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Highway horror in Moga; 18 dead.11 of family killed in truck-canter crash

Posted on Tuesday, 8 May 2012 by Punjabi Articles


Eighteen persons, including six women and five children, were killed in a head-on collision between a Canter and a truck near Ghal Kalan village on the Moga-Ferozepur national highway in the wee hours here today.

The victims hailed from Daulatpura Uchha and Daulatpura Niwan villages of the Moga district. They were returning home in the Canter (HP-73-1054) after paying obeisance at the Nanaksar Kaleran gurdwara situated in the Jagraon subdivision of Ludhiana district.

The accident took place around 2 am. While 14 persons were killed on the spot, four others died in a Moga hospital. No one travelling in the Canter could survive.

Preliminary investigations by the police revealed that the speeding truck (PB-29G-9765) crashed head-on with the Canter while trying to overtake some vehicle. Satpal Singh Bhangu SP (D) said the truck driver fled from the spot leaving behind his vehicle.

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SAD’s Moga rally ‘big, but not big enough’

Posted on Monday, 19 December 2011 by Punjabi Articles


It was expected to be the “mother of all rallies” and the “largest ever in the world” but Shiromani Akali Dal’s Maha Vikas Rally today turned out to be a classic case of being ‘big, but not big enough’.

Though Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal proclaimed from the stage that 6-8 lakh people were present at the rally, independent observers felt that the figure was much less.

When Sukhbir arrived on the dais at 11.45 am, a majority of the chairs in the ‘pandal’ spread over 250 acres of agricultural land, were lying vacant and remained so till the culmination of the rally.

Much to the embarrassment of the party, people started leaving the venue when Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, the last speaker, got up to address the gathering at around 3 pm.

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GOVT BLATANTLY USING OFFICIAL MACHINERY FOR MOGA RALLY: CAPT

Posted on Thursday, 15 December 2011 by Punjabi Articles

Alleging blatant abuse of the official machinery to bring people to SAD’s Moga rally, state Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh said that Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal was resorting to his characteristic “self-delusionary tactics” by claiming to mobilise five lakh people for the rally on December 18 by abusing his power.

“The deputy commissioners, district transport officers, tehsildars, DSPs, SHOs and patwaris have been asked and assigned the task of getting the numbers. Then why just five lakh why not 10 lakh people, as it is matter of your imagination only and it can be as big and large as your wild imagination can run,” Amarinder said in a press statement.

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