Reaching out to people at grassroots level

The political parties have started preparations for the 2022 Punjab Vidhan Sabha elections. Khadoor Sahib is the lone out of the four constituencies in Tarn Taran district from where many new faces are making all efforts to represent their political parties. The constituency at present is represented by Ramanjit Singh Sikki of Congress. Being a rural area, the constituency was mostly represented by the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) candidates. The Congress candidate Ramanjit Singh Sikki though was an ‘outsider’ as alleged by his opponents in 2012 general election but he, with his management skills, defeated SAD stalwart Ranjit Singh Brahampura easily. His son Ravinder Singh was the natural choice of the SAD in the 2017 but he too was defeated by Sikki. Many faces have come forward to fill the seat vacated by Brahampuras. Alwinderpal Singh Pakhoke, former SGPC President, also the close relative of Ranjit Singh Brahampura, Iqbal Singh Sandhu former member of the Punjab Subordinate Services Selection Board, Gurbachan Singh Karmunwala member SGPC were among the others active in the field. Three time Tarn Taran MLA Harmeet Singh Sandhu has also started his activities full throttle as Shiromani Akali Dal leader from Khadoor Sahib. His native village Rani Wallha too falls under this Khadoor Sahib constituency.

Residents see red over faulty traffic lights

Baljit Singh SP (Traffic), a month back, on the directions of SSP Dhruman H Nimbale held a meeting with the officials of the PWD, Engineer of the road safety and other concerned and discussed the town related problems. Non-functional traffic lights installed at the major crossings in the town, road encroachment, signs to be marked on the roads were among the issues raised in the meeting to make the accident free traffic. The officials stressed for making the traffic lights functional, marking of signs such as yellow lines on road, zebra lines, no parking zones, delineator, removing of the encroachments from the roads and to make traffic systemically. The police have tried to make one-way traffic on the main road passing through the town. The Municipal Council has done nothing to remove the encroachment and marking the road signs. The traffic lights are totally non-functional for the past more than four years. Rajnish Arora SDM, Tarn Taran, has never called a meeting of the residents to redress their problems being the administrator of the Municipal Council.

NSUI to dispatch students to Delhi

Hrithik Arora, district president of the NSUI, said a group of students was leaving for Delhi to take part in the farmers’ protests to distribute literature regarding the non-violent Gandhian way of the agitation. While organising a meeting of students in Tarn Taran, he said the Modi-led Centre might have to face its violent tactics. The student leader said the Union Government was adopting all suppressive methods to derail farmers’ agitation but they would not relent.

(Contributed by Gurbaxpuri)