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Prominent industrialist Rajinder Gupta, who is the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate for the Rajya Sabha by-election, does not own a car or any agricultural land. A matriculate, the chairman emeritus of the Trident Group has also not taken any loans. The man, whose family wealth was today declared at Rs 5053.03 crore, will be amongst the richest persons to have been elected to the Rajya Sabha after the election results are declared on October 24. After the scrutiny of the nomination papers, wher ...Read More >
Chandigarh: With assets worth a whopping Rs 5,053 crore, Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) latest entrant to the Rajya Sabha, industrialist Rajinder Gupta, is the second wealthiest member of the Upper House, according to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).Given AAP's comfortable majority in the state assembly, Gupta was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha on Oct 18. Based on details of assets in his affidavit, ADR has claimed that Gupta is placed behind BRS MP Bandi Partha Saradhi (Rs 5,300 cro ...Read More >
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], October 16 (ANI): Punjab Vidhan Sabha Secretary cum Returning officer Ram Lok Khatana on Thursday handed over the certificate of Election to Punjab Rajya Sabha candidate Rajinder Gupta, who was elected unopposed to the upper House of Parliament. The certificate was presented in the presence of Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan. Gupta was accompanied by his wife, Madhu Gupta, during the formal handover ceremony held at the Assembly premises in Chandig ...Read More >
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], October 16 (ANI): Punjab Vidhan Sabha Secretary cum Returning officer Ram Lok Khatana on Thursday handed over the certificate of Election to Punjab Rajya Sabha candidate Rajinder Gupta, who was elected unopposed to the upper House of Parliament. The certificate was presented in the presence of Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan. Gupta was accompanied by his wife, Madhu Gupta, during the formal handover ceremony held at the Assembly premises in Chandig ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Punjab Vidhan Sabha Secretary-cum-Returning officer Ram Lok Khatana on Thursday handed over the certificate of election to Punjab Rajya Sabha candidate Rajinder Gupta who was elected unopposed to the upper House of Parliament. Gupta was the lone candidate in the fray even though Thursday was the last day for withdrawing nominations. The ruling Aam Aadmi Party had named prominent industrialist Rajinder Gupta as its candidate for the Punjab Rajya Sabha by-election which was scheduled ...Read More >
Several Indian states are grappling with the impact of heavy rainfall. Gujarat is under orange and yellow alerts for expected rain and thunderstorms, potentially causing traffic disruptions. Northeast India anticipates continued heavy rainfall for the next week, while Delhi-NCR experiences incessant showers. Himachal Pradesh faces disrupted services and a high death toll due to monsoon-related incidents. India Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert for Mahisagar, Aravalli, Gandhin ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Hours after Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar on Sunday sought an investigation into "corruption allegations" against him, Punjab industries minister Sanjeev Arora resigned as the managing director of Hampton Sky Realty Ltd and eight other companies of the group. For the resignation, Arora cited his "appointment as a member of the legislative assembly (MLA) followed by his appointment as the minister in the Punjab govt".Addressing a press conference earlier in the day, Jakhar said th ...Read More >
The AAP has 92 members in the 117-member Punjab Legislative Assembly and four in the 182-member Gujarat Assembly Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday that the support they received during the Ludhiana West and Gujarat by-elections clearly indicates the AAP will form governments in both states in 2027 with a massive majority. The Ludhiana and Gujarat bypolls were semi-finals for the 2027 Assembly elections, he said. Speaking at a "Dhanwad Sabha" in Ludhiana, express ...Read More >
Amritsar: With its political standing in Punjab on the uptick, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is getting averse to the idea of having a political alliance with a Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) headed by Sukhbir Singh Badal, who was declared a 'takhaiya' (guilty of religious misconduct) by Takht Patna Sahib on Saturday.Takht Patna Sahib is the second Sikh authority, after Akal Takht in Aug last year, to declare Sukhbir a tankhaiya. BJP leadership is debating whether it can align with a party whose l ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 4 (PTI) Sanjeev Arora on Friday assumed charge as Punjab Industries and Commerce, Investment Promotion and NRI Affairs Minister at Punjab Civil Secretariat here. After assuming the charge, Arora said he will perform his duty with utmost devotion and dedication and leave no stone unturned for the welfare of the people of Punjab. Also Read | PM Narendra Modi Conferred With 'The Order of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago' During Ceremonial Event at President's House in Port of Spa ...Read More >
