Punjab Politics News
Ex-Cong minister asks Modi to spend more time in India
Tuesday, 17/11/2015
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Amritsar : Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Anil Shastri requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to spend more time in the country instead of touring foreign countries as he was elected by the people of this country.
Grand alliance in state possible, says Amarinder
Tuesday, 17/11/2015
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Patiala : Veteran Congress leader Capt Amarinder Singh today said his party was open to alliance with like-minded parties for the 2017 state Assembly elections, given the outcome of a similar alliance in Bihar.
Khaira calls secular people to fight against Akali govt
Tuesday, 17/11/2015
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JALANDHAR: Appealing to the secular people in the state to chalk out a strategy to fight against the reported repression of the ruling Akali government, Punjab Congress spokesperson Sukhpal Singh Khaira said that a peaceful programme would be held to oppose the “jungle raj” of the Badals.
Bajwa writes to HC chief justice to take note of illegal phone tapping
Tuesday, 17/11/2015
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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa has written to acting chief justice of Punjab and Haryana high court Shiavax Jal Vazifdar to take suo motu cognisance of the “illegal” tapping of phones being done in Punjab by the police in violation of the Supreme Court directions.
Akalis won’t own up snooping, nor Congress the ‘scoop’
Tuesday, 17/11/2015
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CHANDIGARH: There’s nothing official about these: neither the “scoop” that has helped the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) kill two birds — the opposition Congress and radical Sikh outfits who are at the forefront of whipping up Panthic sentiments after a spate of sacrilege incidents — with one stone nor the “snooping” that helped in making of the “scoop”.
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