Former MP criticises Hansi idols theft

Chandigarh Newsline- Chandigarh, India
CHANDIGARH, OCTOBER 28: Former MP Satya Pal Jain, while strongly criticising yesterday's theft of precious historical idols from a Jain temple in Hansi, has demanded an inquiry by a high-level government agency for unearthing the conspiracy behind the theft.
In a statement issued today, Jain said the Jain community has been shocked by the unprecedented theft of idols from the historical temple at Hansi....

BJP Cautions Congress on religious reservations

The Hindu`Vote bank politics will lead to another partition of the country'

[Satpal Jain (centre), National convener of BJP Legal Cell, with party colleague Bandaru Dattatreya and State unit president N. Indrasena Reddy at the first national zonal legal cell convention in Hyderabad on Saturday. - Photo : P.V. Sivakumar] (IMAGE COURTESY: The Hindu)
HYDERABAD, OCTOBER 23: Expressing concern over the moves by the Congress Governments to provide reservations to Muslims, former MP and BJP Legal Cell national convenor Satpal Jain has warned the Congress against "playing with fire" for the sake of a few seats in Parliament and Assemblies.
Reservations to Muslims, if not opposed, would result in dividing the people on religious lines and lead to another partition of the country in the long run. "These parties which claim themselves as secularists are advocating communal ideas like reservations to Muslims," he said. Mr. Jain was delivering the inaugural address at the party's 4th State legal convention and the first national zonal convention organised here on Saturday. ...
Satpal Jain (middle), National convenor of the BJP Legal Cell in conversation with Bandaru Dattatreya at the First National Zonal Legal Cell convention in Hyderabad on October 22, 2005. At right is N. Indrasena Reddy, State BJP president. Photo: P.V. Sivakumar (Courtesy: TheHinduImages.com)

BJP cautions Cong on religious reservations

Central Chronicle-- Nation
HYDERABAD, OCTOBER 23: Expressing concern over the moves by the Congress Governments to provide reservations to Muslims, former MP and BJP Legal Cell national convenor Satpal Jain has warned the Congress against "playing with fire" for the sake of a few seats in Parliament and Assemblies.
Reservations to Muslims, if not opposed, would result in dividing the people on religious lines and lead to another partition of the country in the long run......

Muslims' reservation; Congress playing with fire says BJP

Webindia123- India
HYDERABAD, OCTOBER 22: Charging the Congress with playing ''vote bank politics'' by going ahead with reservation for Muslims in Andhra Pradesh, the BJP's Legal Cell today said it would fight the religion-based reservation legally.
''Power keeps changing hands. Just for the sake of MP and MLA seats don't play with fire,'' Cell National convener and former MP Satpal Jain advised the Congress Party while taking part in the first National Zonal Legal Cell convention here......

Manmohan Singh has no option but to quit: BJP

Webindia123- India
HYDERABAD, OCTOBER 22: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has no option but to quit owning responsibility for proclamation of ''unconstitutional'' President's rule in Bihar, Bharatiya Janata Party Legal cell National Convener Satpal Jain said today.
It would have been proper on the part of the UPA government to at least recall Bihar Governor Buta Singh, who had cast a slur on the August office by recommending President's rule, in the wake of the Supreme court observation in the case, he said while taking part in the first BJP national zonal legal cell convention here......

Notification draws critisism

The Chandigarh Tribune
Chandigarh, October 21: The notification regarding the transfer of certain powers to the Municipal Corporation by the Chandigarh Administration has come in for severe criticism from members of the corporation and political parties in the city. ...
... Mr Satya Pal Jain, a former Member of Parliament, said: "The situation of no actual power in the notification was a reflection on the Congress rule in the city. The Congress enjoyed power in Punjab, Haryana and even in the Centre, yet the bureaucracy managed to keep all actual power in its hands. In the first place it is the government in power which can take initiatives and initiate a change". ...

Punjab refuses more water to Chandigarh

The Tribune- Punjab, India
CHANDIGARH: OCTOBER 17: Punjab has refused to give more water to the Union Territory of Chandigarh. Informed sources said today that a decision of the Punjab Government headed by the Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, had been conveyed to the UT administration. ...
...senior BJP leader and former MP, Mr Satpal Jain, has urged the Union Home Ministry to take up the issue of water supply with Capt Amarinder Singh.

BJP activists seek PM's resignation

The Tribune- Chandigarh, India
CHANDIGARH, OCTOBER 8: Demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, in the wake of the Supreme Court judgement on Bihar, BJP activists today demonstrated at the Matka Chowk here today.
A former local MP, Mr Satya Pal Jain, held Dr Manmohan Singh, responsible for the Assembly dissolution as he was the chief administrator of the country. The Supreme Court judgement had exposed the real faces of the Congress, and its Left allies. Mr Buta Singh was specially sent by the Congress-led UPA Government to stall the formation of any non-Congress and non-RJD government in Bihar, he alleged.

For Bihar, BJP protests at Matka Chowk

Chandigarh Newsline- Chandigarh, India
CHANDIGARH, OCTOBER 8: BJP activists held a demonstration at Matka Chowk here today against the Congress-led UPA government in the wake of Apex court verdict which found the dissolution of Bihar Vidhan Sabha, unconstitutional. ...
...Speaking on the occasion, ex-MP and Convener of BJP's Legal Cell, Satya Pal Jain lashed out at the Congress for Bihar Assembly's unconstitutional dissolution and said ."Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh has burdened the Bihar people with an unnecessary election. It has always been the Congress' culture that whenever it came to power, it tried its best to topple the non-Congress state governments"...

City wrapped in Cong flags: Other parties unfurl wrath

Chandigarh Newsline - Chandigarh, India
Chandigarh, October 7: A NUMBER of political units today condemned the Congress for "violating all norms by putting up flags on government building and misusing the official machinery". However, the flags put up at the Punjab Raj Bhawan were removed today. ...
... Former MP Satya Pal Jain told Newsline that it was very unfortunate that the Congress was putting up flags on the government buildings. Jain said officials of the UT Administration were also following the instructions of the party blindly and offering the official machinery for "misuse". ...

Telecom firm throws her a line of hope in red-tape jungle

Chandigarh Newsline - Chandigarh, India
CHANDIGARH OCTOBER 4: LIKE any other girl her age, 26-year-old Mamta is full of confidence and dreams - despite the crippling reality that she has lost both her legs and her right hand in a bomb explosion in Aligarh 14 years back. What has shaken her the most, is the indifference shown by the UT's politicians and the Administration to her years of prayers for a government job or a shop from the handicapped quota.
So when a telecom company and a local voluntary organisation extended a helping hand, this poor girl at Manimajra saw a ray of hope in a society she thought was choking with red-tapism and callousness. HFCL Infotech Ltd, owners of the Connect brand of telecom services, on Tuesday installed an STD-PCO at Mamta's house in New Indira Colony. Voluntary organisation 'The Roses' helped in the initiative and the Connect STD-PCO was inaugurated by former Chandigarh MP Satya Pal Jain. ...