Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday said his government will soon end the “VIP culture” in state jails by converting “VIP cells” there into administrative blocks. Mann made the announcement in a video message emphasising that jails would be converted into ‘Sudhar ghar’ (correctional facilities) in the true sense. The chief minister expressed his … Read more
After studying the free electricity model in Delhi, the newly-elected Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab will now examine the national capital’s initiatives in education and healthcare sectors to introduce similar reforms in the border state. Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann will be on a two-day visit to Delhi with health minister Vijay Singla and … Read more
In a relief to Punjab’s transporters whose business suffered due to Covid pandemic, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday allowed them to pay motor vehicle tax without any penalty in the next three months. “Today we are fulfilling our promise made with transporters. Because of corona (virus), those transporters who could not pay motor (vehicle) … Read more
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday said the party lost the Punjab elections because of the “mafia raj” that prevailed in the state and it now needed to reinvent itself, while praising Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann as a younger brother and an “honest man“. He said he will support Mann, whose Aam Aadmi Party … Read more
The newly-elected Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab is courting its first political controversy over Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal convening a meeting of the state’s officers in the absence of Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday. The Opposition parties alleged that the Punjab government was being ‘remote controlled’ by the AAP chief … Read more
The meteoric rise of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the 2014 Parliamentary polls and then in the 2017 Assembly elections in Punjab followed by its nosedive owing to ‘mass exodus’ of its legislators is proving a litmus test for the party in the February 20 Assembly polls in the state. Political observers say AAP … Read more
AAP’s chief ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann, contesting from the Dhuri assembly seat in Punjab, has disclosed owning total assets worth Rs 1.97 crore, including two Toyota Fortuner SUVs worth Rs 27 lakh and immovable assets worth Rs 1.49 crore. The 48-year-old Mann disclosed his assets in his affidavit on his assets and liabilities, filed along … Read more
The Aam Aadmi Party will not forge alliance with any political party for the 2022 Punjab Assembly polls, said the party’s senior leader Raghav Chadha in Chandigarh on Monday. Chadha, who is AAP‘s Punjab co-incharge, said his party will contest all the 117 Assembly seats on its own. “AAP will fight the 2022 elections on … Read more