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  • Chandigarh Diary: SAD leaders attraction to Badals to reunite

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    SAD leaders attraction to Badals to reunite
    After the loss of life of former Punjab Leader Minister Parkash Singh Badal, the senior management of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) is making an effort to reunite each cousin brother Sukhbir Singh Badal president of the birthday celebration and his estranged cousin brother Manpreet Singh Badal who had a while again joined the BJP. Best birthday celebration leaders appealed each brothers to honor senior Badal’s want — “seeing the 2 brothers in combination in Akali Dal.” Senior SAD chief Professor Prem Singh Chandumajra and previous Rajya Sabha member and senior SAD chief Balwinder Singh Bhunder, thought to be with reference to the senior Badal each appealed to the brothers to reunite. 

    Haryana’s youngest MLA will get engaged
    BJP MLA from Adampur constituency in Haryana, Bhavya Bishnoi, who’s the son of former Member of Parliament Kuldeep Bishnoi and grandson of the previous Haryana Leader Minister Bhajan Lal not too long ago were given engaged to the IAS officer Pari Bishnoi in a serve as at Mukam village in Bikaner, Rajasthan. Bhavya is the youngest MLA within the Haryana meeting. Pari is posted as SDM at Gangkot in Sikkim however she hails from Rajasthan. Kuldeep’s more youthful son Chaitanya Bishnoi had additionally were given engaged this yr.

    Amritsar corporators cautious of delimitation 
    Many municipal councillors in Amritsar are in a piquant state of affairs after the delimitation of the company wards. Corporators who have been assured of conserving energy within the subsequent civic elections, have now long gone quiet. Due to adjustments within the break-up of wards, former councillors say that an odd-and-even system for lady reservation has no longer been followed relatively. In a  new technique, those lawmakers had been getting ready their other halves, daughters and daughters-in-law to enter the ballot fray. Within the ultimate election, an peculiar choice of wards have been reserved for ladies applicants. This time, the development is also modified for the gender-based reservation. 

    Harpreet Bajwa
    Our correspondent in Chandigarh
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    SAD leaders attraction to Badals to reunite
    After the loss of life of former Punjab Leader Minister Parkash Singh Badal, the senior management of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) is making an effort to reunite each cousin brother Sukhbir Singh Badal president of the birthday celebration and his estranged cousin brother Manpreet Singh Badal who had a while again joined the BJP. Best birthday celebration leaders appealed each brothers to honor senior Badal’s want — “seeing the 2 brothers in combination in Akali Dal.” Senior SAD chief Professor Prem Singh Chandumajra and previous Rajya Sabha member and senior SAD chief Balwinder Singh Bhunder, thought to be with reference to the senior Badal each appealed to the brothers to reunite. 

    Haryana’s youngest MLA will get engaged
    BJP MLA from Adampur constituency in Haryana, Bhavya Bishnoi, who’s the son of former Member of Parliament Kuldeep Bishnoi and grandson of the previous Haryana Leader Minister Bhajan Lal not too long ago were given engaged to the IAS officer Pari Bishnoi in a serve as at Mukam village in Bikaner, Rajasthan. Bhavya is the youngest MLA within the Haryana meeting. Pari is posted as SDM at Gangkot in Sikkim however she hails from Rajasthan. Kuldeep’s more youthful son Chaitanya Bishnoi had additionally were given engaged this yr.

    Amritsar corporators cautious of delimitation 
    Many municipal councillors in Amritsar are in a piquant state of affairs after the delimitation of the company wards. Corporators who have been assured of conserving energy within the subsequent civic elections, have now long gone quiet. Due to adjustments within the break-up of wards, former councillors say that an odd-and-even system for lady reservation has no longer been followed relatively. In a  new technique, those lawmakers had been getting ready their other halves, daughters and daughters-in-law to enter the ballot fray. Within the ultimate election, an peculiar choice of wards have been reserved for ladies applicants. This time, the development is also modified for the gender-based reservation. googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Harpreet Bajwa
    Our correspondent in Chandigarh
    [email protected]

  • SAD leader asks Punjab governor to probe AAP’s ‘commercial rip-off’ 

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    CHANDIGARH: SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday advised the Punjab Governor to reserve a probe into the AAP’s alleged use of Rs 300 crore of public price range on commercials to fulfil its “political objectives”.

    In a letter to Governor Banwarilal Purohit, the Shiromani Akali Dal leader stated the Aam Aadmi Celebration had earmarked Rs 750 crore for presidency commercials within the present monetary 12 months and has already spent a majority of this quantity.

    “As a substitute of spending this cash to create consciousness about govt schemes in Punjab, the federal government had used the commercials to advertise AAP in addition to its convener Arvind Kejriwal around the nation,” Badal alleged in a celebration observation.

