Shivraj Singh Chouhan to join BJPs Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra in Punjab today
Digital Desk | New Delhi, Sep 21 (IANS) Union Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will visit Punjab on Monday for a one-day trip, where he will participate in the BJPs Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra (Drug-Free Punjab Campaign). During his visit, Chouhan will pay obeisance at Takht Sri Damdama Sahib in Talwandi Sabo before joining the BJPs campaign against drug abuse. At 10:00 a.m., he is scheduled to inaugurate and participate in the Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra at Dana Mandi, located at Ravidasia Chowk in Talwandi Sabo. The Union minister will also address a public meeting in Maisarkhana and hold a direct dialogue with farmers and women associated with self-help groups in Bathinda. His participation comes as the four-day campaign enters its final leg, with the yatra scheduled to reach Bathinda and conclude the BJPs state-wide outreach programme. The BJP launched the mega Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra on September 18, with the campaign covering different parts of Punjab. BJP national President Nitin Nabin flagged off the first march from Ekta Sthal at Madhopur in Pathankot district earlier on Friday. The second yatra was on September 19 from Fatehgarh Sahib and was flagged off by Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta. The third yatra was held on September 20 from the Sadiki border in Fazilka, near the Asafwala 1971 War Memorial, and was flagged off by Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal. The four-day yatra began in Pathankot and is scheduled to conclude in Bathinda, covering key districts across the state. The campaign is centred on the issue of drug abuse, which has remained a significant concern and a prominent subject of political discourse in Punjab. Through the yatra, the BJP is seeking to raise awareness about the adverse impact of drugs and highlight its vision and proposed approach for creating a drug-free Punjab. The participation of senior BJP leaders, including Chouhan, is expected to add political momentum to the campaign while strengthening the partys organisational network and public outreach across the state.
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Shivraj Singh Chouhan Criticizes Punjab Governments Failure to Address Drug Crisis
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Tejal, Anushka shine as India A beat Australia A by four wickets in 1st unofficial ODI
Digital Desk | Mohali, Sep 20 (IANS) Tejal Hasabnis and Anushka Sharma stitched a crucial 126-run partnership as India Women A chase down 236 to beat Australia Women A by four wickets in the first unofficial ODI of the three-match series at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium here on Sunday. The victory gave India a 1-0 lead in the series, with the remaining two matches scheduled to be played on September 23 and 25. The teams will then face each other in a one-off Test from September 29. India A were reduced to 46 for three in the chase before Tejal and Anushka steadied the innings with their 126-run fourth-wicket partnership, taking the score to 172. Anushka was dismissed for 55 off 61 balls, with seven boundaries. Tejal continued to guide the chase and scored 81 off 82 balls, hitting six sixes and five fours. Nikki Prasad first added 23 runs with Tejal before sharing a 40-run partnership with Sayali Satghare. Satghare scored 25, while Nikki remained unbeaten on 32, hitting five boundaries, as India A reached the target in 41.1 overs. For Australia A, Tess Flintoff and Frankie Nicklin took two wickets each. Earlier, Australia A were bowled out for 235 in 46.3 overs after being asked to bat first. Rachel Trenaman and captain Tahlia Wilson gave Australia a solid start, adding 81 runs for the opening wicket. Trenaman was dismissed for 36, while Wilson scored 48 with eight boundaries. Australia lost both openers by the time they reached 87. Charlie Nott then joined Katie Mack, and the pair added 62 runs off 54 balls for the third wicket, taking Australia to 149. Nott scored 39, while Mack made 23. The partnership was broken soon after, triggering a collapse as Australia slipped to 174 for six. Tess Flintoff and Sianna Ginger added 27 runs for the seventh wicket, while Millie Illingworth and Frankie Nicklin put together 20 runs for the 10th wicket to take Australia to 235. Vaishnavi Sharma and Nikki Prasad claimed three wickets each for India A, while Amandeep Kaur picked up two wickets. Australia had earlier completed a 3-0 clean sweep in the three-match T20I series. The visitors won the opening game by six wickets, the second by 30 runs and the third by seven runs. Brief Scores: Australia A all out for 235 runs in 46.3 overs (Tahlia Wilson 48, Charli Knott 39; Vaishnavi Sharma 3-40, Niki Prasad 3-28) lost to India A 239/6 in 41.1 overs (Tejal Hasabnis 81, Anushka Sharma 55; Tess Flintoff 2-35, Frankie Nicklin 2-49) by four wickets.
