Tag: politics
Following protests, No political conferences at Shaheedi Jor Mela this year
No political conferences would be organised this time during the Shaheedi Jor Mela at Fatehgarh Sahib — something happening for the first time in the recallable past. “Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s followers observe...
Gurdaspur Election Results 2017: Congress wins by 1.93 lakh votes
GURDASPUR - Having conceded the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha election in 2014 to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress on Sunday was once again able to wrest the seat by recording an impressive victory...
Khalra Mission challenges Appointment of Beant Singh grandson as DSP
Nearly 23 years after Punjab’s then Chief Minister Beant Singh was assassinated, his grandson Guriqbal Singh’s appointment as Deputy Superintendent of Punjab Police on compassionate grounds after allegedly bending the rules today...
Shiromani Akali Dal Badal expels Sucha Singh Langah
The SAD has expelled former minister Sucha Singh Langah from the primary membership of the party. Party president Sukhbir Badal said: “At a core committee meeting held in Amritsar on Sunday, the first...
Kanwaljit Bakshi & Dr Parmjeet Parmar – New Zealand Parliament Gets 2 Sikh MPs
Two Sikh politicians, have been elected to New Zealand’s 121-member parliament following the recent general election. This marks the beginning of Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi’s fourth successive term, and Parmjeet Parmar’s second term. The...
Wyndham Councillor Intaj Khan suspended over Facebook comments
MELBOURNE - Controversial Wyndham City Councillor Intaj Khan dubbed the "King of Bling" has been suspended for breaching a code of conduct by being critical of his own council on Facebook. But Intaj Khan...
Bhagwant Mann is Punjab AAP President; Khaira resigns as chief whip
The Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) on Monday announced Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann would be its new Punjab unit president and AAP legislator and millionaire businessman Aman Arora the co-president. The announcement had an immediate...
BJP appoints Hindu hardliner & Muslim baiter Yogi Adityanath as UP CM
The Bharatiya Janata Party on 18 March handed over Uttar Pradesh to Hindu hardliners when it named the firebrand proponent of Hindutva, Yogi Adityanath, as the 21st Chief Minister of the state. Yogi...