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Punjab Elections 2012 update Result

Posted on Tuesday, 6 March 2012 by Punjabi Articles

CoCongress is contesting all 117 seats, while SAD 94 and BJP 23. In the last election SAD had won 50 seats, Congress 42, BJP 19 and independents 06


Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal was leading from Lambi constituency by 2305 votes over his nearest rival and cousin Mahesh Inder Singh Badal of Congress. Badal's younger brother Gurdas Singh Badal was in third position.

Punjab BJP President Ashwani Sharma was leading by 1738 votes over his nearest rival Raman Bhalla of the Congress from the Pathankot assembly constituency

From Jaitu (SC) seat, Joginder Singh of Congress defeated Gurinder Singh of SAD by 6,342 votes.

Manpreet is also contesting from Gidderbaha, the constituency which he has represented on four occasions, but from there too he was trailing, according to the available trends.

From Maur Assembly segment in Faridkot, Punjab Minister Janmeja Singh Sekhon of SAD defeated Mangat Rai Bansal of Congress by a margin of 1,387 votes. PPP President Manpreet Singh Badal finished at number three.

SAD's Nand Lal beat Shiv Ram Singh of BSP by a margin of 14,857 votes from Balachaur assembly constituency, while Gulzar Singh Ranike of SAD beat Tarsem Singh of the Congress by a margin of 4,983 votes from Attari (SC) seat.

Congress' Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu bagged the Talwandi Sabo assembly seat, while O P Soni of Congress won from Amritsar Central, defeating his nearest rival Tarun Chugh of the BJP by a margin of 12,797 votes.

Sadhu Singh of Congress won from Nabha (SC) constituency defeating his nearest SAD rival by a margin of 22,548 votes

From Faridkot,SAD's Deep Malhotra beat Avtar Singh Brar of the Congress by a margin of 2,727 votes and SAD's Harpreet Kaur beat Madan Lal Jalalpur of Congress by a margin of 1,778 votes from Ghanaur
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From Balachaur constituency, SAD's Nand Lal beat Shiv Ram Singh of BSP by a margin of 14,857 votes, while from Rajpura seat Hardial Singh Kamboj of Congress beat BJP's Raj Khurana by a margin of 31,510 votes.

Navjot Kaur, wife of BJP MP from Amritsar Navjot Singh Sidhu, has won from Amritsar (East) constituency, defeating her nearest rival and Independent candidate Simarpreet Kaur by a margin of 7,099 votes

Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh retained Patiala constituency by defeating SAD's Surjit Singh Kohli by a margin of 42,318 votes, while his son Raninder was trailing by 1630 votes from Samana Assembly constituency.

Manpreet singh badal lose his seat.

Pargat Singh (akali) won from Jalandhar cantt.

Sukhbir Singh Badal(Akali) won from Jalalabad with 50,000 votes





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A tale of two parties, Any twist?

Posted on Tuesday, 27 December 2011 by Punjabi Articles

Since the Reorganisation of Punjab in 1966, Cong and SAD have come to power alternately. It is to be seen if the script changes in 2012

Read More:http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20111227/punjab.htm#8










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Poll turns preserve of the rich Capt, Badal were among top 20 crorepatis during ’07 poll

Posted on Thursday, 6 October 2011 by Punjabi Articles

Politics is becoming an “exclusive game” of the rich and those with average means are being elbowed out. The rhetoric on women empowerment notwithstanding, only 56 women of a total of 1,055 candidates contested the 2007 assembly poll. This means that just 5 per cent women were given representation by the parties as compared to 8 per cent in the 2002 elections, says a report jointly prepared by the Punjab Election Watch and the Association for Democratic Reforms. 


The data presented by the two organsiations indicates that the election process has virtually been reduced to a “money game” with the assets of candidates of all major parties like the Congress, the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) and the BJP running into crores.


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RIGHT TO SERVICE ACT IS A DESPERATE ACT: CONGRESS

by Punjabi Articles


The Punjab assembly paved the way for citizens to get a right to government services by unanimously passing the Right to Services Bill, 2011, aimed at ensuring time-bound delivery of 67 citizen services.

The bill came up for a lively debate with a few Congress MLAs, including Sukhpal Singh Khaira, Sunil Jakhar and independent MLA Charanjit Channi, voicing doubts if the Act will actually be implemented in letter and spirit. "The basic purpose of the Act is to make the bureaucracy accountable. We are only trying to cure the symptoms, but not looking at the malady," said Jakhar.

Talking about the bill, its chief architect, Sukhbir Badal, said in the House, "It's an attempt to change the system which breeds corruption. We are trying to minimize the point of interaction of common man with officials so that corruption decreases." Allaying apprehensions of Opposition parties, Badal said that chairman of the commission, set up for Right to Services Bill, would be appointed in consultation with the leader of Opposition and the commission would be an independent statutory body that can initiate complaints even suo motu.
Read More:http://www.punjabmailonline.com/Punjab_News_news2.aspx#53507

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Punjab Congress rejects Badal’s Gobindpura land proposal

Posted on Wednesday, 21 September 2011 by Punjabi Articles

Rejecting the proposal of the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal offering to return 91 acres of land to the protesting farmers while denying compensation to others, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Capt Amarinder Singh reiterated that the state government should adopt the policy being adopted by the central government and must compensate all the farmers according to the prevailing market price with long term guarantees about rehabilitation.


