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Mohammad Ghazali

Mohammad Ghazali is a multimedia correspondent with Hindustan Times based in Punjab. He was earlier associated with Media Network of India as a research associate with Paranjoy Guha Thakurta in New Delhi. Having a post graduate degree from Asian College of Journalism, his area of interest includes Indian politics and economy.

Articles by Mohammad Ghazali

SGPC land dispute in Mansa village: Wheat crop on 93 acres harvested under police security

As the Punjab and Haryana court ordered the district administration to deposit the crop harvest on 93 acres of land with the registrar of the court, last month, the harvesting on the disputed land was done under heavy police security on Monday afternoon in Kotdharmu village.

The dispute between the SGPC and local villagers is over the ownership of 98 acres of land which also includes the historic gurdwara of Soolisar Sahib in Kotdharmu village.(HT File)

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Updated on Apr 18, 2017 02:24 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

Moisture content: Farmers being denied entry to Mansa grain market

The farmers arriving at the grain market here were in a rude shock when their produce had to undergo a moisture check and failing which they were denied entry into the market on Saturday.

The moisture content in the crop being measured at the gate of the grain market in Mansa.(HT Photo)

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Published on Apr 16, 2017 03:33 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

School ‘under RSS’ skips holiday on Ambedkar birth anniversary, faces action in Punjab’s Mansa

After receiving a complaint, officials of the Mansa district education department visited a school, Sarvahitkari Vidya Mandir, in Dulowal village and found it to be open on Ambedkar Jayanti on Friday. This, among other violations, is part of a report sent to higher officials for action against the school, which, according to its principal, “comes under the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh)”.

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Updated on Apr 14, 2017 09:52 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

Mansa village panchayat passes resolution to boycott liquor vends

In a rare instance, the Dariyapur Kalan village panchayat has adopted a resolution to boycott liquor and tobacco vends. Sarpanch of the village Jaswinder Singh of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) said that he was inspired by chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh, who has vowed to wipe out drugs from the state within four weeks.

A signboard outside Dariyapur Kalan village in Mansa.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Apr 10, 2017 12:06 PM IST

Hindustan times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

Sukhbir Badal accuses state govt of vendetta politics in Mansa

On sidelines of a thanksgiving rally in Mansa, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Badal criticised the state government for resorting to vendetta politics and not following the promises mentioned in its election manifesto here on Tuesday.

Former deputy CM of Punjab and SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Apr 05, 2017 05:47 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

Loose electricity wires leading to fire incidents in fields in Mansa

While the district administration has repeatedly warned farmers to refrain from stubble burning, a number of incidents have been reported where farmers have lost their crops to fire caused by loose electric wires passing over their fields, thanks to the electricity department in Mansa.

President of the district unit of the Jamhoori Kisan Sabha Iqbal Singh Phaphre showing the hanging hightension wire over a field in Mansa on Friday..(HT Photo)

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Updated on Apr 02, 2017 03:47 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Patiala | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

Video: Harsimrat Kaur Badal blames BJP for Punjab poll loss

The blame game has begun within the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party combine after the Punjab poll debacle, with Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal firing the first salvo on Tuesday.

Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal .(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Mar 15, 2017 09:49 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa/Chandigarh | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

Truck unions’ clash leaves 2 dead, one injured in Mansa

Members of two truck unions, owing allegiance to the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Congress, clashed at Bareta town of Mansa on Sunday morning leaving two persons dead and one injured.

Raju alias Rajesh one of the victim killed in the shooting between truck union groups.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Mar 12, 2017 09:07 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

Joga Peer shrine: Court asks govt trust to stay off holy place, accuses DIG of exerting undue pressure

The civil judge here has ordered the trust constituted by the district administration not to interfere in the management of the Baba Jogi Peer shrine.

Baba Jogi Peer shrine in Mansa.(HT File)

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Updated on Mar 10, 2017 03:42 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

Religion and politics should go together, says SGPC chief Badungar

Last year, Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal had publicly criticised the SGPC for taking more interest in politics than its primary job of religious preaching.

