Punjab Politics News
SYL: Cong to start protests from Abohar on Nov 13
Friday, 11/11/2016
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Chandigarh : The Congress in Punjab on Friday announced state-wide agitations from Abohar on November 13 over the SYL issue to “expose the SAD-BJP government's failure to contest the state’s case effectively”.
Radicals call for political boycott of Badals; to hold ‘Sarbat Khalsa’ soon
Friday, 11/11/2016
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
BATHINDA: The Sikh radicals on Thursday called for political boycott of the Badals and announced to soon declare the day and place for holding the ‘Sarbat Khalsa’ (religio-political congregation of Sikhs), that was scheduled to be held in Talwandi Sabo on Thursday, but was called off after the Punjab government’s refusal to grant permission for it and rounding up of over 2,000 people from across the state ahead of the event.
Recruitment scam: Court rejects vigilance plea seeking withdrawal of case against Tota Singh
Friday, 11/11/2016
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
SAS NAGAR: Scuttling the Punjab government’s move to bail out cabinet minister Tota Singh in the recruitment scam case ahead of the coming assembly elections, a local court dismissed an application by the state vigilance bureau seeking withdrawal of the case against him.
AAP in ‘morcha’ mode, Kejri mum
Friday, 11/11/2016
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
CHANDIGARH: Holding both Congress and Akali Dal responsible for the adverse Supreme Court order on SYL Canal issue, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has declared to open an indefinite “morcha” (front) at Kapuri village (the origin of the canal) from Friday.
Amarinder, MLAs quit; demand early elections
Friday, 11/11/2016
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
CHANDIGARH: It was a poll punch the Punjab Congress had been waiting for. Minutes after the Supreme Court verdict on the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal on Thursday, Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh, whose government had passed the controversial Punjab Termination of Agreements Act, 2004, resigned from his Lok Sabha seat of Amritsar, along with party’s 42 MLAs.
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