    “The federal government has thus now not most effective violated the information of the Superb Courtroom on utilization of public price range for presidency commercials however has additionally betrayed the accept as true with of Punjabis,” he stated.

    Badal stated that because the Delhi Lieutenant Governor had already taken understand of identical “wrongdoing” in Delhi and ordered a restoration of Rs 97 crore, the Punjab governor too will have to order a probe into all the promoting spend of the state govt on political campaigns in order that this cash might be recovered.

    He additionally alleged that the federal government had used public price range for political commercials in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat all the way through the hot meeting elections in each states.

    He stated all the procedure was once “shrouded in secrecy” with the federal government refusing to even reply to an RTI question on its commercial spend.

    CHANDIGARH: SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday advised the Punjab Governor to reserve a probe into the AAP’s alleged use of Rs 300 crore of public price range on commercials to fulfil its “political objectives”.

    In a letter to Governor Banwarilal Purohit, the Shiromani Akali Dal leader stated the Aam Aadmi Celebration had earmarked Rs 750 crore for presidency commercials within the present monetary 12 months and has already spent a majority of this quantity.

    “As a substitute of spending this cash to create consciousness about govt schemes in Punjab, the federal government had used the commercials to advertise AAP in addition to its convener Arvind Kejriwal around the nation,” Badal alleged in a celebration observation.

    “The federal government has thus now not most effective violated the information of the Superb Courtroom on utilization of public price range for presidency commercials however has additionally betrayed the accept as true with of Punjabis,” he stated.

    Badal stated that because the Delhi Lieutenant Governor had already taken understand of identical “wrongdoing” in Delhi and ordered a restoration of Rs 97 crore, the Punjab governor too will have to order a probe into all the promoting spend of the state govt on political campaigns in order that this cash might be recovered.

    He additionally alleged that the federal government had used public price range for political commercials in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat all the way through the hot meeting elections in each states.

    He stated all the procedure was once “shrouded in secrecy” with the federal government refusing to even reply to an RTI question on its commercial spend.

  • Punjab: Sukhbir Badal will have to step down as birthday party leader, say SAD leaders

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    CHANDIGARH:  All’s now not effectively within the Shiromani Akali Dal. A bit of its cadre needs exchange within the management, obviously indicating that Sukhbir Singh Badal will have to step down because the birthday party leader. The senior SAD leaders met on Monday in Amritsar and demanded that Sukhbir put into effect the entire suggestions of a committee document shaped within the wake of the birthday party’s disastrous efficiency within the February polls.

    The committee led by way of Iqbal Singh Jhunda recommended exchange of management on the best degree, ‘one circle of relatives one MLA’ system, two-year time period for the president, and “searching for forgiveness for the errors dedicated throughout the birthday party’s rule within the state from 2007 to 2017.”

    Resources stated leaders met for an hour on the space of Ravikaran Singh Kahlon, son of former Speaker overdue Nirmal Singh Kahlon, in Amritsar and determined to method Sukhbir Badal.

    The assembly got here days after Badal dissolved all birthday party wings for a recast. Within the meeting elections, the birthday party may win handiest 3 seats.

    A senior birthday party chief who attended the Amritsar assembly stated a lot of his colleagues believed that Sukhbir will have to step right down to give a boost to the birthday party. “Maximum folks had been of the view that the Jhunda committee document will have to be applied,’’ he stated.

    SAD’s legislature birthday party chief Manpreet Singh Ayali stated a delegation comprising senior leaders, Sikh intellectuals and well-wishers of the group would meet Sukhbir in a while.

    In the meantime, Sukhbir constituted a five-member disciplinary committee led by way of former minister Sikandar Singh Maluka it sounds as if in response to the Amritsar assembly. The birthday party leader appealed to his leaders to lift their perspectives handiest on birthday party boards.

    Those senior leaders, together with former MPs Prem Singh Chandumajra and Jagmeet Singh Brar, have objected to Sukhbir forming a disciplinary committee, terming it an try to muzzle their voice.

    In the meantime, Jathedar of Akal Takht, the absolute best temporal seat of the Sikhs, Harpreet Singh has stated that if SAD needs to give protection to its life, it will have to shun lust for energy and paintings against spreading Sikh rules.

    Drive on Badal to step down
    SAD leaders met in Amritsar and demanded that Sukhbir put into effect the suggestions of a committee document shaped within the wake of the birthday party’s disastrous efficiency within the February polls.

    The committee recommended exchange of management on the best degree, amongst different steps.

    CHANDIGARH:  All’s now not effectively within the Shiromani Akali Dal. A bit of its cadre needs exchange within the management, obviously indicating that Sukhbir Singh Badal will have to step down because the birthday party leader. The senior SAD leaders met on Monday in Amritsar and demanded that Sukhbir put into effect the entire suggestions of a committee document shaped within the wake of the birthday party’s disastrous efficiency within the February polls.

