Cutting across party lines, the tallest leader of state politics and the Akali patriarch Parkash Singh Badal, who always valued and practised secular credentials, was cremated with full state honours at his native village of Badal in Muktsar district in southwest Punjab.
The party accused the Congress and SAD of working only to protect the political future of their presidents instead of cornering the BJP government over its ‘dictatorial regime’ and anti-people policies.
Opposition flags the appointment of AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP. Parties accuse the AAP government of 'outsourcing' and 'sub-letting governance' to its masters in Delhi.
SAD legislature party leader in the Assembly Manpreet Singh Ayali said, “The government has not allocated any funds for the disbursement among the women making it clear that the scheme will not be implemented this year.” He added the government has also failed to implement the old pension scheme as promised.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab chief spokesperson Malvinder Singh Kang said, "This is the first time in the electoral history of recent years in Punjab that no untoward incident occurred in the Sangrur by-election on Thursday. This is a testament that the law and order situation is completely intact."
Gurmail Singh said a decisive battle against corruption and setting up special investigation teams to probe major corruption cases including against its own sacked health minister Vijay Singla has set a benchmark in Punjab’s politics
Addressing a roadshow at Dirba in Sangrur during the Aam Aadmi Party’s campaign for Lok Sabha by-poll for Sangrur constituency, the Mann said those who are responsible for introducing gangster culture in the state are today making hue and cry over it.
BJP's Punjab president Ashwani Sharma said the people of the state are disappointed, disgruntled, and disgraced by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) by misleading them to vote for a party that promised a “better Punjab”, but in fact has pushed them into chaos and lawlessness.
Former ministers Raj Kumar Verka, Balbir Singh Sidhu, Sunder Sham Arora, Gurpreet Singh Kangar, and Kewal Dhillon joined the saffron party on Saturday.
"The Chief Minister first committed a hara-kiri when he ordered the withdrawal of security cover to Moosewala, and now was covering up his government's failure to nab the culprits," said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national general secretary Tarun Chugh.
