Chandigarh, July 26 (IANS) Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Kewal Singh Dhillon said on Sunday that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government’s attempt to shield its two Ministers in the paper leak and examination cheating scandals “is clear evidence that it is patronising corruption and dishonesty”. He said AAP National Convener Arvind Kejriwal, who once incited young people to protest during demonstrations in Delhi, has now chosen to remain completely silent on the paper leak and cheat…
Latest Faridkot News & Updates
Chandigarh, July 24 (IANS) Punjab BJP President Kewal Dhillon on Friday accused the Aam Aadmi Party government in the state of incompetence, corruption, and playing with the future of the youth, stating that these incidents expose the hollowness of the government’s claims of “change”.Dhillon questioned the government’s handling of the Punjab Subordinate Services Selection Board (PSSSB) Group-B recruitment paper leak case and its silence over the high-tech cheating racket uncovered during t…
Chandigarh, July 23 (IANS) The Punjab Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) unit on Thursday declared the politics being played by the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the nationwide students’ agitation regarding the NEET paper leak as “shameful”. State AAP Media In-Charge Baltej Pannu said that while lakhs of students across the country are fighting for justice and their future, both Congress and the BJP have chosen to level false and baseless allegations against the Aam Aadmi Party governmen…
Chandigarh, July 22 (IANS) As part of nationwide agitation against the Congress, Punjab BJP President Kewal Singh Dhillon on Wednesday led a protest in front of the Punjab Congress headquarters here, accusing the Congress of indulging in “politics of anarchy, hypocrisy and misinformation” while exploiting the NEET issue for narrow political gains. Hundreds of BJP workers joined the demonstration and attempted to march towards the Congress office before Chandigarh Police stopped them with hea…
Chandigarh, June 20 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab on Saturday staged protests across the state against the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), its president Sukhbir Singh Badal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress over what it described as a coordinated campaign to defame Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann through a misleading fake video circulated on social media. AAP ministers, MLAs, senior leaders, workers and residents took to the streets across Punjab, accusing Opposition partie…
Chandigarh, June 12 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Friday asserted that a false Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-sponsored complaint against party leader Parambans Singh Romana had led to his being denied entry into Canada. SAD spokesperson Arshdeep Singh Kler said a false case had been registered against Romana during the recent municipal elections in Faridkot.“Romana had got anticipatory bail in the case and had gone abroad after seeking due permission from the court,” Kler stated.He alleged…
Chandigarh, June 6 (IANS) At least eight people, comprising women and children, were killed and 11 suffered grievous injuries on Saturday in a head-on collision between an overcrowded pick-up (a commercial vehicle usually used for transporting people) and a heavy-duty truck in Punjab’s Ferozepur district, police said. Nearly 25 people, all belonging to a close-knit family from Jalabad village, were travelling to a religious place Beas in Amritsar district to perform the last rites of a family …
Chandigarh, May 26 (IANS) The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Tuesday strongly criticised the parole granted once again to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, accusing the Haryana government and the Centre of adopting double standards in dealing with prisoners and sacrilege-related cases.Ram Rahim, who is serving his sentence in Sunaria jail in Haryana’s Rohtak, was recently granted 30 days of parole. The move has triggered sharp criticism from the SGPC, with commit…
Chandigarh, May 24 (IANS) Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Pritpal Singh Baliawal said on Sunday that the saying, “birds of a feather flock together”, perfectly reflected the relationship between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party in state politics. He added that a vote cast in favour of the Congress during Municipal Corporation and Municipal Council elections ultimately “strengthens the Aam Aadmi Party, as both parties are only pretending to oppose each other while secretly wo…
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) Severe heatwave conditions continued to intensify across Delhi and several parts of North India on Wednesday, with temperatures crossing 45 degrees Celsius in many areas of Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh, prompting the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to issue red and orange alerts in multiple states.According to the IMD, the ongoing heatwave is likely to persist over the next few days, severely impacting normal life across the region.In Delhi, scorch…