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  • There will probably be 0 tolerance for indiscipline, warns new Punjab Congress President Warring

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    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress President Amrinder Singh Raja Warring has stated the Congress isn’t going to tolerate indiscipline and strict motion could be taken towards those that make any public remark towards the birthday celebration. He used to be talking after a gathering with former Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

    After assembly Rahul Gandhi in Delhi on Monday at the side of Punjab Congress Legislature Birthday celebration (CLP) chief Partap Singh Bajwa, operating president Bharat Bhushan Ashu and deputy CLP chief Raj Kumar Chabbewal, Warring stated, “There will probably be 0 tolerance for indiscipline within the birthday celebration be it a senior or a junior chief. If any person has an issue with any folks, they may be able to elevate a subject matter at the birthday celebration platform however they must no longer elevate it on a public platform. In the event that they achieve this it is going to no longer be tolerated. There can also be variations however they’re going to be resolved internally. Whoever creates indiscipline could be proven the door from the birthday celebration.”

    He stated that everybody is vital within the birthday celebration, be it Navjot Sidhu or Sunil Jakhar and everybody will probably be taken alongside. “Cohesion needs to be maintained and everybody has to paintings in combination,” he stated. Warring talked of looking to give the Congress a brand new style with an intention to spice up the morale of birthday celebration employees within the state. “They at all times say that when you’re in energy, you don’t recognise the employee, you overlook the one who is closing within the queue. A brand new Congress will probably be created in Punjab,” he added.

    Running President of Punjab Congress Bharat Bhushan Ashu stated that they are going to play the function of positive opposition within the state.

    The remark via Warring comes at the day when Congress Disciplinary Committee issued a show-cause understand to former Punjab Congress President Sunil Jakhar as he allegedly spoke towards SCs and has given him one week’s time to respond and then it is going to come to a decision upon the motion to be taken towards him.

    Warring used to be on Saturday evening appointed because the Punjab Congress President changing Navjot Singh Sidhu after the grand previous birthday celebration confronted a debacle within the lately held meeting elections.

  • Folks can now raise cellphones inside of Punjab govt places of work

    By way of PTI

    CHANDIGARH: The Punjab govt on Friday mentioned other folks will now be allowed to hold cellphones inside of govt places of work except barred because of safety causes, in line with an reputable commentary.

    The improvement comes after the state govt introduced an anti-corruption helpline remaining month, permitting other folks to ship audio or video of officers indulging in corrupt practices.

    “It has additionally been introduced to note of the federal government that during some places of work, there’s a whole ban for most people to convey their cellphones, thus inflicting a large number of harassment to them,” the reputable commentary mentioned.

    “In view of this, now there would now not be an entire ban on bringing cellphones, quite a partial ban may well be imposed on this regard because of sure safety causes in the ones places of work the place it’s obligatory,” it mentioned.

    The state govt additionally issued detailed pointers to all administrative secretaries, heads of departments, divisional commissioners and deputy commissioners to verify punctuality of all workers for the ease of most people coming from far-flung spaces to those places of work.

    “Likewise, fastened timings will have to be prescribed in public dealing places of work to fulfill most people but even so making sure excellent behaviour, extending elementary courtesies and correctly guiding them,” the tips said.

  • You’re going to be held liable for any breach of legislation and order: Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann’s letter to senior police officers

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    CHANDIGARH: Dealing with opposition flak over fresh incidents of violence in Punjab, Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday advised commissioners of police and district police chiefs that they are going to be held liable for any breach of legislation and order of their jurisdictions.

    The executive minister additionally requested them to play a frontal function within the battle in opposition to gangsters via individually carrying out operations and interrogations.

    In a letter addressed to all CPs and SSPs of the state, Mann mentioned the most productive leaders lead via instance, including that the Punjab Police has a gallant custom of professionalism and repair to the country.

    “You’re going to be individually held liable for any breach of legislation and order for your jurisdiction as you’re responsible underneath legislation,” the executive minister asserted.

    Following some fresh incidents of violence, together with the killing of a kabaddi participant in Jalandhar, 4 deaths in Gurdaspur and the dying of a neighborhood Congress chief in Ludhiana, the opposition attacked the AAP-led govt in Punjab.

    Whilst Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu alleged that there used to be “entire cave in of legislation and order”, former leader minister Amarinder Singh mentioned the new spike in incidents of violence in Punjab used to be worrisome.

    The Shiromani Akali Dal additionally alleged that the “cave in” of the legislation and order state of affairs in Punjab after the formation of the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP) govt had created a sense of lack of confidence within the minds of Punjabis.

    In his letter, Mann expressed self assurance within the state’s police power and mentioned it might upward thrust to the instance and release a concerted force to get rid of the risk of gangsterism.

