BHAGWANT MANN

  NEW DELHI: With an eye to replicate his leader and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘Delhi Model’, newly-elected Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann visited state government-run health institutes and schools on Monday. Mann was accompanied by Kejriwal, who is also the national convenor of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and Manish Sisodia, the Deputy CM of […]

  CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday allocated portfolios to newly-appointed ministers while keeping the Home department with himself. The chief minister, who took the oath of office on March 16, has given the Finance portfolio to Harpal Cheema, Education to Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, and the Health department to Dr Vijay Singhla. […]

  KHATKAR KALAN: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) parliamentarian Sanjay Singh on Wednesday said that the party’s massive victory in Punjab will boost its strength in the Rajya Sabha and party MPs would not have to beg the chair for “a minute” to raise issues of public importance. At present, the AAP has three members, Sanjay […]

KHATKAR KALAN (PUNJAB): AAP leader Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday made an emotional appeal to all Punjabis not to leave the state to settle in foreign countries as he took oath as the 17th chief minister of Punjab at a grand function in Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. Addressing a […]

NAWANSHAHR (PUNJAB): Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, will wear the yellow hues of spring (basant) when Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Bhagwant Mann takes oath as the new chief minister of Punjab on March 16. Arvind Kejriwal-led party has chosen the yellow colour theme for the swearing-in ceremony in […]

NEW DELHI: Punjab’s Chief Minister-elect Bhagwant Mann on Monday tendered his resignation as a member of Lok Sabha. He is all set to take the oath of office at a grand ceremony in Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh on March 16. Speaking to media persons outside his residence here, Mann said […]

CHANDIGARH: Two days after storming to power in Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) withdrew the security cover of all former legislators and former Cabinet ministers on Saturday. Meanwhile, A. Venu Prasad, a 1991 batch IAS officer having a clean image, has been appointed the Principal Secretary to Chief Minister-elect Bhagwant Mann who will take […]

CHANDIGARH: Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) sprang a surprise by registering a landslide victory in the Punjab assembly elections on Thursday, ousting the Congress party from yet another state. As per the Election Commission of India (ECI), the AAP was set to win 92 seats in the 117-member Punjab legislative assembly. AAP leader Bhagwant Mann, […]

Qadian, which ones witnessed the insurgency in 1983 despite one of the historic places across the globe as the headquarter of Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the small town in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district has now returned to peace with people of every religion living with brotherhood and harmony. Near the Shivala Chowk of the town lies […]

Just a day before Punjab goes to polls, Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh’s grandnephew Yadvinder Singh has issued an appeal in favour of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi who is contesting from Ferozepur assembly seat. Yadvinder who is the grandson of Sardar Kulbir Singh the brother of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat […]