Tag: Charanjit Singh Channi

  • ‘Will proceed to accomplish my accountability within the college’: Mom of AAP MLA who defeated Channi

    Via ANI

    BARNALA: The mum of Aam Admi Birthday celebration MLA Labh Singh Ugoke, Baldev Kaur, on Saturday endured running as a sweeper within the govt college, even after her son received the 2022 Meeting elections in Punjab.

    Ugoke, who defeated the outgoing Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi from the Bhadaur seat with a margin of 37,550 votes, used to paintings in a cellular repairing store.

    “Now we have all the time labored exhausting to make money. Without reference to my son’s place, I can proceed to accomplish my accountability within the college,” stated Kaur.

    Joyed through the victory of her son as an AAP candidate whose celebration image is a brush, Kaur stated ‘Jhadu’ is crucial a part of my existence.

    “Even if he contested in opposition to the Leader Minister of the state, we have been all the time assured that my son would win,” she added.

    Faculty Theory Amrit Good friend Kaur instructed ANI that Ugoke has studied in the similar college and taken many laurels.

    “Labh Singh’s mom has been running as a sweeper on this college for a very long time now. He has additionally studied on this college. He has introduced many laurels to his village and faculty. Kaur says she needs to proceed running within the college,” stated Amrit Good friend Kaur.

    Singh’s father, Darshan Singh, who used to paintings as a labourer, stated that the circle of relatives will reside as previous. He needs his son to concentrate on the welfare of the folks as an alternative of the circle of relatives.

    “Folks of the village elected him. We wish him to be running for the welfare of the folks. We can proceed to reside the way in which we used to previous,” stated Darshan Singh.

    Ugoke joined the AAP in 2013 and rose within the ranks of the celebration temporarily. He had sought AAP’s price tag from Bhadaur seat in 2017 too however the celebration had then determined differently.

    Villagers have been joyed through his victory, pronouncing that they nonetheless can not imagine that Ugoke they knew for see you later has turn into an MLA now.

    “For day and evening, he used to paintings for the celebration. We by no means concept that he would get the price tag from the celebration and would turn into an MLA. We’re glad for him,” stated some of the villagers.

    The AAP bagged a landslide victory within the Punjab polls, profitable 92 Meeting seats, pushing maximum of its opponents to the margins. Congress received 18 seats within the 117-member Meeting.

  • Meeting ballot effects: Two present, 5 former CMs and 3 Deputy CMs chew mud

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Meeting ballot effects on Thursday introduced gloom for a number of political heavyweights, together with two present and 5 former leader ministers, who misplaced the electoral fight from their respective seats.

    But even so them, 3 present deputy leader ministers, together with Keshav Prasad Maurya, misplaced the meeting election.

    Punjab Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and his Uttarakhand counterpart Pushkar Singh Dhami misplaced the polls from the seats they held respectively.

    A identical destiny awaited former Uttarakhand leader minister Harish Singh Rawat and previous Punjab leader ministers Parkash Singh Badal and Amarinder Singh.

    Even supposing BJP chief Dhami has misplaced the electoral fight, his birthday party is heading for a victory in Uttarakhand.

    In Punjab, the place the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) is ready to comb the polls, 3 former leader ministers — Badal, Singh and Rajinder Kaur Bhattal — misplaced the election from their respective pocket boroughs.

    Leader Minister Channi misplaced the ballot fight from each Bhadaur and Chamkaur Sahib.

    Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and previous Punjab deputy leader minister Sukhbir Badal additionally misplaced the election to his AAP rival.

    Many of the present and previous ministers of the Punjab govt misplaced the ballot fight to the AAP applicants.

    In Goa, former leader minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) nominee Churchill Alemao misplaced the election from Benaulim to the AAP nominee.

    Each the deputy leader ministers misplaced the ballot contest to their Congress competitors, despite the fact that their birthday party, BJP, is at the path to emerge because the single-largest political formation within the coastal state.