    Relating to a legislation and order evaluate assembly hung on April 5, Mann defined his govt’s topmost center of attention to deal with legislation and order, except eradication of corruption and implementation of welfare measures for the police power.

    He additionally introduced the charter of an anti-gangster activity power within the state.

    Mann, on the other hand, made it transparent that the charter of the duty power would not at all cut back or reduce the duty and function of CPs and SSPs heading the police commissionerates and districts as each had been liable for keep an eye on of crime and upkeep of legislation and order of their jurisdictions.

    Whilst the duty power would center of attention on intelligence-based operations and play a coordinating function, Mann mentioned he anticipated the CPs and the SSPS to release a big thrust in opposition to gangsters via briefing law enforcement officials underneath them, carrying out research of crime information, figuring out absconding gangsters and sporting out anti-gangster operations.

    In the meantime, the state govt posted ADGP, Particular Crimes and Financial Offences Wing, Promod Ban because the ADGP of the Anti-Gangster Process Drive (AGTF), AIG, Organised Crime Keep watch over Unit, Gurmeet Singh Chauhan because the AIG of the AGTF, and CP, Ludhiana, Gurpreet Singh Bhullar because the DIG of the AGTF.

    DSP Kharar Bikramjit Singh Brar has been given the extra rate of the DSP of AGTF, mentioned an respectable remark.

    A status order for the functioning of the AGTF, laying down its function, purposes and tasks as temporary measures has already been taken.

    “Against punitive measures, the police division has sought quick research of 18/19 murders that have lately taken position. The duty of id and suspension of police officers who’ve been negligent in dealing with the investigation of new murders has been assigned to the AGTF group,” the remark mentioned.

  • Punjab Congress adolescence wing chief confronts Navjot Singh Sidhu over ‘corruption’ inside of birthday party

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    CHANDIGARH: Infighting within the Punjab Congress got here out within the open Thursday at a protest assembly when a colleague dared Navjot Singh Sidhu to take names if he felt any individual within the birthday party was once excited by wrongdoing.

    The embarrassing scenario for the birthday party arose when Punjab Congress adolescence leader Brinder Singh Dhillon interrupted Sidhu, a former Punjab Congress Committee (PCC) leader, in his speech.

    Sidhu was once addressing the Congress leaders and employees all through the protest in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration-led central executive over persevered upward thrust in petrol, diesel, and cooking fuel costs outdoor the Punjab Congress Bhawan right here.

    Sidhu spoke about selling other people with blank symbol for the birthday party’s revival within the wake of its decimation within the contemporary Punjab meeting elections.

    “I didn’t take any one’s title nor will I do this. ‘Kyonki yeh public jo hai sab jaanti hai’ (for the reason that public is aware of the whole thing),” Sidhu stated cryptically.

    He stated it is going to do nobody any just right, in the event that they make a choice to fill their very own coffers.

    “Regardless of what number of addresses you ship, not anything will occur,” he stated.

    He stated he will be the first one to take a stand if any “false” FIR was once lodged in opposition to any Congress employee.

    “But when cash is recovered from any one’s space, I can no longer stand with him,” he stated.

    “Kyonki choran naal nahin khadna (It’s not that i am going to fortify the corrupt).”

    “I can no longer level a finger at any individual. 100 other people could have spoken in opposition to me however Sidhu by no means spoke in opposition to any Congress employee,” he stated.

    Dhillon stood and interrupted Sidhu shouting at him to attract his consideration.

    “Sidhu sahab, what you might be doing is improper,” Dhillon stated confronting him.

    “Kyon nahi naam laoge, kyon nahin naam laoge (why may not you’re taking names?),” Dhillon requested Sidhu in Punjabi.

    “If one thing is improper then name it out, and if one thing is correct then say that too,” he stated, pleading Sidhu to call those that he thinks indulged in corruption.

    Dhillon then instructed Sidhu if he was once no longer going to take names then he was once indulging in mere “drama”.

    “Phir tusi drama kar rahe ho (then you might be doing a drama),” he stated.

    The warmth from his birthday party employee made Sidhu forestall his cope with.

    Later, Dhillon via a tweet appealed for team spirit within the birthday party and clarified that his outburst was once no longer in opposition to somebody.

    “No combat in opposition to somebody, we will have to no longer be throwing dust at every different because it was once a collective defeat. We now have suffered as a result of infighting and if we don’t path proper, we will be able to be completed. Time to face in combination and combat for public no longer for particular person glorification,” he posted.

    A bit of Punjab Congress leaders had been maintaining conferences not too long ago and batting for a key position for Sidhu forward of the most likely announcement of the brand new PPCC leader.

