PunjabNewsline News

PunjabNewsline News
Congress relying on foreign national for campaigning in Bathinda-Harsimrat
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 07:14 PM PDT
BATHINDA: Harsimrat Kaur Badal SAD-BJP candidate from Bathinda Lok Sabha constituency today said that requisitioning the services of Bhutan Prince’s relative Jigme Wangdi Wangchuck by Raninder for campaigning in Bathinda, shows his lack of confidence in the Congress cadre of his constituency.


"Jasjit is natural heir of Capt Kanwaljit Singh's legacy", says Punjab CM
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 07:05 PM PDT
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Chief Minister and patron of Shiromani Akali Dal Parkash Singh Badal said here today that he and his party were immensely proud of the contribution of Late Captain Kanwaljit Singh and his family to the cause of Punjab, Panth and the party. “We are fully alive to our great responsibility towards his family which I treat as an extension of my own family.”


Punjab's border districts await Industrial revival
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 06:58 PM PDT
AMRITSAR: Though the industrial sector of Punjab is registering progress despite the much talked about global slowdown, industrial units in the border areas of Punjab, once hit hard by terrorism and neglect, want the government to take proper steps to revive the sector.


Dhawan shoots another letter to CEC
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 01:06 AM PDT
Demands Strict Action in Mauli Jagran CaseCHANDIGARH: BSP Candidate from Chandigarh Mr Harmohan Dhawan Friday lodged an official complaint to the Chief Election Commissoner (CEC) New Delhi about the incident that took place here on March 31, 2009 at Saheed Bhagat Singh colony in Mauli Jagran. He also wrote about the inability of the Chandigarh Police to bring the guilty to the law.


BJP promises statehood for Telangana, Gorkhaland
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 12:57 AM PDT
NEW DELHI: Riding on popular local sentiments, the BJP on Friday supported creation of a separate Telangana state in Andhra Pradesh and to sympathetically examine the long-pending demand for statehood to Darjeeling and Doars region in West Bengal.


SGPC members trying to self-immolate detained
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 12:52 AM PDT
NEW DELHI: Six members of the Shiromani Gurugwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) on Friday tried to immolate themselves here protesting against the CBI clean chit given to former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler in a 1984 Sikh riot case.


Punjab: Jasjit Singh Bunny triggers political crisis in SAD
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 12:43 AM PDT
CHANDIGARH: Jasjit Singh Bunny son of former cooperation minister late Captain Kanwaljit Singh Friday triggered major crisis in Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) when he announced his resignation from primary membership of SAD and post of Chairman of Punjab State Cooperative Bank. He announced to contest as an independent from Lok Sabha seat of Patiala.


Punjab BJP leaders welcome party's menifesto
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 12:27 AM PDT
PHAGWARA: Former Punjab BJP President and Senior BJP Stalwart Leader Madan Mohan Mittal, and Punjab Local Bodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia have warmly welcomed the party election menifesto, released today and described it as a documents of determination of BJP to come upto the expectations of common person of the country.


Thousands join Congress scooter rally at Ludhiana
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 12:21 AM PDT
LUDHIANA: The Congress campaigning in the city got off with a massive showdown with thousands of two wheelers and a few hundred cars joining the ‘scooter rally’ of the party candidate and national spokesman Manish Tewari.


Try accused of 1984 riots in International criminal court Says Birdevinder
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 12:16 AM PDT
PATIALA: Former deputy speaker of Punjab Vidhan Sabha Bir Devinder Sigh, who have resigned from Congress party, urged the Jathedar of Akal Takhat Sahib Giani Gurbachan Singh to call a meeting of All Jathedars of Takhats, eminent Sikhs jurists (world over) to chalk out the strategy in wake of CBI's clean chit to Jagdish Tytler allegedly responsible for November 84 riots.


We are proud of Capt, Kanwaljit Singh's family, says Sukhbir
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 12:04 AM PDT
CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal President and Deputy Chief Minister, Punjab, Sukhbir Singh Badal said here Friday that he had been grossly misquoted by one newspaper about the party's plan for Late Capt. Kanwaljit Singh's Son Jasjit Singh Bunny.


Sukhbir dubs Amarinder as non-serious leader
Posted: 03 Apr 2009 12:02 AM PDT
JALANDHAR: Hitting out at his arch-rival Captain Amarinder Singh, the SAD chief and deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal has termed the congress poll campaign in Punjab as a “directionless and lackadaisical affair”.


Differences surface in SAD, BJP, hold separate protests on Tytler issue
Posted: 02 Apr 2009 11:59 PM PDT
AMRITSAR: The differences between SAD (Shriomani Akali Dal) and BJP came to fore on Friday when both the alliance partners in Punjab government held separate protests against the UPA government for giving clean chit to Jagdish Tytler alleged accused of 1984 riots by CBI.


Resignation of Bir Davinder Singh scripted by Badal: Amarinder Singh
Posted: 02 Apr 2009 11:58 PM PDT
JALANDHAR: The Chairman of the congress campaign committee and former state chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh has created a flutter in the political circles by alleging that the resignation submitted by the senior congress leader and former Punjab assembly deputy speaker Bir Davinder Singh was scripted by the Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.