SGPC president Kirpal Singh Badungar.(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Mar 04, 2017 11:33 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

AAP launches survey on drug addicts in Mansa

The party volunteers have been given a rehabilitation form, which will be filled with personal details of the patient and his/her addiction history.

The rehabilitation form distributed by AAP.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Feb 28, 2017 08:32 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

Video| Face-off between two labour unions continues in Mansa

The rivalry between two labour unions, one backed by CPI(ML) Liberation, and another by a private NGO, Volunteer for Social Justice (VSJ) , intensified when AAP leader and Dalit icon Bant Singh Jhabbar attacked CPI(ML) Liberation for exploiting the cause of labourers for political mileage.

AAP leader and Dalit icon Bant Singh Jhabbar attacked CPI(ML) Liberation for exploiting the cause of labourers for political mileage.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Feb 23, 2017 04:16 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

‘Fine for auto-start switch’ rumour terrifies farmers in Mansa

Farmers in the district got panicky after rumours of powercom officials imposing fine on them for using auto-start switch on their tubewell connection, went viral here on Wednesday.

A farmer holding an auto-start switch used for tubewells(HT Photo)

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Updated on Feb 23, 2017 03:17 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

No counselling for suicide victim families in Mansa

While families of the farmers, who committed suicide, have been struggling to get compensation, the promise of free counselling session made by the state government has also not been fulfilled in Mansa. The state government, in a notification issued in 2015, had suggested officials of revenue and agriculture departments to hold a counselling session with the family of the deceased farmer for at least one year to bring the family out of stress.

The counselling session was intended to train such families to opt for other sources of income involving agricultural practice.(HT Representative Image)

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Updated on Feb 22, 2017 05:30 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

Mansa murder convict rearrested: A threat from jail-time lover triggered his escape

A day after murder convict Gurtej Singh escaped from the Mansa jail, he was nabbed in Nabha on Thursday afternoon. And, behind it, the police have unravelled a love affair that blossomed behind bars but went wrong later.

Gurtej, who was serving life term, had killed his lover’s husband in 2005. The lover, Roshni, had already served her jail time.(HT Representative Image)

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Updated on Feb 17, 2017 09:57 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

‘Cong brought terrorism, AAP reviving it’: Parkash Singh Badal’s caution call to voters

On the last day of campaigning, chief minister Parkash Singh Badal read out the political history of Punjab and kept reiterating that voting for the Congress or the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) “will bring back the dark days of militancy and push the state into crisis”. The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) patron was speaking in Sardulgarh at a rally for SAD candidate Dilraj Singh Bhunder.

Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Feb 02, 2017 08:45 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Sardulgarh (Mansa) | ByMohammad Ghazali

Maur blasts: A fiery thud that killed three friends and many hopes

Politics is a dirty game, it is said. Nobody will believe in this epithet more than families of three boys who succumbed to their injuries at a hospital here on Wednesday, a day after being injured in the bomb blast at Maur in Bathinda district.

Family members of Maur car blast victims at CMC Hospital in Ludhiana on Wednesday.(Gurminder Singh/HT)

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Updated on Feb 03, 2017 06:59 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Ludhiana/Mansa | ByAneesha Sareen Kumar and Mohammad Ghazali

3 killed in twin blasts during Congress road show in Bathinda town Maur

Three persons, including a Congress worker, were killed and seven injured in a car blast at Maur Mandi, 30 km from Bathinda, at 8.30pm on Tuesday.

A mangled car after a blast in Maur on Tuesday.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Feb 01, 2017 01:49 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Maur (Bathinda) | ByPrabhjit Singh and Mohammad Ghazali, Maur (bathinda)/chandigarh

De-register parties failing to implement manifesto: Harsimrat to EC

While the sops are raining through manifestos of political parties ahead of the elections, Union food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal feels that the registration of political parties, which fail to fulfil their promises, should be cancelled.