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BJP Aims for Drug-Free Punjab, Says Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal
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BJPs Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra movement for social reform, says Meghwal in Fazilka
Digital Desk | Fazilka (Punjab), Sep 20 (IANS) Union Law Minister Arjun Meghwal on Sunday described the BJPs Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra as a movement for social reform. He said the objective of the campaign was to protect generations of Punjabis from drugs and take Punjab forward on the path of becoming a developed state. Meghwal was addressing a public gathering before flagging off the third Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra from Fazilkas Old Vegetable Market. Before addressing the gathering, he visited the Asafwala Shaheedi Memorial, where he paid floral tributes to the soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice for the nation. He was accompanied by BJP national General Secretary and Punjab BJP in-charge Satish Poonia, state president Kewal Singh Dhillon, former state president Sunil Jakhar and former minister Surjit Kumar Jiani. Addressing the gathering before flagging off the third Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra, the Union Minister said some people were viewing the yatra through a political lens. However, he said it was not a political campaign but an initiative for social reform. Meghwal said the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Narendra Modi government not only run government programmes but also undertake initiatives aimed at social reform. He cited PM Modis campaigns such as Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao and Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam as examples of such social initiatives. Speaking about the harmful effects of drugs, the Union Law Minister referred to the Bani of Guru Amar Das from the Sri Guru Granth Sahib and said that people should stay away from anything whose consumption affects the human mind, intellect and sense of discretion. He also referred to the importance of Naam Simran in the Bani of Guru Nanak Dev, saying that one can truly engage in Naam Simran only when ones sense of discretion remains intact. The minister said this is why people were urged to stay away from intoxicants. During his address, Meghwal also sang a Shabad of Guru Nanak Dev, drawing an appreciative response from the gathering. He said the message of creating awareness against drugs could also be found in the Bani of the Sikh Gurus, Bhagat Kabir Das and Guru Ravidas. The minister said people could be motivated to protect themselves from the harmful effects of drugs only by linking the campaign for a drug-free Punjab with social and spiritual awareness. He said this was the objective of the BJPs Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra. Speaking on the occasion, state BJP President Dhillon said, Those who had spread the scourge of drugs have been rattled by the BJPs Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra. The yatra has put the Chief Minister on the back foot. Referring to the recent Mohanjeet Sheron and Gulzar Singh incidents in Sangrur, Dhillon alleged that the government was suppressing voices speaking out against drugs. He said people had become so frustrated that residents in Faridkot were putting up house for sale boards outside their homes. He said that if the BJP could eliminate gangsterism in Uttar Pradesh, Naxalism in Jharkhand and violence in Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370, then why could it not eliminate drugs from Punjab? Dhillon said the BJP had a track record of delivering on its promises and doing what it said it would do. Former state BJP President Jakhar said that while deaths had so far been occurring due to drug abuse, more people were now dying for raising their voice against drugs. He said some people were being killed by drug smugglers, while others were being forced to commit suicide on the pretext of having raised questions. Launching a sharp attack on AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal, Jakhar said 79,000 arrests that had been made were not a sign of Kejriwals bravery, but evidence of the extent to which the younger generation had been pushed into the drug crisis.
