Attempts are being made to threaten farmer leaders through notices by agencies like the NIA, Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday said.
Stating that "the fight for justice" had now become a fight of the 'annadaata' (someone who provides food) against the central government, the Shiromani Akali Dal chief said, "I am confident that the mass agitation will force the Centre to 'bow down' before the demands of farmers."
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) had on Saturday quit the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over the farm bills issue, the third major party to walk out of the BJP-led coalition in the last couple of years.
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), whose lone minister in the Modi government, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, had resigned while protesting against the new farm bills, the party and NDA's one of the oldest allies on Saturday decided to end its alliance with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) will take a call on whether to remain in the BJP-led NDA or not after taking into consideration the fate of three contentious farm bills in Rajya Sabha and consulting its cadre, party sources said on Friday, a day after its lone Union minister quit the government.
The opposition SAD and AAP on Saturday slammed Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta's for his purported statement on the Kartarpur corridor and sought clarification from Chief Minister Amarinder Singh within 24 hours.
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), a member of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance at the Centre, has decided not to contest Delhi Assembly Election 2020 amid differences with the saffron party over seat-sharing and its stand on the citizenship law and NRC.
At an event on Wednesday, former prime minister Singh had said that the 1984 anti-Sikh riots could have been avoided if the then home minister P V Narasimha Rao had heeded the suggestion of calling in the Army.
LS polls are scheduled to take place in the months of April-May.
Asked about people linking his name to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Tytler replied, "It doesn't matter what people say. There is no case. Court has already given its verdict and the Supreme Court has given me a clean chit."
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had asked the state governments to follow suit by cutting a sales tax or VAT by a similar amount to give consumers a total benefit of Rs 5 per litre.
Sidhu had alleged that the Parkash and his son-- former deputy chief minister of Punjab and SAD president-- had given orders to the police to open fire at protesters at Behbal Kalan in 2015 that led to the death of two people.
Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur today mocked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for putting the blame of AAP’s defeat in Punjab on EVMs and said that the AAP supremo is “mentally unstable”.
Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu today dubbed the Congress victory in Punjab assembly elections as its ‘revival’ and blamed the SAD's rout on its leadership's ‘arrogance and turning treasury into personal property’.
The BJP today registered a stunning victory in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, trampling a fragmented opposition that had hoped the demonetisation exercise would have chipped away at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity.
The Congress today made a resounding comeback in Punjab after a gap of a decade, getting an absolute majority in the 117-member Assembly.
With counting of votes for 117 assembly seats to be held on Saturday, the Election Commission (EC) has announced complete prohibition on the sale and supply of liquor all over Punjab on Saturday.
Polling began for 117-member Punjab and 40-member Goa Assemblies amid tight security. Voting began at 7am in both the states and will conclude at 5pm.
Campaigning for the Assembly elections in the states of Punjab and Goa will culminate this evening, leaving the fate of the candidates at the hands of the people. The two states will go to polls on Saturday (February 4) to elect new assemblies.
The poll day in the state of Punjab is less than a week away and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi have gone all out convince the common man. Modi led the
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