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TopicAAP Punjab

Topic: AAP Punjab

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Punjab budget: Announcing Rs 1,000 a month for women, Mann says ‘all pre-poll promises fulfilled’

‘Mukh Mantri Mawaan Dhian Satkar Yojna’ will cover about 1.3 crore women who do not pay taxes. AAP faced opposition criticism for not fulfilling its 2022 poll promise of financial aid to women.

Akali Dal turns Mann’s ‘dinosaur’ jibe into comeback campaign. Punjab politics takes ‘Jurassic Park’ turn

From lizards, to dinosaurs crushing brooms with their feet, AAP & SAD have turned barbs into a memefest with AI images packed with political messaging.

AAP retains Tarn Taran. But the real winner could be Akali Dal

AAP’s Harmeet Singh Sandhu won by a hefty margin of 12,000 votes, defeating Shiromani Akali Dal’s (SAD’s) Sukhwinder Kaur Randhawa.

Sukhbir meets Majithia in jail 3 months after arrest. Why Dera Beas chief’s visit is creating more buzz

The Dera has massive following in Punjab & even as it has remained largely apolitical for decades, the optics of 'Babaji' visiting the Akali leader in jail sends a strong political signal.

Punjab AAP MLA takes a jab at his own govt, gets arrested in rape case. And then, a dramatic escape

Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra alleges action being taken against him on a 3-year-old complaint as he questioned Punjab government's flood preparations. 

Punjab is new Kingdom of Kejriwal as CM Mann plays host but Delhi AAP takes over power corridors

Since losing Delhi, Kejriwal has made 3 public appearances in the Capital, but in Punjab, he has appeared in public over a dozen times. Oppn questions his control over CM Mann's govt.

Punjab’s war on drugs is an asymmetric fight. Poor infra, not enough doctors or data

Punjab reported 33,000 drug-related cases between 2022 & 2024, second only to Kerala. While a police crackdown is limited to choking the supply of drugs, the demand remains intact.

Post-Delhi loss, AAP begins ‘operation clean-up’ in Punjab. 52 cops dismissed in a day, 400 more on radar

Dismissed policemen were either facing charges of graft, gross misconduct or long absence from service. CM Mann has called for zero-tolerance policy, ‘clean up’ of police, bureaucracy.

Delhi gone, Kejriwal to work on ‘Punjab Model’ of governance

At a meeting with AAP's Punjab MLAs in Delhi Tuesday, the party chief asked them to approach him if they face any bureaucratic hurdles.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.