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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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IndiaMay 10, 2024

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal came out of jail after 39 days

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was granted bail by the Supreme Court today for the election campaign. He came out of Tihar jail on Friday evening after 39 days.The Supreme Court has granted him interim bail till June 1 and asked him to surrender on June 2 under any circumstances. As soon as he came out of jail, Kejriwal targeted the Modi government, telling his supporters that the country has to be saved from dictatorship.It is to be noted that Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the ED on March 21 in the liquor scam. The Supreme Court did not grant him full bail, the court said that if ther
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IndiaMay 09, 2024

Many veterans will come to Punjab to campaign for BJP

In addition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, many film makers are participating in the election campaign of the candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is contesting the elections alone for the first time in the 13 Lok Sabha seats of Punjab. The stars will also be in Punjab. According to the information, the election campaign has been prepared in seats like Ludhiana, Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Patiala, Jalandhar. Film stars and MPs Hema Malini, Akshay Kumar, Smriti
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IndiaMay 09, 2024

Lok Sabha Elections: Amritpal Singh sought temporary release to file nomination papers

Amritpal Singh, head of Waris Punjab organization, who is preparing to contest election as an independent candidate from Khadur Sahib Lok Sabha seat of Punjab, has sought temporary release to file nomination papers and for this he has applied in the Punjab Haryana High Court. The court will hear it on Friday. It is to be noted that at present Amritpal Singh is locked up in Dibrugarh Jail of Assam under the National Security Act along with his colleagues. Punjab Police arrested Amritpal Singh in April 2023 from Rode village of Moga district.
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IndiaMay 09, 2024

BJP candidate Hansraj Hans filled nomination

BJP candidate Hansraj Hans, who is facing the opposition of farmers in Punjab, has filed his nomination paper today to contest the elections. Hansraj is contesting from Faridkot. Here he is competing with Aam Aadmi Party's Karamjit Anmol and Congress's Amarjit Kaur Sahoke. Rajwinder Singh Dharamkot is in the field from Shiromani Akali Dal. BJP candidate Ravneet Bittu will file nomination papers from Ludhiana Lok Sabha seat tomorrow. Apart from them, Sushil Rinku from Jalandhar, Parampal Kaur Sidhu from Bathinda Lok Sabha seat, Manjit Singh Manna from Khadur Sahib Lok Sabha seat and Taranjit S
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IndiaMay 09, 2024

1 day before the Supreme Court's decision, ED opposed Arvind Kejriwal's interim bail

The ED has filed an affidavit opposing the Supreme Court's decision on the interim bail of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tomorrow. The ED said that Kejriwal is not contesting elections and no leader has been granted bail from custody for campaigning before and campaigning is not a fundamental right. ED also said in his affidavit that elections are held throughout the year across the country. If every leader is granted interim bail only in view of elections, it will be impossible to keep any leader in jail. It is to be noted that the Supreme Court will pronounce the verdict on Kejriwal'
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IndiaMay 09, 2024

Shiromani Akali Dal candidate joins Aam Aadmi Party

Hardeep Singh Butrela, who was nominated as Lok Sabha candidate from Chandigarh by Shiromani Akali Dal, has joined Aam Aadmi Party after resigning from the party. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann welcomed Hardeep Singh Butrela at his residence in Chandigarh. Butrela was the president of the Chandigarh unit of the Akali Dal and the only councilor of the party in the municipal corporation. In the past, he had returned the candidature ticket to Sukhbir Badal saying that he was not getting any support from the party.
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