Response came after Raj Bhavan sought details of state incurring additional debt of Rs 50,000 cr since AAP came to power. Opposition leaders allege CM is taking people for ride.
Arrested Thursday in a 2015 drug case, Khaira has been a vocal critic of the AAP govt in Punjab, but has also had differences with his current party, Congress, in the past.
Opposition questions AAP's silence over Trudeau’s allegation linking Indian govt to Nijjar killing. AAP Punjab spokesperson has called for 'amicable resolution to the stand-off'.
Vigilance Bureau books Manpreet & five others in an alleged corruption case related to purchase of a residential house in Bathinda in 2021 leading to loss of Rs 65 lakh.
On Wednesday, Punjab govt inaugurated its first ‘School of Eminence’. Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, MLA from Amritsar North, claims cosmetic changes had been made to an existing school.
Sippy Sharma, whose union is demanding appointment letters for PT instructors hired in 2011, claims she was put under house arrest ahead of inauguration in Amritsar.
On Sunday, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann called Congress’s Sukhpal Khaira ‘aira, gaira, Nathu Khaira’. The latter subsequently accused Mann of being 'foolishly arrogant'.
Punjab’s patwaris went on strike Friday, demanding appointments to more than 3,000 vacant posts. CM had invoked Essential Services Maintenance Act, threatened them with dismissal.
Controversy centres on govt notification dissolving gram panchayats, zila parishads and block samitis months ahead of elections. Oppn had called decision ‘politically motivated’.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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