    The committee led by way of Iqbal Singh Jhunda recommended exchange of management on the best degree, ‘one circle of relatives one MLA’ system, two-year time period for the president, and “searching for forgiveness for the errors dedicated throughout the birthday party’s rule within the state from 2007 to 2017.”

    Resources stated leaders met for an hour on the space of Ravikaran Singh Kahlon, son of former Speaker overdue Nirmal Singh Kahlon, in Amritsar and determined to method Sukhbir Badal.

    The assembly got here days after Badal dissolved all birthday party wings for a recast. Within the meeting elections, the birthday party may win handiest 3 seats.

    A senior birthday party chief who attended the Amritsar assembly stated a lot of his colleagues believed that Sukhbir will have to step right down to give a boost to the birthday party. “Maximum folks had been of the view that the Jhunda committee document will have to be applied,’’ he stated.

    SAD’s legislature birthday party chief Manpreet Singh Ayali stated a delegation comprising senior leaders, Sikh intellectuals and well-wishers of the group would meet Sukhbir in a while.

    In the meantime, Sukhbir constituted a five-member disciplinary committee led by way of former minister Sikandar Singh Maluka it sounds as if in response to the Amritsar assembly. The birthday party leader appealed to his leaders to lift their perspectives handiest on birthday party boards.

    Those senior leaders, together with former MPs Prem Singh Chandumajra and Jagmeet Singh Brar, have objected to Sukhbir forming a disciplinary committee, terming it an try to muzzle their voice.

    In the meantime, Jathedar of Akal Takht, the absolute best temporal seat of the Sikhs, Harpreet Singh has stated that if SAD needs to give protection to its life, it will have to shun lust for energy and paintings against spreading Sikh rules.

    Drive on Badal to step down
    SAD leaders met in Amritsar and demanded that Sukhbir put into effect the suggestions of a committee document shaped within the wake of the birthday party’s disastrous efficiency within the February polls.

    The committee recommended exchange of management on the best degree, amongst different steps.

  • Punjab polls: SAD-BSP alliance will win over 80 seats, claims Sukhbir Badal

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    MUKTSAR: Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday claimed that the SAD-BSP alliance would win over 80 seats within the February 20 Punjab meeting polls.

    Badal additionally predicted that the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) would fail to move its tally of 20 seats that it gained within the 2017 polls whilst the Congress was once more likely to be lowered to lower than 10 seats in 117-member Punjab meeting.

    The SAD-BSP mix is heading against an absolute majority, he stated.

    “Our seats are expanding by means of the day as individuals are realising the time-tested pro-farmer, pro-poor insurance policies of the SAD coupled with its dedication to peace and communal solidarity is the one manner ahead,” Badal stated.

    “We’re at the 80-seat threshold and this determine might build up additional on polling day,” the SAD president added.

    Badal thanked the folk for “reposing” their overwhelming religion and accept as true with within the SAD-BSP mix by means of popping out in energy at the remaining day of campaigning to “snub each the AAP and Congress.”

    “By no means earlier than has Punjab witnessed the sort of sea of humanity popping out at the roads in overwhelming beef up of any political birthday celebration,” Badal stated after attending a highway display from Kotkapura bypass to Ghaa Mandi chowk within the town, in line with a birthday celebration observation.

    Talking on the rally, Badal claimed, “The Congress birthday celebration is aware of the sport is up and that it’s been consigned to the dustbin. It’s going to now not get greater than 10 seats within the meeting elections”.

    Attacking AAP nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal, he alleged, “Punjabis had additionally noticed via AAP and its chief Arvind Kejriwal who has been totally uncovered as a divisive and communal chief with an anti-farmer and anti-poor schedule, but even so being necessarily anti-Punjab and anti-Punjabis”.

    He claimed that AAP would now not even have the ability to achieve its remaining time period determine of 20 seats and may just safe between 10 to fifteen seats.

    Badal stated even Kejriwal has noticed the writing at the wall.

    “This is why he’s now crying wolf and complaining that each one political events have ganged up towards him. Even he has realised that Punjabis have consolidated in favour of the SAD-BSP mix,” he stated.

    Badal stated other people know that the “Delhi Style” is a “sham” and accused Kejriwal of “looking to win the election at the foundation of Rs 850 crore commercial marketing campaign.”

    At the Congress, Badal stated “individuals are judging the Congress by means of its five-year misrule which was once marked by means of corruption, scams, gang tradition, and sand and liquor mafia.”

    “Other folks realise that the Congress govt added Rs one lakh to the state debt however didn’t put into effect even one of the crucial guarantees made to the folk, be it whole mortgage waiver, jobs for adolescence, Rs 2,500 per 30 days old-age pension or Rs 2,500 per 30 days unemployment allowance,” he stated.

