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  • BJP takes severe be aware of assault on celebration’s Punjab candidate; Shekhawat says violence is unacceptable

    By way of PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Claiming that the BJP’s recognition graph in Punjab is emerging and the combatants are feeling threatened, Union minister and celebration’s in-charge for Punjab, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Monday strongly condemned the assault on celebration candidate in Ludhiana district, Sucha Ram Ladhar.

    BJP candidate from Ludhiana’s Gill constituency Ladhar used to be injured and hospitalised after unidentified individuals allegedly attacked his automotive Sunday night, police had mentioned.

    Ladhar used to be getting back from a village in his constituency after campaigning.

    63-year-old Ladhar, a retired IAS officer, used to be later hospitalised in Ludhiana.

    Shekhawat mentioned, violence in a civilized society is unacceptable.

    “The ones answerable for the incident shall be known and strictly handled in line with the legislation”, he mentioned in a commentary right here, whilst including, “we can no longer let our leaders and employees be threatened and intimidated by means of violence”.

    Shekhawat dared the Bharatiya Janata Birthday party’s combatants to combat the combat with votes and no longer with violence.

    “Those incidents are most effective a sign that the BJP applicants are main all over the place and the combatants in sheer frustration are actually making an attempt to make use of violence to intimidate them”, he alleged.

    With Punjab going to polls on February 20 and Type Code entering impact ultimate month with announcement of polls, the union minister warned, “it isn’t the Congress rule within the state anymore the place you’re going to disrupt the Top Minister’s programme”.

    “The whole thing is being famous and monitored to the minutest element and the whole thing shall be taken to the logical conclusion”, he mentioned, whilst caution, BJP is not going to take the assault on its applicants mendacity down.

    Shekhawat additionally requested the officers within the management and police to accomplish their responsibility in line with the legislation and no longer really feel intimidated by means of somebody.

    “You’re there to give protection to folks and all over present instances, you’ve got the added accountability”, he requested the officers, whilst making it transparent that they should no longer let themselves be influenced by means of somebody.

  • Congress MP Preneet Kaur attends BJP ballot meet, seeks votes for husband Amarinder Singh in Punjab

    By way of PTI

    PATIALA: Congress MP Preneet Kaur on Saturday attending a gathering of the BJP right here and sought votes for her husband Amarinder Singh within the Punjab meeting polls.

    Amarinder Singh had floated his personal celebration Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) after he used to be unceremoniously got rid of as the executive minister via the Congress prime command remaining yr following a sour tussle with celebration’s state unit leader Navjot Singh Sidhu.

    Kaur, the MP from Patiala, attended the BJP’s assembly, which were organised for the saffron celebration’s best friend Amarinder Singh.

    Amarinder Singh-led PLC, the BJP and the SAD (Sanyukt) are combating the state polls in alliance.

    The previous leader minister is contesting the elections as Punjab Lok Congress nominee from his conventional seat Patiala (City).

    Saturday’s assembly used to be organised at Sirhindi Gate right here.

    “I’ve come to you to enchantment for Amarinder Singh as your circle of relatives member,” Kaur mentioned, searching for votes for her husband.

    The transfer of Preneet, who has been staying clear of campaigning for the Congress, has raised speculations about her subsequent political step.

    A couple of days in the past, Congress nominee from Patiala (City) Vishnu Sharma had requested Kaur to both marketing campaign for the celebration or renounce.

    “I’m with my circle of relatives. The circle of relatives is above the whole lot,” Kaur had mentioned on Thursday when journalists requested her why she used to be “silent” all through the elections.

    The Congress had in November remaining yr issued her a show-cause realize searching for a proof from her for alleged “anti-party actions”.

    When requested about it, Kaur had advised journalists on Thursday that she didn’t obtain this type of realize and had handiest examine it in newspapers and on social media.

    The awareness must differently have come from the celebration basic secretary, she had mentioned.

