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  • Congress scripted its personal defeat in Punjab, says senior birthday celebration chief in obvious jibe at Sidhu

    By way of PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Former Punjab minister and senior Congress chief Balbir Singh Sidhu on Sunday stated that the Congress management scripted its personal defeat through giving energy to turncoats and opportunists who had been alien to the Congress, its historical past and tradition.

    Reacting to the birthday celebration’s drubbing within the Punjab meeting polls, Sidhu stated, “The decline of the birthday celebration’s potentialities began the day Sunil Jakhar, a dyed-in-wool Congressman, used to be changed through an intruder Navjot Singh Sidhu, who had joined the Congress simply 4 years in the past.”

    Announcing that the Congress “dedicated one blunder after any other”, Balbir Sidhu stated doing away with Amarinder Singh as the manager minister proved to be the closing straw that broke the camel’s again which in the end ended in the “whole cave in” of the birthday celebration and the federal government.

    Amarinder Singh used to be unseated from the manager minister’s submit closing yr following a sour feud between him and Navjot Singh Sidhu.

    In a commentary right here, the previous well being minister stated the birthday celebration’s 3rd mistake used to be refusing to nominate Sunil Jakhar as the manager minister simply because he used to be a Hindu, in spite of the enhance of an vast majority of the birthday celebration MLAs and the secular personality and tradition of the Congress.

    “If the Congress had believed in politics of faith, Giani Zail Singh would not be the president, Dr Manmohan Singh would not be the high minister and Buta Singh would not be the house minister,” he stated.

    “All this used to be adopted through the appointment of Charanjit Singh Channi, who once more used to be now not an actual Congressman, as he had attempted his good fortune with the Shiromani Akali Dal and the Other folks’s Birthday celebration of Punjab earlier than becoming a member of the Congress. The Congress birthday celebration and the federal government used to be passed over to rank outsiders,” Balbir Sidhu asserted.

    He stated the way in which the birthday celebration arbitrarily denied tickets to senior and veteran leaders like Amrik Singh Dhillon, Jagmohan Singh Kang, Ajaib Singh Bhatti and Kewal Singh Dhillon used to be but any other deadly mistake through the Congress management.

    “It used to be atypical and unexpected that the birthday celebration regarded find it irresistible used to be in a race with itself in repeating one blunder after any other to reason its personal doom,” he stated.

    The 3-time former MLA from Mohali identified that simply earlier than the appointment of Navjot Singh Sidhu because the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president, everybody used to be of the unanimous view that the Congress will repeat itself in 2022.

    “However the countdown for doom began the day Navjot Sidhu took over because the PCC president”, he stated, including that the birthday celebration made no efforts to reign him in.

    Balbir Sidhu stated the way in which the Punjab Congress leader and the manager minister indulged in open disagreement, striking the birthday celebration in a state of “civil battle”, left the sphere large open for the opposition.

    “Other folks were given bored to death with this civil battle they usually made up our minds to show us a lesson,” he stated.

    But even so, Balbir Sidhu stated, “The language utilized by Navjot Sidhu and Channi all through the marketing campaign antagonised a big segment of the citizens.”

    Whilst Navjot Sidhu allegedly addressed former minister Anil Joshi as a “kaala Brahmin”, Channi allegedly used derogatory language towards the migrant inhabitants.

    This antagonised sure communities they usually voted towards the Congress now not handiest in Punjab, but additionally in Uttar Pradesh, he stated.

    The previous minister stated as a substitute of proudly owning up duty, the ones accountable had been “shamelessly” glorifying themselves as though they’d gained “Param Vir Chakra”.

    He stated the ones accountable for the debacle will have to be made responsible, lest the Congress were given “destroyed past redemption”.

    The Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration romped house with 92 of the 117 meeting seats through decimating the Congress and the SAD-BSP mix.

  • Harpal Cheema, Kultar Singh Sandhwan lead race for AAP’s Punjab Cupboard, ladies ministers most probably: Resources

    In keeping with the assets, the birthday party high-command has given a loose hand to Mann to come to a decision his Cupboard colleagues.

  • ‘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.

  • AAP emerges as selection in nationwide politics with its Punjab victory

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: With its landslide victory in Punjab meeting polls, the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) has completed a significant milestone in its adventure up to now and emerged instead within the nationwide politics.

    The birthday party received 92 seats in Punjab, decimating its closest rival Congress to shape its govt within the state with a three-fourth majority within the 117-member legislative meeting.

    The robust AAP wave in Punjab noticed many bigwigs trailing and dropping — together with Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Sukhbir Singh Badal and Congress chief and Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi from each the seats he contested, Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur, former leader minister Amarinder Singh who left the Congress to sign up for arms with the BJP, and Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu.

