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IndiaApr 17, 2024

AAP government will fall after Lok Sabha elections: Charanjit Singh Channi

Former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has claimed that Bhagwant Mann's government will fall a week after the results of the Lok Sabha elections. He made this comment during the first meeting with party workers in Jalandhar. Channi said that the Aam Aadmi Party government is about to fall after seeing its defeat in the Lok Sabha elections. While trying to establish his connection with Jalandhar, Charanjit Singh Channi claimed that the elders of his family were originally from Jalandhar and later migrated to Puadh region. It is to be noted that Charanjit Channi is a Congress cand
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IndiaApr 17, 2024

Clash between farmers and Punjab police on Shambhu border of Punjab-Haryana

A clash broke out between the farmers and the Punjab Police today on the Shambhu border of Punjab-Haryana. In fact, the police tried to stop the farmers who were advancing to protest on the railway track. Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher said that the train stop dharna is being held against the arrest of three farmers, Navdeep Singh, Anish Khatkar and Gurkirat Singh, who were arrested in March. He said that the dharna will continue till the farmers are released by the Haryana Police. 34 trains were affected due to farmers' dharna. 11 trains were completely cancelled, while several trains w
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IndiaApr 16, 2024

BJP senior leader Vijay Sampla can say goodbye to the party

Senior BJP leader in Punjab Vijay Sampla may say goodbye to the party. Sampla was the contender for ticket from Hoshiapur Lok Sabha seat but the party gave the ticket to Union Minister Som Prakash's wife Anita Som Prakash. Annoyed by this, Vijay Sampla has now removed 'Modi Ka Parivar' from his social media account and added a post saying that if one path is closed, God opens many paths. This post of his is being seen in connection with leaving the BJP. Sampla had won the election from Hoshiarpur on a BJP ticket in 2014 but in 2019 his ticket was cut and given to Som Prakash. Hoping to get t
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IndiaApr 16, 2024

Shiromani Akali Dal did not give ticket to Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, heated politics

Shiromani Akali Dal has not given a Lok Sabha ticket to Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa or his son Parminder Singh Dhindsa from Sangrur seat, the politics within the party has heated up. Bibi Jagir Kaur said that as Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa returned to the party with the intention of strengthening the Shiromani Akali Dal, his trust should not be broken. He said that everyone was wondering if the Akali Dal would field the Dhindsa family from Sangrur but instead the party surprised everyone by giving the ticket to Iqbal Singh Jhunda. Bibi Jagir Kaur said that she is not criticizing the decision of the par
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IndiaApr 16, 2024

BJP has released the second list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections

In Punjab, the BJP has released the second list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. In this, former Akali Minister Sikandar Singh Maluka's daughter-in-law Parampal Kaur Sidhu, a retired IAS officer, has been given a ticket from Bathinda. Here he can compete with Harsimrat Kaur Badal, wife of Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal, who has been a three-time member of parliament. Meanwhile, Anita Som Prakash, wife of Union Minister Som Prakash, has been given a ticket from Hoshiarpur. Due to poor health of Som Prakash, his wife has been made a candidate. BJP has given ticket to Manjit
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IndiaApr 16, 2024

Aam Aadmi Party released its final list for 13 Lok Sabha seats of Punjab

Aam Aadmi Party has released its final list for 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab. In this, the party has announced the names of its three current MLAs, including the former Akali MLA. Tickets have been given to Ashok Parashar from Ludhiana, Jagdeep Singh Kaka Brar from Ferozepur, Amansher Singh Sherry Kalsi from Gurdaspur and Pawan Tinu from Jalandhar. Pawan Tinu left Akali Dal and joined AAP a few days ago. The party had already announced 9 Lok Sabha candidates in the last two lists. Thus, five cabinet ministers and three MLAs of the AAP government are in the fray in Punjab.
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IndiaApr 15, 2024

Punjab learned from Haryana in the case of prisons, the High Court reprimanded the Bhagwant Mann government

The Punjab-Haryana High Court has severely reprimanded the Bhagwant Mann government over the security arrangements of the jails. The High Court said that the state government should take a lesson from Haryana where security arrangements in jails are much better than Punjab jails. The High Court asked the Punjab government that why all the cases of using mobile phones in jails, extortion calls and running rackets come to light only in the jails of Punjab, why such cases do not come up in the jails of Haryana? One thing is clear from this that the security arrangements in the jails of Haryana
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IndiaApr 15, 2024

The Chaudhary family can get a ticket from Hoshiarpur!

The Congress party may field one of the family members of Santokh Singh Chowdhury, who was a Member of Parliament for 9 years in the Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat of Punjab, from Hoshiarpur. Late MP Chaudhary Santokh Singh's son Bikramjit Chaudhary or his wife Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary may get this ticket as the Chaudhary family is upset over the nomination of Charanjit Singh Channi from Jalandhar. However, the name of Adampur MLA Sukhwinder Singh Kotli is also in discussion regarding the said ticket.
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IndiaApr 15, 2024

Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann meet Kejriwal in jail

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann met AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal in Tihar Jail in Delhi on Monday. Rajya Sabha member Sandeep Pathak was also with him. This meeting lasted about half an hour. Even before the meeting, the police had made strict security arrangements in Tihar. After the meeting, Mann spoke to the media and said that Arvind Kejriwal is being treated as if he is a big terrorist. He said that there was a mirror in the meeting room, which was so dirty that even Kejriwal's face could not be seen clearly, they talked to each other on the phone. It is to be noted that the Delhi c

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