Punjab exchequer’s humungous debt of over Rs 2.5 lakh crore apart, the state’s upcoming AAP government has several other daunting challenges as well awaiting it.
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Chandigarh, March 1
Ahead of the 2022 state Assembly elections, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday appointed strategist Prashant Kishor as his Principal Adviser.
Kishor will get the rank and status of a Cabinet minister. He will take a token honorarium of Re 1 as pay.
The strategist, who had been hired by the Chief Minister and the Punjab Congress for the 2017 Assembly elections, had played a key role in shaping the party s brute majority in the House. Kishor is presently engaged by the Mamta Banerjee-led TMC in West Bengal. He is expected to focus on Punjab after the West Bengal polls.
1735 BJP MLA Arun Narang argues with a group of farmers that disrupted a pre-MC poll meeting in Abohar.
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, January 7
The Capt Amarinder Singh-led Congress government has decided to hold elections to the 118 civic bodies in the state in the third week of February.
After the nod by the CM today to complete the election process by February 20, a communication in this regard was sent to the State Election Commission for a formal notification of the schedule.
It will be for the first time in the electoral history of the urban local bodies in the state that women candidates will be in the fray in nearly 50 per cent of seats of nine municipal corporations, besides 109 municipal councils and nagar panchayats.