  • Punjab polls: AAP recordsdata criticism with ballot panel, police in opposition to BJP chief Manjinder Sirsa

    Through PTI

    CHANDIGARH: The Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP) on Saturday mentioned it has lodged a criticism with the ballot panel and the police in opposition to BJP chief Manjinder Singh Sirsa for allegedly spreading false data.

    “Sirsa shared a information tale on his Twitter care for that says Kejriwal has mentioned that during Punjab 10-year-old automobiles may not be allowed (to ply) beneath an AAP executive, which is fabricated data and is shared to advertise ill-will and feeling of hostility in opposition to the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration,” the Punjab unit of the celebration mentioned in a observation.

    The observation mentioned the AAP has asked the Election Fee to direct Sirsa “to take away the mentioned content material from his Twitter care for”.

    It additional mentioned the celebration has filed a police criticism in opposition to him “as a result of such provocative and disinformation can result in critical implications and repercussions, if left unchecked”.

    Meeting polls in Punjab shall be hung on February 20.

    “The folks of Punjab wish to convey AAP to energy, and its warring parties can’t in finding any legitimate explanation why to focus on AAP for the reason that Kejriwal executive has performed super paintings in Delhi. This is why some politicians are the usage of fabricated and faux information in opposition to the celebration,” it mentioned.

    In compliance with the Nationwide Inexperienced Tribunal’s instructions, the Delhi executive had ultimate 12 months mentioned it could deregister all diesel automobiles which is able to whole 10 years on January 1, 2022, and factor no objection certificates in order that those can also be re-registered elsewhere.

  • 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.

  • Punjab CM Charanjit Channi’s nephew Bhupinder Singh Honey despatched to 14-day judicial custody

    By way of ANI

    JALANDHAR: Punjab Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s nephew Bhupinder Singh Honey was once produced earlier than a courtroom on Friday in reference to an alleged unlawful sand mining case the place he was once despatched to 14-day judicial custody.

    Honey was once arrested by way of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an alleged unlawful sand mining case on February 3 from Jalandhar after a day-long wondering. He was once remanded to the ED custody until February 4 and then his custody was once prolonged until February 11.

    ED’s motion had come round 20 days after it seized greater than Rs 10 crore, gold value above 21 lakh and a Rolex watch value Rs 12 lakh from the residential premises of Honey, and others in reference to an alleged unlawful sand mining case.

    The ED had declared the recoveries after it concluded its two-day raid carried out on the industry and home premises of the accused individuals and their buddies in over a dozen puts in Mohali, Ludhiana, Rupnagar, Fatehgarh Sahib and Pathankot.

    The federal company had additionally raided the premises of the accused individuals and their buddies together with Kudratdeep Singh, the landlord of Pinjore Royalty Corporate, and his companions and shareholders Kanwarmahip Singh, Manpreet Singh, Sunil Kumar Joshi, Jagveer Inder Singh on January 18 and 19.

  • Circle of relatives above the whole lot: Congress MP Preneet Kaur says in make stronger of husband Amarinder Singh

    Via PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Even because the Meeting elections in Punjab are across the nook, Congress MP Preneet Kaur, who could also be former leader minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s spouse, continues to avoid ballot campaigning in Patiala.

    “Circle of relatives is above the whole lot,” she says.

    Amarinder Singh, who hand over the Congress closing yr after being compelled to surrender as the manager minister, is combating the impending polls from Patiala City seat after floating his personal political outfit, the Punjab Lok Congress.

    A couple of days in the past, Congress nominee from Patiala City seat Vishnu Sharma had requested Kaur, the MP from Patiala, to both marketing campaign for the occasion or surrender.

    “I’m with my circle of relatives. The circle of relatives is above the whole lot,” Kaur stated when newshounds requested why she was once “silent” all over the elections.

    The Congress had in November closing yr issued her a show-cause realize in quest of an reason for her alleged “anti-party actions”.

