SPECIAL Punjab civic verdict: Congress emerges as AAP’s challenger, BJP needs SAD
Punjab’s municipal election results have delivered a powerful message to the state’s political class.
Punjab’s municipal election results have delivered a powerful message to the state’s political class.
During the court appearance, Sanjeev Arora appeared physically weak with a grown beard and became emotional after meeting his family members. He was seen embracing and consoling relatives outside the courtroom.
The Enforcement Directorate claimed recovered documents point to alleged interference by private individuals in Punjab government functioning during its land scam investigation.
AAP’s Punjab in-charge Manish Sisodia has summoned all MLAs of the party, along with block observers and heads of frontal organisations, for a meeting scheduled on April 29.
The Congress on Monday intensified its attack on the government over the merger of seven Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MPs with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Rajya Sabha, with senior leader Jairam Ramesh alleging that the development raises serious questions about institutional neutrality and the functioning of investigative agencies.
CPM General Secretary Sitaram Yechury extended his party's support to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in opposing the ordinance in Parliament when a bill was brought to replace it.
AAP has seen many ups and downs. It is the only national party other than the Congress which rules two states - Delhi and Punjab. It won two seats, a 6.3 per cent vote share in Goa, and five seats in Gujarat last year.
Centre rejects state’s proposal to depute MoS (finance), CS for meeting
The complaint also shared one of the purported tweets of CM Arvind Kejriwal in Hindi regarding the inaugural event
With a plethora of elected and other agencies, overload of Delhi‘s governance structure has been a huge drag. In addition to 272 councilors in the erstwhile three Municipalities, 70 MLAs in the NCT government and seven MPs, there is the New Delhi Municipal Council for the cloistered Lutyens‘ zone, and Cantonment Board, not to talk of the Union government controlling its land and policing. Multiplicity of institutions, often with overlapping jurisdictions and sometimes contradictory goals, make for sub-optimal output and outcome, a lot of waste