    Deputy Leader Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar was once defeated via Chief of Opposition and Congress candidate Digambar Kamat, whilst every other Deputy Leader Minister, Chandrakant Kavlekar, misplaced to Congress candidate Altone D’Costa from Quepem.

    In a similar way, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Leader Minister Maurya misplaced the Meeting ballot contest to SP’s Pallavi Patel via 7,337 votes from the Sirathu constituency in Kaushambi district.

    The counting of votes for the Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur Meeting polls is happening amid tight safety preparations.

  • It is not my birthday lately, says Punjab CM Channi after you have PM’s greeting

    Through PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Top Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday needed Punjab Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi “a contented birthday” however it sounds as if were given the dates combined up.

    Channi were given the birthday greetings from folks too however he needed to take to Twitter to elucidate that it was once now not his birthday lately.

    “Thankful for all of the needs pouring in for me lately. Then again, it’s not my birthday lately,” Channi stated in a tweet.

    “Your blessings dangle utmost significance in my lifestyles and encourage me to paintings more difficult. I wholeheartedly thank everybody for the affection showered on me. Regards,” the manager minister added in his tweet.

    Top Minister Modi too had needed Channi.

    On Tuesday, PM Modi had prolonged birthday needs to Bihar, Punjab and Tamil Nadu leader ministers Nitish Kumar, Charanjit Singh Channi and M Ok Stalin.

    In his tweets, Modi needed them “excellent well being and a longevity”.

  • Being Bihari Babu, it hasn’t simply disenchanted me however harm many: Shatrughan on Channi’s ‘Bhaiye’ commentary

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Taking exception to Punjab Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s ‘Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi de bhaiye’ commentary, actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Saturday mentioned being a “Bihari Babu”, it has now not simply disenchanted him however harm many of us from different states too.

    With Priyanka Gandhi Vadra via his facet all the way through an election roadshow in Rupnagar on Tuesday, Channi had mentioned, “Priyanka Gandhi is the daughter-in-law of Punjab. Is not going to let the ‘Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi de bhaiye’, who’ve come right here to rule, input the state.”

    The Punjab leader minister later mentioned his remark was once “twisted” and it was once directed at a couple of people inflicting disruption within the state.

    He had lauded migrants for his or her contribution to the state’s building.

    Regarding the talk, Sinha, who had joined Congress in 2019 forward of the Lok Sabha polls, tweeted, “Although, CM, Punjab @CHARANJITCHANNI has already clarified and @priyankagandhi has already supported the rationalization. However, nonetheless being a public determine, our buddy Channi, right now the CM, will have to know the way to behavior himself. Public figures will have to watch their number of phrases & language.”

    “Being a Bihari Babu, it hasn’t simply disenchanted me however harm many of us from different States, UP, Bihar & Delhi too. Jai Hind!” Sinha mentioned.

  • Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi, singer Sidhu Moosewala booked for violating ballot code

    By means of PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and Congress candidate Sidhu Moosewala from Mansa seat were booked for violating the fashion code of habits.

    They had been discovered campaigning in Mansa after the 6 pm electioneering time limit on Friday, the remaining day for campaigning, an FIR lodged towards them mentioned. The case used to be lodged on a grievance through Aam Aadmi Birthday party candidate Vijay Singla from Mansa.

    CM Channi on Friday had long gone to Mansa to marketing campaign for Moosewala. They’ve been booked beneath phase 188 (disobedience to reserve duly promulgated through public servant) of the IPC, the FIR published. The case has been registered at Mansa police station Town-1.

    Polling for 117 meeting seats is scheduled to be hung on February 20 whilst counting of votes will happen on March 10.

  • Will significantly glance into allegations of Sikh for Justice having family members with AAP, Shah assures Channi

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Union House Minister Amit Shah on Friday confident Punjab Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi that the federal government has taken the subject of alleged strengthen to the AAP by way of banned separatist workforce Sikh for Justice and asserted that nobody will probably be allowed to play with India’s harmony and integrity.

