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Elections | Jan 05, 2022, 08:35 PM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi's route was changed at the last minute as he couldn't take the chopper to Ferozpur due to poor weather.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's route was changed at the last minute as he couldn't take the chopper to Ferozpur due to poor weather.
The State Government has also been asked to fix responsibility for this lapse and take strict action.
Nadda alleged that the state police was instructed to prevent people from attending Modi's rally and a large number of buses were stranded because of the high-handedness of the police in connivance with the protesters.
PM Narendra Modi was slated to visit Punjab's Ferozepur today to lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth more than Rs 42,750 crore.
The consistent endeavour of the Prime Minister to improve connectivity all across the country has led to multiple national highway development initiatives being taken up in the state of Punjab, the PMO said.
Modi is visiting Punjab after a gap of two years and set to lay foundation stones of projects worth Rs 42,750 crore.
The assembly elections are due to be held in five states including Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.
Punjab government has imposed night curfew from 10 pm to 5 am amid concern over the third Covid wave following the omicron outbreak.
"Sidhu has some problem. I share old relations with his family. But ever since I have become the home minister of Punjab, he is upset with me", Punjab HM Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said.
The state Congress chief also promised two-wheelers to girls taking admission in colleges for further studies, Rs 20,000 to those passing 12th class, Rs 15,000 to the ones passing 10th standard and Rs 5,000 to the others passing fifth grade.
Laddi on Monday said he returned to the Congress fold here on Sunday night in the presence of AICC in-charge of Punjab affairs Harish Chaudhary and Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi.
The total number of candidates announced by Punjab's main opposition party has now reached 101. Punjab has 117 assembly seats.
Navjot Singh Sidhu said that the BJP is resorting to bad politics of vote polarisation and using the Enforcement Directorate and other agencies for browbeating opponents to trigger defections.
The Governor, in a statement, said the file regarding regularisation of the services of contractual employees was sent back to the office of Chief Minister with six queries that need to be clarified by the state government. The copy of the queries raised on the said file is released to the media.
Majithia has been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act on the basis of a 2018 report of a probe into a drug racket in the state.
The state does not generate enough revenue to be able to meet its total expenditure of Rs 1.40 lakh crore. It pays Rs 30,000 crore as interest on debt, Sidhu claimed.
Sodhi, who joined BJP on Dec 21, will be getting this security cover both in Delhi and Punjab, to be provided by CRPF, sources in security set up said on Wednesday.
Sources said Sodhi has been accorded Z category security on the recommendation of the Union home ministry and he will have an armed cover of the CRPF commandos every time he travels in Punjab and in Delhi.
Thanking the Chief Minister for his prompt action, the Transport Minister said in the last three months the department has seen an increase in daily revenue to the tune of Rs 1.50 crore already.
Major political parties in UP have urged the poll body not to delay the 2022 assembly polls in the state, following concerns over the new variant.
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