Union food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Jan 27, 2017 09:02 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

Captain Amarinder bats for once bete noire Bansal’s wife in Mansa

It seems politics has eclipsed the principle for Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Captain Amarinder Singh, who had once denied convicted leader and former Congress MLA Mangat Rai Bansal an entry into the party fold, shared stage with him and addressed a rally in favour of party candidate Manju Bansal in Mansa on Tuesday.

Captain Amarinder Singh flanked by Mangat Rai Bansal (left) and Manju Bansal, who is the party candidate from Mansa, at a rally on Tuesday.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jan 25, 2017 01:48 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

Video: Harsimrat backs Amarinder for asking EC to send back NRI volunteers of AAP from Punjab

Union food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal backed Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh, who had asked the Election Commission to send back all the NRIs campaigning in the state.

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Updated on Jan 23, 2017 10:11 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali

Rebellion: Amarinder’s son Raninder dons a new role, plays peacemaker in Mansa, Budhlada

After having lost two elections—2012 assembly from Samana and 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Bathinda— Raninder Singh, son of Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh has donned a new role — organisational building and buying peace with rebels in Mansa.

Raninder Singh, son of Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh,(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Jan 23, 2017 12:29 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

Cautious after attack on CM Badal, people made to remove shoes at Harsimrat’s public meet

Cautious after the shoe attack on Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, police on Friday asked the audience to remove their shoes before Union food minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal’s visit to Mansa.

Shoes lined up near the stage during Union food minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal’s visit to Mansa on Friday.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jan 20, 2017 09:00 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

Amid bonhomie with Nitish Kumar, Captain Amarinder critical of Biharis

While PPCC president Captain Amarinder Singh has invited Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar for campaign in Punjab, he took repeated barbs at Aam Admi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal for appointing Biharis and UPites as election observers in the entire state.

Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh welcoming a SAD leader into the party fold in Talwandi Sabo on Sunday.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jan 16, 2017 09:53 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Bathinda (Talwandi Sabo) | ByMohammad Ghazali, Bathinda (talwandi Sabo)

Video: Cong candidate assists her driver in evading arrest in Mansa

Several videos have gone viral in which Congress candidate from Budhlada Ranjit Kaur Bhatti is seen assisting her driver, a proclaimed offender in a cheque bounce case, in evading arrest at Malko village on Friday.

Congress candidate from Budhlada Ranjit Kaur Bhatti(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jan 14, 2017 08:35 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali

‘AAP workers won’t stay alive if Badal tells Akalis to turn violent’

Union minister and Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Wednesday warned the Aam Aadmi Party, saying if Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal told SAD workers to turn violent, AAP supporters will not stay alive.

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Updated on Jan 12, 2017 05:05 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Mansa | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

No graveyard: Christian family from Mansa travel 60 km to bury daughter

With no graveyard for the Christian community in the district, a family remained clueless for hours about the burial site for their 25-year-old daughter, who died here on Sunday morning.

The district does not have a burial ground for the community and the issue has not been resolved despite repeated assurances from the state government.(HT Representative Image)

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Updated on Jan 09, 2017 01:01 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

SAD, Cong leaders object to Bhagwant Mann’s provocative speeches

While the Election Commission is trying to ensure violence-free polls in Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Bhagwant Mann’s speech urging voters to welcome opposition leaders with stones has not gone down well with the SAD leaders here.

Aam Aadmi Party Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann addressing a gathering in Bathinda.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jan 06, 2017 07:59 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Moga | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

Nothing to learn from Pathankot attack, says Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal

Almost a year after the terror attack on the Pathankot airbase, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has shifted the responsibility to prevent such strikes to the Centre and said the state has ‘nothing to learn’ from these.

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Updated on Jan 01, 2017 09:42 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

AAP inducts, then expels 2 who brutally attacked party member Bant Singh Jhabbar

An embarrassed Aam Aadmi Party expelled on Monday two men who brutally attacked Punjabi Dalit activist and singer Bant Singh Jhabbar, following widespread uproar over the duo joining the fledging party.

