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.
Congress stronghold, Jalandhar seat fell vacant after Congress' Member of Parliament (MP) Santokh Singh Chaudhary, 76, died of a heart attack during Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra in Punjab this January.
The bypoll is another chance for the SAD to wrest its decline in Punjab politics which saw the party win just three seats in Assembly polls and getting pushed to fifth position in Sangrur by poll by polling just 6.25 per cent of votes despite alliance with the BSP.
Delhi must hope that the last word has been said on the powers of its elected government. For while a decision of the country’s apex court is deemed to be final, the cynic will argue that he had thought so five years ago as well.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will now demand a CBI probe into the missing names in the voters' list in Uttar Pradesh.
Party leader Raghav Chadha, MP, said in a tweet that Supreme Court's landmark judgement sends a stern message that officers working with Delhi government are meant to serve people of Delhi through the elected representatives. "Satyamev Jayate.
