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  • Punjab CM in disagreement mode | Mann at the warpath

    The Punjab CM positions himself as an competitive chief via pushing via 3 contentious expenses. However has he bitten off greater than he can chunk?

    ISSUE DATE: Jul 10, 2023 | UPDATED: Jun 30, 2023 15:53 IST

    CHIEF DISRUPTOR: CM Bhagwant Mann addressing the Punjab meeting, June 20 (Picture: ANI)

    On June 26, individuals of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee—or SGPC, the elected apex frame managing the spiritual affairs of Sikhs—assembled at its headquarters within the Teja Singh Samundri Corridor on the iconic Golden Temple advanced in Amritsar. It used to be a different normal space consultation of the SGPC convened with a single-point time table: to sentence the hot amendments within the Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925, driven via the Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) regime in Punjab.

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    Arindam Mukherjee

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    Jun 30, 2023

  • Punjab CM Mann strikes self belief movement in state Meeting

    Via PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday moved a self belief movement within the state meeting.

    Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Sunday gave his nod to convene the Area on September 27 after days of squabble between the Raj Bhavan and AAP executive over keeping a consultation of the Meeting.

    The CM tabled the Movement of Self belief, however two BJP MLAs — Ashwani Sharma and Jangi Lal Mahajan — had previous walked out of the Area after Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan introduced that Mann would transfer the arrogance movement.

    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday moved a self belief movement within the state meeting.

    Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Sunday gave his nod to convene the Area on September 27 after days of squabble between the Raj Bhavan and AAP executive over keeping a consultation of the Meeting.

    The CM tabled the Movement of Self belief, however two BJP MLAs — Ashwani Sharma and Jangi Lal Mahajan — had previous walked out of the Area after Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan introduced that Mann would transfer the arrogance movement.

  • Bhagwant Mann sacks his Corrupt minister

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    CHANDIGARH:  Giving a dramatic push to probity in public existence, Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday sacked his well being minister Dr Vijay Singla and were given him arrested for in the hunt for lower cash for awarding govt contracts and clearing bills.

    Singla used to be later produced earlier than an area courtroom, which remanded him in three-day police custody. For his section, Singla mentioned, “It’s conspiracy to defame the AAP and Bhagwant Mann govt.” Each Singla and his Officer on Particular Responsibility (OSD) Pardeep Kumar had been booked through the police beneath the Prevention of Corruption Act in line with a criticism from Rajinder Singh, Superintending Engineer within the Punjab Well being Techniques Company.

    The FIR mentioned Singla’s OSD Kumar had demanded that the officer fetch 2% fee for a building contract value Rs 41 crore the minister had already cleared and for a separate cost of Rs 17 crore made to contractors in March. Because the overall quantity concerned used to be Rs 58 crore, 2% works out to Rs 1.16 crore.

    When Rajinder Singh introduced the harassment to Mann’s realize, he used to be requested to assemble evidence. The officer then taped a gathering he had with Singla and Kumar, the place they reiterated their call for for bribe and mentioned the lower cash must be paid to his nephew. The officer passed over the explosive tape to the Leader Minister’s Administrative center.

    Mann is learnt to have then faced the minister with the recording and requested if the voice at the tape used to be his. Singla reportedly responded within the affirmative and used to be sacked. He’s a first-time MLA and minister, as are maximum ministers within the Punjab ministry.

    Mann put out a video message making the announcement. “We discovered considerable evidence of his corruption. I don’t care if the opposition desires to make use of this to hit out at us,” he nonchalently claimed. Mann additionally sought to take the top ethical floor pronouncing that is the second one time within the nation’s historical past {that a} minister has been sacked through his personal celebration for graft. The primary one, he added, used to be in 2015 when AAP founder and Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal chucked his personal meals provides minister Asim Ahmed Khan on fees of corruption and passed him over to the CBI for wondering.

    Kejriwal, after all, used to be suitably inspired. “Your motion has introduced tears to my eyes,’’ he advised Mann. However the Opposition mocked Kejriwal for claiming previous that corruption have been utterly eliminated in Punjab inside of simply 10 days of the Mann govt within the saddle.