    The birthday party additionally won some toe grasp in Goa successful two seats within the 40-member state legislative meeting, regardless that it will no longer open its account in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

    The AAP had contested on all seats in Punjab, Goa, Uttarkhand and Uttar Pradesh meeting polls, looking for to enlarge its base past Delhi and reach its said ambition to turn into a dominant pressure in nationwide politics.

    Buoyed through its efficiency in Punjab meeting polls, the birthday party is now aiming to enlarge its base in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.

    The birthday party will contest the meeting elections in those two states to beheld subsequent yr.

    With focal point on Gujarat, birthday party plans to carry Punjab victory march in BJP-ruled Gujarat, AAP resources stated.

    Born out of 2011 anti-corruption motion led through Anna Hazare, the birthday party seems to play a significant position within the nationwide politics following its emphatic victory in Punjab meeting polls, with the AAP leaders projecting the birthday party’s nationwide convenor and Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal as an alternative choice to High Minister Narendra Modi.

    The political observers feels that the meteoric upward push of the AAP inside a decade of its formation will support its standing as a challenger to the Congress and the BJP in coming months, equipped it lives as much as the expectancies of folks of Punjab, supply a blank govt within the state, and fulfil the guarantees that it made all the way through elections.

    The birthday party’s enhance to the farmers’ agitation in opposition to three-farm rules closing yr, its Delhi type of governance and interior feud in Congress in Punjab ended in its victory in Punjab, in line with the ballot analysts.

    “With its victory in Punjab, the AAP has turn into the one regional birthday party and 3rd birthday party within the nation which can have its govt in two states. Different two are the BJP and the Congress,” famous political analyst and co-director of Lokniti-CSDS Sanjay Kumar instructed PTI when requested for his feedback.

    The AAP will turn into visual to the citizens instead with the birthday party additionally gaining a toehold in Goa, he stated.

    “In coming days, birthday party will get started seeing the birthday party instead if it supplies a blank govt in Punjab and make a visual have an effect on with its paintings because it did in Delhi,” he added.

    The folk of Punjab have given their mandate to AAP and voted for alternate, having a look on the paintings performed through its govt in Delhi, in particular in training and healthcare sectors, Kumar stated.

    “Whilst the Congress may no longer acquire religion of the folks because of interior feud within the birthday party, Akalis (SAD) additionally may no longer draw in the electors as that they had no longer performed anything else particular all the way through its regime in previous.

    In this sort of state of affairs, the AAP was once noticed instead and folks determined to provide it a possibility,” he added.

    Kejriwal and others shaped the AAP in 2012, making an go out from the 2011 anti-corruption motion following variations with Anna Hazare and made its debut in electoral politics successful 28 out of 70 seats in Delhi Meeting, and shaped its govt underneath Leader Minister Kejriwal with out of doors enhance of the Congress in December 2013.

    After failing to move the Jan Lokpal Invoice because of loss of numbers within the Delhi Meeting, Kejriwal resigned as leader minister in February 2014 to hunt a contemporary and whole mandate.

    Ahead of the re-election in Delhi might be held, the AAP contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and received 4 seats — all from Punjab.

    The birthday party recorded a landslide victory in 2015 Delhi meeting polls successful 67 out of a complete 70 seats, with a document vote percentage of 54 in line with cent and shaped its govt.

    The AAP created a historical past as soon as once more through successful 62 out of 70 seats in 2020 Delhi meeting polls.

  • Punjab polls: CM Charanjit Singh Channi, over part of his ministers lose

    By way of PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and over part of his ministers have misplaced from the seats they had been contesting because the AAP stormed to energy in Punjab on Thursday with an vast majority.

    The Aam Aadmi Celebration scripted historical past by means of successful 92 of the 117 meeting seats whilst the ruling Congress suffered a critical drubbing.

    Channi, who contested from Chamkaur Sahib in Rupnagar district and Bhadaur in Barnala, misplaced from each the seats to AAP applicants.

    Channi used to be the sitting MLA from Chamkaur Sahib.

    He had succeeded Amarinder Singh after his unceremonious go out as the executive minister in September remaining 12 months.

    Whilst minister O P Soni used to be defeated by means of AAP’s Ajay Gupta from Amritsar Central, Raj Kumar Verka misplaced to AAP’s Jasbir Singh Sandhu from Amritsar West.

    Manpreet Singh Badal suffered a crushing defeat by the hands of AAP’s Jagroop Gill from Bathinda City seat.

    From Sangrur, Vijay Inder Singla misplaced to AAP’s Narinder Kaur Bharaj whilst Bharat Bhushan Ashu misplaced to AAP’s Gurpreet Bassi Gogi from Ludhiana West.

