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Reacting to the former MP joining the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday mocked Jagmeet Singh Brar’s opportunistic, last-ditch resort to rescue his political career after failing to wriggle his way back into the Congress. Citing a series of WhatsApp messages received from Brar over the last several weeks, Captain Amarinder said the former MP was apparently desperate to get back into politics and had decided to go with the Badals, whom he promised “to fix in Punjab” if the Congress agreed to take him back. It was obvious, said the Chief Minister , that Brar had a political agenda to further and was ready to do it by hook or by crook. The former MP had, for the last several weeks, been trying unabashedly to get into the Congress but, with the party high command refusing to intervene and he ( Captain Amarinder ) himself not responding to any of Brar’s desperate messages, the former MP had decided to throw his weight behind the SAD...

Delivering a major blow to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and its Sukhpal Singh Khaira led splinter group of Punjabi Ekta Party (PEP) in Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency, several prominent leaders of the two parties joined the Punjab Congress , along with their supporters, in the presence of Captain Amarinder Singh here on Friday afternoon. Their joining has given a big boost to the Congress in Sangrur parliamentary constituency, with the party candidate from the seat, Kewal Singh Dhillon , instrumental in these leaders leaving AAP and PEP to throw their weight behind the Congress. Kewal Dhillon’s son and Congress leader Karan Dhillon , Congress leader was also present on the occasion of their joining. An ex-SAD MLA along with some BSP leaders from Banga also joined the Congress today. Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh said this mass exodus into the Congress showed across-the-board disillusionment of the people of Punjab with the various opposition parties, which were completel...

Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Punjab Assembly has lodged a written complaint with the Chief Electoral Officer pointing out the involvement/ interference of Patiala district dispensation, allegedly involving some politically influential teachers of the Punjabi University, Patiala owing allegiance to certain political outfits, asking them to performing election duties in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2019. Cheema said that as per varsity calendar (Volume-I, page number 58) teachers at the university were free to participate/ join any political parties of their choice and even involve in their political affairs, directly or indirectly. They could also even contest elections with the permission of the university syndicate, he added citing the calendar. He added that under the aforesaid provisions of the university calendar, some of the university teachers had contested elections under the banner of various political outfits and rose to to bag high positions on the political la...

Aman Arora AAP MLA from Sunam and Chairman State Election Campaign Committee in a media interaction at Tarn Taran has said that Bibi Paramjit Kaur Khalra should return Punjabi Ekta Party ticket from Khadoor Sahib to Sukhpal Singh Khaira as Khaira was trying to serve his political goals by using Khalra's sacrifice. Arora was here to kick start the campaign of party candidate Manjinder Singh Sidhu and addressed the workers meeting. Terming the return of ticket to Khaira as the biggest tribute by Bibi Khalra to her late husband, Arora said that Sukhpal Singh Khaira joined Congress in 1997, a year later when S. Jaswant Singh Khalra was eliminated by the police under Congress regime in September 1995. While joining the Congress in 1997, Khaira had approved, appreciated and praised the policies and functioning of Congress party and Government, which included human rights violations and elimination of S. Jaswant Singh Khalra . Cautioning Bibi Khalra, Arora said that t...

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking relaxation in the specifications for wheat for procurement in the current season, in view of the crop losses suffered by farmers due to unseasonal rains. The Chief Minister has also asked the prime minister to direct the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution to depute a team of experts to visit Punjab to assess the loss in quality of wheat due to the rains so that suitable revised specifications can be laid down. He has urged the prime minister to order appropriate relaxation in specifications without any value cut, which would compound the problems of the farmers who had already suffered significant crop losses due to the rains and winds that lashed the state from 16th April to 18th April, 2019.  Captain Amarinder Singh pointed out that such rains at the time of maturation of wheat crop had caused damage to the standing crop and also affected...

Maharashtra Finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar has dared the Congress to implement its minimum income guarantee scheme called Nyay... Maharashtra Finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar has dared the Congress to implement its minimum income guarantee scheme called Nyay in states by ruled by it. In an interview to PTI, he said the Congress itself knew its ambitious poverty-alleviation scheme was not implementable. The Congress, in its manifesto, has said that 20 per cent poorest families in the country will get Rs 72,000 annually as part of its Nyunatam Aay Yojana (Nyay). When asked about the Nyay scheme , the minister said, similarly, in 2004, the Maharashtra Congress government under Sushil Kumar Shinde had promised free electricity, only to raise tariff by Re 1 per unit in six months. Shinde also promised food grains at Re 1 per kg, but the then Congress president later called it a "printing mistake", he said. Similarly, a Congress promise during the recent Rajasthan As...

The flip flops of Smriti Irani’s claims about her education are similar to the twists and turns of TV industry plots where she has come from.. Let us visualise a scenario. An employer hires a person and asks for the educational records, and other required documents before appointing. The person in question submits an affidavit claiming a graduate degree, and gets the job. A few years later, while renewing the contract, another such declaration is required, and the employee submits the declaration again. Only this time, the employer finds out, that the earlier declaration made by the employer, of being a graduate is false, and that person is a first-year drop-out. What do you think must have happened? Yes! You are right in thinking that the said employee’s services were terminated. At least that is what happens in a normal day-to-day scenario. But not in our political scenario .   In our political scenario, a person who lies about educational qualifications while ...