Stay updated with the latest punjab-pradesh-congress-committee news, articles, and insights from trusted sources. Explore in-depth coverage and expert analysis on punjab-pradesh-congress-committee topics.
Chandigarh, Apr 8 (PTI) Former Punjab MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu, who joined political outfit Bharatiya Rashtrawadi Party (BRP), claimed on Wednesday that her husband Navjot Singh Sidhu was not part of any political outfit. Spelling out a roadmap in Punjab, the former Congress leader told reporters here that the BRP will contest the 2027 assembly polls in the state. She advocated opium cultivation if her party forms the government after the next assembly elections. Kaur, who was expelled from the C ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 8 (PTI) Former Punjab MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu, who joined political outfit Bharatiya Rashtrawadi Party (BRP), claimed on Wednesday that her husband Navjot Singh Sidhu was not part of any political outfit. Spelling out a roadmap in Punjab, the former Congress leader told reporters here that the BRP will contest the 2027 assembly polls in the state. She advocated opium cultivation if her party forms the government after the next assembly elections. Kaur, who was expelled from the C ...Read More >
Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu Monday announced the formation of a new political outfit, the Bharatiya Rashtrawadi Party, the move coming just two months after Congress "expelled" her for anti-party activities. Her husband and former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu continues to be part of the Conbress party even though he has mostly remained politically inactive in the recent past. Navjot Kaur's move to form a party comes months ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections, due early next year. Sidhu, who holds MB ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 7 (PTI) Punjab Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian on Tuesday said crops over 1.25 lakh acres are estimated to have been affected by recent rainfall and hailstorms and assured that affected farmers will get compensation for the loss. He said Fazilka reported crop damage over 45,000 acres of land, followed by 43,000 acres in Muktsar and 20,000 acres in Bathinda due to inclement weather. Speaking to reporters in Muktsar, Khudian said there was a huge damage of crops becaus ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Two months after she was expelled from Punjab Congress, former MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu has floated own political outfit named ''Bharatiya Rashtrawadi Party''. Her husband Navjot Singh Sidhu, ex-cricketer and former Punjab Congress president, is still with the party, and still has Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi on the cover photo of his X handle. Kaur was first suspended for her ''Rs 500 crore for chief minister's chair'' remark and later expelled from the party for her criticism of ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 7 (PTI) Punjab Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian on Tuesday said crops over 1.25 lakh acres are estimated to have been affected by recent rainfall and hailstorms and assured that affected farmers will get compensation for the loss. He said Fazilka reported crop damage over 45,000 acres of land, followed by 43,000 acres in Muktsar, 20,000 acres in Bathinda and 3,000 acres in Sangrur by inclement weather. Speaking to reporters in Muktsar, the agriculture minister said th ...Read More >
Chandigarh, April 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Tuesday said the party would chart out a programme to help distressed farmers whose standing crop had been damaged across 1.25 lakh acres as they had been completely abandoned by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab. Addressing a rally in Budhlada town as part of the party's Punjab Bachao campaign, the SAD President said, "We are making a programme to provide wheat as well as green and dry fodder ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Former Punjab MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu on Tuesday launched her own political outfit, Bharatiya Rashtrawadi Party, two months after she was expelled from the Congress.Kaur, wife of former cricketer and ex-Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, made the announcement on X late Monday night, calling it a "much awaited announcement.""The much-awaited announcement: We have been working on a new alternative at a national level after carefully monitoring and reviewing the current standards of ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 7 (PTI) Two months after she was expelled from Punjab Congress, former MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu has announced the launch of a new political outfit -- Bharatiya Rashtrawadi Party. Kaur, wife of ex-cricketer and former Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, announced this on microblogging site X late on Monday night. Punjab Congress had suspended Kaur for sparking a political row with her "Rs 500 crore for chief minister's chair" remark. She was later expelled from the party fol ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 6 (PTI) Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Monday sought the urgent attention of Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for help to farmers whose crops have been destroyed due to unseasonal rains and hailstorms. In a statement, Warring said a large part of Punjab, particularly the Malwa belt, had been hit by heavy rains and a heavy hailstorm, which had not only flattened the wheat crop but also completely destroyed it. He said the extent of damag ...Read More >
