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PUNJAB AND HARYANA ROUND-UP 2 LAST ------------------------------------------------------------ Fatehgarh Sahib: Punjab Congress leader Sunil Jakhar said party vice-president Rahul Gandhi has assured him of taking concrete steps to develop a railway link between Ferozepur and Amritsar via Tarantaran. The step will not only connect the people of Malwa with Majha but also the residents of Rajasthan and Gujarat to the holy town of Amritsar, said Jakhar, an MLA from Abohar. ADVOCATE -------------------------- Chandigarh: Supreme Court advocate H S Phoolka asked the public to build pressure on lines of the recent rape case in Delhi regarding 1984 riots cases. "Public opinion always made an impression in running of the government," Phoolka said at a press conference here. DEMAND ----------------------------- Patiala: Former Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Bir Devinder Singh urged Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to allot at least four acres of land in Malerkotla for the construction of a new building of Nawab Sher Mohamad Khan Institute of Advance Studies. MEET ----------------------- Chandigarh: Dena Bank Chairman-cum-Managing Director Ashwani Kumar addressed a customer meet here attended by over 40 top industrialists from Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh. Team Dena is all geared up to expand its horizon in terms of branches and customers, a bank release quoting the CMD said.