Kotli residents miss their ‘hero’
Mandi Ahmedgarh, July 31
The special court’s verdict to award capital punishment to Jagtar Singh Hawara and Balwant Singh and life imprisonment for the other convicts has been greeted with stoic indifference by residents of Kotli, the native village of the late chief minister Beant Singh, who was killed in 1995 in a bomb blast. The residents feel that no verdict could bring their hero back.
‘Adverse public opinion cost Beant his life’
Amritsar, July 31
In view of a court in Chandigarh pronouncing death sentence on Jagtar Singh Hawara and Balwant Singh in the Beant Singh assassination case, Baba Harnam Singh Khalsa, chief of Damdami
Taksal, said the two carried out the attack considering the public opinion against the Chief Minister, who was accused of killing innocent Sikh youth.
No extra fuel for CM, ministers: Bains
Chandigarh, July 31
The Punjab government today said the provisions and norms for fuel for the cars of the Chief Minister had been in existence for the past 20 years. “Not a single extra litre of petrol or diesel was being allowed to any minister, including the Chief Minister, or the chief parliamentary secretary.”
SAD (A) leader dares Takht edict
Amritsar, July 31
The Sikh community should maintain peace and brotherhood and ignore the “politically-motivated” edict recently issued by Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti which called for social boycott of followers of Sant Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh of Dera Sacha Sauda.
Nandgarh’s appeal to ‘premis’
Faridkot, July 31
Balwant Singh Nandgarh, Jathedar, Takht Damdama Sahib, has asked Sikhs and Hindus to adhere to the principles of their religions and not be swayed by deras.
MC Poll
Preneet fears power misuse
Patiala, July 31
Smitten by fear of use of power or some illegal means by the government in the corporation elections, Patiala MP Preneet Kaur has demanded that the presiding officers in polling booths should be from the central government departments.
Papers of seven Independents rejected