Punjab Politics News
Counting to be videographed
Wednesday, 22/02/2012
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For the first time ever in Punjab, the Election Commission would be video-graphing the counting of votes in all 117 centres across the state on March 6. Punjab Chief Electoral Officer Kusumjit Sidhu today passed instructions in this regard to all election officers of the state through a specially convened video-conferencing session.
Bhattal on thanksgiving Spree
Monday, 20/02/2012
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Opposition leader in the state Assembly Rajinder Kaur Bhattal claimed that the Congress party in Punjab would enter the corridors of power with an absolute majority. Bhattal was on a thanksgiving spree at Khanauri, Moonak and Lehra under the Lehra Assembly segment represented by her on Saturday.
Centre’s Food Bill may ease state’s atta-dal burden
Friday, 17/02/2012
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120218/punjab.htm#5
The Food Security Bill proposed by the Union Government would not only satiate the hunger of the poor but may also take the burden of the atta-dal scheme off the state's shoulders with Punjab already reeling under a financial crisis.
Capt: State headless with CM abroad
Thursday, 16/02/2012
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Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today criticised the Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal, and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal for leaving the state headless and leaving for abroad without naming anybody to take care of the affairs of the government in their absence.
Punjab Polls: An outsider’s observation on electoral outcome
Wednesday, 15/02/2012
http://www.punjabnewsline.com/news/?q=node/36246
As someone on a move while the campaigning was on for assembly polls in both Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, the one thing that particularly hit me was that our Delhi number-bearing car wasn’t stopped by the cops as often in the Land of Five Rivers as it was in UP. Was it because the security had to be kept extra tight for the staggered polls in UP -- always considered a politically crucial state -- vis a vis Punjab?
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