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'The Accidental Prime Minister' is BJP's political stunt to demean Cong: P
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Dec 30 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has ridiculed the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) desperate efforts to promote 'The Accidental Prime Minister' just ahead of the Lok Sabha elections as a political stunt aimed at "demeaning the Congress,
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Drug smugglers in Punjab will be detained for a year without trial
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Dec 28 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday announced the setting up of an Advisory Board to enable detention of drug smugglers for a year without trial, as well as the creation of a separate Drug Division under the Health Department to
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SAD slams Rahul Gandhi, Amarinder for betraying farmers
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana), [India], December 28 (ANI): The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday asked Congress president Rahul Gandhi and chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh to explain why they had duped the poster boy of its promised loan waiver scheme - Budh Singh and lakhs of Punjab farmers b
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Urge Modi govt to provide 33% reservation to women in Parliament: Punjab C
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Dec 27 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday asserted that the Punjab Vidhan Sabha has passed a resolution in which they have urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government to provide 33 per cent reservation to women in Parliament an
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Attempts to create communal rift will be dealt with iron hand, says Punjab
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Fatehgarh Sahib [Punjab, India], Dec 27 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday stressed that his government will not tolerate any attempt to create a rift between communities and will deal with iron hand if anyone tries to disturb the state's secular fabric.
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One held for vandalising Rajiv Gandhi's statue in Ludhiana
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], Dec 25 (ANI): One person was arrested in the case of vandalising the statue of former Prime Minister and Bharat Ratna recipient Rajiv Gandhi here on Tuesday. He has been identified as Gurdeep Singh Gosha.
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Rajiv Gandhi's statute vandalised in Ludhiana, Captain asks Sukhbir to apo
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab), [India], Dec 25 (ANI): After the statue of Rajiv Gandhi was vandalised in Ludhiana, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday asked SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal to apologise for allegedly indulging in pretty politics.
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SAD demands Rajiv Gandhi's Bharat Ratna to be revoked
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Dec 22 (ANI): Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday demanded a special sitting of the Vidhan Sabha to pass a resolution demanding withdrawal of the Bharat Ratna conferred on former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
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Badal packed his bag and left for US during '84 anti-Sikh riots: Punjab CM
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Dec 22 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday claimed that Sukhbir Singh Badal had packed his bags and gone to the United States for studies when the 1984 anti-Sikh riots erupted. He alleged that Badal dragged Gandhi family's name int
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2019 polls: Badals running around like 'scared rabbits with no hole to hid
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Dec 22 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh said that Badals, who lead Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), were running around like "scared rabbits with no hole to hide", fearing defeat in the Lok Sabha polls next year.
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Centre accepts Punjab CM's request to reduce state's share in Shahpur dam
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Dec 21 (ANI): The Central Government has agreed to enhancing its share in the Shahpur Kandi Dam project on river Ravi from 60 to 86 per cent, thus conceding Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh's request to reduce Punjab's contribution to only 14 per cent.
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Punjab CM slams Sukhbir for dragging Rahul, Gandhi family into 1984 riots
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) December 20 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has lashed out at Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal for trying to drag the Gandhi family into the 1984 riots case and said that neither Congress nor Gandhis had any role in the riots.
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