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The former punjab chief ministge calls Nijjer’s murder result of rivalry within Gurdwara factions in Surrey.
The former punjab chief ministge calls Nijjer’s murder result of rivalry within Gurdwara factions in Surrey.
Besides ensuring a cozy stay to gangster in a Punjab jail, the former CM helped him secure prime land in Ropar, the Punjab chief minister claimed.
With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Captain Amarinder Singh ridiculing Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s statement that his government…
Calling the decistion farmer-friendly, both leaders expressed gratitude to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for increasing the Minimum Support Prices for all mandated Kharif crops for marketing season 2023-24.
The former Punjab chief minister called the Rs 15,000 per acre compensation announced by the government was too less as the losses to farmers demanded that the compensation must be at least Rs 30,000 per acre.
Singh further urged the Pakistan PM to waive off $20 fee on all days for the pilgrims visit rather than just two days.
Congress nominee Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal won over BJP nominee Rajesh Bagha by a comfortable margin of 26,116 votes from the Phagwara seat which was earlier represented by the BJP.
In a statement, the Union minister said the Mukh Mantri Tirath Yatra scheme under Parkash Singh Badal facilitated travel of pilgrims by bus to Sri Darbar Sahib besides travel by special trains to Nanded Sahib, Patna Sahib, Varanasi and Ajmer. She said the scheme was scrapped when the Congress government took over the reins of the state.
The much-awaited corridor will facilitate visa-free movement of Indian pilgrims, who will have to just obtain a permit to visit Kartarpur Sahib.
On November 22, last year, just a day before the 549th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, the Union Cabinet decided to build and develop a corridor from Dera Baba Nanak in Punjab’s Gurdaspur to the international border for Sikh pilgrims to visit Pakistan.