    When nudged about it, Kaur advised newshounds on Thursday that she didn’t obtain one of these realize, however had handiest examine it in newspapers and on social media.

    The attention must in a different way come from the overall secretary, she stated.

  • Kejriwal has no proper to invite for votes in Punjab: Sukhbir Badal lashes out at AAP leader

    By means of PTI

    SUJANPUR: SAD leader Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday stated AAP nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal has no proper to invite for votes in Punjab as he didn’t discuss with the state for a big duration of the previous 5 years.

    He even didn’t come all through the Covid pandemic, Badal stated addressing a public accumulating in favour of his celebration’s Sujanpur candidate Raj Kumar Gupta.

    Saying that Kejriwal was once seeking to “lie to Punjabis once more”, Badal stated, “You will have already suffered via trusting the false oaths taken via former leader minister Amarinder Singh. Now, a celebration of outsiders is making an attempt to sway you via asking you to present it one likelihood.”

    “I ask AAP why Punjabis must believe AAP. Its convener got here to Punjab 5 years again and his celebration even gained 20 seats to emerge because the important opposition celebration within the state. Alternatively, as an alternative of elevating the voice of folks, 11 of its 20 legislators joined the Congress,” he stated.

    Badal stated Kejriwal “ditched” Punjabis like Amarinder Singh, consistent with a celebration remark.

    “The AAP chief didn’t even come to Punjab greater than annually prior to the beginning of the election procedure. He didn’t care to ship any medications to Punjab as leader minister of Delhi. He didn’t even discuss with the state all through the Covid pandemic. How are you able to believe him to face via you in the event you give him an opportunity and elect AAP to energy,” Badal requested.

    Urging Punjabis to reject outsiders, the SAD president stated the SAD-BSP alliance by myself represented the regional aspirations of folks.

    He stated Punjabis around the nation or even the arena regarded as much as the SAD to unravel their grievances.

    “We’ve effectively resolved issues being confronted via Punjabis the world over,” he stated.

    Badal stated erstwhile SAD-led governments had a time-tested observe report.

    “We made Punjab energy surplus. We also are chargeable for bringing in world-class highway and air connectivity to Punjab. We offered distinctive projects like loose energy to farmers which isn’t being presented to farmers anyplace else within the nation,” he stated.

    “We additionally introduced in social welfare schemes like old-age pension, ‘atta-daal’ and Shagun Schemes, that have helped weaker sections of society to rise up on their ft,” he stated.

  • Punjab polls: Congress didn’t ship justice to sufferers of 1984 riots, says Smriti Irani

    Through PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Union minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday attacked the Congress, accusing it of now not handing over justice to the sufferers of 1984 anti-Sikh riots and mentioned it was once the BJP executive which put the responsible at the back of bars.

    Irani additionally hit out at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for allegedly supporting those that gave the slogan of “dividing the rustic” and mentioned vote casting for the birthday celebration approach vote casting for individuals who need to divide the rustic.

    Addressing a meeting in Ludhiana, Irani mentioned the Congress, when it was once in energy on the Centre, failed to make sure justice to the sufferers of 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

    “Relating to justice, who can overlook 1984 riots? For 30 years, those that misplaced their very own members of the family waited for justice. They saved looking ahead to the punishment for individuals who had been desirous about it,” she mentioned.

    The minister requested the Congress why it might now not ship those that had been desirous about 1984 anti-Sikh riots to prison.

    “For 30 years, the justice, which the Congress may now not ship, was once delivered by way of the BJP executive,” she mentioned.

    She mentioned 300 instances had been reopened and chargesheets had been filed and added, “The ones leaders who stood shoulder to shoulder with the Gandhi circle of relatives after the riots are as of late at the back of bars.”

    Irani accused Gandhi of supporting the ones individuals who gave a slogan of dividing the rustic.

    She additional mentioned for this reason High Minister Narendra Modi mentioned in Parliament that Congress’ scenario is such that it has develop into the chief of the ‘tukde tukde gang’.

