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Reacting to the IAF convoy terror attack, Charanjit Singh Channi stoked a controversy after he said that the attack was a pre-election stunt by the BJP.
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The matter is covered extensively in the media to the extent that illegal sand mining has become a household word.
"I request the new government to continue the public welfare projects and schemes that we brought in, in the last 111 days," he added.
Former chief ministers Parkash Singh Badal, Amarinder Singh and Rajinder Kaur Bhattal were also trailing. SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal was also behind in his Jalalabad seat.
As per the reports, Channi may soon meet Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit and submit his resignation
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal also criticized Channi’s remark. "It is very shameful. We strongly condemn comments aimed at any individual or any particular community. Priyanka Gandhi also belongs to UP so she is also a ‘bhaiya", Delhi chief minister said.
Gandhi claimed he spoke to the Punjab people, candidates, the workers, and the youth of Punjab on who should be the chief minister candidate for Punjab.
In an interview, while talking about religious conversion, he said that Sikhs who had converted to Christianity in Punjab had done so because they did not get love from the Sikh community.
Following his medical at the Civil Hospital, Honey was taken to the ED office in Jalandhar. He will likely be produced in front of a special court in Mohali.
Over the past several weeks, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu have, directly or indirectly, made a case for themselves to be declared as the party's chief ministerial candidate.
With that announcement, apart from his traditional home turf of Chamkaur Sahib, Charanjit Singh Channi will also contest elections from Bhadaur.
It should be noted that Kejriwal has been attacking Channi ever since the ED carried out raids at many places, including at the premises of Channi's nephew.
On Thursday, Kejriwal took to Twitter to target Channi's common man image, saying "Channi aam aadmi nahi, baiman aadmi hai (Channi is not a common man, he is a dishonest man)."
The move becomes important as the state unit of the party has been witnessing a terse fight for supremacy between CM Channi and Congress Punjab Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.
The ED team, comprising six officials and four policemen, raided the posh Homeland Heights apartment of Channi’s nephew in Mohali early on Tuesday.
The ongoing no-holds-barred vicious game/drama of politics played by rival political leaders and parties is the sum total of inherited historic cultures of treachery and intrigue of the most despicable order contrary to real democracy and national security interests.
Calling the party's decision an "injustice’ Manohar Singh Channi said it is also an injustice to the people of the constituency.
A leader of the Scheduled Caste (SC) community, Mann resigned from the post of chairman of Punjab Agro Industries Corporation on Friday.
On the other hand, while giving the interview, Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi also said that Congress should declare its chief ministerial candidate as doing so in the past has favoured the party to reap electoral gains.
Before entering politics, Mavika Sood has worked extensively in the social sector. She was one of the core team members of Sonu Sood's NGO The Sood Foundation at the time of the migrant crisis during the first wave.
मोदी पर कीचड़ उछालना, अमर्यादित भाषा का उपयोग करना, उन्हें गालियां देना आम बात हो गयी है, लेकिन उनकी जीवन-सुरक्षा को नजरअंदाज करना- बेहद शर्मनाक है। इस निन्दनीय एवं पागलपन की घटना के उपरांत इसे सही ठहराने की कांग्रेस की कोशिश कोई नई बात नहीं है।
Irani also questioned the intentions of the Congress chief and asked whether it was yet another ploy by the Gandhi leader to make someone a "pawn".
To an ordinary citizen who has no interest in party politics, the security lapse in PM Modi’s Punjab visit is a clear case of a failed state government that let the life of the Prime Minister endangered with clear ineptitude if not conspiracy.
The State Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi did not attend the Prime Minister at the airport under the guise of the corona pandemic. The Chief Secretary and the State DGP also did not show up in the PM's convoy when the vehicles marked for them were there. The state police deployed for PM's security were seen enjoying tea and snacks with those who blocked the PM's cavalcade.
ab Deputy CM Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa has admitted that everyone was aware that PM Modi was travelling by road and Punjab Police was supposed to have made arrangements for the same.
Police has arrested the main accused and the in-charge of the Gurdwara Nijampur Mod, Amarjit Singh in this case.
With the illegal conversion of Hindus/Sikhs to Christianity rising rapidly in the state, CM Charanjit Singh Channi has decided to set up a chair at the university level for the study of the Bible.
Party spokesperson Pritpal Singh Baliawal, resigned on Monday
VHP slammed the missionaries that are trying to lure and playing with faith of innocents Hindus in the name of religious conversions
Though many fail to understand the real intentions of Healing Crusade programs, there are veiled threats of conversions.
Avtar Singh is the coordinator of the SFJ in the United States (US). Avtar, who is said to be number two in the pro-Kahlistani organisation after its chief Gurpatwant Singh Pannu.
Congress's hate for RSS has become a sickness that needs to be taken note of after recent outbursts of likes of Rashid Alvi, Rahul Nehru and Salman Rushdie.
While the regressive election campaigns of the opposition parties may be accepted with a pinch of salt, the dangerous path that the ruling Congress party has adopted cannot be allowed to go uncontested since the repercussions on the security, economy and social fabric of the state can be disastrous.
The meeting of the two leaders also came at a time when Sidhu's rebellious attitude towards the recently appointed Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi is quite visible.
Extending a helping hand to the families of those soldiers who lost their lives yesterday in a gunfight with terrorists, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi announced an ex gratia grant of Rs 50 lakh. Apart from this, the Chief Minister also stated that the members will be given a government job to one member each of the bereaved families.
In prder to seek new development in the state of Punjab, newly appointed Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi met Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday seeking intervention to seal the international borders to prevent illegal trafficking of drugs and weapons. Moreover, the Punjab CM also spoke to the Home Minister to repeal the three farm laws and also raised the issue of Lakhimpur Kheri violence that killed eight people.
Amid the ongoing political turmoil in Punjab, the state government issued transfer orders to 24 IPS and 12 PCS officers on Monday. Initiating a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the Principal Secretary in Finance KAP Sinha was given an additional charge of Principal Secretary in Power and New and Renewable Energy Sources. Apart from this Secretary of School Education Krishnan Kumar has been given the position of Higher Education and Languages.
Leaders slammed the Congress for its decision to induct Channi as the new Punjab CM just before the state is scheduled to go into polls.
