Tag: Punjab Polls

  • Lone lady amongst 10 ministers to be inducted in Punjab cupboard on Saturday

    Through PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Ten ministers, together with a lady, will probably be inducted within the Bhagwant Mann executive in Punjab on Saturday.

    A few of the 10 ministers, 8 are first-time MLAs. The swearing-in rite of the Mann’s cupboard will probably be held at Punjab Raj Bhawan at 11 am, officers mentioned.

    In a tweet on Friday night, Bhagwant Mann put out an image giving names of the ten celebration MLAs who will probably be sworn-in as ministers and congratulated them.

    They come with Harpal Singh Cheema, second-time legislator from Dirba and the celebration’s Dalit face. He used to be additionally the Chief of the Opposition within the earlier Meeting.

    Two-time Barnala MLA Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer may even discover a berth within the Mann-led cupboard.

    Different MLAs to be inducted within the cupboard are Dr Baljit Kaur, Harbhajan Singh from Jandiala, Dr Vijay Singla from Mansa, Lal Chand from Bhoa, Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal from Ajnala, Laljit Singh Bhullar from Patti, Brahm Shanker from Hoshiarpur and Harjot Bains from Anandpur Sahib.

    There are 18 berths within the cupboard, together with the executive minister.

    After their oath-taking, the newly inducted ministers will suppose fee within the Punjab Civil Secretariat and the primary cupboard assembly of the AAP executive will probably be held within the afternoon, resources mentioned.

    Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit had on Wednesday administered the oath of workplace and secrecy to Bhagwant Mann in a rite at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.

    The Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration romped house with 92 seats within the 117-member Punjab meeting, decimating the Congress and the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bahujan Samaj Birthday celebration mix.

  • 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.

  • Bhagwant Mann to renounce as MP on Monday

    By means of PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Punjab leader minister-designate Bhagwant Mann will post his resignation as a member of parliament on Monday, birthday celebration resources mentioned right here.

    Mann is a two-time Lok Sabha MP from Sangrur parliamentary constituency. The 48-year-old AAP chief shall be sworn-in as Punjab’s leader minister on March 16.

    The oath-taking rite shall be held at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of mythical freedom fighter Bhagat Singh within the Nawanshahr district.

    The AAP romped house by way of successful 92 seats within the 117-member Punjab meeting. It decimated the Congress and the SAD-BSP mix.

    Mann received from Dhuri meeting seat after defeating Congress candidate Dalvir Singh Goldy by way of a margin of 58,206 votes.

    AAP nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal and Mann led a roadshow in Amritsar on Sunday to thank electorate and rejoice the birthday celebration’s landslide victory within the Punjab meeting polls.

  • 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.

  • Congress management will steer clear of studying solution written in daring letters: Ex-Punjab CM Amarinder Singh

    Punjab Lok Congress leader Singh, who was once unseated from the publish of leader minister ultimate yr, requested the grand outdated birthday party who’s liable for its drubbing in UP, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.

  • 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.

  • AAP’s ‘Delhi type’ seems to be largest enchantment for electorate in Punjab: Celebration leaders

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Promise of higher public services and products, excellent high quality colleges and hospitals, which were given the AAP two consecutive phrases in Delhi, remained the constant marketing campaign theme for the birthday celebration led by way of Arvind Kejriwal in polls in Punjab the place the birthday celebration swept the meeting polls on Friday.

    Stuck in a multi-cornered contest in conjunction with the Congress and the Shiromani Akali Dal within the state, Kejriwal had unveiled a ten level ‘Punjab Type’, drawn from its type of governance in Delhi, and confident the electorate of constructing a new-age, filthy rich, and forward-looking Punjab.

    Whilst Delhi Deputy Leader Minister Manish Sisodia stated all the nation was once now searching as much as Delhi’s type of governance of Kejriwal, senior AAP chief Gopal Rai asserted that individuals have given their mandate to AAP in Punjab searching on the paintings of the birthday celebration’s executive beneath Kejriwal in Delhi.

    “Our Delhi type of governance became out to be the largest enchantment a number of the electorate. The type of paintings that has been carried out by way of the Delhi executive beneath Kejriwal in training, healthcare and different sectors despatched out a favorable message and gave hope to the folks of Punjab,” the Delhi atmosphere minister informed PTI.

    Underneath assault from fighters like Top Minister Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi and Sukhbir Badal all the way through the Punjab marketing campaign for his alleged affiliation with separatists, Kejriwal had quipped, “I can be most likely the arena’s sweetest terrorist, development hospitals and colleges for other people and sending the aged on pilgrimages.”

    The Aam Aadmi Celebration(AAP) ruling in Delhi for the previous seven years has include a type of governance (Delhi Type) that encompasses its insurance policies and programmes in quite a lot of fields together with well being, training, girls protection and empowerment, doorstep supply of services and products, unfastened energy and water provide, unfastened bus go back and forth for girls and preventing corruption.

    At the remaining day of campaigning in Punjab on February 18, Kejriwal stated he was once branded as a terrorist by way of “corrupt” leaders within the state who had been rattled by way of him.

    “What’s AAP’s fault? All we’re inquiring for is an opportunity to construct excellent colleges and hospitals like Delhi. We will be able to carry a decent executive to Punjab and remove corruption similar to we have now in Delhi.”

    “I construct colleges and hospitals for most people, however I’m a terrorist for those other people. Those individuals are not able to sleep at evening on account of me. They’re petrified of my birthday celebration.”

    Growing task alternatives for early life, drug-free Punjab, strictest punishments in circumstances of sacrilege, finish of bribery and corruption-free Punjab, the transformation of the training gadget, development trendy hospitals, 16000 Mohalla Clinics without cost healthcare, 24×7 unfastened electrical energy provide and Rs 1000 deposit in accounts of all girls over 18 years are probably the most guarantees made by way of AAP beneath the Punjab type.

    “We need to shape a robust executive by way of bringing greater than 80 seats. The folk of Delhi have rejected and thrown the BJP-Congress out of energy in Delhi. Now best AAP has a stronghold within the country’s capital. In a similar way, we can construct schools-hospitals in Punjab like Delhi and supply all required amenities together with 24×7 electrical energy provide without cost.”

  • 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.