CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday questioned the silence of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) President, Harjinder Singh Dhami, over the statement of Lok Sabha MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal, equating the election symbol of the Akali Dal with that of the scales of the first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak Dev.

CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Friday announced that the party would give 50 per cent seats to women in panchayat and local body elections, besides reserving 33 per cent seats for women in the state Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.

TALWANDI SABO(BATHINDA): Former union minister and Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal today said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had joined hands with the Congress party as far back as 2013 and that now it was only formalizing the alliance at both the national and Punjab level.

BJP responsible for the deaths of 750 farmers and SAD protectors of sacrilege offenders are again making an unholy alliance: Malvinder Kang

Former union minister and Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal today condemned the insidious conspiracy to increase canal water supply to Rajasthan by forcibly closing lift irrigation pumps installed by farmers in this and neighbouring districts.

CHANDIGARH: Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Monday urged External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to save the future of hundreds of Punjabi students who were facing deportation from Canada after being duped by an unscrupulous education services agent by taking up their case with Canadian authorities.

Union home minister Amit Shah eulogized the former chief minister by describing him as a man with a big heart who stood up against Emergency as a matter of principle. 

NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha MPs Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Gurjeet Singh Aujla and P.V. Midhun Reddy will issue a call attention notice in the House to Home Ministry on the problem of drug abuse in the country and steps taken by the Centre.

CHANDIGARH: Akali Dal leader and former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Friday urged External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to take immediate steps to ensure the safety of Punjabi students trapped in Ukraine following the invasion by Russia as well as their safe passage to India.

CHANDIGARH: With a century old regional political outfit Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) fighting this Assembly polls in Punjab to save its 'sinking ship' after a humiliating defeat in the 2017 Assembly polls is largely banking on its charismatic Parkash Singh Badal, 94, whose feet were touched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi owing to humility after filing his nomination papers for the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency in 2019.

CHANDIGARH: Terming the allegations of Former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal as baseless and political motivated, the Health Minister Mr. Balbir Singh Sidhu said that SAD has lost his credibility and support from the people of Punjab and now Mrs. Badal is trying to malign the image and confidence of medical fraternity for getting free publicity.

CHANDIGARH: Cutting across party lines, barring the BJP, the day-long protests by farmers evoked an enormous response in the agrarian states of Punjab and Haryana as normal life remained disrupted with closure of rail and road networks. However, in Chandigarh the situation was almost normal.

CHANDIGARH: Cutting across party lines, day long statewide protests by farmers in Punjab and Haryana began on Friday morning against the Farm Bills passed by both Houses of Parliament.

Heavy police force has been deployed in both the states to deal with any untoward situation.

NEW DELHI: Amid the opposition's objection and widespread protests of farmers in various states over two farm Bills passed by both the Houses of Parliament last week, Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar requested the farmers "not to fall into the trap of Congress", asserting that "MSP will continue".

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Cabinet Minister and Senior Congress leader S. Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Monday demanded answers from the former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal to 5 queries on the issue of farm ordinances.

In a press communique, S. Randhawa said that first of all Harsimrat Badal needs to answer as to what stand she took in favour of the farmers when the farm ordinances were given the nod by the Union Cabinet. The second query that warrants her reply is regarding the stand she took when these ordinances were okayed by the Cabinet for being tabled in the Parliament to turn the same into law.

NEW DELHI: The government fronted six of its top ministers to launch a scathing attack on the opposition on Sunday as Rajnath Singh said the behaviour meted out to the Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha was not just "unprecedented" but "shameful".

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of lying to the farmers of the country and said that the ruling party is behaving like the Kauravas of the Mahabharat and the grand old party is standing with the farmers who are fighting like Pandavas.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday slammed the Centre for what he called "forcing the farm legislations on the nation as part of a conspiracy to destroy farmers and Punjab, of which the Akalis were a part".

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked Opposition parties on Friday, saying they are "lying" to farmers. He also claimed that the NDA Government is doing what "they" themselves promised in their manifestos, referring to the Congress.

NEW DELHI: Amid the row over three agriculture reform bills that led to one of his Cabinet colleagues quitting on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured that the system of MSP and government procurement will continue.

Commenting the opposition his government is facing over the bills, the Prime Minister said "many powers are engaged in creating confusion among the farmers".

NEW DELHI: Reacting on the resignation of Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said that she resigned under the pressure of Punjab's local politics. However, the party still hopes that the matter will be resolved after discussion with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).

CHANDIGARH: A delegation of the Shiromani Akali Dal led by the party president Sukhbir Singh Badal today called on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the latter’s New Delhi residence this morning to express thanks for the Union the government’s “unprecedented and decisive” initiative in exempting Guru Ka Langar (Community Kitched) from the GST regime, and to draw the PM’s attention to several issues concerning the people of Punjab.

CHANDIGARH: BJP President Amit Shah arrived here on Thursday afternoon and held a closed-door meeting with the top Shiromani Akali Dal leadership.