Sri Rama Navmi Shobhayatra (Procession) was organised in Jalandhar(Punjab India) on 31st March 2012..Sri Rama Navami celebrates the appearance of Lord Sri Ramachandra the seventh incarnation of Lord Vishnu Who advented Himself on earth.
Every year on this occation a huge procession took place in Jalandhar. This shobhayatra started from Sidh Shri Devi Talab Mandir arround 2pm in the afernoon and passing from Shaheed Bhagat Sigh Chouk (Crossing), Nehru Garden Chouk, Patel Chouck, Mai Hiran Gate (Famous books Market), it concluded back in Shri Devi Talab Mandir late night arround 11pm.
More than 1500 mandir(temples) from Jalandhar partispated in this shobhayatra with their Jhankees depicting the life of Lord Rama. This Shobhayatra (Procession) is belived to be the biggest in Jaladhar and every year people of Jalandhar eagerly await for this shobhayatra.
Many stages were put across the path of shobhaytra, where artists performed various secences from the life on Lord Rama, Devi Durga etc. People of Jalandhar gethhered on all the way of shobhayatra to take blessings of Lord Rama.
SAD-BJP alliance is all set to form their government for consecutively second time in Punjab. In Punjab assembly elections declared on Tuesday 6th March SAD-BJP alliance got 68 seats out of total 117 seats while congress managed to get 46 seats. Now as the government forms Parkash Singh Badal will be sworn as Chief minister for the fifth time. He has been elected chief minister in the state of Punjab earlier in1970,1977,1997 and 2007.
What has been most interesting feature for this election result is that SAD-BJP alliance made a clean sweep in Jalandhar constituency. Alliance has bagged all 9 seats of this constituency. From Jalandhar central Manmohan Kalia of BJP defeated congress candidate Rajinder Beri with a margin of 1065 votes. While Manmohan Kalia got 44963 votes, Beri got only 43898 votes. From Jalandhar north BJP candidate K.D.Bhandari defeated Avtar Henry of congress for second time. Avtar Henry got 50495 votes while K.D.Bhandari defeated him by a margin of 1703 votes getting a total number of 52198 votes. Chuni Lal Bhagat of BJP retained his seat of Jalandhar west by 11343 votes margin over his rival candidate Mrs. Suman K P. ofIndian National Congress. Bhagat got 48207 votes while Mrs K P got 36864 votes.
Veteran Olympian Pargat Sigh (48290 votes) of SAD has bagged jaladhar kent seat by defeating Jagbir Brar (41492 votes). Kartarpur seat has gone to Sarvan Singh Phillaur of SAD. He got a total of 48484 votes while his rival Chodhry Jagjit Singh of congressgot 47661 votes. Margin of victory has been of 823 votes. Ex minister Ajit Sigh Kohardefeated congress candidate C D Kamboj in Shahkot constituency. Kohar got 55875 votes against 50440 votes of Kamboj. Avinash Chander of SAD won Phillour seat by a merely 31 votes margin. Congress candidate Choudhry Santokh Singh fell short by getting 46084 votes against 46115 votes of Avinash Chander. SAD also got hold of Nakoder seat where SAD candidate Gurpartap Singh Vadala was declared elected getting 61441 votes against his 52849 votes of his rival candidate Amarjeet Sing Samra of Congress. Pavan Tinu of SAD also won from Adampur seat by defeating Satnam Kenth of Congress by 19306 votes. SAD candidate got 48171 votes against 28865 votes of congress candidate.
Now as it is all set to form a new government, all eyes will be on that who is going to get a berth in ministry.
Punjab is going through assembly elections on 30th January 2012. Election process has started in Punjab. Filling of nominations by candidates has been done. Election commission of India has deployed staff for election duty. Second rehearsal for election staff was conducted on Sunday 15th January 2012.Rehearsal was affected due to rain showers in the morning, due to which some changes had to be made in the arrangements of the election rehearsal. These rehearsals were conducted at many places in Jalandhar mainly Govt. Model Sen. Sec School, Govt. College of Education. Sain Dass A.S. Sen. Sec. School and KMV College.
In Punjab assembly elections a total number of 1080 candidates are trying their luck for 117 assembly seats. Main contest is between ruling Akali Dal-BJP alliance and Congress. Counting of votes and declaration of results will be on 6th March 2012. Election commission of India is very strict this time to stop corrupt practices during election to woo voters by giving cash or liquor. In Punjab police have seized more than 23 crore of unaccountable money which was supposed to be used during elections.
Mela of Baba Sodal Ji was celebrated in Jalandhar on Sunday 11th September 2011. Many devotees from all over Punjab visited holy temple to pay their homage to baba sodal. Area around the Baba Sodal Mandir was very much decorated and temporary shops were opened on the both sides of road on the way to the temple. Many devotees also arranged langers (free food) for people visiting the fair. Heavy security arrangements were also made by Jalandhar Police so that mela runs smoothly.