    Randeep Singh Nabha and Gurkirat Singh Kotli misplaced from Amloh and Khanna seats whilst Razia Sultana used to be defeated by means of AAP’s Mohammed Jamil-ur-Rahman from Malerkotla.

    Sangat Singh Gilzian used to be defeated by means of AAP’s Jasvir Singh Raja Gill from Urmar seat.

    On the other hand, seven Congress ministers controlled to win.

    They’re Rana Gurjeet Singh, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Aruna Chaudhary, Pargat Singh, Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria and Amrinder Singh Raja Warring.

  • A number of turncoats, Cupboard ministers trailing in Punjab as AAP sweeps state

    Through PTI

    CHANDIGARH: A number of celebration hoppers together with Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi, Fateh Jang Singh Bajwa and Anil Joshi had been trailing from their respective constituencies in Punjab, in step with ballot tendencies.

    The Aam Aadmi Birthday party was once main in 89 out of general 117 meeting seats in Punjab.

    Forward of the meeting polls, a number of leaders had switched facets.

    Former sports activities minister Sodhi had give up the Congress and joined the Bharatiya Janata Birthday party and contested from Ferozepur Town seat.

    Sodhi, a four-time MLA from Guruharsahai in Ferozepur, was once trailing from Ferozepur seat, the tendencies confirmed.

    AAP candidate Ranbir Singh was once main from Ferozepur Town over his nearest rival and Congress candidate Parminder Singh Pinki.

    Former Congress chief Bajwa, who had joined the BJP, and fought from Batala seat was once trailing.

    Aam Aadmi Birthday party candidate Amansher Singh is main from Batala seat over his nearest rival and Congress candidate Ashwani Sekhri, in step with tendencies.

    Fateh Jang Bajwa was once a sitting legislator from Qadian seat from the place the Congress fielded his elder brother and Rajya Sabha member Partap Singh Bajwa.

    Former Punjab minister Joshi, who give up the BJP and joined the SAD remaining 12 months, contested from Amritsar North meeting seat.

    AAP candidate and previous IPS officer Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh was once main over Joshi from Amritsar North seat.

    Joshi had remained legislator from the Amritsar North seat in 2007 and 2012 at the BJP price tag.

    He confronted defeat within the 2017 Meeting polls.

    Former Congress chief Harjot Kamal, who too had joined the BJP, fought from Moga meeting seat.

    Kamal left the Congress after the celebration denied him the price tag from Moga.

    From Moga seat, AAP candidate Amandeep Kaur Arora was once main over her nearest rival and Congress candidate Malvika Sood Sachar, who’s sister of actor Sonu Sood.

    Former Punjab minister and three-time MLA Joginder Singh Mann, who joined the AAP after snapping his 50-year-old ties with the Congress, fought from Phagwara seat.

    On the other hand, Congress candidate Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal was once main over BSP nominee Jasvir Singh Garhi from Phagwara seat.

    Sukhjinder Raj Singh Lali Majithia, who joined the AAP after leaving the Congress, attempted his success from Majitha meeting section.

    SAD candidate Ganieve Kaur Majithia is main from Majithia meeting section.

    Raman Bahl, who left the Congress remaining 12 months and joined the AAP, fought from Gurdaspur seat.

    SAD candidate Gurbachan Singh Babehali was once main over Congress candidate and sitting MLA Barindermeet Singh Pahra from Gurdaspur seat.

    Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and maximum of his Council of Ministers had been trailing of their respective constituencies, as in line with the tendencies at 12 pm.

    Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, who contested from two constituencies, Chamkaur Sahib in Rupnagar district and Bhadaur seat in Barnala, is trailing in each because the Aam Aadmi Birthday party (AAP) applicants are main the race.

    Channi is the sitting MLA from Chamkaur Sahib.

    Maximum of Channi’s ministers, who had succeeded Amarinder Singh after his unceremonious go out as the executive minister in September remaining 12 months, had been additionally trailing.

    From Amritsar Central seat, Minister O P Soni was once trailing at the back of AAP’s Ajay Gupta whilst Raj Kumar Verka was once at the back of AAP’s Jasbir Singh Sandhu from Amritsar West.

    Manpreet Singh Badal was once at the back of AAP’s Jagroop Gill from Bathinda City seat whilst from Gidderbaha, Amarinder Singh Raja Warring was once trailing at the back of Akali Dal’s Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon.

    From Sangrur, Vijay Inder Singla was once trailing at the back of AAP’s Narinder Kaur Bharaj.

    Pargat Singh was once trailing at the back of AAP’s Surinder Singh Sodhi from Jalandhar Cantonment and Bharat Bhushan Ashu was once at the back of AAP’s Gurpreet Bassi Gogi from Ludhiana West.

