With an eye on elections,Congress leader warms up to his constituency

The programme was flagged off by the District Congress Committee Ludhiana (urban) president Pawan Dewan from Lohara village.

Sidhu said in the first phase of his public contact programme people had come out with lot of problems particularly relating to drinking water and sewerage. Claiming that there were frequent outbreaks of gastroenteritis cases and other water related diseases,the PCC delegate accused the administration of having failed to take any action in this regard.

Sidhu said hundreds of people in the area had complained to him that their ration cards and voter identity cards had not yet been prepared.

A detailed document listing the problems being faced by the people of his constituency will be prepared and brought to the notice of the senior party leadership,Bhupinder Sidhu said.

He claimed that although he has been available to the people round the clock in his office,he decided to knock at their doors to enquire about their problems so that he could help in solving and sorting them out.

He further said that he would go expand his mass contact programme.

District Congress Committee pays tribute to the Father of the Nation

Ludhiana: Glowing tributes were paid to Mahatma Gandhi,the father of the nation on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti here on Sunday. The main function of the party was held at District Congress Committee office which was presided over by its president Pawan Dewan. Speaking on the occasion,Dewan said,if India was free and progressing today it was because of the sacrifices of the great leaders like Gandhi . He said,Gandhi had given a new concept of non-violence to the world which was quite unheard of till that time. The DCC president said,Mahatma Gandhi had united the entire nation to fight the tyranny of the British rule. He said,the British empire which took pride in the fact that sun never set on it,had to bow out before the non violence of Gandhi. Dewan also criticised the Akali-BJP government in the state for its failure for coming up to the expectations of the people. He said,it was strange that the Akali-BJP leadership was paying tributes to Gandhi while not following a single principle of the leader.