* Mr. Gurjit Singh, the newly appointed Convener of the AISSF warned that the Federation would give a befitting reply to those who ‘was desecrating Sikh Shrines, killing youths in “fake encounters” harassing the innocent and misguiding the Sikh youth by posing as their leaders,
He asked the Sikh youth to get them baptized to face the government onslaught,
* Dr. Rajinder Kaur Khalsa, a lecturer in Philosophy in a college in Pune was arrested under the Terrorist Act in connection with offences relating to the assassination of General Vaidya.
Mr. Hans Raja along with two others was killed by scooter borne gunmen in Jullundur. Mr Hans Raj’s sister is married to Harbans Singh Narang, the prime accused the Delhi transistor bomb case. It is stated that he got his sister arrested when she came to Jullundur after the arrest of her husband; it is suspected that the murder of Hans Raj was in retaliation for his role in the arrest of his sister.
* “Perhaps the most outstanding achievement of Barnala government in the past year is that tis till there. Mr. Barnala has survived a party split, a mini scandal in the family a fiece violence campaign, flow and ebb of two way migration and a spate of ministerial indiscretions.” says an editorial in the Tribune, Chandigarh
* Alter the killing of Baldev Singh Mann, a communist leader, CP (ML) was critical of Chief Minister’s claim that the situation in Punjab was returning to normal.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 24, 1986