Holy water is sprinkled on devotees in the pond.
Devotees started visiting the temple on Saturday evening. All roads from doaba chouk (square) , Sodal railaway crossing and workshop chouk, were filled were men, women and children coming to fair. A heavy rain shower few days earlier had developed a fear in the mind of the people that whether it will be sunny or will it rain on the day mela is going to be celebrated. But thanks to the blessing of baba ji it was clear sky on Sunday afternoon. Thousands of people visited the holy temple.
In the evening some rain showers disturbed mela proceedings for some time, but it also could not stop devotees to pay their homage to baba ji. Later in the night when rain stopped people again visited temple in spite of water logging on the roads. Heavy rush of people continued till late night.
Baba Sodal Mela, Jalandhar is celebrated in the city to commemorate the death of the child deity, Sodal. The fair is hosted for a day in the city of Jalandhar on the day the child is said to have received his communion with God. Observed on the 14th of Shukal Paksh in the month of Bhadon, which coincides with the month of September in the English calendar, Baba Sodal Mela, Jalandhar is one of the most popular Jalandhar festivals celebrated by the people of the city.
People gathered in holy pond to get blessings of Baba Sodal.
Legend has it that Sodal, a member of the Chadha clan of Khatri caste, who reside in the city of Jalandhar, sacrificed his life by drowning himself in the pond. Although prohibited by his mother, Sodal followed his mother to the pond. Enraged by his insolence, his mother asked him to drown himself in the pond. After asking his mother three times about her resolution and repeatedly receiving the same answer from her, Sodal jumped into the pond never to appear again.
Different kind of amusement slide and go rounds were also setup in Baba Sodal Mela.
The people of the city of Jalandhar believe that the child was blessed with divine powers and celebrate his death anniversary every year. The smadh of the child deity is the sanctum . Beside it stands the portrait of the child that is embellished with flower garlands and rosaries. Prayers are offered here by the pilgrims who arrive from all the corners of the city and from the neighboring city of Jalandhar.
This year mela was celebrated with great enthusiasm and festivity. People from all parts of society and from all ages enjoyed this mela very much. This mela has a special attraction for children as many amusement items such as rides and mout ka kuan ( well of death) are setup in mela. Children walk with their parents for hours in mela area and enjoy the proceedings.
Toy shops setup in mela area attracted children a lot.
In the end we leave you with holy darshan of Baba Sodal Ji. May Baba sodal Shower his blessing on all of us and we shall visit mela in Baba Ji's temple next year. Jai Baba Sodal Ji Ki.
Every morning when we wake up, there is one question in our mind " has newspaper arrived ". Most of us are in a habit of reading newspaper in the morning. But have we ever thought how newspaper reaches our homes. How the people who deliver newspaper to us work. Just have a look at the work of these newspaper walahs or newspaper hawkers.
These newspaper hawkers wake up early in the morning say about 5 in the morning and reach at a selected place to collect their share of newspapers from newspaper agencies. Then they have to sort these newspapers according to their customers subscription say some customer may have subscribed to two hindi newspapers other may have selected two english and one hindi newspaper. They have to carefully deliver correct newspapers to every customer.
Newspaper hawkers have a very tough job at their hands. They have to deliver newspapers on time what ever may the conditions be. Cold weather, rain or wind storm,can not stop them from performing their duty. In the days when Punjab was facing terrorism, many newspaper hawkers were targeted by terrorists. But these brave people did not fear and continued to provide us their services. We salute these people. Can we think of a day without a newspaper.
Flyover is being constructed at BMC Crossing. This Crossing faces very heavy traffic as people going to Bus Stand, Khalsa College, Ladowali Road, DC Office, Mission Chouk, APJ College. General Post Office has to cross this point. Earlier traffic lights were installed here and traffic policemen were also posted, but there was heavy load of traffic. Now with flyover coming in existence soon people going to Bus stand, Khalsa College, APJ College Road and GPO Road will not face the traffic.
Hope this flyover starts soon and one may get rid of traffic problem. Till then people crossing this poin has to face some problem becouse of the on going construction work.
Construction is going on NH-1 National Highway. Construction company SOMA is constructing bridges at major crossings so that traffic on NH-1 runs smoothly. One may find traffic jams due to ongoing construction work while going to Amritsar from Jalandhar.
You will find this construction work all over NH-1. Once this work is complete, traffic will run smoothly on NH-1 without disturbance from local traffic. It will take some time until then people have to face slow traffic and jams some time.SOMA people should speed up. Come back for some more news and events from Jalandhar