    “It’s because of this that the Congress birthday celebration has been just about dissolved in Punjab and won’t move the 10-seat mark,” he added.

    In the meantime, SAD chief Bikram Singh Majithia appealed to the folk of Amritsar East constituency, from the place he’s locked in a willing contest towards State Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, to vote for exchange and building.

    Polling in Punjab is scheduled to be hung on February 20 whilst counting of votes will happen on March 10.

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

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    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.

  • Badal’s personal tractors, Sukhbir has horses and guns

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    CHANDIGARH: Each former leader minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal personal most effective tractors and no vehicles. 

    As consistent with the affidavit, Sukhbirl has horses value Rs 95.82 lakh, two guns valued at Rs 3 lakh and immovable houses value Rs 52.95 crore have been a part of the overall property of Rs 122.77 crore. The 59-year-old Sukhbir Singh Badal has two tractors (Tractor Tafe, Fashion 1999 and tractor Holland 5500) value Rs 2.38 lakh in his identify and gold jewelry value Rs 9 lakh, his spouse Harsimrat Kaur Badal has gold jewelry value Rs 7.24 crore. Whilst she additionally has one weapon value Rs 1.25 lakh and art work value Rs 3.40 lakh.

    Amongst his immovable houses, Sukhbir owns agricultural, non-agricultural land and industrial houses in Muktsar, Sirsa (Haryana), Ganganagar (Rajasthan), Ludhiana and Jalandhar. He has a 2,225 sq. yards residential space in Sector 9 of Chandigarh with a marketplace worth of Rs 23.72 crore. His liabilities together with financial institution loans and many others are value Rs 37.62 crore.

    Additionally, former leader minister Parkash Singh Badal father of Sukhbir Badal who filed his nomination papers from Lambi has one tractor most effective. He has proven property value Rs 15.11 crore of those Rs 2.71 crore liabilities and Rs 8.40 crore portable property and Rs 6.71 crore immovable. Whilst final time his property have been Rs 14.48 crore.

    The 94-year-old Badal filed his nomination from his house turf of Lambi and thus he turned into the oldest candidate within the electoral fray within the nation, as that is his 13th meeting election. Badal used to be the youngest sarpanch when he were given elected from Badal village in 1947 and in 1970 he turned into the youngest Leader Minister and in 2012 he turned into the oldest CM.

    Whilst Punjab Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi filed his nomination papers from the Bhadaur (SC) seat, after submitting his nomination papers, Channi stated, “I’ve include a undertaking in Malwa (area),” he stated, including that this space is backward when it comes to building. Additionally, former Leader Minister Capt Amarinder Singh filed his nomination from Patiala (City).

  • Will give up politics if Channi executive offers any immune to Majithia: Sukhbir Badal

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    CHANDIGARH: SAD leader Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday stated he’ll give up politics if the Charanjit Singh Channi executive brings any immune to his brother-in-law and Akali chief Bikram Singh Majithia who has been booked in an NDPS case.

    Calling the case towards Majithia as “false and extremely politicised”, Badal warned that everybody chargeable for implicating “an blameless” individual in a “false” case should face penalties.

    Badal’s remarks got here an afternoon after the Punjab and Haryana Prime court docket disregarded Majithia’s anticipatory bail plea within the NDPS case.

    The top court docket, then again, has granted three-day coverage to Majithia from arrest to permit him to transport the Excellent Courtroom to problem its order.

    “As president of @Akali_Dal, I claim that I will give up politics if this government can produce any immune to @bsmajithia in this false & extremely politicised case towards him.

    Conversely, everybody chargeable for implicating an blameless in a false case should face penalties,” Shiromani Akali Dal leader Badal stated in a tweet.

    In any other tweet, he added that the birthday party will struggle for each and every employee who have been booked in “false” circumstances.

    “We will be able to struggle for each and every @Akali_Dal @bspindia employee booked in false circumstances within the ongoing vendetta politics of @CHARANJITCHANNI government.

    The following SAD-BSP government will represent a judicial fee to research the entire false circumstances and suggest motion towards the ones in the back of those,” he stated.

    Majithia, 46, who was once booked underneath the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Elements (NDPS) Act remaining month, had moved the top court docket in the hunt for anticipatory bail.

    His anticipatory bail plea was once rejected through a Mohali court docket on December 24.

    Majithia is the brother-in-law of Sukhbir Singh Badal and the brother of former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal.

    The previous Punjab minister was once booked underneath the NDPS Act at the foundation of a 2018 file of a probe right into a drug racket working within the state.

    The file was once filed through anti-drug particular process drive (STF) leader Harpreet Singh Sidhu within the Punjab and Haryana Prime Courtroom in 2018.