Punjab chief minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) patron Parkash Singh Badal today claimed that the alliance between SAD (B) and BJP was everlasting and the two parties will jointly context next Assembly elections due in 2017.
Arrested Aam Aadmi Party MLA Manoj Kumar was reportedly hospitalized last night after he complained of chest pain within hours of being sent to police custody by a Delhi court. He was arrested in a case of alleged cheating and land-grabbing.
There have been much discussions that India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) was trying to save accused linked with Hindutva groups in various “saffron terror” related bomb blast cases. The NIA was said to have changed the course of it's investigation after the BJP led government came to power. But now this is not a mere talk, as in first concrete move the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has closed investigations into the 2008 Modasa blast case.
Prabhat Jha, editor of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) mouthpiece Kamal Sandesh, has been appointed as the new incharge for the state of Punjab and UT of Chandigarh.
The Punjab state unit of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) pretends to be upset at the transfer of Sikh political prisoners lodged in jails of other states to Punjab. Notably two Sikh political prisoners, namely Prof. Devender Pal Singh Bhullar and Gurdeep Singh Khera have been recently transferred to Central Jail Amritsar from Tihar jail Delhi and Gurberga Jail Karnataka respectively.
An AAP MLA alleged that the Narendra Modi government was trying to "save the culprits who are related to their 'parivaar'."
Pro-Khalistan slogans were reportedly raised at Anandpur Sahib in the presence of top leadership of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) and Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) during a function organised by the state government to mark 350th foundation day of Anandpur Sahib.
Haryana's Health and Sports Minister Anil Vij yesterday said that all those opposing yoga were "traitors", and the mouths of such traitors should be "kept shut".
The Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) today lashed out at India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj for her alleged links with scam-tainted former IPL chief Lalit Modi.
State leadership of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) has expressed it’s displeasure over Punjab government’s decision to allow jail transfers of Sikh political prisoners related to Punjab, who were jailed in other states of Indian subcontinent.
In a written statement issued here on May 09, the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) took on the Aam Aadmi Party led Delhi Government and the Bhartiya Janta Party led Central government on the issue of justice and compensation to the victims of November 1984 Sikh genocide.
In a letter to the AAP government, Rakesh Singh, a joint secretary in the Union home ministry, said that more than two-and-a-half months had passed since the constitution of the SIT, but the team was not able to move forward for want of required manpower.
Senior Lawyer and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Harvinder Singh Phoola has started an online petition at Change.Org, which urges President of India to dismiss the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal)- Bhartiya Janta Party coalition government in wake of alleged breakdown of Constitutional machinery in the state.
Garg Commission was appointed by the Haryana Government to probe the Hondh Chillar massacre of 2 November 1984. The commission submitted its report to the BJP led Haryana government about a month ago.
Ruling regime Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal)-Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) candidate Gobind Singh Longowal won Dhuri bypoll with 37501 votes. He bagged 67,596 votes.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Fatehgarh Sahib MP S. Harinder Singh Khalsa declared that AAP will oppose the draconian Land Acquisition Bill brought by the NDA Govt with all its might. He was leading a protest by AAP volunteers and farmers against this new bill at the DC Office Ludhiana today.
“The All India Gurdwara act has clearly laid procedure and requirements for a person to become member of Gurdwara management committee so how can a person heading the management of a temporal seat of Sikh panth doesn’t follow it,” Manjit Singh GK raised the question adding that Tara Singh in his public life has not been following Sikh maryada and demanded from Maharashtra CM to review this decision.
Whereas the global Sikh circles have expressed outrage over appointment of Hindutva/ RSS man Tara Singh (BJP MLA) as chairman of management board of Takhat Hazoor Sahib, Congress party’s leader and former Chief Minister of Punjab Captain Amrinder Singh has supported the controversial decision of Government of Maharashtra selecting Tara Singh for the Sikh religious post.
Notwithstanding several pious pronouncements and official fiats, the Akali Dal led government failed enforce Punjabi in government offices, obviously under pressure from ultra Hindu nationalist party, BJP which is bent upon making Punjab suba a bi-lingual state .
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has sparked off a massive controversy by saying that mosque is not a religious place but is merely a building that ...
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