    Razia Sultana was once at the back of her nearest AAP rival Mohammed Jamil-ur-Rahman from Malerkotla seat.

    Sangat Singh Gilzian was once trailing at the back of AAP’s Jasvir Singh Raja Gill from Urmar seat.

    Ministers Rana Gurjeet Singh, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa had been main.

    As in line with the tendencies at 12:15 pm, the Aam Aadmi Birthday party seemed to be heading for a blank sweep in Punjab, having taken a lead in 90 of the 117-Meeting seats.

  • BJP exudes self assurance about forming executive in 4 states, spectacular positive factors in Punjab

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Best BJP leaders on Saturday exuded self assurance that the birthday party will shape the federal government in 4 states the place it used to be in energy, together with in Uttar Pradesh, and it’s going to make spectacular positive factors in Punjab.

    Addressing a joint press convention right here, BJP president JP Nadda and Union House Minister Amit Shah stated the birthday party gets a large majority in Uttar Pradesh and the ones hoping for any dilution within the birthday party’s mandate could be disillusioned.

    “Folks will give BJP a excellent majority in 4 states the place it’s in energy,” Nadda stated.

    Underlining that the birthday party ran a systematic and well-organised marketing campaign, Shah stated, “We noticed High Minister Modi’s recognition in 5 poll-bound states used to be greater than that of any previous high minister.”

    Shah stated he’s assured that BJP will go back to energy in 4 states — Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur, and make spectacular positive factors in Punjab.

    In Uttar Pradesh, Shah stated, BJP gets a large majority.

    He additional stated that some leaders may have left the birthday party, however now not the electorate.

  • 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.

  • In a position to lend a hand states to give a boost to their training, well being infrastructure: Kejriwal forward of Punjab polls

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday stated his dispensation used to be able to lend a hand state governments in making improvements to their training and well being infrastructure with out the honor of political ideologies for the welfare of the rustic.

    He used to be talking on the release of 12,430 study rooms in Delhi executive colleges.

    “I’m making an be offering these days. If any state executive, irrespective if it is led through BJP or Congress, desires to give a boost to its training infrastructure, we’re able to mortgage Schooling Minister Manish Sisodia to it,” Kejriwal stated.

    “In a similar fashion, if any state executive desires to construct mohalla clinics, well-equipped executive hospitals, we’re able to mortgage Well being Minister Satyendar Jain to it,” he added.

    Kejriwal’s feedback got here at a time when his Aam Aadmi Celebration is within the ballot fray in states like Punjab.

    “We don’t combat the elections in each state. We would like the rustic to development and we’re able to lend a hand the state governments. We would like corruption to finish,” he stated.

    Kejriwal has come below assault from the BJP and the Congress after former Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) chief Kumar Vishwas accused him of supporting separatists in poll-bound Punjab.

    Kejriwal has dubbed Vishwas’s allegations as “laughable”.

    Speaking in regards to the allegations, the Delhi leader minister stated he used to be operating to raised the training gadget and the healthcare infrastructure.

    “I’ve devoted those 12,430 study rooms to the rustic. The individual, whom they’re calling a terrorist, has made such colleges the place the youngsters of deficient and wealthy folks find out about in combination. The individual, whom they’re accusing of terrorism, is satisfying the goals of Baba Saheb Ambedkar and Bhagat Singh,” he stated.

    Kejriwal alleged that political leaders are scared of faculties.

    “Hardcore patriots are being ready in those colleges. After five-ten years, when they are going to vote, they are going to no longer vote at the foundation of caste or faith however for the rustic’s development,” he stated.

    Kejriwal discussed freedom fighter Bhagat Singh at the instance and stated, “He had given the slogan Inquilab Zindabad. I’m giving the slogan Inquilab Zindabad, Shiksha Kranti Zindabad’.”

    Within the ultimate 7 years, Delhi government has constructed 20,000 study rooms, greater than the ones constructed through all state and central governments blended all the way through this era, the manager minister claimed.

    Previous within the day, Kejriwal had claimed that all of the corrupt folks have teamed up towards the AAP and stated they are going to get a befitting answer with the inauguration of 12,430 fashionable study rooms in town colleges.

    In a tweet in Hindi, he additionally stated the rustic is not going to bow down ahead of those corrupt folks and transfer forward.

    “The entire corrupt folks of the rustic have teamed up towards us. Nowadays, we will be able to give them a befitting answer through inaugurating 12,430 fashionable study rooms in Delhi colleges.”

    “This nation is not going to bow down ahead of those corrupt folks. The rustic has determined. The rustic will transfer forward. The goals of Baba Saheb and Bhagat Singh can be fulfilled,” the manager minister stated.