Jain flays Cong govt

Chandigarh Tribune

BJP members and local leaders protesting against the Congress government at Rose Garden roundabout in Chandigarh on Saturday.

CHANDIGARH, APRIL 22: The local unit of the Bhartiya Janata Party today came down heavily on the local Congress for failing to redress pressing problems regarding the electricity and water supply during their tenure in the Municipal Corporation which ends later this year.

Addressing a protest demonstration at the Matka Chowk, Mr Satya Pal Jain, a former Member of Parliament, said "the present Congress Government has been exposed within two years of its rule on account of non-performance at the Centre and Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, the Minister of State for Finance, has been exposed within two months for not providing electricity and water to the city as per the requirements".

Mr Jain said, "First the houses are demolished at the instance of the Congress Government and the officers of the Municipal Corporation and subsequently Congress leaders visit these places to show lip sympathy to the people whose houses have been demolished. The Congress is in power in the Centre, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Chandigarh Municipal Corporation. The party should either solve the problem or should resign. They should not mislead people". ...

Jain blames Cong for inflation in city

Chandigarh Newsline

CHANDIGARH, APRIL 22: Former BJP MP Satya Pal Jain today said that the Congress-led UPA government, local Congress MP, Congress-dominated Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh and the entire Congress party were collectively responsible for the steep price hike in the UT.

Jain, who is also the national convener of the BJP's Legal and Legislative Business Cell, said the common man's life in the UT has become miserable due to steep rise in prices, demolition of the houses, non-supply of electricity, dearth of drinking water and opening of liquor vends in abundance.

Jain was addressing a protest demonstration organised by the Chandigarh BJP at Matka Chowk against the anti-people and anti-poor policies of the UPA government. Thousands of people, including many women, from various parts of the city, villages and colonies participated in this dharna. ...

In Palsora, now a clinic instead of liquor vend

Chandigarh Newsline

CHANDIGARH, APRIL 1: WHILE villagers of Palsora opposing the opening of a liquor vend in their village tasted success today by getting the vend shifted far, public protests at Sector 15 over the location of a liquor shop there reached a crescendo with politicians cutting across party lines and joining a large demonstration.

        Former Chandigarh MP and BJP leader Satyapal Jain, former mayor and Congress councillor Anu Chatrath and local SAD leader and SGPC Chandigarh member Gurpratap Singh Ryar participated in the Sector 15 residents and shopkeepers' demonstrations even as the liquor vend by APL Overseas Pvt Ltd formally opened.

        The leaders vowed to ensure the relocation of the liquor vend to a site "reasonably far" from residential, religious and educational areas. Jain grabbed the opportunity to flay the "indifference and inability" of sitting MP and Union State Minister for Finance Pawan Bansal to get the vend shifted. ...

BJP accuses Centre of discrimination towards Chandigarh

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CHANDIGARH: The BJP today accused the Centre of showing discriminatory attitude towards the people of Chandigarh on power and water fronts.

"Recently the Punjab government refused to release the share of water from Kajauli water works to Chandigarh but the Centre remained a mute spectator on the issue," BJP national executive committee member Satya Pal Jain told reporters here.

Under an agreement between the union territory of Chandigarh and Punjab government, the state was supposed to release additional 20 mgd water to Chandigarh, he said adding that Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh categorically refused to follow the agreement signed about 30 years ago.

Jain, a former MP from the city, also alleged that Chandigarh was not getting its share of power from the Bakhra Beas management board (BBMB).

"Since the last December, the additional power supply of 70 mw to the city by the BBMB has also been withdrawn," he said.