    Shah additionally mentioned it’s extremely condemnable that to grasp energy some folks cross to the level of becoming a member of palms with the separatists and likewise cross to the boundaries of breaking Punjab and the rustic.

    His assurance got here in respond to a letter written by way of Channi claiming that he had won a letter by way of Sikh for Justice (SFJ) which displays that the crowd is in consistent contact with the AAP.

    Channi claimed that within the SFJ letter it used to be discussed that it had given its strengthen to AAP within the meeting elections in Punjab in 2017 and in a similar fashion in those polls too.

    The SFJ has exhorted the citizens to vote for AAP, Channi claimed. Polling for the Punjab meeting elections will probably be hung on February 20. “I wish to guarantee you that nobody will probably be allowed to play with the harmony and integrity of the rustic. The federal government of India has taken the subject very significantly and I personally will glance into the subject deeply,” Shah mentioned.

    He mentioned the problem of a political birthday party having family members and getting strengthen from a terrorist and banned organisation is a major subject with reference to the harmony and integrity of the rustic. Shah mentioned the time table of such forces isn’t any other from the time table of nation’s enemies.

    “That is extremely condemnable that to grasp energy such folks cross to the level of becoming a member of palms with the separatists and likewise cross to the boundaries of breaking Punjab and the rustic,” he mentioned.

  • BJP twisted Channi’s statement made for AAP, BJP leaders: Priyanka Gandhi on ‘UP de bhaiya’ remark

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Congress normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday got here out in defence of Punjab Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi over the political brouhaha led to by means of his ‘UP de bhaiya’ statement, announcing the feedback have been made for AAP leaders and BJP campaigners within the northern state.

    Hours after High Minister Narendra Modi hit out at Channi and Gandhi for cheering the manager minister whilst he made the statement, the Congress normal secretary accused the BJP of the usage of its propaganda equipment to curve the remark.

    “Channi ji mentioned particularly that Punjab must be dominated by means of Punjabis, now not by means of outsiders – that was once the context of his remark. He was once regarding AAP leaders and BJP campaigners in Punjab.

    “The BJP, with the assistance of its propaganda equipment funded by means of its best industrialist buddies, accommodations to twisting statements and the usage of them in opposition to the opposition as it has run out of political issues to discuss on,” Gandhi mentioned in a remark to PTI.

    At the high minister’s assault that she had collaborated within the “insult” of the folk of Uttar Pradesh, the Congress chief puzzled Modi on his stand on more than a few crimes in opposition to ladies in Uttar Pradesh as a substitute.

    “I want to ask him his stand at the Hathras rape case, the Unnao rape case, the custodial homicide of Arun Valmiki, the bloodbath of tribals in Sonbhadra, the bloodbath of Passi circle of relatives and the burning of Nishad group’s boats in Prayagraj.

    “I need to know why he has now not requested the Minister of State for House (Ajay Mishra) to surrender even supposing his son trampled six farmers to loss of life. I need to know his stand at the bail of the minister’s son,” Gandhi mentioned.

    She additional mentioned the high minister’s silence on those problems is an insult to the folk of UP, now not Channi’s touch upon politicians from out of doors Punjab who need to run Punjab.

    “The BJP must prevent looking to divert from the true problems of those elections. Let me remind them, those are — jobs, value upward thrust, well being, training, small and medium companies, farmer’s issues, ladies’s emancipation and construction. They have got failed in each and every of those fronts,” the AICC normal secretary added.

    Modi previous hit out at Channi for his “UP de bhaiye’ statement and in addition focused the AAP, accusing it of “dreaming to get a divorce” the state.

    Lashing out at Channi, Modi requested if the Punjab leader minister may just use this kind of language for the land the place Guru Ravidas and Sikh Guru Gobind Singh have been born. He additionally attacked Gandhi for clapping when Channi made the remarks.