    Whistleblower’s dramatic criticism

    A few month in the past, Rajinder Singh, Superintending Engineer in Punjab Well being Techniques Company, used to be known as through Pardeep Kumar, OSD to Singla (pic), to room quantity 203 of Punjab Bhavan

    Singla used to be in a rush to depart, however advised the officer to totally consider Kumar. “No matter Kumar says is what I intend to mention,” he confident and left

    Kumar discussed allotments of building works value L41 crore and a separate Rs 17 crore already paid to contractors in March

    2% of the full Rs 58 crore or Rs 1.16 crore must be paid as bribe, they mentioned

    The officer refused and asked that he be despatched again to his mum or dad division. He’s because of retire on November 30

  • Mann, Kejriwal signal pact to duplicate Delhi type on schooling, well being in Punjab

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    NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH : There used to be a glint of a freshly injected hope in Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann’s eyes as he stood along with his birthday celebration boss Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday. The instance: the signing of an information sharing settlement between the 2 CMs. Punjab will now mirror Delhi’s schooling and well being type – a promise AAP made to the Punjab electorate in February Meeting polls. 
    “Delhi faculties appear to be the ones in Canada.

    Even the overall wards of presidency hospitals are higher provided than ICUs in maximum hospitals. All the way through the height of Covid, I had organized ventilators thru MPLAD budget however needed to donate them to a non-public clinic for the reason that district-level hospitals didn’t have medical doctors to perform them and improve ventilator sufferers,” mentioned Mann. 

    On a two-day shuttle to Delhi,  Mann is apprising himself of the standard of schooling and the state of well being institutes within the nationwide capital. The settlement will facilitate the 2 governments to be told and percentage their wisdom, enjoy and talents for public welfare.

    “Cooperation and collaboration is the one method forward for Delhi and Punjab. We’ll fulfil Babasaheb Ambedkar and Sardar Bhagat Singh’s desires,” mentioned Kejriwal. Mann used to be in sync. “This settlement is a watershed second. We’ll make our state a ‘Hasta-Khelta-Rangla’ Punjab once more,” he mentioned.

    Ahead of inking the settlement, a staff of Delhi ministers and officers gave an in-depth presentation at the state’s schooling and well being fashions to their Punjab opposite numbers. They mentioned about 25% of the overall finances is going to schooling. The Delhi well being type follows an aam aadmi option to lengthen high quality healthcare products and services from mohallas to hospitals.

    Mann mentioned 117 executive faculties and an equivalent selection of ‘Mohalla Clinics’ shall be arrange in each and every meeting constituency throughout Punjab. He brushed apart the opposition grievance in opposition to the settlement, pronouncing it used to be no longer one-sided. 

    On the other hand, Punjab’s opposition events have been vital of the settlement. SAD leader Sukhbir Singh Badal accused Mann of marketing off the state’s pursuits to Delhi. “AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal has grow to be the de-facto CM of Punjab,” he mentioned. “This is a black day for the state. By no means sooner than within the historical past of the state have outsiders been given keep watch over of the state. Punjab has grow to be subservient to Delhi, which is infrequently a state,” Sukhbir mentioned. 

    Chief of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa mentioned the settlement used to be similar to the Lahore Durbar transfer, which invited the British in 1846 to safeguard the security of the Maharaja.

  • Punjab executive bars personal faculties from expanding price

    By means of PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Days sooner than the following instructional consultation starts, Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday directed all personal faculties towards expanding price or compelling kids to shop for books, uniform or stationery pieces from make a selection retail outlets.

    Mann stated folks wish to supply schooling to their kids however it has grow to be expensive, making it unaffordable.

    “As of late, I’m going to announce two giant selections which our executive has taken associated with the schooling sector,” stated Mann sooner than making the bulletins in a video message.

    “No personal faculty in Punjab will hike price on this semester when new admissions happen,” Mann stated.

    He stated no personal faculty within the state will compel kids or their folks to buy books, uniform and stationery pieces from a selected store.

    He stated the personal faculties must supply kids and their folks with addresses of all retail outlets promoting stationery pieces, books and the uniform.

    “It’s as much as folks from the place they wish to acquire this stuff for his or her kids,” Mann stated. He stated the choices will come into power with rapid impact.

    An in depth coverage on this regard can be issued quickly, he stated. Previous on March 19, Mann threw open 25,000 jobs in more than a few state executive departments, together with 10,000 within the Police Division.

    On March 28, Mann introduced the rollout of your doorstep ration supply scheme, pronouncing the deficient will not want to stand in queues as excellent high quality ration can be delivered on their doorstep. Alternatively, the scheme can be not obligatory for the eligible beneficiaries, Mann had stated.

    In remaining month’s Punjab Meeting polls, AAP stormed to energy, decimating the Congress, the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bahujan Samaj Birthday party mix and the BJP-Punjab Lok Congress-SAD (Sanyukt) alliance.

    The Congress, which was once in energy within the state, were given 18 seats within the 117-member meeting, whilst the AAP gained 92 seats.

  • 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.