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Sweet Politics
The issue of giving away one kilo jaggery per month to every sweeper in the city by the Municipal Corporation has become a bone of contention among political parties. The ruckus in the House Meeting ensured that the councillors approved all items without reading them. One of these included giving one kilo jaggery to the sweepers.
The Congress is now claiming that the BJP does not want jaggery to be given to the sweepers and protests were held on the issue.
In damage control mode,the BJP has been quick to clarify that the party wishes that five kilo jaggery be given per month to every sweeper.
No other policy decision seems to have invoked such reactions among the parties as becoming the messiah for backward classes.
CM good,advisors bad!
Rising above party politics,the young Congress MP from Anandpur Sahib Ravneet Singh Bittu is all praise for Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. A day after the CM released funds for the construction of a bridge on SYL canal in a Mohali village,for which Bittu had begged alms in a container carrying photos of Badal. The Punjab Youth Congress president remarked,Badal saab ta changge han par unha de salahkaar hi maare han… (Badal Sahib is good but his advisors are bad…). Though Bittu did not name any one in particular,his target seemed to be Badals aide,who had lost him the last Lok Sabha polls.
Has the time come?
With rumours of Panjab University Vice Chancellor Prof R C Sobtis appointment as the Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University doing the rounds on campus,several prospective candidates are already gearing up and throwing their hats in the ring for the coveted post. While Prof Sobti chose to remain silent on the issue,people are desperately contacting all sources from Delhi to Banaras,to get confirmation about his departure.
Sales touch cloud nine
They citys rich and mighty seem to have been waiting for CITCOs new rooftop restaurant Cloud Nine,in Hotel Shivalikview,Sector 17,to open. On the opening day,the restaurant did a record business of Rs 1.66 lakhs with a little over 150 guests and that too without any party bookings. Going by the number of eateries already existing in the city,one could not have expected such a whopping sale in a government run hospitality service. But then,the citys rich and wealthy seem to be living it up and breaking the barriers when it comes to fine dining in style.
Eye raising complaint
It could not have been more bizarre than this. At Government Multi Specialty Hospital,Sector 16,the hospital administration had a strange complaint to deal with recently.
One of the nurses complained against a fellow nurse that the latter gets her eyebrows threading done in the hospital and asks junior nurses to do the job.
Shocked,the hospital administration immediately went on to order an inquiry into the episode to find out the truth.
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