Saturday, April 12, 2014

‘People have voted for development; confident about victory’: Pawan Kumar Bansal

Chandigarh, April, 2014:

As the fate of all contesting candidates was sealed in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) here today, the Congress candidate, Mr. Pawan Kumar Bansal said he had trust in the electorate and was confident about his victory with a huge margin of votes. Mr. Bansal soon after casting his vote in Sector 28 Government Model Senior Secondary School said people had voted for development and not outsiders, terming ‘Modi Wave’ a farce.

Mr. Bansal’s along with his close family members started their day by visiting the Sai temple in Sector 29 here. There was activity at his Sector 28 residence since early morning as Mr. Bansal was expected to vote around 9 am.

Media had turned up in large numbers both at his residence and the Sector 28 government school as Mr. Bansal was the only candidate among the prominent candidates who has his vote in Chandigarh while the closes rivals BJP and AAP candidates are both outsiders.

He along with his wife, Madhu Bansal, sons Amit and Manish Bansal besides Mr. Pawan Bansal’s elder sister and brother-in-law reached the polling station at around 930 am where the electronic and print media had an interaction with him.

Mr. Bansal when asked how he felt, he said he was confident about his victory and was aware of the sentiment of people who voted for development. When asked how he felt about him contesting against two actresses, he said voters want their representative to be aware of which are areas and issues of city are not willing to vote for someone who doesn’t belong to the city and is unaware of what are the problems.

“Everything is in front of their eyes and no one can deny the progress made in the last 15 years”, he added. Mr. Bansal said there was no ‘Modi Wave’ as was being claimed by BJP, which had nothing else to talk about and had hence spent crores on just branding and making him a hero through campaigns while the people of this country had full faith in the leadership of Sonia Gandhi.

‘Chandigarh votes secured for performer Pawan Kumar Bansal’: Congress

Chandigarh, April, 2014:

A day before the city goes for Lok Sabha polls, local unit of Congress is confident that its candidate Mr. Pawan Kumar Bansal will win with a huge margin. A press statement issued by Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee (CTCC) president Mr. B.B. Bahl and party spokesperson, Pardeep Chhabra said Chandigarh people are aware of what Mr. Bansal has done for the city adding that candidates fielded by BJP and AAP were outsiders and in no way would even come close to the number of votes Mr. Bansal would fetch.

In a statement the leaders said while Mr. Bansal has performed in the field of education he would bring IIM and IIT to Chandigarh and would establish multi-institutional EduCity at Sarangpur institutional area. Mr. Bansal has also assured coming up with a planetarium in city.

It is during Mr. Bansal’s tenure that Panjab University got a sanction of Rs 750 crore in the last 5 years for institutes in science and technology, renovation of university houses, and construction of houses of teaching and non-teaching employees, besides moot court, department of laws, renovation of AC Joshi Library and hockey astroturf besides partial financing of indoor shooting range, four new hostels and technical approval of Rs 70 crore by Ministry of Science and Technology.Rs 1 crore was sanctioned under MPLADs for setting up Chandigarh Innovation Cluster (CRIKC).

In health sector several new projects got through like new blocks at GMCH 32, 50-bed hospital in sector 45, four new dispensaries in southern sectors, upgrading of polyclinic in sector 22, 300-bed trauma centre in sector 53, expansion of sector 16 GMSH besides several other projects. Funds amounting to Rs 835 crores were sanctioned in 10th and 11th Five Year Plans for modernization of operation theatres at PGI. Mr. Bansal has assured to bring pay parity between employees of PGI and All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

The city was adjudged as the first in sanitation by Ministry of Urban Development during Mr. Bansal’s tenure said the leaders. Mr. Bansal has assured he would take up issue of increase in FAR for SCO’s and SCF’s to permit three complete storeys.

As regards industrial area, Mr. Bansal has said he would ensure to take up all enterprises to operate in industrial area and greater covered area in industrial plots besides cutting down penalty for misuse. The Congress leaders said 10 new trains were introduced in just one year and 30 trains now connect to city linking it to over 100 cities including important business, tourist and pilgrimage cities. Upgradation of railway station is already underway to make it one of the world class stations.

Mr. Bansal would also work towards setting up an international convention centre, while keeping in mind community services, he would take up the issue of concessional land rates for social and religious societies. He would also work towards several plans for the ex-servicemen community and senior citizens, by opening new old age homes and 24 hour helpline for them. He would also work on permitting planned construction in periphery on the lines of Punjab and Haryana.