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47.3 Kg Heroin, Arms Seized From Four in Faridkot: Punjab Police
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The Borrowed Pyjama and the Borrowed State
In Thursdays Greater Kashmir, Haseeb Drabu did something rare in our public life. He took a silly quarrel seriously, and in doing so showed us how silly it is. The quarrel began with the claim that a whole village once shared a single pyjama. It has since produced effigies, memes, one apology from one NC legislator, regret from another, and a Chief Ministers refusal to apologise at all. Drabus point is that civilisation and poverty are not opposites. Egypt built its high culture on forced labour, and Bengal had a refined court while people starved. Antiquity, as he puts it, is not a savings account. I agree with his history. I want to take his argument one step further, because the pyjama quarrel is not really about the past. It is about what we cannot bring ourselves to say about the present. What the old men knew I grew up in Lolab, where poverty was lived, not read about. The generation before mine did not need Walter Lawrence to tell them what the Dogra years were like. They carried it in their bodies: the walk to the city in borrowed clothes, the pulhoad, a straw sandal woven for feet that had no leather, and the harvest counted out to the last handful before the cultivator saw his share. When the old men said akh yezar poore mohallas, one pyjama for the whole mohalla, nobody was being mocked. It was the humour of survivors, the kind that makes hardship bearable by making it laughable. So Tanvir Sadiq was not inventing anything. Omar Abdullah is right that the poverty is well documented. The Big Landed Estates Abolition Act of 1950, which gave land to the tiller, was a real revolution. It changed rural Kashmir more deeply than most land reforms anywhere in the subcontinent. No honest history of Kashmir can leave it out. And yet the remark hurt. It is worth asking why. Why it hurt Drabu calls it a semiotic hijack: a sign of poverty rewritten as a sign of shame. That is true, but it doesnt explain who was ready to be hijacked, or why. A people who feel secure in the present can laugh about the past. The Irish joke about the famine years, and the Punjabi farmer laughing about his grandfathers single kurta. Kashmiris could not laugh this time, because the remark landed on an open wound. That wound is not 1930. It is 2019 and everything since. In 2019 we were told, in effect, that we would now be governed in borrowed clothes. The state became a Union Territory. The elected government has a title but limited powers. Statehood is promised, then postponed, then promised again. Our young people carry degrees the way their great-grandfathers carried borrowed pyjamas: to look complete in public while being incomplete in fact. The unemployment, the drug crisis among the young, and the brain drain are the pyjama shortages of our time. We have not yet found the Sheikh Abdullah who will end them. When a ruling-party spokesperson reminds a people with borrowed statehood that they once had borrowed trousers, the listener does not hear history. He hears a comparison. He hears: be grateful, you have come far. A man who feels he has recently gone backwards will not take that kindly. The five-thousand-year reflex The reaction was no more honest than the remark. The PDPs answer, that a 5,000-year-old civilisation had been reduced to trivia, is exactly what Drabu diagnoses: If the political self feels smaller, the cultural self is asked to stand in for it. Lalitaditya, Abhinavagupta, Lal Ded and Nund Rishi are not a reply to anything. They are what we reach for when we have nothing to say about today. The BJP burning a naked effigy in Srinagar deserves only one sentence. A party that has spent seven years dismantling the political dignity of Kashmiris has no standing to defend their sartorial dignity. What should trouble us most is that every party found this fight comfortable. Arguing about 1930 is safe, because it costs nothing, risks nothing and promises nothing. Arguing about 2026 is dangerous, because it requires a plan. Since 1950 the National Conference has lived off the land-to-tiller reform. That is a proud inheritance, but an inheritance is not an income, and a party that keeps citing a reform from 76 years ago is telling us something about its record since. The opposition, in turn, prefers wounded pride to a policy. Both are fighting over the old wardrobe because neither has anything new to offer. A soldiers reading In the Army we were taught that a units morale depends less on what it has than on whether it trusts that its leaders are honest about what it lacks. A commander who tells his men there is no ammunition shortage when there is one loses them. So does a commander who spends the briefing recalling how much worse the last war was. Kashmir today needs neither denial nor nostalgia. It needs an honest briefing. That means an account of what we have: the literacy, the roads and the grandchildren of cultivators who are now doctors and engineers, much of it thanks to 1950. It also means an account of what we lack: political authority, jobs for the educated young, trust in institutions, and a future that does not depend on Delhis goodwill. Faiz wrote, aur bhi dukh hain zamane mein mohabbat ke siwa: the world has other sorrows than love. Kashmir has other sorrows than a pyjama. That the whole political class spent a fortnight on this one tells us which sorrows they would rather not be asked about. What we might do instead Let me suggest three things, in the spirit Drabu opened. First, let history be history. The poverty of the Dogra years belongs in our schools and archives, told plainly and without embarrassment. A people who are ashamed of having been poor will never understand how they stopped being