Roaming in Ropar

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Roaming in Ropar

Friday May 8, 2009 , Ropar

It's not fair. We have such little time now, we have to cover Punjab in just a day. Just a day! I would have liked to go to Gurdaspur to see if actor Vinod Khanna is contrary to his tribe, I would have liked to roam the villages and find out if the NRI dream is still alive and how Punjab's farmers are coping.

But, I have to make do with just one day. The other way of looking at it is that Punjab already gets a lot of media attention so it's apt that the Election Express spent more time in neglected states like Orissa.

Anyway, the sad part is that the journey is almost over. Counting Day is next Saturday.That's enough to make me really relish Ropar today.

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Sunetra Choudhury

Sunetra Choudhury started her career as a reporter with The Indian Express in 1999. When she left to join TV in 2002, she was heading the Delhi reporting team that would bring out Newsline. After a brief stint in hindi in Star News, she joined NDTV in 2003. Apart from doing investigative stories, Sunetra has been covering elections since UP by-elections in 2000. While she followed the Congress party in Delhi, she spent six weeks in Gujarat covering 2007 assembly polls, apart from UP and MP assembly polls.

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