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Haryana Mayhem exposes Shimla-Poanta Shaib Road Chinks

By Neeraj Bajpai It was a nail biting evening in a posh hotel at cool winds swept mall road in Shimla two days ago. We were anxiously planning safe return to National capital before any conflagration of violence by devotees of baba Ram Rahim, now convicted in rape case,engulfs all routes.   No authentic information on real situation on the ground was available, and rumors mills were churning out at a mad pace the worst scaring scenarios from Thursday itself and there was virtual panic among tourists in the hill state. It was Thursday morning, a day before the judgement date, We hurriedly planned to embark on a safe escape route to Delhi by our own vehicle rather being stuck for days together in hills of Himachal Pradesh. A forceful torrent of advisories were being fired on us in those tense moments, but we chose to take presumed safe route via Nahan –Paounta Sahib-Dehradun. It was an adventure of different type: Courtesy HP government’s poor maintenance of...