    With out naming Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, she mentioned the Congress gave the command of its state unit to an individual who hugged the executive of the enemy military.

    She was once regarding the 2018 incident when Sidhu had courted controversy by way of hugging Pakistan Military Leader Qamar Javed Bajwa all over his consult with to Pakistan for the swearing-in rite of Imran Khan because the top minister.

    Taking a jibe at Sidhu, she mentioned, “His goals of changing into the chief (Congress’s leader ministerial face) had been shattered by way of his personal leaders.”

    The Congress had declared Charanjit Singh Channi as its leader ministerial candidate for the approaching state meeting polls.

    Sidhu was once additionally the contender for turning into the CM face.

    It seems that regarding the method of declaration of the CM face, she mentioned, within the Congress birthday celebration, a “particular circle of relatives” chooses who’s to be the chief (CM face).

    “They (Congress leaders) imagine a circle of relatives as their birthday celebration,” she mentioned.

  • Extra setback for Congress as Khadoor Sahib MP Jasbir Singh Dimpa’s brother joins SAD

    Through PTI

    AMRITSAR: Khadoor Sahib Congress MP Jasbir Singh Dimpa’s brother Harpinder Singh Gill ‘Rajan’ on Wednesday joined the Shiromani Akali Dal forward of February 20 state meeting polls.

    Gill was once welcomed into the SAD fold through birthday party president Sukhbir Singh Badal.

    He was once appointed the overall secretary of the SAD at the instance.

    Former minister and SAD chief Bikram Singh Majithia, who’s contesting towards Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu from Amritsar East section, was once additionally provide.

    Gill, who was once price tag hopeful from Khadoor Sahib meeting section from the Congress, alleged that deserving applicants had been denied price tag through the birthday party.

    He appealed to Congressmen to apply their judgment of right and wrong, claiming that his elder brother and MP Jasbir Dimpa had supported his transfer to shift to the SAD.

    SAD president Sukhbir Badal claimed Gill’s becoming a member of will reinforce the birthday party potentialities within the Majha area.

    “The competition in Majha has transform utterly one-sided in favour of the SAD,” he claimed.

    Regarding Gill’s declare that tickets through the Congress at some puts have been given to unfit applicants, Badal stated, “Even relatives of senior leaders like Charanjit Singh Channi and Rana Gurjit Singh have entered the competition as independents. You’ll now witness Mr Channi shedding from each Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur.”

    “Navjot Singh Sidhu has already misplaced the fight from Amritsar East. All that continues to be is his go out from the Congress at the day the effects come,” he added attacking the state Congress leader.

    Talking at the instance, Bikram Majithia stated Congressmen have been green with envy on the way during which “mafia components have been inspired all over the Congress rule”.

  • BSP supremo Mayawati lambasts Congress executive in Punjab, calls it ‘anti-Dalit’

    By way of PTI

    NAWANSHAHR: BSP supremo Mayawati on Tuesday lashed out on the successive Congress governments on the Centre and in Punjab for his or her alleged anti-Dalit stance and insurance policies.

    The Bahujan Samaj Celebration (BSP) made up our minds to have an alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in Punjab for the February 20 polls in order that aspirations of Dalit stalwarts like Dr B R Ambedkar and BSP founder Kanshi Ram might be fulfilled, she stated.

    Kickstarting her birthday celebration’s and its alliance SAD-BSP’s election marketing campaign at a “Chon Jan Sabha” at Dana Mandi right here, she stated time had come when Congress executive in Punjab too must be proven the door.

    Terming Congress “a jabardast Dalit virodhi birthday celebration” (anti-Dalit birthday celebration), she stated the birthday celebration had all the time been in opposition to the weaker and disadvantaged sections together with adivasis, Dalits and backward categories.