    Channi had courted controversy by means of asking other people all the way through a highway display to not let the “bhaiya” of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Delhi input the state, a statement it sounds as if aimed toward AAP leaders.

  • Congress has at all times betrayed farmers: PM Modi

    In complete Punjab, one voice is popping out and that’s to make the BJP-led alliance victorious and shape a “double engine” executive, the high minister mentioned.

  • Punjab CM Channi misses Rahul’s rally as his chopper used to be now not allowed to take off

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    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s helicopter used to be now not allowed to take off first of all for Hoshiarpur As ‘no-fly zone’ restriction used to be imposed because of the motion of Top Minister Narendra Modi. Channi used to be on his technique to attend the rally of former congress president Rahul Gandhi and thus neglected the rally. After few hours when the flight took off, it might simplest achieve Sujanpur.

    Extremely positioned resources stated that the government didn’t first of all allow Punjab Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s helicopter to take off from Rajendra Park at Chandigarh as ‘no-fly zone’ restriction used to be reportedly imposed because of the motion of Top Minister Narendra Modi who used to be in Jalandhar to wait a rally.

    A helipad have been arrange at police strains at Hoshiarpur however CM’s advance safety group left the venue when intimated in regards to the building. Because the chopper used to be simplest allowed to take off after few hours and that still for Sujanpur simplest as CM Channi needed to deal with a rally there and from there Channi needed to pass to Jalandhar however once more the chopper used to be now not approved to take off for Jalandhar from Sujanpur. Thus the Leader Minister went through street to Jalandhar.

    “Previous within the morning the chopper had dropped Congress Normal Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at close to Shimla in Himachal Pradesh,’’ stated an officer.  Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi stated that he had the clearance to take off from Chandigarh and land at Hoshiarpur. But if he  went and sat in my
    helicopter the pilots stated they can’t fly. They stored telling me look forward to some time.

    “Had they instructed me closing evening, I’d have long past to Hoshiarpur through street,’’ he stated. Channi stated, “The Top Minister had come. Let his chopper land, however my helicopter will have to have additionally been allowed.”

    Former Punjab Congress President Sunil Jakhar stated, “It’s shameful that the manager
    minister used to be allowed take off and are available to the rally. The Election Fee should take cognizance of it.’’

    Jakhar requested Top Minister to reply at the factor, as he stated, “The PM who cited danger to his existence when his cavalcade used to be interrupted, should give an explanation for why the permission used to be denied to our CM.’’

    In the meantime on the Jalandhar rally Top Minister Narendra Modi stated his helicopter used to be held up in Punjab as a result of `Yuvraj ‘ (prince) used to be flying to Amritsar. He stated he had come to Punjab to marketing campaign for the nationwide election, after being named the BJP’s presumptive Top Minister, when the incident happened.

    “I used to be named PM candidate. I needed to talk over with Pathankot after which pass to  Himachal  for marketing campaign. However my chopper used to be now not allowed to fly to Pathankot as a result of their yuvraj (prince) used to be additionally in Amritsar. He used to be just a Congress MP. The Congress has a dependancy of now not permitting the opposition to paintings,’’ stated Modi whilst regarding the 2014 incident.

  • Punjab polls 2022: CM Charanjit Singh Channi banks on building paintings in Chamkaur Sahib

    Via PTI

    CHAMKAUR SAHIB (PUNJAB): Looking for re-election from Chamkaur Sahib seat for the fourth time, Charanjit Singh Channi is banking at the building paintings he undertook in his constituency as an MLA and all over his 111-day tenure as Punjab leader minister.

    Channi just lately made an impassioned speech telling the folks of his long-time constituency that it will no longer be a victory if he wins via lower than 50,000 votes.

    With the ballot campaigning in Punjab getting into its final segment, Channi, whom the Congress just lately declared as its leader ministerial candidate, has been criss-crossing the state keeping ballot conferences in Malwa, Majha and Doaba areas.

