Chandigarh: Talking to the media after meeting the family of Congress leader and late Chaudhary Santokh Singh, Navjot Singh Sidhu came down heavily on the Punjab government. “The Aam Aadmi Party only lied in the name of change. After the AAP government came to power in Punjab, the mafia did not end, but the sand, liquor and cable mafia still exists.”

The Lok Sabha by-election in Jalandhar will make everything clear that people are fed up from AAP government. He also questioned the government’s promise to end drugs in 10 days.

Sidhu claimed that he was not hungry for any post and only wanted to remain an ordinary party worker to work for the welfare of Punjab.

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Chandigarh: From April 1, booze lovers will have to pay extra money to buy liquor in Chandigarh as administration has increased minimum retail price of beer in the tricity.

The administration has hiked Rs 10 for strong and light beer (650 ml).

Different contractors charging Rs 100 for a 650ml beer bottle and another charged Rs 130 for it during this financial year. If such differences in prices continue in the next fiscal, the price would vary between Rs 110 to 150, said a contractor on the request of anonymity.

Meanwhile, 330 ml bottle will continue to have MSP of Rs 60 and 500ml will also remain unchanged at Rs 80 while price of super-mild beer also remains same Rs at 60 as last year.

The MSP price of country liquor has also been increased by Rs 10 to Rs 25, depending on the category.

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Chandigarh: Election Commission of India, after the Model Code of Conduct came into force, seized valuables worth Rs 500.70 crores till February 18, 2022.

The Punjab Excise surveillance teams have seized 58.18 lakh litres of liquor worth Rs 35.43 crore. Similarly, the enforcement wings have also recovered psychotropic substances amounting to Rs 368.60 crores besides confiscating unaccounted cash of Rs 32.52 crore, he added.

Moreover, 17 Assembly Constituencies in the state have been identified as Expenditure Sensitive. There are 117 Dispatch Centres and 117 Collection Centres, while 117 EVM Strong Rooms have been established at 67 locations in the state,

Chief Electoral Officer Dr S Karuna Raju said that 3467 FIRs have been registered in the state from January 9, 2022 to February 18, 2022. He said of total 3467 FIRs, 93 are related to IPC, 22 under RP Act, 203 of Property Defacement, 40 COVID-19 related, 902 are related with NDPS, 2109 of Excise, 80 regarding Arms and 18 are others.

He said that as many as 17 notices have been issued for causing noise pollution since the model code of conduct came into force.

The CEO informed that they have received a total of 16637 complaints on cVigil app till February 19, 2022 since Model Code of Conduct came into the force, of which, 12194 complaints have been resolved in less than 100 minutes. Our teams have handled these complaints in an average handling time of 45 minutes 60 seconds and accuracy rates in 94 percent, he added.

Apart from this, Dr Raju said that 619 complaints were received from ECI, of which 565 have been disposed-off, while 54 are under process. Similarly, 507 complaints have been received on National Grievances Redressal Portal (NGRS) of which 467 were disposed-off, while, 40 are under process, he added.

The CEO said that all DCs, CPs and SSPs have been keeping strict vigil to check the incidents of distribution of liquor, narcotics and money for inducing the voters and raids would be conducted immediately on receiving information or complaints.

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CHANDIGARH: After the Model Code of Conduct came into force in the state for Punjab Vidhan Sabha elections, various enforcement teams have seized valuables worth Rs 449.55 crores since the implementation of Election model code of conduct till February 15, 2022.

Giving details in this regard, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Punjab Dr S Karuna Raju today said that the Punjab Excise surveillance teams have seized 50.19 lakh litres of liquor worth Rs 30.37 crore. Similarly, the enforcement wings have also recovered psychotropic substances amounting to Rs 325.87 crores besides confiscating unaccounted cash of Rs 30.77 crore, he added.

The Chief Electoral Officer revealed that as many as 1540 vulnerable hamlets have been identified. Besides this, 4292 persons have been identified as probable sources of trouble, he said adding that out of these persons preventive action had already been initiated against 3778 persons while the remaining would also be brought to book.

He also informed that from a security point of view 2532 persons have been bound down under preventive sections of CrPC act.

He informed that all the 3163 cases of non-bailable warrants have been executed. As many as 28375 nakas are operational across the State, he added.

While implementing the directions of the election commission, Dr Raju said that of total 3,90,170 licensed weapons in the state 3,79,648 weapons have been deposited till date. Whereas, 130 without licenses weapons were seized in the state.

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