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Gujral, Ram Prakash file nomination for RS

Chandigarh, Mar 16 (UNI) Mr Naresh Gujral, son of former Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral, and Haryana Congress working president Ram Prakash today filed their nomination papers for the two Rajya Sabha seats from Punjab and Haryana respectively.

Mr Gujral is the SAD-BJP alliance candidate for the by-election to fill the lone seat from Punjab, which fell vacant due to the death of senior Congress leader Sukhbans Kaur Bhinder.

Mr Naresh Gujral, who is a PAC member of the SAD, had unsuccesfully contested the last Lok Sabha elections from Jalandhar.

Dr Ram Prakash is the Congress nominee for the Rajya Sabha seat in Haryana which fell vacant due to death of Indian National Lok Dal leader Sumitra Mahajan.

Dr Ram Prakash, a retired professor of the Punjab university, was appointed Haryana Congress working president after the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government assumed office two years ago.

The last date of filing of nominations for the Rajya Sabha byelection is March 19. Scrutiny will be held the next day. The last day of withdrawal of candidature is March 22. The polling will be held on March 29.

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Shortfall of 24.71 million urban houses in the country: Selja

New Delhi, Mar 8 (UNI) There is a shortfall of 24.71 million houses in urban areas of the country as of 2007, a technical group set up by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has estimated. Stating this, Minister of State for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja told the Rajya Sabha today that the technical group headed by Prof Amitabh Kundu, Dean, Jawaharlal Nehru University, was constituted by her Ministry to estimate the urban housing shortage in.....

95 nominations filed on day 4 for phase I of UP poll

Lucknow, Mar 16 (UNI) Altogether 95 nominations were filed today for the first phase of Uttar Pradesh elections for 62 assembly seats to be held on April 7. Now, a total of 156 candidates are in fray for the first phase. Of the nominations filed today, 15 belonged to the ruling Samajwadi Party, 27 of BSP, 24 of BJP and one of Congress. No nomination was filed for the Bilaur Lok Sabha seat for which by-election would be held along with.....

Work on Bihar-Jharkhand stretch of N H 2 to be expedited

New Delhi, Mar 8 (UNI) The work on the National Highway No 2 of the Golden Quadrilateral passing through Bihar and Jharkhand will be expedited. Giving this assurance to Members in the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister for Surface Transport TR Balu said there were some problems on the stretch passing through the states, but all efforts were on to complete the project as soon as possible. Earlier, while asking supplementaries, the Members expressed great concern over the poor condition of the.....
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