According to police, Singh was shot allegedly due to some personal enmity.
The MP from Punjab, where Congress suffered defeat in the recent assembly polls, said,”The AAP came to Punjab because of our mistakes and infighting.
On a few occasions earlier, teachers in Punjab had climbed atop water tanks during protests to press their various demands, including regularisation of job.
However, the scheme will be optional for the eligible beneficiaries, Mann said in a video message. Mann said the details of this scheme will be made available shortly.
Sidhu, the former Punjab Congress chief, shared a video clip from last year in which Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal is heard saying that action can be taken against the accused in the sacrilege incidents within 24 hours.
Mann said he has given directions to the chief secretary to bring a draft bill before the next assembly session in this regard so as to get it approved in the Vidhan Sabha and then implement it.
The Aam Aadmi Party nominated former cricketer Harbhajan Singh, Lovely Professional University founder Ashok Mittal, AAP MLA Raghav Chadha, IIT Delhi faculty Sandeep Pathak and industrialist Sanjeev Arora for the March 31 Rajya Sabha polls.
Sandhwan’s name was proposed by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann in the House on Monday.
Harbhajan made his debut in 1998 and the last international match he played was in 2016 but official retirement was announced in 2021.
Bhagwant Mann took an oath of chief ministership on March 16 at Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s ancestral village in Khatkar Kalan and inducted 10 ministers into the Cabinet on March 19.
The meeting of the AAP MLAs will be held in Mohali and Kejriwal will join it via video conferencing from Delhi at 12 noon.
Earlier, on March 17, Punjab’s newly-elected MLAs including Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann took oath as members of the Legislative Assembly.
The party also decided to form a high-powered panel to take feedback from its leaders as well people on the election debacle. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had stormed to power after winning 92 of the 117 Assembly seats.
The decision comes close in the heels of AAP’s successful Assembly election in Punjab, which saw Bhagwant Mann become the new Chief Minister of the state.
Inderbir Singh Nijjar is an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Amritsar South.
Besides newly-elected AAP MLAs, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, and other leaders wearing yellow turbans took part in the ceremony.
The cricketer-turned-politician shared the information about his resignation on his twitter handle.
Besides Kejriwal, no other Chief Minister will be present in the oath-taking ceremony, according to AAP sources.
The Aam Aadmi Party romped home by winning 92 seats in the 117-member Punjab assembly. The Congress was routed in the elections and could win only 18 seats.
As per highly placed sources, Mann will meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in the Parliament tomorrow. AAP bagged a landslide victory in Punjab Assembly elections.
Ahead of the roadshow, the two leaders visited Golden Temple, Durgiana Temple and Jallianwala Bagh memorial. The swearing-in ceremony of the new government will be held on March 16 at Khatkar Kalan, the native village of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
Ugoke, who defeated the outgoing Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi from the Bhadaur seat with a margin of 37,550 votes, used to work in a mobile repairing shop.
Mann reached the Raj Bhawan here around 10:30 am. Mann was elected the AAP’s legislature party leader at a meeting of the party MLAs in Mohali on Friday.
“I am going to Delhi to meet the founder of our party Arvind Kejriwal,” said Mann before leaving from Sangrur to Delhi.
Kaur won the Assembly constituency Amritsar East constituency by bagging total votes of 39,679. Trailing second behind the AAP candidate was Congress’ Sidhu with 32,929 votes.
