CHANDIGARH: With an RTI response exposing the lie of the Centre’s claim on the Farm Laws having been approved by the high-powered committee on agricultural reforms, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said it was now obvious that the Akalis and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had been spreading a carnage of lies at the behest of the BJP-led Government of India, with whom the two parties were working in collusion to damage the interests of the farmers.

CHANDIGARH: Sikh farmer leader and All India Jatt Mahasabha's Chandigarh state president and national delegate S. Rajinder Singh Badheri has warned the Union Government to refrain from unnecessarily harassing Sikh farmers and Sikh youth to suppress the peasant movement.

NAWANSHAHR: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today said Kisan Shakti had the power to wipe out the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) even as he maintained the centre was not sincere towards the farmers and asserted that the three member committee formed by the apex court could not play any constructive role in resolving the crisis following the central government’s refusal to repeal the three Agricultural laws.

CHANDIGARH: Condemning the issuance of NIA notices to several farmers and their supporters in the midst of the anti-Farm Laws agitation, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday said that such arm-twisting tactics would not weaken the resolve of the farmers to fight for their rights and their future.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress today rejected the “survey” conducted by the television news channel, ABP, saying the so-called survey was far from the reality prevailing at the ground level.

SAS NAGAR/MOHALI: Punjab joined the rest of the country in the historic roll-out of the Covid vaccine on Saturday morning, with five Health Care Workers (HCWs) getting the jab in the presence of Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, who virtually kicked off the process to inoculate 1.74 lakh HCWs in the first phase.

CHANDIGARH: Even as he prepared to kickstart the process of vaccination of 1.74 lakh health workers, with 40,000 to be covered every day over the next five days in the first phase, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking free vaccine delivery to the poor population of the state.

CHANDIGARH: Even as it asserted that it will take all measures to protect the state’s and its farmers’ interests, the Punjab Government led by Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday made it clear that nothing short of repeal of the Centre’s black Farm Laws, which it described as anti-farmers, anti-nation and anti-food security, would resolve the present crisis.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today summoned the cabinet meeting on January to discuss the Supreme Court decision granting stay on three agriculture laws.

CHANDIGARH: Lashing out at the Aam Aadmi Party leaders for their malicious campaign against the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, Local Bodies Minister Brahm Mohindra today said that the AAP had become subservient to the Akalis and have started leveling baseless allegations against the Chief Minister.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister, Captain Amarinder Singh, on Sunday accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of once again backstabbing and defrauding the agitating Punjab farmers by making hollow claims of providing legal assistance to them to fight cases against actress Kangana Ranaut and certain other BJP leader, including Union Minister Raosaheb Danve.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister, Captain Amarinder Singh, on Sunday accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of once again backstabbing and defrauding the agitating Punjab farmers by making hollow claims of providing legal assistance to them to fight cases against actress Kangana Ranaut and certain other BJP leader, including Union Minister Raosaheb Danve.

CHANDIGARH: Rejecting as completely baseless and malicious all allegations and reports to the contrary, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh said there was no question of deputing police officers to negotiate with farmers protesting at the Delhi border.

CHANDIGARH: Stressing that there was nothing wrong with the demands of the farmers, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday urged the Prime Minister to immediately repeal the Farm Laws in order to resolve the crisis.

PATIALA: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today said the centre was misusing the position of the Punjab Governor by summoning officers for explanations to the Raj Bhawan even as he asserted the Governor should not become a mouth piece of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

CHANDIGARH: The concerted efforts of Department of Forest and Wildlife Preservation, Punjab has borne fruits as the forest cover has registered progressive rise by 11.63 sq. km in this year along with plantation of 60 lakh saplings under various schemes.

CHANDIGARH: With the distribution of 44,015 smart phones marking the culmination of the first phase of the ‘Punjab Smart Connect Scheme’, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday fulfilled his Government’s promise to give 1,74,015 smart phones to all class 12 students of the state’s Government Schools by the end of the year

KHARAR (Mohali): Lashing out at the State BJP President for spreading false propaganda to further his party’s political agenda, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday said Ashwani Sharma’s desperate attempts to falsely project a law & order problem in Punjab reflected the party’s fear of complete annihilation in the upcoming civic polls.

KHARAR(Mohali): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday dedicated the Chandigarh-Kharar elevated corridor to the citizens as a New Year gift, paving the way for further economic development of the region while easing the perpetual traffic congestion along the route.

CHANDIGARH: Lambasting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the malicious and derogatory terms used by its senior leaders against protesting farmers, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday asked the party to stop maligning the farmers and their genuine fight for justice by calling them offensive names like `Urban Naxals’, `Khalistanis’, `Hooligans’ etc.

CHANDIGARH: Even as he extended all possible help to families of protesting farmers, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday asked the Akalis and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to stop indulging in petty politics over the farm laws as the issue was not political but concerned the future of the state and its children.

CHANDIGARH: Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday congratulated Punjab pugilist Simranjeet Kaur Chakar for winning the Gold Medal in Boxing World Cup at Cologne (Germany).

MOHALI: Even as he ridiculed Arvind Kejriwal as a big fraud, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday said both the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) were a bunch of hypocrites whose double standards on the farm laws had exposed their lack of commitment to the farmers.

CHANDIGARH: In a major initiative to cut down stubble burning and reduce environmental pollution, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday virtually inaugurated the country’s first-of-its-kind Paddy Straw based Briquetting Plant of 100 tons per day capacity in Patiala.

BHELOLPUR(Mohali):To facilitate seamless e-learning in government schools amid Covid-19 pandemic, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday virtually launched the second phase of the ‘Punjab Smart Connect Scheme’, marked by distribution of smart phones to another 80,000 class 12 students of Government Schools.

CHANDIGARH: Terming Rahul Gandhi’s walkout from the parliamentary defence committee as totally justified, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday urged the Speaker to look into the working of the committee, which he dubbed as `absurd’, with members discussing the type of polish to be used on buttons and shoes of the uniform instead of strategizing on ways to counter the joint China-Pak threat.

CHANDIGARH: Dubbing the AAP leader a coward who had run scared and apologised when cornered in a defamation case by SAD’s Bikram Majithia, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday said Arvind Kejriwal’s desperate attempts to hide his government’s utter failure to protect the famers’ interests will not save him from their wrath, nor will they safeguard his party from being decimated in the next Punjab Assembly elections.

CHANDIGARH: Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday hit out at Arvind Kejriwal for exploiting the ongoing agitation of the farmers to further his party’s petty electoral agenda in Punjab with blatant lies and brazenly false propaganda.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh was bereaved on Sunday when he lost his mother-in-law Sardarni Satinder Kaur Kahlon after prolonged illness.

CHANDIGARH:  Punjab Forest Minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot said that the proposal regarding regularising the services of the temporary employees would be shortly sent to the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh.

CHANDIGARH:The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Sunil Jakhar said that the Congress party would hold a large demonstration at Shambu Border on December 14 in the support of the farmers who are agitating against the center’s three farm laws.

CHANDIGARH:  Punjab Cabinet Minister Charanjit Singh Channi said here today that instead of resolving the issues of the farmers, the union government was trying to intimidate the Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh by filing ED and CBI cases.

CHANDIGARH: Reiterating that the Farm Laws were anti-farmer and were introduced without any discussion with the stakeholders, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said the unity showcased by the farmers through the Bharat Bandh had underscored the need for repeal of the laws, followed by a detailed discussion on agricultural reforms.

CHANDIGARH:  Mocking him for calling himself a `sevadar’ of the farmers, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday asked his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal if he even knew the difference between wheat and paddy.