File photo of AAP leader Bant Singh Jhabbar.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Dec 26, 2016 09:17 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByMohammad Ghazali, Mansa

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As the Punjab and Haryana court ordered the district administration to deposit the crop harvest on 93 acres of land with the registrar of the court, last month, the harvesting on the disputed land was done under heavy police security on Monday afternoon in Kotdharmu village.

The farmers arriving at the grain market here were in a rude shock when their produce had to undergo a moisture check and failing which they were denied entry into the market on Saturday.

On sidelines of a thanksgiving rally in Mansa, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Badal criticised the state government for resorting to vendetta politics and not following the promises mentioned in its election manifesto here on Tuesday.

While the district administration has repeatedly warned farmers to refrain from stubble burning, a number of incidents have been reported where farmers have lost their crops to fire caused by loose electric wires passing over their fields, thanks to the electricity department in Mansa.

The blame game has begun within the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party combine after the Punjab poll debacle, with Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal firing the first salvo on Tuesday.

Members of two truck unions, owing allegiance to the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Congress, clashed at Bareta town of Mansa on Sunday morning leaving two persons dead and one injured.

The civil judge here has ordered the trust constituted by the district administration not to interfere in the management of the Baba Jogi Peer shrine.

Last year, Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal had publicly criticised the SGPC for taking more interest in politics than its primary job of religious preaching.

The party volunteers have been given a rehabilitation form, which will be filled with personal details of the patient and his/her addiction history.

The rivalry between two labour unions, one backed by CPI(ML) Liberation, and another by a private NGO, Volunteer for Social Justice (VSJ) , intensified when AAP leader and Dalit icon Bant Singh Jhabbar attacked CPI(ML) Liberation for exploiting the cause of labourers for political mileage.

Farmers in the district got panicky after rumours of powercom officials imposing fine on them for using auto-start switch on their tubewell connection, went viral here on Wednesday.

A day after murder convict Gurtej Singh escaped from the Mansa jail, he was nabbed in Nabha on Thursday afternoon. And, behind it, the police have unravelled a love affair that blossomed behind bars but went wrong later.

Politics is a dirty game, it is said. Nobody will believe in this epithet more than families of three boys who succumbed to their injuries at a hospital here on Wednesday, a day after being injured in the bomb blast at Maur in Bathinda district.

Three persons, including a Congress worker, were killed and seven injured in a car blast at Maur Mandi, 30 km from Bathinda, at 8.30pm on Tuesday.

While the sops are raining through manifestos of political parties ahead of the elections, Union food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal feels that the registration of political parties, which fail to fulfil their promises, should be cancelled.

Union food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal backed Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh, who had asked the Election Commission to send back all the NRIs campaigning in the state.

After having lost two elections—2012 assembly from Samana and 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Bathinda— Raninder Singh, son of Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh has donned a new role — organisational building and buying peace with rebels in Mansa.

Cautious after the shoe attack on Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, police on Friday asked the audience to remove their shoes before Union food minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal’s visit to Mansa.

While PPCC president Captain Amarinder Singh has invited Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar for campaign in Punjab, he took repeated barbs at Aam Admi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal for appointing Biharis and UPites as election observers in the entire state.

Several videos have gone viral in which Congress candidate from Budhlada Ranjit Kaur Bhatti is seen assisting her driver, a proclaimed offender in a cheque bounce case, in evading arrest at Malko village on Friday.

Union minister and Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Wednesday warned the Aam Aadmi Party, saying if Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal told SAD workers to turn violent, AAP supporters will not stay alive.

With no graveyard for the Christian community in the district, a family remained clueless for hours about the burial site for their 25-year-old daughter, who died here on Sunday morning.

While the Election Commission is trying to ensure violence-free polls in Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Bhagwant Mann’s speech urging voters to welcome opposition leaders with stones has not gone down well with the SAD leaders here.

Almost a year after the terror attack on the Pathankot airbase, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has shifted the responsibility to prevent such strikes to the Centre and said the state has ‘nothing to learn’ from these.

An embarrassed Aam Aadmi Party expelled on Monday two men who brutally attacked Punjabi Dalit activist and singer Bant Singh Jhabbar, following widespread uproar over the duo joining the fledging party.

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