    “Congress as a result of its anti-Dalit and anti-poor stance neither conferred Barat Ratna on Dr B R Ambedkar nor on Kanshi Ram even though they certified for it in all respects,” she lamented, including that the then Congress executive on the Centre didn’t announce even an afternoon’s mourning at the loss of life of Kanshi Ram.

    “Dalits needed to watch for V P Singh executive on the Centre to enforce the suggestions of Mandal Fee Record and conferred Bharat Ratna on Dr B R Ambedkar,” she stated.

    Proceeding her anti-Congress diatribe, she stated the birthday celebration, after having been thrown out of the Centre and in majority of the states, has now began “natakbaji” (theatrics) of being pro-Dalit and pro-backward categories.

    Relating to Rahul Gandhi saying Charanjit Singh Channi because the birthday celebration’s subsequent Leader Minister’s face of Punjab, she stated even though she was once skeptical concerning the Congress returning to energy within the state, “Channi would now not be given a loose hand in working his executive if in any respect Congress returns to energy”.

    “Faraway keep watch over will stay in a non-Dalit’s arms or even Channi might be proven the door as soon as elections are entire,” she stated, including that Congress named Channi as the executive ministerial candidate most effective as a way to garner Dalit votes.

    She criticized Leader Minister Channi too “who allegedly failed to look the Congress recreation plan in pointing out him the executive minister’s face”, for now not remembering Dalits’ Guru, Guru Ravidas even though he paid obeisance at a Mandir in Himachal Pradesh on being declared the following leader minister in case the Congress controlled to go back to energy in Punjab.

    She stated she had complete self belief that on achieving energy, alliance’s Leader Minister’s face Sukhbir Badal would start up pro-poor insurance policies and programmes at the trend of Uttar Pradesh (throughout BSP’s rule) in Punjab to make the deficient stand on their toes.

    “The prevailing Dalit leader minister, excluding making bulletins, didn’t take any steps for the welfare of weaker sections,” she alleged.

    Castigating BJP too for following “anti-Dalit, anti-farmer” insurance policies, she stated she was once assured that not one of the anti-farmer insurance policies of the BJP can be applied in Punjab on assuming energy through the alliance.

    All sections together with the individuals of higher caste are “struggling because of flawed insurance policies of BJP executive” within the nation, she stated.

    She appealed to the birthday celebration cadres to not fall prey and to be cautious of the “election-time guarantees” and ‘bhay’ (concern) of more than a few events and vote in favour of the alliance applicants throughout Punjab.

    “Our birthday celebration believes in giving effects as has been proven throughout my phrases as the executive minister in Uttar Pradesh,” she stated.

    “If alliance on coming to energy fulfils the aspirations of Kanshi Ram, it is going to be a really perfect tribute to the BSP founder,” Mayawati added.

    The AAP too got here in for serious grievance at her arms when she stated that floor realities in Delhi had been relatively other than what was once being claimed through the birthday celebration in Punjab.

    “The AAP failed miserably throughout the height of coronavirus,” she stated.

    She additionally sought to dispel the alleged false impression within the nation that land of farmers had been snatched and given to Dalits throughout her phrases in Uttar Pradesh as the executive minister.

    “Land of now not a unmarried farmer was once given away to Dalits throughout her 4 tenures as Uttar Pradesh leader minister,” she emphasised.

    “Best executive land was once given”.

    “Parivartan (exchange) for a greater the following day is on your arms,” she stated, urging the target audience to beef up the arms of Sukhbir Badal.

    She additionally needed former leader minister M and SAD patriarch Parkash Singh Badal a fast restoration.

    “Parkash Singh Badal is stuffed with a need to serve the state until his ultimate breath,” she added.

    SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal who arrived a complete one hour prior to the coming of Maywati at the degree, in his deal with heaped reward on Mayawati and criticized the Congress for “stalling more than a few schemes and tasks” together with the “sacred memorial mission” at Shri Kuralgarh Sahib close to Garhshankar, a place comparable with Guru Ravidas’ seek advice from throughout his lifetime.