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Chautala returning from abroad

Special Correspondent

Was undergoing treatment in the U.S.

CHANDIGARH: Former Haryana Chief Minister and Indian National Lok Dal leader Om Parkash Chautala will be returning to India on September 24 from the United States where he is said to be recuperating after a surgery. He will pay homage to his father, the late Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal, in New Delhi on his birth anniversary on September 25 and later address a rally at Meham in Rohtak district.

Addressing a press conference here on Friday after a meeting of the State executive of the INLD, Rajya Sabha member Ajay Singh Chautala said that the party had decided to celebrate the day as "Sangharsh Diwas.''

His father, who would be returning to India after a long time, would formally launch the INLD's campaign highlighting "the anti-people policies of the Centre and the Bhupinder Singh Hooda Government in the State".

Arjun's resignation sought

Mr.Chautala, who was flanked by former Haryana Finance Minister Sampat Singh and INLD State president Ashok Arora, also demanded dismissal of Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh over the issue of "derogatory remarks" against the Jat community in some books published by the NCERT.

They also demanded arrest of the authors of these "books" that had been prescribed for school children.

"Kin exerting pressure

on Bansi Lal's wife"

Shruti Choudhry, granddaughter of the late Haryana Chief Minister Bansi Lal, on Friday charged that her relatives were exerting unnecessary pressure on her grandmother Vidya Devi due to which her condition was deteriorating continuously.

In a statement released here, she said that even her mother, Kiran Choudhry, who at present is Haryana's Minister of State for Forests and Tourism, was very worried about the health of her grandmother.

She alleged that after the death of her grandfather her relatives forcibly took her grandmother along with them and also ransacked their house as "part of a pre-planned conspiracy''.

She further charged that she and her mother were not allowed to meet her grandmother.

Alleging that her grandmother was being "forced to sign on some documents'', Ms. Choudhry clarified that she and her mother did not have any dispute over ancestral property with anybody and they did not get any investigation conducted.

She further alleged that party workers who had remained loyal to her grandfather and her late father Surender Singh were being meted out "indecent treatment" now by these relatives.

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