poor. Our grandparents borrowed pyjamas are a mark of endurance, not disgrace. Second, retire the anniversary politics. Commemorations of Sheikh Abdullah should ask what the land-to-tiller reform of our generation would be. Is it a jobs guarantee for graduates? A real rehabilitation programme for the young lost to drugs? A united, non-partisan demand for statehood with a deadline? Any of these would honour him more than defending a sentence about trousers. Third, speak about dignity where it is actually at stake. It is not threatened by a folk saying. It is threatened by the absence of elected authority, by laws that treat suspicion as proof, and by a young generation that sees no road ahead. If our parties shared a fraction of the outrage they spent on the pyjama remark and turned it on these questions, Kashmir would be better served. Tailpiece Drabu closes with the Kashmiri phrase phirith pheran tshunun, to wear the pheran inside out: blaming someone else for your own fault. It fits this quarrel perfectly. Everyone has turned the garment inside out. The ruling party blames history for the offence, the opposition blames the ruling party for insulting civilisation, and the BJP blames everyone while holding the keys to the wardrobe. The old men of my village, if they were alive, would find all this very funny. They had one pyjama and no illusions. We have many pyjamas and not much else. Iqbal saw both the civilisation and the poverty and did not pretend that one cancelled the other. He wrote in the voice of Mulla Zada Zaigham Lolabi, a poet he imagined from my own Lolab: Aaj woh Kashmir hai mehkoom-o-majboor-o-faqeer Kal jise ahl-e-nazar kehte the Iran-e-sagheer Today that Kashmir is subjugated, helpless and poor, which only yesterday the discerning called Little Iran. Keh raha hai dastaan bedardi-e-ayyam ki Koh ke daaman mein woh gham-khana-e-dehqaan-e-peer It tells the story of a pitiless age, the old peasants hut of sorrow in the mountains lap. Iqbal put the lament and the hunger in the same couplet. We keep them in separate quarrels. The day our leaders speak of Little Iran and the old peasants hut in one breath, and do something about the hut, Kashmir will not need anyones permission to be proud. (The writer is a former Indian Army officer. He writes on issues pertaining to Jammu & Kashmir)
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Indy Sagu brings Punjabi Roots and UK Sounds Together
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More than 2,500 farmers in Punjab and Haryana are receiving over Rs 2.9 crore in Indias first farm-level soil-carbon payments. The farmers adopted practices such as direct-seeded rice, reduced tillage and crop-residue management, which were measured and independently verified before carbon credits were issued. The initiative shows how climate-friendly farming can create an additional income stream while also helping conserve water, improve soil health and reduce emissions from crop-residue burning.
Rekha Gupta Launches Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra In Fatehgarh Sahib
Delhi CM Rekha Gupta flagged off the second leg of the BJPs Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra from Fatehgarh Sahib and called for a collective fight against drug abuse. She also criticised the Punjab government over its handling of the drug issue and alleged that public interests were being neglected.
Ranbir Daskai and Jus Ritz drop New Garage Single
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Ranbir Daskai and Jus Ritz drop New Garage Single Glassy Ranbir Daskai and Jus Ritz have released Glassy, a new track blending UK garage sounds with Punjabi influences. The post Ranbir Daskai and Jus Ritz drop New Garage Single Glassy appeared first on DESIblitz .
AAP sounds Punjab poll bugle with pamphlet, warns welfare schemes at risk
The CBI launched coordinated raids in Hyderabad and Odisha linked to a 48.48 crore bank fraud case involving Punjab National Bank. CBI Conducts Major Raids in 48.48 Crore Bank Fraud Case Involving PNB
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Punjab: Police seize 17 kg heroin, three arrested
Digital Desk | Chandigarh, Sep 19 (IANS) In its third major strike within four days, Punjab Polices Counter Intelligence (CI) Amritsar has busted another cross-border narcotics smuggling module with the arrest of three key operatives and recovered 17 kg of heroin from their possession, Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said on Saturday. Police identified the arrested as Prince, Malkit Singh, and Rajinder Singh, all residents of Kot Mit Singh in Amritsar. Apart from recovering 17 kg of heroin, police teams also impounded a car used for transporting the contraband. With this seizure, CI Amritsar has pushed the total recovery of heroin to 54 kg in four days, having previously recovered consignments of 27 kg and 10 kg. DGP Yadav said preliminary investigation revealed that the accused were allegedly operating in coordination with cross-border smugglers and receiving heroin consignments for further supply. Sharing operational details, he said CI Amritsar teams had received specific input that three operatives of the smuggling module had received a drone-dropped consignment and were expected to strike a major drug deal beneath the flyover on the Amritsar-Tarn Taran road. Acting promptly, police established a checkpoint and intercepted their car near the park by the flyover. During the search, 17 kg of heroin was recovered. The DGP said further investigation is underway to establish complete forward and backward linkages in the case, identify other persons involved, and dismantle the wider cross-border narcotics network. Earlier, on September 16, four persons were held with 27 kg of heroin and a foreign-made .30 bore PX5 pistol with three cartridges. On September 18, one person was held with 10 kg of heroin.