Nagpur: The Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority (NMRDA) has almost completed the Rs 132.49 crore phase 1 of the Tajbagh renovation and beautification project and is now awaiting Rs 95.87 crore to start phase 2 of the project. Under the first phase, NMRDA strengthened and beautified the main dargah, constructed a shopping complex, a choti dargah, shops, and other structures, including marble flooring. According to NMRDA sources, Phase 1 of the project received Rs 132.49 crore adminis ...Read More >
Ludhiana: Sanjeev Arora, who was sworn in as industries minister on Thursday, became the first minister from Ludhiana in the current state cabinet. With this, the number of ministers from the district in the cabinet has risen to three. Last September, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government inducted five ministers, including two from the district -- Sahnewal MLA Hardeep Singh Mundian and Khanna MLA Tarunpreet Singh Sond.In the previous Congress government, Bharat Bhushan Ashu was minister till earl ...Read More >
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann bolstered his cabinet by inducting Sanjeev Arora, the newly elected MLA from Ludhiana West, as a minister. Governor Gulab Chand Kataria administered the oath at Raj Bhavan. Arora's inclusion brings the cabinet's strength to 17, fulfilling AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal's promise made during the bypoll campaign following Gurpreet Bassi Gogi's death.Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday expanded his Cabinet, inducting newly elected Ludhiana West MLA Sanje ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 3 (PTI) Hours after he was dropped as a minister in the Punjab government, Ajnala MLA Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal said on Thursday that he gave his resignation to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann after he was told that someone else would be given a chance in the cabinet. Dhaliwal further said he has been told that he will be given some other work and asserted that he is a loyal soldier of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which he joined in December 2015. The AAP government effected a cabinet ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 3 (PTI) Newly elected Ludhiana West MLA Sanjeev Arora was inducted as a Cabinet minister on Thursday while Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal was dropped after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann effected the seventh Cabinet reshuffle in the past three years. Arora's induction followed Dhaliwal's resignation from the Punjab Cabinet. His lone portfolio, NRI Affairs, was given to the newly elected MLA. Arora was also given the portfolio of Industry and Commerce and Investment Promotion, whic ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 3 (PTI) Newly elected Ludhiana West MLA Sanjeev Arora was inducted as a Cabinet minister on Thursday while Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal was dropped after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann effected the seventh Cabinet reshuffle in the past three years. Arora's induction followed Dhaliwal's resignation from the Punjab Cabinet. His lone portfolio, NRI Affairs, was given to the newly elected MLA. Also Read | Who Is Soham Parekh, Indian Techie Accused of Duping Multiple Companies? What' ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jul 3 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday expanded his Cabinet, inducting newly elected Ludhiana West MLA Sanjeev Arora as minister. Governor Gulab Chand Kataria administered oath of office and secrecy to Arora at a ceremony at the Raj the Bhavan here. Mann, Cabinet ministers and several other party leaders were present on the occasion. With Arora's induction, the strength of the Cabinet in the Mann government reached 17. The Punjab Cabinet can have 18 ministers, ...Read More >
Sanjeev Arora, Aam Aadmi Party's Ludhiana West by-election winner, is expected to join the Punjab Cabinet. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will reshuffle the cabinet this week, filling vacant positions and assigning new portfolios. Arora, a Rajya Sabha member, is recognized for his understanding of industry needs. Arvind Kejriwal had promised Arora a cabinet position if elected.Aam Aadmi Party's new poster boy, Sanjeev Arora, who won the Ludhiana West by-election, is likely to make his entry in the ...Read More >
Kolkata: Monojit Mishra, the main accused in the June 25 law student gang-rape case, before leaving the college after committing the crime had asked a few of his trusted aides to stay back on the campus and keep a watch on Kasba Police Station about a kilometre away through the night. He and co-accused Pramit Mukherjee and Zaib Ahmed left around the same time as the survivor, who was picked up by her father.Senior officers investigating the case also revealed that Monojit had called up a college ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann is set to expand his cabinet on Thursday, inducting AAP's Ludhiana West MLA, Sanjeev Arora.The last cabinet expansion took place in Sep last year.Arora's induction is likely to involve a reshuffling of portfolios, even though there is no clarity yet on the department to be allocated to him. The induction seems certain as Mann confirmed last week that the party would honour the promise made to the voters of Ludhiana West during campaigning -- of mak ...Read More >