While interacting with mediapersons at the residence of Randhawa here, Bittu said, "The state government ordered an inquiry under the supervision of the chief secretary, but neither the chief secretary nor any other senior officer ever visited the family. We cannot hope for justice in such a situation." He said, "The government should answer why the police have not arrested Bhullar's 75-year-old father Sukhdev Singh Bhullar and PA Dilbag Singh who are accused in the case?" Taking on the Punjab ...Read More >
In a statement issued here today, Warring said that the Centre had convened a special session of the Parliament on April 16,17 and 18. He said, while the official agenda was to amend the Reservation of Women Bill, there are reports that the government may also pass the bill for delimitation of the assembly and parliamentary constituencies across the country. "Punjab, like many other states, will be at a great disadvantage. While the populous states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar will stand to gai ...Read More >
The Punjab unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staged a state-level protest at Hall Gate in Amritsar on Saturday, intensifying its demand for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into the death of Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, the district manager of the Punjab State Warehousing Corporation (PSWC). Randhawa died by suicide on March 21 after recording a 12-second video message in which he reportedly blamed former minister Laljit Singh Bhullar for harassment and intimidation. Apart f ...Read More >
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday flayed Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, accusing him of indulging in "cheap theatrics" on the sensitive issue of sacrilege. He questioned why the Congress government never caught the sacrilege perpetrators during its 2017-2022 regime in the state. Sukhbir's comments came after Warring raised the sacrilege issue in Parliament. Addressing a rally at Baba Bakala as part of the party's "Punjab Bachao" campaign al ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 3 (PTI) Two suspects in the blast outside the Punjab BJP headquarters here have been identified, a senior official of the Chandigarh police said on Friday. "Further investigations are on," he said, adding efforts are on to nab them. The explosion occurred around 5 pm on Wednesday when a suspected crude explosive device was hurled near the office, officials had said. No casualties were reported. An FIR under relevant sections of the Explosives Act and Unlawful Activities (Preve ...Read More >
Sonipat: Punjab Congress leader Khushbaz Singh Jatana and his driver were killed on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway in Haryana's Sonipat district. Station House Officer (SHO) of Kundli police station, Sethi Malik, said, "Today, we received information from the control room that around 5:10, a Defender vehicle carrying Khushbaz Singh Jatana, his driver, and a gunman met with an accident involving an unknown truck." He added that the accident occurred after the vehicle developed a pun ...Read More >
Sonipat (Haryana) [India], April 3 (ANI): In a road accident on Friday, Punjab Congress leader Khushbaz Singh Jatana and his driver were killed on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway in Haryana's Sonipat district. Station House Officer (SHO) of Kundli police station, Sethi Malik, said, "Today, we received information from the control room that around 5:10, a Defender vehicle carrying Khushbaz Singh Jatana, his driver, and a gunman met with an accident involving an unknown truck." Also R ...Read More >
Sonipat (Haryana) [India], April 3 (ANI): In a road accident on Friday, Punjab Congress leader Khushbaz Singh Jatana and his driver were killed on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway in Haryana's Sonipat district. Station House Officer (SHO) of Kundli police station, Sethi Malik, said, "Today, we received information from the control room that around 5:10, a Defender vehicle carrying Khushbaz Singh Jatana, his driver, and a gunman met with an accident involving an unknown truck." He add ...Read More >
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Thursday said that the removal of AAP leader Raghav Chadha as the party's Deputy Leader in the Rajya Sabha indicates that he has been sidelined within the party. "It is now clear that Raghav Chadha is separate from the Aam Aadmi Party. People realised this long ago, when he went to London while Kejriwal was arrested. Public perception now is that Chadha will leave or be removed from the party and join elsewhere," Amarinder Sin ...Read More >
A Punjab Congress leader and his driver, who had stopped their Defender SUV on the roadside to check its flat tyres, were killed in a hit-and-run accident near Jakhauli toll plaza on the Kundli-Manesar and Palwal expressway in Sonepat on Thursday evening, police said. The deceased have been identified as former Congress Bathinda (rural) president Khushbaz Singh Jattana, 45 and his driver Parminder Singh. His gunman, Harandeep Singh sustained serious injuries and was admitted to Sonepat's civil ...Read More >