Punjab Police Busts Drug Smuggling Module
Punjab Police's Counter Intelligence wing in Amritsar has dismantled a cross-border narcotics smuggling module, leading to the arrest of three individuals and the seizure of 17 kg of heroin. Investigations are ongoing to uncover the full network.
Delhi CM flays AAP government in Punjab for failing to curb drug menace
A government that keeps giving new deadlines cannot be expected to eradicate drugs, Rekha Gupta says, ahead of the BJPs Punjab unit flagging off the second Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra
Fight decisive battle against drugs: Shivraj Singh Chouhan to Punjabis
Digital Desk | Chandigarh, Sep 19 (IANS) Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday called on the people of Punjab to fight a decisive battle against drugs. Punjab is currently going through a serious drug crisis. Drugs have devastated many families and ruined the lives and futures of numerous young people, Chouhan said in a video message posted on X. Under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) slogan Eradicate Drugs, the party is organising the Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra across Punjab. The campaign began on September 18 in Madhopur, Pathankot. As part of the campaign, yatras are being taken out from four locations. After offering prayers at Takht Sri Damdama Sahib in Talwandi Sabo, Chouhan and Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini will flag off the fourth yatra on September 21. Expressing concern over the drug crisis ahead of his Punjab visit, Chouhan said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab had failed badly in addressing the problem. He said the time had now come for the people of Punjab to wage a decisive battle against drugs. With this objective, the BJP is organising its Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra from September 18 to September 30. Appealing to the people of Punjab, Chouhan said, My sisters and brothers of Punjab, elders, sons and daughters, come forward and participate in this yatra in large numbers to make Punjab drug-free. Let us fight a decisive battle against drugs so that Punjab can be made drug-free. Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Saturday flagged off the second Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra from Fatehgarh Sahib town. She said, When Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann came to power in Punjab, they promised to eliminate drugs from the state within three months. The deadline was extended, first by three months and then by four months, and has now been extended six times. A government that keeps giving new deadlines cannot be expected to eradicate drugs. Gupta added that the 13-day yatra would become a campaign to free Punjab from the AAP government. Before launching the yatra, she paid obeisance at a historic gurdwara located on the sacred land that witnessed the martyrdom of the younger Sahibzadas of Guru Gobind Singh.
'Not in favour of FIRs against farmers over stubble burning': Punjab CM Mann
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann said he does not favour FIRs against farmers for stubble burning and called for a Rs 3,000-per-acre incentive to manage crop residue. His remarks come ahead of the paddy harvest season, as Punjab faces continued scrutiny over farm fires linked to winter air pollution in Delhi-NCR.
Former Union minister Bittu detained in Punjab for...
BJP leader and former Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu was detained by Punjab Police after he waved a liquor bottle, eggs, and tomatoes at Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's cavalcade, claiming he was 'returning' items previously thrown at his own convoy and protesting alleged misgovernance.
Ravneet Singh Bittu Detained In Ludhiana After Egg-Tomato Protest As Bhagwant Manns Convoy Passes
BJP leader and former Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu was detained by Ludhiana Police after protesting with eggs and tomatoes as Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Manns cavalcade passed through the city. Bittus office says he wanted to hand over material from an alleged attack on his convoy near Batala. Police claim he attempted to throw eggs and tomatoes at Manns convoy. Bittu has alleged that hundreds attacked his vehicles while he was travelling to Pathankot for the BJPs anti-drug yatra. The confrontation has intensified political tensions between the BJP and AAP in Punjab.
Not in favour of FIRs against farmers over stubble burning: Punjab CM Mann
Stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana is often blamed for increased air pollution in the Delhi-NCR region. Due to the short window for the Rabi crop (wheat) after the paddy harvest in October and November, many farmers burn their fields to quickly clear the crop residue
Who is Karandeep Anand? The Character.AI CEO now joining Disney as its first CTO
Walt Disney appointed Karandeep Anand as its first chief technology officer amid industry changes. Anand, starting on October 2, will oversee enterprise technology and AI, reporting to CEO Josh DAmaro. He previously led Character.AI and has extensive experience at Microsoft and Facebook.
Punjab has announced an 8% increase in dearness allowance for eight lakh state government employees and pensioners. CM Mann said his government understands responsibilities shouldered by its employees and the pressures they face in personal and professional lives.
