Day 2: Akalis protest, Bains out for session

Chandigarh : Sustained commotion by Shiromani Akali Dal MLAs on the second day of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha’s Budget Session “worked” to the advantage of the Congress in blocking the move by the Aam Aadmi Party to rake up the issue of sand mining contracts, involving Power and Irrigation Minister Rana Gurjit Singh.The prolonged pandemonium […]

Rana Gurjit lied about his employees: Khaira

CHANDIGARH : Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Sukhpal Khaira said here today that Power Minister Rana Gurjit Singh had falsely claimed that four persons who got mining contracts were his former employees. Khaira claimed that one of them, Kulvinder Pal Singh, had been working for the minister’s company till last month. Kulvinder, who was working […]

Pandemonium in Punjab Assembly, session adjourned for half hour

Chandigarh, June 15 : The Punjab Vidhan Sabha session was adjourned for half an hour by the Speaker barely 15 minutes after it began here on Thursday morning. The Shiromani Akali Dal and BJP MLAs stormed into the Well of the House demanding discussion on the farmers’ debt. The Speaker said the issue should be […]

Chandigarh : Contrary to Punjab Power Minister Rana Gurjit Singh’s claims that those awarded mining contracts in Nawanshahr and Mohali were his former employees, not only the minister but his entire family was in business with all four companies in which his cook Amit Bahadur and another employee Balraj Singh were directors. Documents with The […]