Why Delhi still needs Capt: The Amarinder factor in Punjab BJP’s changing power equations
The meetings between Amarinder Singh, Amit Shah, and J.P. Nadda suggest that Delhi understands this reality.
The meetings between Amarinder Singh, Amit Shah, and J.P. Nadda suggest that Delhi understands this reality.
Singh became Chief Minister of Punjab in 2002 and continued until 2007. At the same time, Vajpayee was the PM from 1999 to 2004.
The former punjab chief ministge calls Nijjer’s murder result of rivalry within Gurdwara factions in Surrey.
Besides ensuring a cozy stay to gangster in a Punjab jail, the former CM helped him secure prime land in Ropar, the Punjab chief minister claimed.
With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Captain Amarinder Singh ridiculing Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s statement that his government…
'I thank Haryana farmers and police for showing restraint. Punjab Chief Minister is fanning this protest. Office bearers of the Punjab Chief Minister's Office are leading the protest,' Khattar said.
Farmers' unions said it would lift the blockade for a 15-day period, but warned that it would be re-imposed if talks to address and resolve their issues failed to take place within that period.
Responding with pain and anguish to several recent statements and comments of various BJP national and Punjab leaders on the farmers' protests, particularly the continued suspension of goods trains by the railways, the Chief Minister stressed that "this was neither the time nor the occasion to indulge in political confrontation or allegations or counter allegations".
Amarinder Singh expressed the hope that staff and students will be able to move into the upcoming campus by 2022.
Asked about the possibility of the Centre imposing President's Rule in the state to scuttle the attempts to negate the farm laws, Amarinder said, "let's wait and see…we will move step by step."
