Chandigarh, March 6 (IANS) Even as the Budget session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha is underway and the government is highlighting its claims of maintaining an “upright” law and order situation while projecting policing initiatives, a village sarpanch was shot dead in broad daylight in Moga district on Friday. Sarpanch of Patto village, Harvinder Singh Happy, was gunned down in the Baghapurana area of Moga.According to initial reports, armed assailants arrived in a vehicle, surrounded the sarpa…
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Chandigarh, March 5 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), on Thursday, demanded Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema to allocate funds to fulfill promises made to women, farmers, government employees and the common man or be ready to face the ‘gherao’ of its legislators when they visit towns and villages to campaign for the party in the 2027 state Assembly elections. Addressing the media here, senior SAD leader N.K. Sharma said “the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has betrayed each and e…
Chandigarh, Feb 26 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday rejected the reconstituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab to probe the 328 unaccounted ‘swaroops’ of the Guru Granth Sahib, while claiming a new team had been formed solely because the old SIT refused to follow illegal orders to implicate party chief Sukhbir Badal in the case.Reacting to the development, senior leaders Maheshinder Singh Grewal and Parambans Singh Romana,…
Chandigarh, Feb 24 (IANS) Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Cheema said on Tuesday that the state government’s sustained crackdown against narcotics is delivering concrete results, dismantling drug networks that once operated with impunity, adding that drug traffickers are also fleeing the state and establishing Haryana as the new base. He noted that as Punjab “strengthens enforcement and public participation against drugs, serious questions are arising about the growing menace in Haryana under the…
Attari, Feb 21 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday said that if his party forms the government in Punjab in 2027, it will work towards reopening the Attari and Fazilka borders to facilitate trade with Central Asian countries and establish a special industrial zone in the border belt.Addressing a rally here as part of the party’s ‘Punjab Bachao’ campaign, Badal said business activities in the border belt had suffered significantly following the closure…
Chandigarh, Feb 17 (IANS) Sounding the bugle for the first phase of the election campaign for the 2027 Assembly polls, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Tuesday promised to ensure welfare of farmers and weaker sections, Rs 10 lakh interest-free loans for the youth, government jobs for Punjabis only and an end to the gangster culture and drug mafia. The Akali Dal President also asserted that Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann was not only corrupt and had acquired 2,500 acr…
Moga, Feb 16 (IANS) At the Village Defence Committee oath ceremony in this Punjab town, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday delivered a direct message on ‘Yudh Nashean Virudh’ campaign, asserting that the Shiromani Akali Dal, the BJP, and the Congress had allowed the state to sink into narcotics. Kejriwal said for the first time in Punjab’s history, a government has taken firm action against drug peddlers rather than protec…
Chandigarh, Feb 16 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of using government funds to hold a rally in Moga. The SAD urged Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria as well as the Election Commission of India (ECI) to take note of the matter.In a statement here, SAD senior leader Daljit Singh Cheema alleged the state-ruling AAP was playing deceitful politics by linking its rally with the government’s ‘Yudh Nashain Virudh’ scheme, even though its purpose …
Chandigarh, Feb 15 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Sunday received a boost with Punjab BJP Vice-President and two-time legislator Arvind Khanna joining the party along with BJP office bearers, including the district president. Welcoming Khanna into the Akali Dal, party President Sukhbir Badal said, “The storm which will throw out Delhi parties from Punjab has started today”. He also announced Khanna’s appointment as ‘halka’ in-charge of the Sangrur constituency.He said the seni…
Chandigarh, Feb 12 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday announced to start a mass contact programme from February 17 in Qadian town in Gurdaspur district to launch the first phase of an election campaign comprising 40 rallies in nearly one month for the Assembly polls slated early next year.A decision to this effect was taken by party President Sukhbir Singh Badal after consultation with the senior party leadership.Speaking on the issue, Badal said, “We will take up all the burning i…