Amid the threat of a cross-border transport blockade, chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Tuesday announced a complete rollback of the recent hike in entry tax for small vehicles entering Himachal Pradesh. The decision follows agitations at key border points like Nalagarh and Barotiwala, where transporters from Punjab and Haryana had blocked arterial roads. The protesters were agitated by a steep hike that saw entry tolls for private cars jump from ₹70 to ₹170. Under the restored rates ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 2 (PTI) Punjab BJP working president Ashwani Sharma on Thursday visited the site of the blast outside the party's headquarters here, a day after the incident triggered panic in the area. The explosion occurred around 5 pm on Wednesday when a suspected crude explosive device was hurled near the office, officials said. No casualties were reported. Police cordoned off the area and deployed personnel in the area, while a team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) inspected the ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 1 (PTI): A blast outside the Punjab BJP headquarters here Wednesday sent people panicking, with a social media post claiming that the "grenade attack" was a reprisal for the killing of "Sikh youths." Police suspected the object hurled was a "crude" device. No casualties were reported in the blast. A team of the National Investigation Agency visited the site to investigate the explosion, which occurred at around 5 pm, a police officer said. The BJP's state unit chief Sunil Jakha ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 1 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday slammed the Himachal Pradesh Congress government over the entry tax on vehicles from outside the state and warned of reciprocal tax. His remarks came in the wake of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's Tuesday announcement of a reduction in the hike in entry tax for the small passenger vehicles to Rs 100 from Rs 130, following opposition to the decision. On Wednesday, protests erupted at the Punjab-Him ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Mar 31 (PTI) Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Tuesday thanked Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu for reversing the hike in the entry tax on vehicles entering the hill state. Warring spoke with Sukhu over the phone to convey his gratitude and later posted on X. "I express my profound gratitude to the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Shri Sukhvider Sukhu Ji for conceding to our request to revert the entry tax for outside vehicles, includi ...Read More >
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], March 31 (ANI): The Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, on Tuesday indicated that the state government may restore the earlier system of collecting entry fee separately, amid the ongoing controversy over the issue. Making a statement in the Assembly, the Chief Minister said that the government had earlier integrated multiple charges, including toll tax, with FASTag for convenience, but is now considering reverting to the previous system ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The Punjab Congress has accused Bhagwant Mann's state govt of putting the state's education system is in a "deep crisis" despite official publicity of an "education revolution".Dismissing the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) rhetoric as mere "groundless advertising", state Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring presented data suggesting a steady exodus of students from govt schools, chronic teacher shortages, and stalled infrastructure projects. The Congress member targeted the CM's h ...Read More >
The Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Tuesday passed a resolution condemning Congress legislator Sukhpal Singh Khaira for his alleged "derogatory" comments on social media about women celebrating the ₹1,000 monthly financial assistance announced by the AAP government under the "Mukh Mantri Mawan Dhiyan Satikar Yojna" in its fifth and final budget two days ago. The condemnation resolution was moved by AAP MLA Saravjit Kaur Manuke and seconded by finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema during zero hour, follo ...Read More >
A critically injured Kanwar Digvijay Singh, alias Rana Balachauria, was rushed to the Fortis Hospital in Mohali where he was declared brought dead, they said. Rana had got married on December 4. Unidentified assailants shot at a 30-year-old kabaddi player-cum-promoter, moments after clicking a selfied with him, after he and his team were leaving the ground following a match in Mohali on Monday, police said. A critically injured Kanwar Digvijay Singh, alias Rana Balachauria, was rushed to the F ...Read More >
Elections were held to elect members of 347 zones of 22 zila parishads and 2,838 zones of 153 panchayat samitis, for which more than 9,000 candidates are in the fray, officials said. A voter turnout of 48.40 per cent was recorded in the zila parishad and panchayat samiti elections in Punjab Sunday, amid reports of violence, booth capturing, and clashes, which prompted the State Election Commission (SEC) to order repoll at 15 polling booths on December 16. Elections were held to elect members of ...Read More >
Stay updated with the latest None news, articles, and insights from trusted sources. Explore in-depth coverage and expert analysis on None topics.