BJP's Ravneet Bittu Detained After 'Egg-Tomato' Protest Against Bhagwant Mann
Former Union Minister and BJP leader Ravneet Singh Bittu was detained by Punjab Police on Saturday after he protested in front of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's cavalcade near the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) gate. The incident took place as Mann arrived at PAU for the Kisan Mela. Bittu also carried eggs and tomatoes during his protest. He had alleged that eggs and tomatoes were thrown at his convoy on Friday while he was on his way to Pathankot for the BJP's Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra.
Punjab Lecturer Exam Centre List 2026 - Check Exam Schedule at erd.punjab.gov.in
The Education Recruitment Board, Punjab has released the Punjab Lecturer Cadre Exam Centre List 2026 at erd.punjab.gov.in. Check subject-wise exam centres for Biology and Hindi, centre codes, exam city (SAS Nagar, Mohali), exam date (19 September 2026), timing, and the full exam schedule for all subjects.
BJP's Ravneet Bittu detained in Ludhiana over protest near Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann's convoy
Bharatiya Janata Party's senior leader Ravneet Singh Bittu was detained on Saturday while he was protesting near the gate of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) in Ludhiana, as Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's conclave was passing through...
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Ravneet Bittu detained after protesting near CM Manns cavalcade in Ludhiana
Digital Desk | Ludhiana, Sep 19 (IANS) Former Union Minister and BJP leader Ravneet Singh Bittu was detained by Punjab Police on Saturday after he protested near the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) gate when Chief Minister Bhagwant Manns cavalcade was passing through the area. Bittu held up a bottle towards the Chief Ministers convoy, saying that he was returning the bottle to the Chief Minister and asking him to enjoy his liquor while allowing Arvind Kejriwal to loot Punjab from Delhi. The incident took place as CM Mann arrived at PAU for the Kisan Mela. Bittu also returned the eggs and tomatoes that were allegedly thrown at his cavalcade near Batala town on Friday while he was travelling for the BJPs Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra. He had alleged that his convoy was attacked on Friday and that vehicles in his cavalcade were damaged. Speaking after the protest, Bittu said: Yesterday eggs and tomatoes were thrown at my cavalcade. Today I have returned them. If AAP workers are going to protest against BJP leaders, rallies and yatras, then BJP workers will also exercise their democratic right to protest against the Punjab government and its leaders. We will not remain silent. Bittu said the BJP would continue to raise issues concerning Punjab and would organise peaceful democratic protests outside the Chief Ministers programmes and offices whenever required. This is a clear message to the Punjab government: political opposition cannot be silenced through police action. BJP workers will answer every democratic protest democratically and will continue to stand with the people of Punjab, Bittu said. The BJP leader was subsequently detained by the police. A day earlier, after his convoy was pelted with tomatoes and eggs while en route to Pathankot to attend BJP national President Nitin Nabins flag-off of the partys Nasha Mukt Punjab Yatra, Bittu pardoned all three people apprehended by his security team. Despite the seriousness of the incident, Bittu made it clear that such incidents cannot be allowed to undermine the democratic rights of political leaders and workers.
BJP Leader Ravneet Bittu Detained in Ludhiana Over Alleged Protest Against CM Mann
Former Union Minister and BJP leader Ravneet Singh Bittu was detained by Punjab Police in Ludhiana on Saturday after allegedly attempting to throw eggs and tomatoes at Chief Minister Bhagwant Manns convoy near the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) gate. Bittu, who was present at the PAU for the Kisan Mela, also held up a liquor [] The post BJP Leader Ravneet Bittu Detained in Ludhiana Over Alleged Protest Against CM Manns Convoy appeared first on Pragativadi I Latest Odisha News in English I Breaking News .
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Amritsar: ASI shot dead at grain market; man gunned down in Islamabad locality
Two unidentified men fatally shot an assistant sub-inspector of Punjab Police in Amritsar. ASI Harjit Singh was shot near the neck by a single bullet fired from a pistol. This incident occurred around 12:30 am on Friday while the ASI was on duty. Hours earlier, another man was gunned down outside his house in the Islamabad area.
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta Joins Drug-Free Punjab Campaign in Fatehgarh Sahib
Delhi CM Rekha Gupta emphasizes collective responsibility in the fight against drug abuse during the Drug-Free Punjab Campaign in Fatehgarh Sahib. Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta Joins Drug-Free Punjab Campaign in Fatehgarh Sahib
Former Union Minister Ravneet Bittu detained after protesting outside Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann
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Delhi CM Rekha Gupta says BJP government will be formed in Punjab under Modi
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Ravneet Bittu detained after throwing eggs, tomatoes at Punjab CM Mann's convoy
