CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Congress President Partap Singh Bajwa today lambasted the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal saying the Rs 80 crore announced as compensation to the farmers whose cotton crop had been destroyed was not only a cruel joke and but also exposed his camouflaged anti-farmers’ face. “Nothing can be more shocking that Rs 80, Rs […]
Amritsar, September 24: In a decision which has wider political dimensions in the context of Punjabs’ electoral discourse, Akal Takht, the supreme temporal seat symbolising sovereignty of the Sikh doctrine, today ended the confrontation with the controversial Sirsa based Dera Sacha Sauda by accepting the apology of its chief Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh.The decision to […]
CHANDIGARH: Former Chief Minister and senior Congress leader, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal said here on Thursday that due to autocratic attitude of Badal government brief monsoon assembly session was a futile exercise as ruling combine did not allow opposition to raise major issues concerning welfare of common man. She said that monsoon session of assembly having only […]
Chandigarh, Sep 24 : Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today accused previous Congress governments at the Centre of ignoring issues of farmers struggling under huge debts.During a debate in the assembly on a resolution on “rising financial crisis of farmers”, Badal said “successive Congress governments at the Centre did nothing to benefit them”.”Previous Congress […]
Faridkot, Sep 23 ; Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU-Lakhowal) today threatened to launch a protest against “anti-people” policies of the Central government and block all rail and road routes towards Delhi on September 30.”All rail and road routes towrads Delhi would be blocked on September 30,” BKU (Lakhowal) president Ajmer Singh Lakhowal said here after addressing […]