Punjab CM challenges Navjot Singh Sidhu to contest polls against him ANI | Updated: Apr 27, 2021 22:54 IST
Chandigarh [India], April 27 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday challenged former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu to contest polls against him from Patiala.
In a press release, making it absolutely clear that indiscipline in the party would not be tolerated at any cost, the Punjab Chief Minister has categorically said that if Navjot Singh Sidhu wants to contest against him then he is free to do so but that would only lead to Sidhu meeting the fate of General JJ Singh who lost his security deposit in the election.
Mohali, April 12
Amarjit Singh Sidhu, aka Jeeti Sidhu, brother of Punjab Cabinet Minister and local MLA Balbir Singh Sidhu, was elected the Mayor at the first General House meeting of the Mohali Municipal Corporation held at MC Bhawan here today.
Amarjit Sidhu (48) will hold the post for two and a half years. Punjab Cabinet Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa was present at the meeting as an observer.
Amrik Singh Somal and Kuljit Singh Bedi were elected the Senior Deputy Mayor and the Deputy Mayor, respectively. Somal, a two-time councillor, had defeated former Mayor Kulwant Singh in the elections held on February 14.
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Gurdaspur: Politicians and bureaucrats admit, albeit clandestinely, that the civic body polls should be discontinued because of the “farcical conditions” in which they are held. The ruling dispensation in Chandigarh, be it the Congress or the SAD-BJP combine, ensures that only its loyalists are ‘elected’ as councillors, presidents and mayors. From 2007 to 2017, when the SAD-BJP alliance was in power, it made sure that the party swept all local body polls by hook or crook. This time, when the Congress hit the bull’s eye by scoring 29/29 in Gurdaspur, former MLA Gurbachan Singh Babbehali was quick to put the blame on the “high-handedness” of the Congress. On this, Cabinet Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa reminded Babbehali of an old Hindi adage “jaisee karni, waisee bharni”.
BJP torturing farmers through Delhi Police, says PPCC President ANI | Updated: Feb 02, 2021 13:46 IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], February 2 (ANI): Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President, Sunil Jakhar alleged that the Bhartiya Janata Party is torturing the farmers via Delhi Police in the same manner as the Chinese Army did with Indian soldiers in the Galwan Valley. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) got our soldiers killed by the Chinese army and now they are doing the same with our farmers via Delhi Police. They should be sued if they raise the slogan of Jai Jawan Jai Kisan as they troubling both.
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh called an all-party meeting on February 2 to discuss the farmers agitation against agricultural laws in the light of the recent developments in Delhi.