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 2 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha participated in a special aarti at the Jammu Tawi riverfront. Sinha also visited the Amarnath Yatri Niwas base camp on Tuesday evening. After inspecting the Yatri Niwas base camp, Sinha stated that the security arrangements for the Yatra are more robust than ever before. 'I have witnessed the last four Yatras. The arrangements are better than ever, as far as the security and convenience of pilgr ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjeev Arora has resigned from Rajya Sabha after he was elected as the MLA from the Ludhiana West assembly constituency in the recently concluded bypolls. His resignation from the upper house was accepted by Vice President and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankar on Tuesday with immediate effect, finding the same in conformity with Article 101 3(b) of the Constitution. Also Read | India Developing Its Own Bunker-Buster Missile? Rep ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjeev Arora has resigned from Rajya Sabha after he was elected as the MLA from the Ludhiana West assembly constituency in the recently concluded bypolls. His resignation from the upper house was accepted by Vice President and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankar on Tuesday with immediate effect, finding the same in conformity with Article 101 3(b) of the Constitution. This comes after Sanjeev Arora, the newly elected MLA from AAP ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Tuesday said the state govt was consistently working to provide better resources to the doctors and quality healthcare services to the citizens.He mentioned that medical colleges were being established in every district.While there were only six medical colleges in 2014, the number has now increased to 15, and nine new colleges are under construction. As a result, MBBS seats in the state increased from 700 in 2014 to 2,185, at present. The ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjeev Arora has resigned from Rajya Sabha after he was elected as the MLA from the Ludhiana West assembly constituency in the recently concluded bypolls. His resignation from the upper house was accepted by Vice President and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankar on Tuesday with immediate effect, finding the same in conformity with Article 101 3(b) of the Constitution. This comes after Sanjeev Arora, the newly elected MLA from AAP ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jun 28 (PTI) Sanjeev Arora, the newly-elected MLA from the Ludhiana West Assembly seat, was administered oath by Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan here on Saturday. Arora (61) defeated Congress candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu by a margin of 10,637 votes in the Ludhiana West Assembly bypoll held on June 19. While Arora secured 35,179 votes, Ashu got 24,542 votes. Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Jiwan Gupta polled 20,323 votes and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) nominee Parupkar S ...Read More >
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], June 28 (ANI): Sanjeev Arora, the newly elected MLA from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab, on Saturday took oath in the state assembly after winning the recently concluded bypoll from Ludhiana West assembly constituency. Punjab assembly speaker Kultar Singh Sandhawan administered his oath in Chandigarh. Also Read | Ujjain Unrest: Tension Flares in Madhya Pradesh City as Slippers Hurled at Religious Place Near Gopal Mandir During 'Rath Yatra', Case Registered (Watch ...Read More >
Ludhiana: A day after Congress accepted his resignation from the post of the working president of the party's Punjab unit, former MLA Bharat Bhushan Ashu on Friday took to social media to discuss the reasons for his loss in the Ludhiana West bypoll and his future course of action. A two-time MLA from the same seat, Ashu lost to AAP's Sanjeev Arora by 10,637 votes.Ashu wrote on his social media page that politics demanded accountability, but also honesty. "In public life, we are taught to own bot ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Tarn Taran, Dr Kashmir Singh Sohal, passed away at an Amritsar hospital on Friday after a battle with cancer. His demise will necessitate a seventh assembly byelection that the ruling AAP will face in Punjab since the Bhagwant Mann-led govt took office in March 2022. Dr Sohal, 66, won the Tarn Taran seat by defeating Harmit Singh Sandhu of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Dharamveer Agnihotri of the Congress. Before joining politics, he worked as a ...Read More >
Amritsar, Jun 27 (PTI) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Tarn Taran, Dr Kashmir Singh Sohal, passed away at the age of 66 at a hospital here on Friday. He had been suffering from cancer for more than three years. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann condoled his party legislator's demise. "Received the sad news of the sudden demise of our party's respected MLA from Tarn Taran, Dr Kashmir Singh Sohal ji. I am very sad to hear this," Mann posted on X on Friday. He described Dr Sohal as a hardworking and ...Read More >
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