Chandigarh, March 6 (IANS) Hundreds of Congress workers from Punjab on Friday staged a demonstration here against the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab for its failure to fulfil its commitments to the people. The party specially mentioned the promise of Rs 1,000 every month to women, which has not been kept and demanded that the government should pay it with four years of arrears. The party rapped the government for its comprehensive failure, particularly …
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Chandigarh, Jan 29 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab on Thursday slammed the Congress leadership for maintaining a “criminal silence” over the shocking statements made by its former Chief Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, who claimed that she was advised to allow bomb blasts in the state to help the Congress government return to power. AAP spokesperson Baltej Pannu told the media that it was disturbing that more than 24 hours after the interview went viral, neither Bhattal nor any senior Co…
Chandigarh, Jan 24 (IANS) Saying that RDX was used in a blast near the railway station in Sirhind town of Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district, State BJP Working President Ashwani Sharma, on Saturday, criticised Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Convenor Arvind Kejriwal for turning the state unsafe with an atmosphere of fear. In the blast, the driver of a goods train was injured and railway property was damaged. However, no loss of life was reported. The explosion occurred on a…
New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) The Congress high command said on Thursday that there was no question of change of party’s leadership in Punjab. The high command also issued strict instructions against airing any views in the public, which should be raised only with it.A meeting of senior party leaders was held at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters, which was chaired by the Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and attended by Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, party’s Ge…
New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) The Congress high command has made it clear that indiscipline and public airing of party issues would not be tolerated. The directions were issued after a meeting of senior party leaders at the residence of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, chaired by him and attended by Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal, general secretary in charge of Punjab Bhupesh Baghel, senior leader Ambika Soni and others. From Pu…
Chandigarh, Jan 20 (IANS) Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Tuesday denied that there was any factionalism in the state party. He said that the Congress does not practice caste or communal politics like the BJP to polarise people. He also took a dig at the AAP government in Punjab for making a U-turn on the issue of the missing ‘swaroops’ of the holy Guru Granth Sahib. In an informal interaction with the media here, he said, unlike the BJP, the Congress does not believe i…
Chandigarh, Jan 8 (IANS) The Punjab Congress, on Thursday, took the lead in launching the first phase of the ‘MGNREGA Bachao Sangram’ announced by the party to seek the revival of the rural employment guarantee scheme named after Mahatma Gandhi. The ‘sangram’ started with a rally in Gurdaspur town, which was attended by senior party leaders and thousands of workers, labourers, farmers and marginalised sections of the society. Congress leaders reiterated and reaffirmed their resolve that the Bhar…
Chandigarh, Jan 5 (IANS) The AAP-led Punjab government has come under sharp attack from opposition parties over the deteriorating law and order situation in the state after a sarpanch from the ruling party was shot dead at a wedding venue in Amritsar.Jarnail Singh, who had arrived to attend a relative’s wedding at the Marigold Resort, was shot in the head by unidentified assailants on Sunday.He was rushed to the hospital but succumbed to his injuries during treatment. Police officials said the m…