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IndiaMay 14, 2024

Shiromani Akali Dal will not contest the Lok Sabha elections from Chandigarh now

Shiromani Akali Dal is not contesting the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat. The reason for this is that Shiromani Akali Dal has no leadership in Chandigarh. In the past, the only councilor of the party, Hardeep Singh Butrella, had joined the Aam Aadmi Party. He was also the president of Shiromani Akali Dal's Chandigarh unit and the party made him the Lok Sabha candidate but he returned the candidature ticket to Sukhbir Singh Badal accusing him of not being supported by the party.
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IndiaMay 14, 2024

Former minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot will come out of jail for election campaign

Former Punjab cabinet minister and senior Congress leader Sadhu Singh Dharamsot is coming out of jail, the Punjab-Haryana High Court has granted him bail till June 5 and asked him to surrender on June 6. Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, like Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal, filed a bail application for campaigning. Dharamsot is facing charges in a case related to a forest scam worth crores of rupees. He is a former MLA from Nabha assembly constituency. This constituency comes under Patiala Lok Sabha constituency. He had to face defeat in the assembly elections held in 2022. It is to be noted th
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IndiaMay 13, 2024

Harsimrat Kaur Badal filed her nomination form from Bathinda

Shiromani Akali Dal Member of Parliament Harsimrat Kaur Badal today filed her nomination papers from Bathinda. According to this, she owns assets worth 30.49 crores. In the last five years, the Badal family also bought their first car, which is a Land Rover Defender, its market value is around Rs 1.50 crore. Harsimrat Kaur Badal's assets are worth Rs 7 crore. Apart from this, Harsimrat Badal has ancestral property worth Rs 19.96 crore and Sukhbir Badal's ancestral property is worth Rs 51.87 crore.
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IndiaMay 13, 2024

Prime Minister Narendra Modi bowed at Gurdwara Patna Sahib wearing a kesari turban

In Punjab, 40 senior leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will campaign in favor of BJP candidates. The party released its list of star campaigners on Monday, including the name of Vijay Sampla, who was upset over not getting a ticket from Hoshiarpur. At the same time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid obeisance today at Gurdwara Takht Sri Patna Sahib. On this occasion, he also performed the service of making langar and serving langar to the congregation. Prime Minister Modi was wearing a turban on his head on this occasion.
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IndiaMay 13, 2024

Lok Sabha Elections: Bains brothers joined Congress from Ludhiana

Ahead of the voting for the Lok Sabha elections in Punjab on June 1, the former MLA from Ludhiana, the Bains brothers have joined the Congress. Devendra Yadav, who is in charge of Punjab Affairs of Congress yesterday, meet former MLAs Balwinder Singh Bains and Simarjit Singh Bains with Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi, during which Lok Insaf Party was formally merged with Congress. The Bains brothers said that they have joined the Congress party unconditionally. Both will now campaign for Congress candidate from Ludhiana Lok Sabha seat and Punjab Pradesh Congress President Amarinder Singh Raja Wari
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IndiaMay 10, 2024

Pargat Singh targeted AAP party supremo Arvind Kejriwal and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann

Punjab Congress leader from Jalandhar Pargat Singh has targeted Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal and state Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann over the promises made by them before the assembly elections. Pargat Singh said that the Aam Aadmi Party had promised to earn 20,000 crores from mining in a year but only 472 crores was collected in the state exchequer in two years. Referring to the CAG report, he said that no arrangement has been made to stop illegal mining in Punjab and no crusher policy has been made yet. It is to be noted that in Punjab, both Congress and AAP are fighting separate
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IndiaMay 10, 2024

Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann meet Dera Beas chief Baba Gurinder Singh Dhillon

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has meet the head of Dera Radha Swami Beas, Baba Gurinder Singh Dhillon. This meeting is being seen in connection with the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Bhagwant Mann reached Dera Beas with a large caravan at 11 am and left after staying there for about two hours. This is the first meeting of Bhagwant Mann with Baba Gurinder Singh Dhillon after becoming the Chief Minister. Leaders of almost all parties are attending Dera Radha Swami Beas because this Dera has a large vote bank all over India. In the last few days, Manish Tiwari, Kulbir Singh Jira, Laljit Si
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IndiaMay 10, 2024

Sukhpal Singh Khaira besieged the Shiromani Akali Dal and AAP government for not getting justice for the insults

Sukhpal Singh Khaira, the Congress candidate from the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat in Punjab, has attacked the Shiromani Akali and the Aam Aadmi Party for not getting justice for the insults. Khaira said that the Badals who call themselves Panthak Party and the Aam Aadmi Party leaders Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann have always stabbed the Sikhs in the back by politics in the name of blasphemy, Behbal Kalan shootings and the release of Bandi Singhs. He said that due to their nefarious conspiracies, our Bandi Singhs are still behind the bars and these people have not been able to catch those who insulte
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IndiaMay 10, 2024

Amritpal Singh asked for 7 days release to fill the nomination

The nomination paper of Amritpal Singh, head of Waris Punjab organization, who is contesting the election as an independent candidate from the Khadur Sahib Lok Sabha seat of Punjab, has been filed. This information was given by the Punjab government in the High Court today. A petition was filed by Amritpal Singh for 7 days' release to file papers related to contesting the election. The state government said that Amritpal was given the facility to file papers and his nomination forms were filled on May 9. In this Lok Sabha constituency, apart from Amritpal, candidates from five main political

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