Bantwala: A resident of Melkar in Pane Mangaluru is not using the municipal water. But shockingly, he has received a water bill from the municipal council.

Interestingly, the resident has paid the deposit to the council for getting drinking water connection a year back. But the municipal council which has failed to provide water connection to that resident has sent a water bill of Rs 373!

Melvin Desa of Bolangadi said that he has paid Rs 1500 deposit to the municipal council and applied for tap connection. But even after one year, he did not get the water connection. Despite sending a reminder to the municipal council on March 8 this year, the Bantwala municipal council has not responded. Though the municipal council has failed to give water connection even after his repeated appeal, instead the council has sent the water bill, he alleged.

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Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.

The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.

The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.

The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.

Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.

Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.

Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.