CHANDIGARH: With Punjab set to go to for assembly polls in just 15 months, the suicide of Dalit Haryana-IPS officer Y Puran Kumar and shoe being thrown at Dalit CJI BR Gavai in Delhi have triggered socio-politico tremors in the State. Notably, Punjab holds the largest proportion of SC population in the country (31.94 per cent). Both the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the main Opposition Congress latched onto these issues to target the Centre and the Haryana government. The ruling AAP party in

CHANDIGARH: The Mahapanchayat held by a 31-member committee to ensure acceptance of the demands of the family of late IPS officer Y Puran Kumar has given a 48-hour ultimatum to the Haryana Government to remove state DGP Shatrujeet Kapur from his post. Kapur is one of the police officers against whom Kumar's wife, senior IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, has sought action for allegedly abetting his suicide. The decision was taken by the committee at a mahapanchayat held at Guru Ravidas Bhavan in Sector

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini assured that a thorough inquiry will be launched into the alleged suicide of IPS officer Y Puran Kumar. Meanwhile, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party leaders accused the BJP-led Haryana government for failing to bring justice to the family of at his wife senior IAS officer Amneet P Kumar's official residence in Chandigarh. Political leaders, including Punjab CM Mann, offered condolences to the family. Congress MPs Deepinder Hooda, Randeep Singh Surj

CHANDIGARH: The body of deceased Haryana IPS officer, Y Puran Kumar, who committed suicide, has been shifted to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) for postmortem autopsy by the Chandigarh Police. The family of the officer accused the police of shifting the body without consulting them and said they had not given consent for the autopsy . The medical board hasn't conducted the autopsy yet. The body was kept at the Government Multi-Specialty Hospital in Sector 1

Congress leadership renominated four chairpersons for House panels. Shashi Tharoor will head external affairs. Digvijaya Singh leads education. Charanjit Singh Channi and Saptagiri Ulaka also received renomination. This decision ends earlier speculation regarding Tharoor's role. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi guided the selections. The party announced its recommendations to the Speaker.

CHANDIGARH: Senior Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Monday visited several flood-affected villages in Amritsar and Gurdaspur districts of Punjab, where he interacted with people impacted by the recent natural calamity. Upon arrival at Amritsar airport, Gandhi proceeded directly to Gurdwara Baba Budha Sahib at Ramdas in Ajnala, where he paid obeisance and participated in an ardas (prayer ceremony) for the welfare and prosperity of the people, especia

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government on Monday rolled out the second phase of its anti-drug campaign, Yudh Nasheyan Virudh 2.0, aiming to involve citizens directly in the war against drugs. As part of this initiative, Defence Committees will be formed in both rural and urban areas to help uproot drug trafficking networks. These village-level (rural) and ward-level (urban) committees will consist of 10 to 20 members each, serving as community vigilantes to monitor and report drug-related activities.

AAP MP from Anandpur Sahib Malvinder Singh Kang was the first party leader to speak up against the controversial land pooling policy as he took to social media and urged party leaders to earn the trust of farmers on this policy. He later deleted the post. He had tweeted, The objections raised by farmers unions on the Land Pooling Policy must, in my view, be heard with empathy and addressed through meaningful dialogue. In the last three years, our government has ensured uninterrupted agri-power,

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab cabinet on Monday decided to withdraw the consent given by the previous Congress government to deploy the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at Bhakra Dam. The consent had been given on October 21, 2021, when Charanjit Singh Channi was the Chief Minister of the state. After the cabinet meeting, Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said that Punjab Police is a valiant force and capable of securing the dam, thus the consent is being withdrawn. He said that the c

CHANDIGARH: With 19 months left till the 2027 assembly elections, the Punjab Congress leadership is apprehensive that the current AAP-led Punjab government might target party leaders who are facing vigilance inquiries. Such concerns have been raised following the arrest of Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Majithia in a drugs and disproportionate assets case, while former Health Minister and AAP MLA Vijay Singla and his OSD Pradeep Kumar were given a clean chit in a corruption case registered ag

CHANDIGARH: All is not well within the faction-ridden Punjab Congress following the partys defeat in the Ludhiana (West) by-election, as senior leaders Pargat Singh and Kushaldeep Dhillon have resigned from their posts as state unit vice-presidents. This comes close on the heels of former cabinet minister and party candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu quitting his post. The knives are now being unsheathed within the grand old party, albeit carefully and in a calibrated manner. Both leaders have sent th

CHANDIGARH: The infighting and factionalism within the Congress appear to have cost the partys candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu dearly in the Ludhiana (West) assembly bypoll. Punjab Congress president and Ludhiana MP Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and leader of opposition Partap Singh Bajwa were noticeably absent from the campaign. Despite Ashus aggressive campaign efforts, he only managed to get 24,542 votes in this bypoll -- a 27.22 per cent vote share, which is less than the 28.06 per cent vote sh

CHANDIGARH: The Ludhiana (West) by-election on Thursday will be a litmus test for the ruling Aam Aadmi Party's national leadership and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann as they have aggressively campaigned to retain the seat, while the Congress looks to regain its foothold over the urban constituency which it held six times in the past. While the main contest is likely to be between the AAP and Congress, the bypoll outcome will also shed light on how the BJP performs among urban voters in the