The leaders said if elected to power he would resolve the issue of making daily wagers permanent, which has been a long pending demand of the employees. They also said he would ensure regularization of need-based changes in the houses constructed by the Chandigarh Housing Board.

Mr. Bansal would take up an important demand for providing shelters to the homeless employees of Chandigarh administration once elected. Mr. Bansal would facilitate a project to have a big market in place of the Colony 5 which was removed some months back. He said when voted to power he would ensure such a project comes as it would encourage self-employment.

Friday, April 11, 2014

Pawan Kumar Bansal promises to take up issues pertaining to employees.

Chandigarh, April:

"Any organisation, may be government, cannot survive if it is not profitable and I will take all efforts to ensure that steps are taken to make the Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) profitable."

This was stated by congress candidate Pawan Kumar Bansal while addressing the members of Chandigarh Government Transport Workers Union.

Bansal said that he would try to get more buses inducted in CTU so that more and more long routes buses may be started and resultantly profitability is increased. He also assured the employees to take up their issues with the administration for an early resolution of those issues, particularly pertaining to appointment on compassionate grounds.

Pawan Kumar Bansal also said if elected to power he would resolve the issue of making daily wagers permanent, which has been a long pending demand of the employees.

He also said he would ensure regularisation of need-based changes in the houses constructed by the Chandigarh Housing Board. In almost 90 per cent of the 50,000 units in CHB colonies, additional construction has been made by the occupants. Thousands of notices have been issued by the CHB. The residents have been demanding that the changes be regularised as these were required in order to cater to their needs.

Bansal said UT employees had been protesting against Chandigarh administration for not considering their important demand for providing shelters to the homeless employees of Chandigarh administration under this scheme as per their commitments, and that he would take that up once he is elected.

Bansal said with the introduction of new trains to several cities of business interest, it would help the traders community. He said all penalties being faced by the community would be withdrawn when voted to power.

Speaking on the occasion, Pishora Singh, a retired CTU employee, said that presently the administration was taking steps to promote private buses entering Chandigarh. The interest of Chandigarh government employees needed to be safeguarded. In interest of the local employees, it was necessary to re-introduce the system of Chief Administrator of Chandigarh.

Senior congress leader Rampal Sharma, former Mayor, Ravinder Pal Singh, Chandigarh Government Transport Workers Union president, Mohar Singh and Raj Kumar also addressed the gathering.

During the day, a large number of residents of Bapu Dham colony took out a padyatra in the area to express their support to Bansal. Hundreds of residents of the area participating in the padyatra said that Bansal was a leader, easily accessible and always helped them, whereas tow other prominent candidates, Kirron Kher and Gul Panag were outsiders and were not able to win faith of the public.

Mr. Pawan Kumar Bansal while addressing the general public said he would facilitate a project to have a big market in place of the Colony 5 which was removed some months back. He said when voted to power he would ensure such a project comes as it would encourage self-employment.

Youth Congress padyatra shows party strength.

Chandigarh, April

Chandigarh Territorial Youth Congress today held a massive padyatra from Sector 17 plaza to Gandhi Samarak Bhawan. It was organised to show strength in the youth members supporting Congress candidate Mr. Pawan Kumar Bansal.

The party workers had gathered at the plaza attired in special T-shirts having the photograph of Mr. Bansal on one side and a slogan in his support on the other side. The workers had started gathering in the sector since morning while the rally took off around 1 pm. Manish Bansal and Harmel Kesari led the rally which saw Bansal's supporters holding Congress flags.

There has been a lot of activity  in the youth wing of the Congress. Two days back in a function organised by NSUI a lot of workers from other parties had joined the Congress trusting the ideology of the party.

During Mr. Bansal's tenure, a lot has been happening for the welfare of the youth in city. Mr. Bansal through MPLAD Funds have been consistently allocating for the upradation of sports activities and other facilities in schools and colleges.

The coming up of the Rajiv Gandhi Chandigarh Technology Park (RGCTP) as the name suggests is a project initiated by the Congress, which created hundreds of job opportunities in Chandigarh.

Other leaders present at the padyatra were Anand Singh Kajheri, Deep Singh Behlana and Amit, besides others.

