BJYM chief lauds NDA's draft youth policy

Times of India
23 Oct 2002, CHANDIGARH: "For the first time in the history of free India, National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is framing a National Youth Policy for the development of this huge human resource. No other government has ever given a thought in this direction," said G Kishen Reddy, national president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), while addressing the Chandigarh unit workers at a meeting at the BJP office, on Wednesday.
The draft youth policy, which would be presented before the parliament for discussion in the coming session, would go a long way in charting a new path for the country's youth which has not been given any direction from the government since Independence.
... Several BJP leaders, including Satyapal Jain, Yashpal Mahajan, Chandigarh in-charge of BJYM Hartirath Singh, local unit chief Devesh Moudgil and general secretary Navin Kochher were present on the occasion.
Sonia's leadership questioned
Now that the BJP has intensified its attack on Sonia Gandhi, how could the BJYM chief be left behind. "Can Congress party explain to the martyrs of the freedom struggle that it cannot find one leader from millions of Indians and is projecting a foreigner as its leader?" said G Kishen Reddy. ...

Former MP backs villagers' demand

Chandigarh Tribune
Chandigarh, October 5: Coming out in support for residents of Kishangarh Village, a former BJP MP, Mr Satya Pal Jain, said today that the areas where middle-class people had built houses should be exempt from acquisition.
These should be regularised by providing electricity, water, roads and sewerage connections, he asserted.
Residents of Kishangarh had blocked the Chandigarh Panchkula highway in protest of the land acquisition notices issued to them.
Mr Jain said any house built outside the 'Lal Dora' should not be acquired.
Mr Jain, who was accompanied by senior leaders of the BJP, visited Kishangarh and assured the villagers that the party fully supported their demands and would take up the issue with the higher authorities of the Chandigarh Administration. If necessary, the matter could be taken up with Mr L.K. Advani.
Mr Jain claimed that in 1998, when Mr Jagdish Sagar was the Adviser to the UT Administrator, the Chandigarh Administration had taken a decision that the houses built outside the 'Lal Dora' in all 22 villages of Chandigarh would not be demolished.