Chandigarh: Having remained with the Congress and the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) earlier, former MP Jagmeet Singh Brar on Friday joined the opposition Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in Punjab. Brar, who was elected twice to the Lok Sabha in 1992 and 1999, was inducted into the party in the[Read More…]
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Akalis put up dummy smartphones stall outside Punjab Assembly
Chandigarh: To remind the Congress government in Punjab led by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh about its pre-poll promise of giving smartphones to youth in the state, the Shiromani Akali Dal legislators on Thursday put up a stall of dummy smartphones outside the Punjab Assembly. Led by senior SAD leaders Bikram[Read More…]
SAD stages march seeking justice for 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims
New Delhi: Hundreds of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) supporters on Saturday staged a protest march here demanding justice for the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The march, led by SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal and Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, started from Gurdwara Pratapganj and ended outside Parliament Street[Read More…]
Sidhu releases Kotkapura CCTV footage, wants action against Badals
Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday released CCTV footage that he said showed police action against peaceful protesters and subsequent firing leading to the death of two youths in Kotkapura in October 2015 following sacrilege incidents. Sidhu demanded action against then Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Shiromani Akali[Read More…]
Irregularities in EVMs transferred AAP’s votes to opponents: Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said that there was a need to relook at the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) in the electoral process until faith is restored in it. He said that several countries in the west are using ballot system instead of EVMs. “Developed[Read More…]
Our ‘cleanest’ party will make Punjab farmers debt free by 2018: Kejriwal
Targeting a major vote bank in the agrarian state of Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener and Delhi chief minister on Sunday promised to make farmers in Punjab debt free by end of 2018 if the party was voted to power in assembly elections early next year. Kejriwal, while[Read More…]