    The Congress won a drubbing within the Punjab meeting polls successful simplest 18 seats, because the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration stormed to energy bagging 92 of the 117 meeting segments.

    Sidhu was once defeated by way of AAP candidate and political greenhorn Jeevan Jyot Kaur from Amritsar East constituency.

    Following the ballot debacle in 5 states — Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Manipur, and Punjab — Congress president Sonia Gandhi had requested the birthday party’s state unit chiefs to position of their papers, and Sidhu, too, tendered his resignation.

  • Solution in Punjab Meeting seeks rapid switch of Chandigarh to state

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    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday moved a solution within the state Meeting looking for rapid switch of Chandigarh to Punjab. Up to now, the Space has handed quite a few resolutions urging the Central govt to switch Chandigarh to Punjab, he stated.

    “For keeping up team spirit and taking the emotions of other folks into consideration, this Space as soon as once more recommends to the state govt to boost the topic with Central govt to instantly switch Chandigarh to Punjab,” in line with the solution moved by means of CM Mann within the Space.

    The only-day particular Meeting consultation comes days after Union House Minister Amit Shah’s announcement that the central provider regulations will follow to staff of the Union Territory of Chandigarh. Chandigarh is the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana.

    Previous, after the consultation started, Congress MLA Rana Gurjeet Singh and his son Rana Inder Pratap Singh, who’s an Impartial legislator, have been administered oath of administrative center.

  • AAP woos disgruntled Raj Cong, BJP leaders

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    JAIPUR:  The Punjab triumph has given impetus to the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration’s ‘challenge growth’. Whilst the Arvind Kejriwal-led birthday party’s speedy precedence is Gujarat, the place elections are due later this yr, it additionally has eyes set on Rajasthan, which is able to pass to polls in 2023.

    With just about 18 months in its fingers to amplify the birthday party organisation within the state, the AAP held a one-day staff’ convention in capital Jaipur, the place masses of other people joined the birthday party. Whilst that used to be the start of the try to create a mass base, the AAP has additionally given an open invitation to disgruntled leaders within the BJP, Congress and the BSP to come back and sign up for Kejriwal-led birthday party.

    The AAP has no well known face as a pacesetter in Rajasthan and is hoping to draw some large names as it all started its arrangements for the polls. The birthday party has additionally made up our minds to reconstitute its Rajasthan unit with recent and vigorous younger faces over the following couple of months.

    Pronouncing that each one “just right other people” had been welcomed into the AAP fold, the birthday party’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh stated on the convention, “We don’t have to forestall or get drained now… After Punjab, now our subsequent forestall is Rajasthan.”

    Chatting with the media previous, he claimed that many state leaders of the Congress and the BJP had been in contact with AAP. “We now have taken care even within the states the place meeting polls had been held just lately that there is not any compromise at the symbol, that the brand new faces don’t raise any luggage. This will probably be looked after in Rajasthan, too,” Singh stated.

    Vinay Mishra, MLA from Dwarka in Delhi, has been made election in-charge of Rajasthan. The blueprint is being made to organize the birthday party for the elections. The AAP’s focal point will probably be first on the ones spaces the place individuals are offended with each the Congress and the BJP. Mishra stated the 2 events – Congress and BJP – had a pact to loot the state alternately. “Within the subsequent six months, you’re going to see a transformation within the paintings of the birthday party,” he stated.

  • Over 20 Punjab leaders together with Navjot Sidhu cling assembly

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    CHANDIGARH: Greater than 20 Punjab Congress leaders, together with former state unit leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, held a gathering at Sultanpur Lodhi in Kapurthala district on Saturday.

    Sukhpal Khaira, Congress MLA from Bholath who was once provide on the assembly, mentioned that it was once a part of efforts to verify a fast revival of the birthday party in Punjab.

    He mentioned like-minded Cong MLAs, ex-MLAs, 2022 meeting election applicants and the previous PCC president converged on the place of abode of former MLA Navtej Singh Cheema at Sultanpur Lodhi.

    “‘We are certain birthday party will take long term selections on benefit n honesty in response to the mandate of ‘Badlav’ (alternate),” mentioned Khaira in a tweet.

    Sidhu, who give up as Punjab unit leader at the route of Congress president Sonia Gandhi following the birthday party’s defeat within the contemporary meeting polls, shared an image of the assembly on Twitter. “We will be able to combat for Punjab’s rights and reality with excellent intentions and honesty,” he tweeted.

    Different outstanding leaders provide on the assembly have been MLA Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal, Rakesh Pandey, Mohinder Singh Kaypee, Ashwani Sekhri, Nazar Singh Manshahia, Pirmal Singh Dhaula and Davinder Singh Ghubaya.

