After a gap of 18 years, all bazars surrounding the SGPC complex and Golden Temple were sealed with steel barricades today, three days before the crucial annual election of the SGPC executive to be held at Teja Singh Samundari Hall even as the crackdown on SAD workers continued for the second day today in the state.

Punjab imposes ban orders   630 arrested, says CM   Cops won’t enter complex: DGP   Unprecedented order in Amritsar	More SGPC poll stories on Punjab page

	In video: Ten companies of Punjab Police commandos have been deployed for the upcoming SGPC poll. (28k, 56k) All main bazaars around the Golden Temple have been sealed with barricades. — photo Rajiv Sharma

Centre likely to intervene
Chandigarh, November 9
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs is looking with considerable concern at the developments on the SGPC presidential election, scheduled for November 12.

Badal approaches Centre; may airlift men
Balasar (Sirsa), November 9
The Shiromani Akali Dal president, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, said today that he had pleaded with the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre to make necessary arrangements for safe passage of SGPC members to Amritsar from various locations in Haryana and Punjab so that they could cast their votes in the SGPC elections to be held on November 12.

SAARC meet: PM may send Sinha
New Delhi, November 9
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is disinclined to visit Islamabad in January, 2003, for the next summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.

Sonia to consider PM’s post
Blames Centre for food-scarcity deaths in Rajasthan
Mount Abu, November 9
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today indicated that she would be the party’s candidate for the post of Prime Minister in the next Lok Sabha poll.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi during a Press conference after the Congress Chief Ministers’ conclave in Mount Abu on Saturday. 
— PTI photo

Property worth 4 cr detected
BSNL official among 6 in CBI net
New Delhi, November 9
The CBI today claimed to have detected property, cash, investments worth around Rs 4 crore during its fourth special countrywide raids conducted at the premises of 46 public servants, besides some private persons.

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