CN & Heard

The candidates in fray for the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee,apart from worrying about the voters had another concern on mind. Some of the candidates were busy receiving calls with their supporters at the polling booths demanding food to be arranged at the earliest. While others wanted vehicles to be sent so they could be picked up to cast their vote. A candidate rued that instead of considering it their duty to vote,the voters looked on it as a favour demanding all incentives.

Why should they have all the fun?

The recent declaration of this weekend as ‘Dry Days’ in the city,came as a spoiler for many,especially those who can’t wait to get sloshed over the weekends. So when one of the prominent clubs in the city which was observing dry day,got to know that another prominent club is serving liquor and the members are making merry,they immediately rang up the Finance Secretary complaining about the violation of the code of conduct in the wake of SGPC polls. The FS immediately sent a team of the Excise officials to the club issuing them a challan and stopped the party,much to the displeasure of the members.

Full utilisation

The skills of a person can be utilised,irrespective of the location and circumstances the person is in. A lensman,lodged in Model Jail,Burail on charges of assault was made the ‘official’ lensman by the Chandigarh Police,for clicking pictures of the launch of vocational training courses for the jail inmates,earlier this week. The lensman,who used to represent a vernacular daily was immediately identified by the members of the media houses,who were taken to the jail for coverage of the event by Chandigarh police.

A handful of garbage

Mayor Ravinder Pal Singh found a unique way to deal with the problems being experienced at the Garbage Processing Plant at Dadumajra. He visited the Plant and claimed to have put his hands in a garbage heap to check it and also picked up the inerts that were produced. While,he did not see much difference in the two,it remains to be seen whether anything good comes out of Mayor putting his hands in the muck.

Credit is ours

Till recently,it was the various student organisations at the Panjab University that would be seen competing with each other in taking credit for whatever,even smallest of the work being done on the campus. Last week,this tug of war for taking the credit reached to another level which was seen between the teachers’ association (PUTA) and the winning student group-SOPU. While SOPU sent official press releases claiming it to be their achievement after sending repeated reminders to university authorities,PUTA too circulated SMS among the teaching faculty members congratulating them and calling it to be possible only because of PUTA’s sincere efforts. The issue was-gate number 3 facing sector 25 to remain open till 9 pm instead of 7 pm.

‘All for openeness’

The accusation that media is distorting the facts of the Judge Bribery case and the demand that media should be restrained from reporting wrong facts of the case did not find much favour from the High Court. For,Justice Permod Kohli took a dig at the counsel appearing for Nirmal Yadav and remarked,“your arguments in the case have been all for openeness.” The remark was made in relation with the argument raised by Yadav’s counsel that transparency shall be ensured in the trial and all documents relied upon by the Central Bureau of Investigation should be made available.