Chandigarh, May 4 (IANS) Senior Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi on Monday extended congratulations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for leading the party to a historic and record-breaking victory in the Assembly elections held across key states. Describing the poll verdict as a clear and decisive mandate, Sodhi said the results reaffirmed the people’s unwavering faith in strong leadership, good governance, and a development-driv…
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Chandigarh, May 4 (IANS) Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Sunil Jakhar on Monday credited the party’s massive victory in West Bengal for the first time and its return to power in Assam and Puducherry to the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with the guidance of party President Nitin Nabin and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. He said that Punjab would witness similar results in the 2027 Assembly polls.Speaking to the media at the party headquarters here while ce…
Chandigarh, May 3 (IANS) A delegation of the Punjab BJP unit, led by state President Sunil Jakhar, met Governor Gulab Chand Kataria and demanded the replacement of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.Jakhar alleged that the conduct of CM Mann during the just-held Assembly session, where he reportedly appeared in an inebriated state, “makes him unfit to continue leading a sensitive border state like Punjab”. He said, “If the law does not allow a person under the influence of alcohol to drive, then…
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders on Saturday lashed out at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and its national convener Arvind Kejriwal, calling the latter “scared and anxious”.The reaction followed after two FIRs were lodged in Punjab against Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak, who last week switched loyalties to the BJP along with six other AAP MPs.Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra said: “Arvind Kejriwal is scared and anxious. Seven of his MPs have left, and there is no guarantee who w…
Chandigarh, May 2 (IANS) Punjab BJP President Sunil Jakhar on Saturday said the “party is not intimidated by FIRs filed by the Aam Aadmi Party government”, alleging these actions are meant to divert attention from Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s alleged conduct of arriving in an inebriated state in the Assembly. Jakhar told the media here that the bigger concern “is what he described as the Chief Minister giving a free hand to his Members of Legislative Assembly to indulge in corruptio…
New Delhi, May 1 (IANS) Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva said on Friday that Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has once again brought shame to democracy by allegedly attending a one-day Labour Day session in the state Assembly under the influence of alcohol. He further said that the way a “drunk” CM Mann staggered into the Assembly and spoke with slurred speech raises questions about the Speaker as well, for not stopping him.Sachdeva added that the manner in which Punjab Chief M…
Chandigarh, May 1 (IANS) A no-confidence motion against the Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party government was unanimously passed at the Bharatiya Janata Party’s ‘Janta Di Vidhan Sabha’, or a people’s Assembly, with members raising slogans against the government. The makeshift ‘House’, especially set up at the BJP’s party office here, also condemned the Chief Minister for allegedly appearing in an inebriated state in the legislative Assembly and demanded his imp…
Chandigarh, April 24 (IANS) Reacting to the departure of two-thirds of AAP Rajya Sabha Members of Parliament, Punjab BJP working President Ashwani Sharma on Friday said that the development raised serious concerns about Arvind Kejriwal’s leadership and reflects his increasingly authoritarian style of functioning. He said that such “large-scale exits expose the deep cracks within the party and indicate growing dissent against Kejriwal’s way of running the organisation”. Sharma further criticise…
Chandigarh, April 19 (IANS) With Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria giving assent to the Bill enabling harsher punishment for ‘beadbi’ (sacrilege) of Guru Granth Sahib, state BJP chief Sunil Jakhar on Sunday urged the government to bring the draft law concerning sacrilege of all religions.As a mark of respect to Guru Granth Sahib, the Assembly, led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, on April 13 unanimously passed the Bill.In a social media message, Jakhar wrote: “I express my sincere …
Chandigarh, April 10 (IANS) Punjab BJP President, Sunil Jakhar on Friday lashed out at Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann for not implementing the Central government’s Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana in the state. He accused CM Mann of “handing over” his responsibilities to AAP National Convener Arvind Kejriwal.Sponsored by the Central government, the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) is a crop insurance scheme that brings together multiple stakeholders, including farmers, insurance companies,…