Haryana minister booked after Jind violence

October 12th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Voting to elect members for Haryana's 90 assembly seats began Tuesday morning. The fate of 1,222 candidates will be decided by an electorate of over 1.31 crore.

October 12th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Poll officials and security personnel readied for duty, many educational institutions closed early for Diwali and bars shut down as Haryana Monday readied for the assembly elections with both the ruling Congress and the main opposition parties confident of victory. Voting for the 90-member assembly polls will take place Tuesday from 7 a.m.

October 7th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The ruling Congress in Haryana may be eyeing a win in the Oct 13 assembly elections but some of its top leaders, including ministers, may not find the going easy. The Congress won nine out of the 10 Lok Sabha seats from Haryana in May this year and led in 59 assembly segments out of the total 90.

October 6th, 2009 JIND - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday saw itself forced on a backfoot in Haryana after the party's candidate for the Jind assembly seat said that he was withdrawing from the contest and wanted to quit politics. BJP candidate Swami Raghvanand said he took the decision to leave the party and politics since party leaders and workers were not taking the election in Jind seriously.

September 26th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has said that his party would win the Assembly elections with a thumping majority. Filing his nomination papers from Garhi Sampla-Kiloi assembly constituency in Rohtak district for the October 13 polls, Hooda who is also a senior leader of Congress party exuded confidence that his party would storm to power with thumping majority.

September 25th, 2009 JIND - The 96th birth anniversary of former deputy prime minister Devi Lal provided the right opportunity for the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) to kick off its poll campaign in Haryana with a big rally in this town in the state's Jat heartland Friday. The INLD, which is the main opposition party in the state, called upon people to overthrow the Congress government in the state led by chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

September 22nd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Two ministers of the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government in Haryana have filed their nominations for next month's assembly election even before the ruling Congress announces the list of candidates. Forests, Environment and Tourism Minister Kiran Chaudhary Tuesday filed her nomination papers as the Congress candidate from Tosham assembly constituency in Bhiwani district.

September 21st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) general secretary Ajay Chautala will contest from Dabwali constituency in Sirsa district in the forthcoming October assembly polls. INLD political affairs committee member Abhey Singh Chautala announced this while declaring the party's third list, comprising seven candidates, here Monday evening.

August 12th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - In the wake of a poor monsoon in Haryana, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Wednesday urged the central government to allocate 400 MW additional power from the unallocated pool of central generation. In response to our earlier request, the central government had allocated only 100 MW of additional power for Haryana.

July 27th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - With over 500 personal guests, most of them from his home state, descending on this city, former Rajasthan chief minister Jagannath Pahadia was Monday sworn-in as the 15th governor of Haryana. Pahadia, the 77-year-old Gandhian, was administered the oath of office by Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice T.S.

July 25th, 2009 NARWANA - Four people including the father-in-law of the 21-year-old man who was lynched earlier this week by a mob in a Haryana village were arrested Saturday, officials said. "Police have arrested four people for lynching Ved Pal including his father-in-law and three neighbours of the girl's family.

July 24th, 2009 NARWANA - The wife of a young man who was lynched by a village mob in Haryana's Jind district, Friday deposed against her dead husband saying that he had tricked her into eloping with him and getting married. Her parents and relatives have been booked by police for the murder.

July 23rd, 2009 NARWANA - Tension gripped some villages in Haryana's Jind district Thursday following the "honour killing" of a 21-year-old man who had married against the wishes of his community. Police were yet to make any arrest till late Thursday, a day after Ved Pal was lynched by residents of his wife's village, Singhwal, near this town of Haryana's Jind district, 160 km from Chandigarh.

March 24th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Virtually taking law into its own hands, a Khap mahapanchayat (caste-based council) in Haryana's Jat heartland Tuesday 'rejected' the Hindu Marriage Act and asked politicians to promise a new law as per its diktat if they wanted votes in the coming parliamentary elections. The decision to reject the act came following a meeting of 46 khaps at Narwana town of Jind district, 180 km from Chandigarh, attended by 250 representatives of various khaps.

March 21st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - A Khap panchayat (caste-based village council) in Haryana has sought death for a young couple who eloped recently as they belonged to the same caste. The caste panchayat of Banawala in Jind district, over 200 km from here, has decreed that the couple who eloped, Sonia and Ved Pal, were related under Jat caste norms and had violated the centuries old convention of not getting into a liaison within the same caste, Akhil Bharatiya Adarsh Jat Mahasabha president Paramjit Banawala has said.