    The Congress gained a drubbing within the recently-held Punjab meeting polls as it would win handiest 18 seats. The Aam Aadmi Celebration stormed to energy through bagging 92 seats of the 117-assembly segments within the state.

    Navjot Sidhu was once additionally defeated through AAP candidate and political greenhorn Jeevan Jyot Kaur from Amritsar East seat.

    Sidhu had resigned because the birthday party’s Punjab leader after Congress president Sonia Gandhi had requested its state unit chiefs in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Punjab and Manipur to place of their papers following the ballot debacle.

  • Invoice on solution to regularise 35,000 govt workers: Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann

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    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann has introduced that 35,000 Staff C and D govt workers will likely be regularised.

    Mann mentioned that he has directed leader secretary Anirudh Tewari to organize the draft of a invoice for regularising the services and products of those workers earlier than the following consultation of the Meeting. “We will be able to approve the draft law within the Meeting and regularise the workers engaged via contracts and outsourcing,” he mentioned.

    “I’ve held conferences with all officials within the govt and requested the manager secretary to forestall the observe of contractual employment. Colleges haven’t any lecturers, however eligible lecturers are hiking atop water tanks to protest in opposition to the federal government for now not regularising their services and products. They have got  to be adjusted consistent with the vacant posts,” mentioned Mann.

    He mentioned they wish to put into effect this on the earliest, via getting the invoice handed within the Meeting since he does now not need those lecturers to be protesting at the roads. Sooner than elections, AAP had promised it might regularise those services and products, if voted to energy.

    Apparently, the former Congress govt had additionally made up our minds to regularise round 36,000 workers running on a contractual, advert hoc or transient foundation. The then govt had on November 11 handed the Punjab Coverage and Regularisation of Contractual Workers Invoice 2021 and despatched it to Punjab governor Banwarilal Purohit for approval. However on January 2, the invoice used to be despatched again via the governor elevating queries.

    In the meantime, the Meeting has followed a unanimous solution moved via the Chief of the Space and CM Mann to put in statues of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, Bharat Ratna Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar and Sher-e-Punjab Maharaja Ranjit Singh within the complicated of the Meeting.

  • AAP nominations for RS polls a ‘betrayal’ of Punjab: Sidhu

    New batteries for the Delhi faraway regulate, it's blinking. Harbhajan is an exception, the remainder are batteries and betrayal of Punjab, Navjot Singh Sidhu tweeted. 

  • Two primary accused in Punjab livestock slaughter case arrested

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    HOSHIARPUR: The 2 primary accused within the contemporary livestock slaughtering incident right here were arrested, police mentioned on Friday.

    Carcasses of a minimum of 19 livestock had been discovered at an deserted position close to a railway observe with regards to Jhans village, six days in the past.

    Senior Superintendent of Police, Hoshiarpur, Dhruman H Nimbale named the arrested individuals as Irshad Khan and Fariad Khan.

    With those recent arrests, the choice of other people nabbed through the police in reference to the incident has risen to ten.

    Nimbale mentioned the FIR within the case has been registered through the Executive Railway Police in Jalandhar for the reason that house of the crime falls beneath its jurisdiction.

    Because the incident got here to mild, Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann, who was once but to take the oath then, had condemned the incident and requested the Director-Basic of Police to get an intensive probe carried out.

    The police had arrested seven of the accused, together with two girls, inside 36 hours of the incidence of the crime.

    Someone else was once arrested later.

    Right through the investigation, Irshad Khan emerged as the primary accused within the case and the police raided quite a lot of puts in Gurdaspur and Khanna in Punjab.

    Then again, he was once later arrested from Kaliyar Shareef in Uttar Pradesh.

    His wondering resulted in the arrest of Fariad Khan, Nimbale said in a press unencumber.

    The SSP mentioned the entire accused had been serious about livestock smuggling.

    They purchased cows and different livestock from one Satpal, alias Pappi, a resident of Kotli Sheikhan village.

    Satpal is an accused in different equivalent instances at quite a lot of police stations in Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur districts, Nimbale mentioned.

    Irshad Khan additionally faces a case of livestock smuggling in Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh police station, the officer mentioned.

    In 2017, Khan and his father Nawab Khan had been booked for alleged livestock slaughter and working an unlawful slaughterhouse in Punjab’s Nihal Singh Wala village.

    They used to allegedly smuggle livestock from Malerkotla, Ludhiana, Khanna, Gurdaspur and Jalandhar, Nimbale mentioned.

    The SSP mentioned the crowd used to allegedly promote the beef to a dealer in Uttar Pradesh.

    They have got received two days of remand of the entire accused and their additional interrogation is underway.