Mr. Pawan Kumar Bansal during a public meeting in Sector 52 furniture market expressed concern over the need for a permanent market for those selling furniture, which could also house similar goods. He said Chandigarh needs such markets where people can go an buy their household goods. He even blamed the Chandigarh Administration officers for not thinking about the needs of the people, advocating the need for a permanent market. He added that administration wanted to remove them but because of his intervention it was stalled. Mr. Bansal expressed concern that there have been fires earlier in the market which further necessitated the need for having permanent shops.

'No property tax for ex-servicemen': Pawan Kumar Bansal

Chandigarh, April, 2014

Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal while addressing a public meeting in Sector 35 while speaking about the contribution made by ex-servicemen in the security of the country said a lot needs to be done for those who had spent their lives serving the nation. He said the municipal corporation of Chandigarh had already mulled the proposal to exempt ex-servicemen from property tax, which would be a major relief to them brought by the Congress regime.

Mr. Bansal also referred to the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme approved by the central government, which he said had been a long pending demand of those in defence services. OROP basically implies payment of uniform pension to personnel retiring in the same rank with the same length of service irrespective of their date of retirement. Consequently, any further hike in pension rates is automatically passed on to past pensioners.

He said city has seen development all these years and has been connected to several religious places and those of business interest through trains. He said tourism potential of city will also be explored since it was becoming an important destination having been connected to several cities and with international flights soon taking off from here, it will soon be directly connected to cities abroad.

Mr. Bansal said ex-servicemen need to be taken care of and also stressed on the need for having a strong social security network for the senior citizens. He recalled the Congress manifesto highlights of Right to Health and Right to Home, which he said was a landmark decision of the government, which had also introduced the revolutionary Right to Information and Right to Education.

Among others present on the occasion were Madhu Bansal, Maj. D.S. Sandhu (retd.), Amarjeet Sethi and Principal Gurbachan Singh.

Addressing a rally in Manimajra Housing Complex, Mr. Pawan Kumar Bansal said city has seen a lot of development and took on the BJP for blaming him for not bringing any project to city. He added this city doesn't need projects but development of the existing infrastructure.

Mr. Bansal also spoke about the Manimajra hospital upgradation and on the overall health services in Chandigarh.

Amrit Dhingra, president of Residents Welfare Association said Mr. Bansal works with and for all sections of the community.

Members of Pipliwala Town Residents Welfare Association, Modern Housing Complex, Senior Citizens Association, Mariwala Town and Shanti Nagar residents were there in support of Mr Bansal. Among those present were Ramesh Kumar Goyal of Pipliwala Town Residents Welfare Association, former mayor Surinder Singh,block president of Congress Mahipal Sharma, Satbir Aggarwal. Satbir Garg, Balkrishan Bansal, Urvashi Sharma, S.K. Kaushik and Ramesh Goyal.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Congress campaign at a new high; cycle rally lists achievements Agarwal Samaj announces support to Pawan Kumar Bansal.

Chandigarh, April, 2014

A cycle rally by the Congress Sewa Dal was a big hit as the workers of the Dal moved around the city to campaign for the party candidate Mr. Pawan Kumar Bansal. The campaign also picked up momentum as the Agarwal Samaj extended full support to theCongress candidate.

The rally was flagged off from Congress Bhawan in Sector 35 and passed from different sectors including sectors 36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 56, 24, 23, and 22 besides other sectors.

The workers were appealing to the people to vote for Congress and also distributed campaign material listing achievements in favour of the party. Among those who were a part of the rally included Achhe Lal Gaur, Naresh Pal Gaur, Mehraj Bano, Avshesh, Altaf Ali, Latafaz Khan, M.P. Chauhan, Om Parkash, Mahesh Pasand among others.

A Padyatra was carried out in the morning in Dadumajra where Mr. Bansal also visited an eye operation camp. Eye operation camp had been organised by Guru Gobind Singh Sports Club.

In an interaction in Teachers Colony in sector 33, Mr Bansal got full support from the teachers for his development works and overall performance in city.  Radha Swami Satsang has extended support, informed Sanjeev Aggarwal and Davinder Babla as Mr. Bansal visited Radha Swami Satsang in sector 27 this morning.

Mr. Bansal also visited Sector 48 Universal Enclave and heard the issues of the society. The residents expressed full support to Mr. Bansal. Among prominent there included Harmel Kesari, Gurbax Rawat, Subhash Chawla, Devinder Babla, Arun, Meenakshi Chaudhary, B.S. Cheema, and Sunil Chopra among others.

