Punjab

CHANDIGARH:  Health and Family Welfare Minister Brahm Mohindra today criticized the Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu for his out of turn and untimely outbursts against the party leadership, the Chief Minister and the government, saying it amounted to sabotage.

PATIALA:  Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday criticised Navjot Singh Sidhu for damaging the Congress with his ill-timed comments against him and the party leadership in the state.

CHANDIGARH: Taking strong exception to the violation of Model Code of Conduct, the Excise and Taxation Department Punjab today placed  the services of Excise Inspector Gursewak Singh of Bathinda office under suspension with immediate effect.

Former union minister and Congress candidate from Patiala parliamentary constituency Ms Preneet Kaur today said that the people here will break all the previous records to ensure Congress victory from here.

CHANDIGARH: State Vigilance Bureau today registered a corruption case against Senior Medical Officer (SMO) and Multipurpose Health Supervisor (MHS) posted at community health centre (CHC) Lopoke in Amritsar district. In this case the accused MHS has been arrested on the spot while taking bribe of Rs. 10,000.

Ridiculing Prakash Singh Badal’s appeal for votes for Parminder Singh Dhindsa because “he had put party over family”, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh asked how a man who could not respect his own father be expected to respect or care for the people of his constituency.

Deriding Sukhbir Singh Badal’s efforts to turn the Lok Sabha elections into a battle for supremacy in the state, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday urged the SAD president to stop daydreaming of getting back into the seat of power in the state, saying the people would throw the Akalis out much before the 2022 Assembly polls.

Punjab Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday defended his wife's remarks blaming the state Congress leadership for denying her a ticket from Amritsar.

Punjab is successfully marching ahead to achieve the target of 132 Lac Metric Tonne procurement of wheat crop during current Rabi Marketing Season as it had already touched procurement figure of 127.81 LMT till Thursday.

Upping the ante against the Akalis led by Sukhbir Badal two days before polling, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh said the SAD president’s remarks that the families of the perpetrators of the sacrilege cases would be destroyed would turn on the Badal family.

Denying any role in the denial of ticket to Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife from Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Minister on Thursday said she had been offered ticket from Amritsar and Bathinda, but she refused the same.

In a major jolt to Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), its senior leader and former Transport Minister (1997-2002) Raghbir Singh from Kapurthala joined the Congress Party in the presence of Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and MLA Rana Gurjit Singh on Thursday at Chandigarh.

BATHINDA: As the elections are drawing closer, the Sikh hardliner group Dal Khalsa held a march in the city to protest against transfer of Jaggi Johal and other under trails from Punjab to Tihar jail and their cases to NIA court in Delhi, framing of social activist Lakha Sidhana in a false case under 307 IPC, Election Commission obstructing justice by not heading to Punjab’s plea for reinstatement of IG Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh as SIT member beside mainstream parties luring votes by playing politics over 84 deaths.

Pitching for a BJP-mukt Bharat to protect the country’s unity and future, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday expressed the confidence that UPA-3 would take over the nation’s reins to prevent its secular fabric from being destroy and to bring it back on the path of development.

Acting upon the complaint filed by Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee regarding running 'Fans of Sunny Deol' on facebook without seeking prior permission from the Election Commission of India, the Media Certification and Monitoring Committee Gurdaspur has issued orders to include Rs. 1,74,644 in the election expenditure of BJP candidate Sunny Deol.

he Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab Sh. S. Karuna Raju on Wednesday issued directions for compliance of ECI's guidelines regarding facilities to be provided to voters on Voting Day May 19 in letter and spirit.

The Chief Electoral Officer Punjab Dr. S. Karuna Raju today appealed to all the candidates who have criminal antecedents that they must advertise their criminal antecedents thrice in print and electronic media before May 17, 2019.

People will be able to cast their vote with 11 alternative identity proofs besides Elector Photo Identity Card (EPIC) during the Parliamentary polls in Punjab on May 19.

To enable the workmen working in Shops, factories and Commercial Establishments situated in the adjoining area with the Union Territory Chandigarh, the voters of Union Territory Chandigarh working in the State of Punjab may be allowed paid holiday on the day of poll i.e. May 19, 2019 (Sunday), So that the voter of Union Territory Chandigarh working in the Punjab State are able to cast their votes, it is considered in the public interest to declare 19-05-2019 (Sunday) as a paid holiday in the said area.

To enable the workmen working in Shops, factories and Commercial Establishments situated in the adjoining area with the State of Himachal Pradesh, the voters of Himachal Pradesh working in the State of Punjab may be allowed paid holiday on the day of poll i.e. May 19, 2019 (Sunday), So that the voter of Himachal Pradesh State working in the Punjab State are able to cast their votes, it is considered in the public interest to declare 19-05-2019 (Sunday) as a paid holiday in the said area.