Chandigarh, April 7 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Tuesday said the party would chart out a programme to help distressed farmers whose standing crop had been damaged across 1.25 lakh acres as they had been completely abandoned by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab. Addressing a rally in Budhlada town as part of the party’s Punjab Bachao campaign, the SAD President said, “We are making a programme to provide wheat as well as green and dry fodder to aff…
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Patiala, April 5 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Sunday announced Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and his OSDs would be held accountable for alleged misdeeds after the 2027 assembly elections. Addressing a Punjab Bachao rally here, Badal said “these corrupt persons think they can run abroad to Canada and Australia and other countries where they have stashed their illegal wealth. I want to tell them. They will all be held to account. They will be brought back to …
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The face behind justice for victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots, human rights lawyer and former AAP lawmaker H.S. Phoolka, on Wednesday joined the BJP.After joining the BJP here, Phoolka said, “I’ve been a strong supporter of the BJP since my childhood. From 2014 to 2017, I was in the Aam Aadmi Party. We thought that we had come to this party to end all the corruption that existed under the Congress government at that time, but later, we saw that the situation was quite…
Chandigarh, March 25 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia, reacting to statements by Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on a CBI inquiry into the death of government functionary Gagandeep Randhawa, said on Wednesday that the remarks have exposed Warring’s role in aiding the state government and the Chief Minister. He alleged that at the direction of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Warring sought to avoid a CBI probe, as he himself is facing a corruption cas…
Chandigarh, March 24 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday said that the Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab was forcing farmers to commit suicide in despair after failing to give them any succour, be it fulfilling the promise to provide minimum support price (MSP) on 22 crops. Expressing sorrow at the extreme step taken by two brothers – Jaswinder and Jaskaran of Faridkot district after becoming severely indebted, the SAD president said, “AAP promised big but did n…
Chandigarh, March 23 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Monday demanded the post-mortem of mortal remains of Warehousing Corporation officer Gagandeep Singh Randhawa be done at the PGIMER here or by a panel of AIIMS doctors to ensure complete fair play, even as he demanded the arrest of former Transport Minister Laljit Bhullar’s father and personal assistant. Addressing the media here, Majithia while thanking all Opposition leaders as well as Kisan organisations a…
Chandigarh, March 23 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition in Punjab, Partap Singh Bajwa, on Monday said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has been forced to climb down from the high horse it was riding and arrest its own former minister Laljit Singh Bhullar following sustained pressure from the Opposition. Bajwa expressed gratitude to Congress workers and Members of Parliament Charanjit Singh Channi, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Gurjeet Singh Aujla and Dharamvira Gandhi for forcefully raising the issue in …
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and member of Parliament Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Monday urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah to order a CBI probe into the death of Warehousing Corporation district manager Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, who was forced to take the extreme step of ending his life following physical and mental harassment at the hands of AAP leader Laljit Bhullar. Reacting to a statement by the Home Minister in the Parliament in which he asserted that the Centre…
Chandigarh, March 22 (IANS) The family of Punjab State Warehousing Corporation District Manager Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, who allegedly died by suicide in Amritsar, on Sunday demanded strict action and the immediate arrest of former state minister Laljit Singh Bhullar, alleging sustained harassment had pushed the officer to take the extreme step.Talking to reporters here, the deceased officer’s brother, Varinder Singh Randhawa, said the family would not compromise and would continue to seek ju…
Bathinda (Punjab), March 20 (IANS) A historic milestone was achieved on Friday with the sanctioning of the railway link to Punjab’s Talwandi Sabo, the sacred land of Takht Sri Damdama Sahib, one of the five Takhts of Sikhism, Minister of State for Railways Ravneet Singh said. This project “is not merely about building a railway line, it represents faith, pride, and long-overdue justice for Punjab”, the minister said. With this development, Takht Sri Damdama Sahib will now be connected by rail …