The killing marks the second such attack on a ruling-party functionary in the state this year. Last month, an AAP sarpanch in Tarn Taran was shot dead at point-blank range at a wedding.
AAP’s Mohinder Bhagat defeated BJP’s Sheetal Angural & Congress’s Surinder Kaur to clinch Jalandhar West seat. CM Mann had set up camp in Jalandhar for 20 days in run-up to bypoll.
Family in tow, Mann has moved to a rented accommodation in upscale Royal Estate in Jalandhar, where he is holding roadshows and meetings daily, while his doctor wife goes door-to-door.
AAP candidate Sushil Rinku, a former MLA of the Congress, won over 3 lakh votes in Jalandhar LS bypoll. Karamjit Kaur of the Congress, who came second, lost by a margin of almost 59,000 votes.
AAP’s Sushil Kumar Rinku, a former Congress MLA, defeated Congress’s Karamjit Kaur, the wife of Santokh Singh Chaudhary, whose death necessitated the bypoll.
The Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypoll has been necessitated by the death of Santokh Singh Chaudhary, a Congress leader who won the seat in 2014 as well as 2019. It takes place Wednesday.
Bajra has been free of farm fires for over five years now. Sarpanch says farmers are given tractor or machinery they need to clear fields without burning stubble.
Sitting MLA and Punjab Sports Minister Pargat Singh beat anti-incumbency and polled 6,000 more votes than closest opponent and fellow hockey veteran Surinder Singh Sodhi of AAP.
ThePrint visited Jalandhar, where workers and business owners in the sporting goods industry are sending distress signals. Government officials say concerns are overblown.
Hoshiarpur & Jalandhar recorded 14 deaths each on 26 March and 9 each on 31 March. Authorities & doctors say Covid is spreading to rural areas and patients in their 40s, some even without comorbidities.
In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.
IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.
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