CHANDIGARH. India— The Chief Minister of Haryana State, Bhajan Lal, Friday alleged police and ruling party workers in neighboring Punjab were terrorizing villagers during a census to determine areas to be transferred to Haryana.
Lals charge came amid increasing tension between the two neighboring states over the planned Jan. 26 transfer of their shared capital Chandigarh to Punjab, which is to compensate Haryana by handing over some of its border villages.
The exchange was promised in an accord signed in July 1985 between Sikh moderates and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi aimed at settling Sikh political and economic grievances in Punjab.
A commission set up to decide which villages Punjab should relinquish this week sent more than 1,400 census takers 10 54 villages in two rich cotton growing areas of southwestern Punjab.
Article extracted from this publication >> January 24, 1986