    All the way through his visits, he talks in regards to the pro-people tasks his executive took all over its brief tenure of 111 days. The Congress has additionally fielded Channi, who changed Amarinder Singh final 12 months and is the primary leader minister of Punjab from the Scheduled Caste neighborhood, from Bhadaur (SC) in Barnala district.

    A couple of days in the past, Channi requested humans right here to make sure his victory for the fourth consecutive time as he indexed a number of building tasks performed in his house constituency.

    “If we win (from Chamkaur Sahib) via lower than 50,000 votes, then it is going to no longer be a victory. I’m your son and your brother. I’ve been with you for 15 years and not went away for even an afternoon. I’m not anything with out you,” Channi had stated.

    Channi, who has BA, LLB, MBA, MA levels and is now doing a PhD, has cultivated the picture of a commoner and has remained obtainable to humans. Whilst campaigning in Ludhiana, Channi stopped at a dhaba to have dinner and mingled with some truck drivers.

    Previous, at a public accumulating in Ludhiana, he were given down from the level to freely mingle with the target audience. Whilst campaigning in Bhadaur, the executive minister took day without work to play cricket with locals and playing cards with the aged.

    On the other hand, combatants have centered Channi’s “not unusual guy” symbol over the new arrest of his nephew via the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case connected to alleged unlawful sand mining in Punjab.

    But even so speaking in regards to the paintings finished via his executive, the executive minister has additionally been attacking the rival events, specifically the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP), pronouncing that individuals might not be misled via their “false claims”.

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    At the building paintings performed right here, citizens stated a theme park was once finished in November final 12 months, building of a talent institute has begun and basis stones of 2 bridges had been laid via Channi.

    In the principle marketplace out of doors Katalgarh Sahib gurdwara right here, shopkeepers are proud of the advance paintings. Harjit, who owns a items and toys store, says the world has noticed building beneath Channi.

    At the risk that Channi must surrender some of the two seats he’s contesting from if he wins from each, Harjit stated, “Chamkaur Sahib is CM sahab’s lifestyles, he can’t surrender this seat”. Amrit Good friend, who runs a utensil store, stated Channi’s first tenure was once just for 111 days.

    When he will get a complete tenure of 5 years, whole Punjab will see building.  AAP candidate Charanjit Singh, alternatively, countered Channi’s building claims. “Crores had been seized from his nephew. Can he merely wash off his arms?” Singh requested.

    At the building entrance, he stated, “Had there been any building, it will had been visual. All the stretch of the principle street in Morinda (a part of Chamkaur Sahib phase) has been dug up and so they may no longer assemble one street.”

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    “The CM may no longer assemble one street in entrance of his area, how will he increase all of the state,” stated Singh, who misplaced to Channi from right here within the 2017 polls via a margin of 12,308 votes.

    Significantly, Channi additionally owns a area in Morinda. “It sort of feels they nonetheless have no idea the definition of building, which is producing jobs and employment, construction new colleges, new hospitals and higher street infrastructure,” Singh stated, including that individuals have made up their minds to offer the AAP a possibility.

    Within the run-up to the polls, AAP leaders have accused Channi of no longer doing sufficient for his constituency.

    Whilst Delhi Deputy Leader Minister Manish Sisodia visited two colleges and alleged that Channi failed to supply right kind training infrastructure, AAP chief Raghav Chadha centered him over unlawful mining, claims that the Congress chief trashed as baseless.

    Additionally within the fray are Harmohan Singh of the Bahujan Samaj Birthday celebration, which is contesting the election in alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal, and the BJP’s Darshan Singh Shivjot. Shivjot claims well being infrastructure is a large factor right here as there are not any clinical amenities in Morinda and humans have to visit Mohali or Chandigarh for remedy.

    Elections to the 117-member Punjab Meeting can be hung on February 20. The counting of votes can be taken up on March 10.