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IndiaMay 06, 2024

Sunita Kejriwal will campaign in Punjab

Sunita Kejriwal, wife of AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, will conduct an election campaign in three Lok Sabha constituencies of Punjab. These include Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar. According to sources, Sunita Kejriwal will visit Punjab on May 9 and 10 this week. However, these dates are not finalized as of now. This visit is being prepared by him at a time when the Aam Aadmi Party has been accused of taking funding from Khalistani organizations and the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi has recommended an NIA probe against Kejriwal. Sunita Kejriwal is prominently raising the issue of Arvind Kejriw
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IndiaMay 06, 2024

The Lt. Governor recommended an NIA probe against Arvind Kejriwal

NIA investigation is going to start against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the case of receiving funds from Sikhs for Justice. Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has given orders for this. According to the Lt Governor, Kejriwal has taken political funding from the banned Sikhs for Justice. The Lt Governor of Delhi received a complaint in this regard from Ashu Mongia, National General Secretary of the World Hindu Federation, which said that Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party had used Khalistani groups between 2014 and 2022 in the name of the release of Devinder Pal Bhullar. 1.6 crore
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IndiaMay 06, 2024

BJP's mentality of taking political advantage is reprehensible: Charanjit Singh Channi

Politics has heated up with former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi terming the terrorist attack on an Indian Air Force vehicle in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch as a 'stunt' by the BJP. However, the former CM clarified that I called it a stunt because every time such attacks are presented as a political stunt. At the same time, BJP leader Anurag Thakur retorted on this, he said that Charanjit Channi should tell whether the wars of 1962, 1965 and 1971 were fought to win elections? It is to be noted that an Indian Air Force soldier was martyred and four others were injured in a terror
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IndiaMay 06, 2024

Akali Dal candidate left the field, refused to contest the election, left the party too

Shiromani Akali Dal's Lok Sabha candidate from Chandigarh, Hardeep Singh Butrela, has resigned from the party, deciding not to contest the election. Hardeep Butrella said that he took this decision because he did not get any support from the party and was facing lack of funds to contest the elections. On Monday, he returned the ticket to party president Sukhbir Badal. It is to be noted that Hardeep Singh was the president of Chandigarh Akali Dal and the only councilor of the party in the municipal corporation.
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IndiaMay 03, 2024

Shiromani Akali Dal will never compromise with BJP: Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Shiromani Akali Dal candidate Harsimrat Kaur Badal, who entered the election field to reach Parliament for the fourth consecutive time from Bathinda Lok Sabha constituency of Punjab, says that now she will never compromise with BJP. Harsmirat Kaur Badal said that after the attitude adopted by the BJP government of the Center with the farmers of Punjab, no compromise can be expected with the BJP. It is to be noted that the Akali Dal had formed an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party in 1996 and in 2020 the BJP-led NDA. Had broken the relationship than alliance. Harsmirat Kaur Badal said
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IndiaMay 03, 2024

Bajwa wants to defeat Raja Waring: Ravneet Singh Bittu

BJP candidate from Ludhiana Lok Sabha constituency in Punjab Ravneet Singh Bittu says that his rival candidate Amarinder Singh Raja Waring has become a victim of internal politics of Congress. According to Bittu, Waring has been appointed to end his influence in the party so that he loses the presidency after losing the election. He said that there are many big sharks in the Congress who were looking for an opportunity to bring down Waring. He alleged that Pratap Singh Bajwa would be most happy to see Waring lose and all senior Congress leaders like Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and Charanjit Si
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IndiaMay 03, 2024

At the behest of RSS, BJP started breaking Sikh institutions: Bibi Jagir Kaur

Bibi Jagir Kaur, the former president of the Shiromani Committee, has accused the Congress and the BJP of breaking Sikh institutions. He made this comment while campaigning in favor of Shiromani Akali Dal candidate Mahinder Singh KP in village Pandori Nizhran of Jalandhar Lok Sabha constituency. On this occasion, he said that at the behest of RSS, BJP is destroying Sikh institutions and encroaching on Sikh institutions. He said that if the Congress passed the resolution to form a separate Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee in Haryana, the Khattar government of the BJP played a big role in pu
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IndiaMay 03, 2024

The Supreme Court will hear Arvind Kejriwal's interim bail on May 7

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the interim bail of Arvind Kejriwal, who is lodged in Tihar Jail in the Delhi liquor scam case. Due to the elections, the Supreme Court is going to hear on May 7. A bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Dutta said that Kejriwal's interim bail can be considered in view of the Lok Sabha elections, so that he can participate in the election campaign. However, the apex court said Kejriwal's challenge to his arrest and remand, which is a main case, may take time. Interim bail will be considered only for participating in their election campaign.
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IndiaMay 03, 2024

Navjot Sidhu will return to politics from cricket, will campaign for Gurjit Aujla in Amritsar

Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has distanced himself from Punjab politics, can once again be seen campaigning for the Congress. Leader of Opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha and senior Congress leader Pratap Singh Bajwa says that Navjot Singh Sidhu will campaign for Gurjit Aujla in Amritsar in the coming days. It is worth noting that Navjot Singh Sidhu, who is considered to be close to Rahul Gandhi, was once one of the star campaigners of Congress, but this time, staying away from campaigning in the Lok Sabha elections, he is busy doing commentary for the Indian Premier League.

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