Punjab government withdraws 'security cover' provided to 424 dignitaries
India | May 28, 2022 13:41 ISTThose whose security cover has been withdrawn included- many retired police officers, religious leaders, and also political figures.
Those whose security cover has been withdrawn included- many retired police officers, religious leaders, and also political figures.
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann said that even 1% corruption will not be tolerated in the AAP government as he sacked Health Minister Vijay Singla months after the party's emphatic win in the Assembly polls.
Today, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann sacked state's Health Minister who's been arrested. No one knew about this corruption, neither the media nor Opposition. Had CM Mann wanted, he would've asked for a slice of it with a setting, said AAP convener Kejriwal.
Punjab farmers sat on a protest near the Chandigarh-Mohali border on Tuesday after being stopped from heading to the state capital to press the government for a bonus on wheat crop and allow paddy sowing from June 10.
Terming the protest "unwarranted and undesirable" Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann asked the farmer unions to stop sloganeering and join hands with the state government to stop Punjab's depleting water table.
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said the strictest punishment will be meted out to those trying to spoil the state's atmosphere.
A rocket-propelled grenade hit the Intelligence Wing headquarters of Punjab Police in Mohali on Monday night, shattering windowpanes on one of the floors of the building.
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday, warned the perpetrators of Mohali blast, sharing a tweet on the same. Moreover, he also assured that the same is being thoroughly investigated by the police.
Sidhu on April 22 had said Congress lost the Punjab elections because of the "mafia raj" that prevailed in the state and it now needed to reinvent itself, and praised Mann as a "younger brother" and an "honest man".
Earlier, AICC Punjab affairs in-charge Harish Chaudhary had sought action against Sidhu. In the letter dated April 23, which surfaced on Monday, Chaudhary had also forwarded a detailed note by Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring regarding Sidhu's "current activities".
Bagga was arrested by the Punjab Police from his Delhi home on Friday, stopped in Haryana while being taken to Punjab and brought back to the national capital by Delhi Police hours later.
The searches are being carried out in Maler Kotla area of Sangrur district in connection with the case against the Amargarh MLA, with location being his ancestral home, they said.
The decision is in line with Bhagwant Mann's promise of filling 25,000 vacancies in various departments after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) came to power in the state in March.
Punjab's Power Minister Harbhajan Singh has blamed the previous governments for not upgrading power plants in the state.
Led by the Congress' state unit chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, the party workers staged the protest outside the office of Rupnagar senior superintendent of police (SSP) and raised slogans against the Bhagwant Mann government.
Kejriwal said India will progress if every state starts learning from the good work done by others. "It will be wrong to say that only we have done good work.
Chief Ministers of Delhi and Punjab have made an agreement on knowledge sharing. Addressing a press conference along with Arvind Kejriwal, Bhagwant Mann, who recently became the new CM of Punjab, winning the 2022 Assembly elections, said that he will implement all good aspects of Delhi in Punjab.
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann visited a school in the National Capital along with Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Monday morning. The two governments are likely to sign several MoUs in the fields of health and education in an attempt to replicate "Delhi model" in Punjab.
Former Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu said he considered Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann his younger brother who will support the fight against the mafia.
The former Punjab Congress chief claimed the law and order situation in Punjab had "deteriorated drastically" under Mann's government with 40 people killed in a month.
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