The byelection in this SC reserved constituency was necessitated following the demise of Congress MP Santokh Chaudhary during AICC leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra in January this year.
Minister for Local Bodies Inderbir Singh Nijjar has said Punjab is all set to provide drinkable canal water to residents of four cities — Jalandhar, Patiala, Ludhiana and Amritsar. This revolutionary step is being taken to save the rapidly depleting ground water.
A leader from the Scheduled Caste community, Mann was miffed with the Congress over no action against perpetrators of alleged multi-crore post-matric SC scholarship scam and non-grant of district status to Phagwara.