Sidhu Moose Wala cremated at native village in Punjab's Mansa, thousands attend
India | May 31, 2022 21:54 ISTSidhu Moose Wala was among the 424 people whose security was withdrawn or curtailed by the Punjab government on Saturday.
Sidhu Moose Wala was among the 424 people whose security was withdrawn or curtailed by the Punjab government on Saturday.
“Punjab Government shall be requesting the Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court to get the case inquired into by the sitting judge of the high court,” Bhagwan Mann said.
Announcing the formation of a Special Investigation Team to probe the murder, the DGP said Moose Wala had not taken with him the two Punjab police commandos who were still provided for his security.
According to reports, the attack on Congress leader and Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose wala took place just a day after the Punjab government had withdrawn his security.
The former chief minister's remark came in response to former minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa's statement that the state government should order the Punjab Police to interrogate him to get the names of former ministers and MLAs involved in corrupt practices during his regime.
Those whose security cover has been withdrawn included- many retired police officers, religious leaders, and also political figures.
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 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.
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.
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 CBI has recovered apporoximately Rs. 16.57 lakhs in foreign currency, property documents, bank accounts and other incriminating documents.
Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga was on Friday morning arrested by the Punjab Police in connection with a case filed against him by AAP leader Sunny Singh.
During the deliberations, the delegation comprising Global CEO of Tata Technologies Warren Harris, President Global HR and IT Pawan Bhageria and others evinced keen interest to set up this unit in the state with a current investment of Rs 250 crore and future investment of Rs 1,600 crore.
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.
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