The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has called a meeting of all SGPC members here on January 21 to discuss discrepancies in voters lists of SGPC as there were reports that a large number of non-Sikhs and fake voters have been registered in these lists.
Senior Akali leader Sukhbir Singh Badal, on Wednesday, cautioned the Union Government against going ahead with the reported decision to re-designate the post of “Advisor to Punjab Governor-cum-UT Administrator” as the “Chief Secretary, UT Chandigarh”.
Senior Akali leader Sukhbir Singh Badal, on Monday, recommended a President’s Police Medal for Assistant Sub Inspectors of the Punjab Police, Jasbir Singh and Hira Singh for their “act of exceptional and exemplary courage and selfless devotion to duty ” on the precincts of Shri Harmandar Sahib, Amritsar, on December 4 when an assassination attempt was made on his life.
Sarabjeeet Singh Jhinjer, president of the Youth Akali Dal (YAD), on Thursday strongly condemned the attack on Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Wednesday patted the Punjab Police for foiling a deep rooted conspiracy to defame Punjab by vigilantly preventing an attack on Akali leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal at Amritsar.
"As now the Lufthansa Airlines has itself clarified that it is frivolous reports, Sukhbir Badal and Partap Bajwa should tender a public apology,” said AAP's Punjab spokesperson Malvinder Singh Kang. SAD and Congress leaders had alleged that the chief minister deplaned at Frankfurt airport in an inebriated state.
Badal said that bribery allegations the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) made could only be verified by an independent inquiry by the CBI or the high court and that no purpose could be served by calling a special session of the Assembly.
SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal has levelled serious allegations against Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and asked him to clarify media reports of him.
Party urges the Prez hopeful to take personal interest in securing the release of all Sikh detainees languishing in various prisons even after serving their life sentences.
The aim behind this conspiracy was to render the Khalsa Panth leaderless and to divide the Sikhs against one another in order to start a civil war in the quom (community), said the Akali leaders.
