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…
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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…
Chandigarh, Feb 10 (IANS) Saying that Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria is apparently trying to help the Shiromani Akali Dal and its leader Sukhbir Singh Badal to revive itself for an “eventual alliance” with the BJP, through the “march against drugs”, the Punjab Congress on Tuesday asked the Governor whether it was an attempt to run the ‘Samjhuata Express’. Joining the issue, AAP legislator Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal said the yatra in which Badal and BJP leader Ashwani Sharma were sea…
Ferozepur, Feb 10 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Tuesday said that the party is committed to wiping out the menace of drug trafficking and gangsters in Punjab once it forms the government in 2027. Appreciating the initiative by Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria to lead a campaign to make Punjab drug-free, the Akali Dal chief told the media here, “The Governor has understood the pulse of the people and is travelling from village to village and city to city to crea…
Chandigarh, Feb 5 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Thursday offered to court arrest in DGP Gaurav Yadav’s office here but insisted chartered accountants as well as employees associated with him should not be persecuted unjustly by the Punjab Police on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal’s orders. Addressing the media after meeting the DGP along with the party’s core committee, the SAD President said, “The AAP government wants to implicate me in the c…
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia in connection with a disproportionate assets (DA) case registered by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau. A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta granted the relief after taking note of the fact that Majithia had already been granted bail in the predicate Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act case. The Justice Nath-led Bench also noted that the special leav…
Chandigarh, Feb 2 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) while welcoming the bail granted to senior leader Bikram Singh Majithia in a Disproportionate Assets case by the Supreme Court on Monday said the truth had won and the political vendetta unleashed by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann against the Akali leader had been exposed.Senior Akali Dal leaders Daljit Singh Cheema and Arshdeep Singh Kler said the AAP government had done its utmost to incarcerate Majithia …