A door to door campaign was also carried out in Burail by Mr. Bansal who got tremendous support there.

Among those present there were Jatinder Bhatia. Vijay Rana, Balwinder Singh and others. In sector 7 a campaign was carried out by Mr. Bansal in car bazaar.

The members of Agarwal Samaj have announced their support to congress candidate and sitting MP, Pawan Kumar Bansal in a function organized here on Sunday.

Various speakers of the organization during the address said that Bansal had worked for the city. The development taken place in city during his tenure was visible. The speakers said that Bansal was accessible and he or any member of his family could be easily contacted at their sector 28 residence. Whereas the residents would find it difficult to approach BJP candidate Kirron Kher or Aam Admi Party candidate Gul Panag.

Anand Singla, president of youth wing of Akhil Bhartiya Agarwal Samelan said that the infrastructure had improved and the connectivity through rail and air had improved in the city.

Balkrishan Bansal, President of Maharaja Agarsen Welfare Trust said that health facilities in government hospitals in city were best in the country. The city had ot PGI, best after All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, dispensaries in many sectors, GMCH, sector 32, GMSH, sector 16. Now the facilities in government hospital in Manimajra had been upgraded, Bansal said.

Addressing the gathering, Pawan Kumar Bansal assured that city would soon have international flights. Further, the educational facilities in the city would further improve, Bansal said. His wife, Madhu Bansal was also present on the occasion.

Prominent among those who were present included, Madhu Bansal, Gopal Saran Garg, General Secretary of All India Akhil Bhartiya Agarwal Samelan, Satpal Aggarwal, Kulbhushan Goel, Bal Krishan Aggarwal, Jagmohan Garg, Sajjan Jindal, Satpal Gupta, D.D.Jindal and president of Jain Samaj, Jaipal Jain, Tarsem Mittal, Chander Bhan Garg,

Prabhu Dyal Bagdi, Chairman of the SC Morcha of BSP joined the Congress party. He joined the party with hundreds of his supporters. Congress has the advantage over other parties as most of the senior leaders are joining the party as they have full faith in the party leadership and ideology.

‘Only MP Pawan Bansal can take city to international level’

Chandigarh, April, 2014:

Haryana Chief Minister Mr. Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said only Mr. Pawan Kumar Bansal can take city to international level. Addressing a massive rally here in Sector 56 he also attacked the opposition parties saying their candidates were parachute candidates who don’t even know about the sectors, how would they know about the issues.

“Chandigarh’s name is associated with Pawan Bansal and today we have the best connectivity as far as trains are concerned and airport is also being upgraded and getting better connectivity. I would say this is the first smart city of India”, he said.

The chief minister said UPA government has given several rights to the people through its policies, most important of which were Right to Health and Home.

Mr. Hooda said he has a special bonding with Chandigarh as he has studied here, adding that it was only Pawan Bansal who knows about progress. He appealed to the people to vote for Mr. Bansal keeping in mind their future. Mr. Hooda was also presented a Saropa on the occasion. He also addressed a rally in Maloya.

Mr. Pawan Bansal while speaking on the occasion said Chandigarh has set an example as far as development is concerned and also slum rehabilitation, which promises homes to 60,000 people. He said the outsiders will not be able to meet any promises when most of the time they will be in Mumbai not concerned about the problems of people here.

Mr. B.B. Bahl while speaking on the occasion said Mr. Bansal had done what no one can do for the city and people can see the development and that is the reason why he has been elected four times as MP.

Poonam Sharma, Congress leader said Mr. Bansal is one person who has always thought about bringing in policies for the benefit of women. She appealed to the people to vote for Mr. Bansal if they want to see the city growing.

Darshan Garg, while speaking on the occasion said Mr. Bansal had worked for the welfare of people in colonies and slum rehabilitation was one example which is being considered as a landmark project.

Others who were present on the occasion included, Madhu Bansal, Rampal Sharma, Pardeep Chhabra, Devinder Babla, Harmel Kesari, H.S. Lucky, Gurbax Rawat, Bhupinder Badheri, Jeet Behlana, Kamlesh Chaudhary, Mohammad Sadiq Sheikh, Pardeep Bhardwaj, Nachattar Singh, Naved, Gurmeet Singh, Principal Gurbachan Singh, Ahmed Ali.