Chandigarh, June 22 : There was high drama in the Punjab Assembly on Thursday as turbans were tossed off as protesting AAP MLAs were removed from the House premises. Earlier, AAP MLA Sukhpal Khaira and Simarjit Singh Bains were prevented from entering the House. Following this, they staged a dharna outside the Assembly. They alleged […]
Chandigarh : Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) legislators, raising slogans inside the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, today attacked the Congress government for its “failure” to announce a loan waiver for farmers. Some were seen in a cantankerous spat with Congress MLAs. But it was AAP’s Bholath MLA Sukhpal Khaira who was suspended by Speaker Rana KP Singh […]
Chandigarh : The expert group set up by the Punjab Government will take at least two more months to give a final report on how to deal with the issue of loan waiver to the farmers. . “My objective is to free farmers from the vicious circle of debt and put the farming sector on a […]
Chandigarh, June 16 : Congress leader Ajaib Singh Bhatti was on Friday elected Deputy Speaker of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha amid ruckus by SAD MLAs. Brahm Mohindra escorted Bhatti to the Deputy Speaker’s seat. Meanwhile, SAD MLAs continued to raise slogans demanding debt waiver relief for farmers as the CM read out Bhatti’s political history. […]
Chandigarh, June 16 : Abuses flew thick and fast in the Punjab Assembly on Friday as SAD and Congress MLAs exchanged words over the alleged use of unparliamentary language against Tourism and Culture Minister Navjot Sidhu after he blamed SAD chief Sukhbir Badal for the failed tourism project at Harike. As Sidhu struggled to match […]