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Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday said he would soon take up with the Congress high command the issue of Navjot Singh Sidhu’s damaging remarks ahead of polling in Punjab, which he said might have affected the party’s performance in Bathinda. The Chief Minister also said the performance of the ministers would be reviewed in the backdrop of the Lok Sabha results in the state. “We will review the performance of the ministers, it was not a veiled threat made by the party before the elections,” he told media persons at a press conference this afternoon. Though he refused to comment directly on the possible impact of Sidhu’s comments on the Congress performance in Punjab, Captain Amarinder said as a minister, Sidhu’s own performance needed to be reviewed. Asserting that Navjot Singh Sidhu had not been able to handle his department, the Chief Minister made it clear that he intended to take up the issue with the high command once things have settled down in ...

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...

The Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday warned of strict action against any officials of the Excise & Taxation Department for issuing any undue tax assessment notices to the industry. The Chief Minister has asked the Excise and Taxation Commissioner to ensure that no such notices are issued by the department. He has also directed the Tax Department to make a post on its portal list of all notices issued with prior approval of the competent authority so that any discrepancy can be rectified to the satisfaction of industry.  READ MORE...