Referring to yesterday’s decision of the Punjab government offering to return the 91 acres of land of the Gobindpura farmers who are resisting its acquisition and for which Congress has launched and mass agitation, Capt Amarinder remarked, this does not solve the problem. “Rather this is a characteristic Badal style of running away from the problem, he said, while asking Mr Badal as what had he thought about those farmers who had been tricked into accepting the compensation which was far too less than the market price.
Read More:http://punjabnewsline.com/content/punjab-congress-rejects-badal%E2%80%99s-gobindpura-land-proposal/33297

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BADAL SLAMS CONGRESS FOR PETROL PRICE HIKE

Posted on Monday, 19 September 2011 by Punjabi Articles


Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal slammed the Congress led UPA government at Centre over totally unjustified and back breaking hike of Rs 3.14 per liter in the price of petrol.

In a statement here, Mr Badal demanded immediate withdrawal of the ‘oil shock’. He said that the totally unwarranted hike in petrol prices would not only break the back of the already suffering common man but would also unleash new frightening inflationary trends which in turn would dampen the economy and further slow down the growth rate.

He said that the petrol price in India was already amongst the highest in the world despite alarming poverty amongst the masses.

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CONGRESS RALLY IN MANSA AGAINST GOVERNMENT

Posted on Saturday, 3 September 2011 by Punjabi Articles


Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president, Captain Amarinder Singh has promised the protesting farmers and landless labourers of Gobindpura in Mansa that once the party comes to power all the injustice being meted out to them by the Akali-BJP Government in the State will be undone.

Addressing a rally organised in support of the protesting farmers in the nearby Bareta Mandi, Singh warned that his party will not allow the Government to handover land to the Indiabulls till the demands of the farmers were not met.

Accompanied by the Congress legislative party leader, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, PCC vice presidents Laal Singh, Rana Sodhi, general secretary Arvind Khanna and the local MLA Mangat Rai Bansal, Singh told the farmers outside the local Gurdwara that he and his party at the first instance will not allow any injustice to them. "But in case the Government goes ahead with its decision, the Congress Government will provide you justice and it is just a matter of four more months," he told a cheering crowd which included the young, the elderly and woman.

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AMARINDER LASHES OUT AT BADALS

by Punjabi Articles


Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Amarinder Singh said Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his Deputy Chief Minister son Sukhbir Badal seem to have lost their mental balance out of sheer despair and frustration.

"They seem to be so panicky and scared that they see my hand in everything that befalls them. There is a pattern of panic and frustration in their statements betraying their scared psyche," Singh remarked. He was reacting to statements issued by the father-son duo since yesterday after the Central government's standing counsel's statement in Punjab and Haryana High Court on withdrawal of a notification preventing sehajdhari (non-baptised) Sikhs from voting in SGPC polls.

"Otherwise, how could the three statements issued since last night, two by Sukhbir and one by Badal, differ from each other so much?" he asked. Lashing out at the Badals for allegedly resorting to blackmail tactics by threatening law and order problem and disturbing communal peace and harmony, the former chief minister said these are symptoms of a defeated mind which tries to resort to all sorts of blackmail. He also clarified to Badals that they were not the sole guardians of the panthic interests, as they try to claim, and opposing and exposing them does not mean opposing the panth and every Sikhs knows about it.
Read More:http://www.punjabmailonline.com/#52781

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CONG CALLS FOR MARCH TO GOBINDPURA ON SEPT 2

Posted on Tuesday, 30 August 2011 by Punjabi Articles


 Punjab Congress president Capt. Amarinder Singh said his party would continue to agitate in support of the farmers of Mansa, and would march to Gobindpura on September 2. The coming SGPC elections would not be a referendum on the performance of the Akalis, he said; that would be in February 2012.

At a joint press conference, Amarinder, along with Congress in-charge Gulchain Singh Charak and legislative party leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, said the SAD-led government had betrayed the people on land acquisition. The “only solution”, Amarinder said, would be for the government to give compensation of Rs 50 lakh per acre to the farmers, jobs to two members of the family, and a Rs 45,000 per year annuity for 33 years.

Punjab, Amarinder said, must go by the Haryana Land Acquisition Policy until the National Land Acquisition Policy is in place. “The government gave only Rs 23 lakh per acre, and armtwisted farmers to accept the deal. “On September 2, we will go to Gobindpura, and face arrest if needed. From that day onward, 100 volunteers from all over the state will march to the village every day,” Amarinder said.
Read More:http://www.punjabmailonline.com/#52676

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Kamal Sachdeva suspended from Congress

Posted on Monday, 29 August 2011 by Punjabi Articles


Kamal Sachdeva from Jallandhar has been suspended from the primary membership of the Congress for gross indiscipline by trying to undermine the image of the party with his behaviour.

According to the suspension notice issued to Sachdeva by the PCC vice president Mr Laal Singh, on the directions of the PCC President Capt Amarinder Singh, he has been asked as why further action should not be taken against him. He has been asked to submit his reply with seven days.

Read More:http://punjabnewsline.com/content/kamal-sachdeva-suspended-congress/33076

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Only one MLA attends district Cong committee meeting

Posted on Saturday, 27 August 2011 by Punjabi Articles


Three Congress MLAs, namely Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu, Gurpreet Singh Kangar and Makhan Singh, from this district failed to turn up at a meeting of the District Congress Committee (Rural) held at its office here today in connection with the preparations for the party’s September 2 ‘morcha’ at Bareta (Mansa) opposing the land acquisition for the Gobindpura thermal power plant. The only MLA who participated in the meeting was Ajaib Singh Bhatti (Nathana). The meeting was held under the presidentship of the party’s district president (Rural) Narinder Singh Bhaleria.

In the September 2 programme, Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh and CLP leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal will also take part.

When asked about the absence of three MLAs, Bhaleria said Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu was mobilising the people in the villages of his Assembly constituency for the September 2 programme while Gurpreet Singh Kangar and Makhan Singh had gone to Chandigarh to attend a meeting.
Read More:http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110827/bathinda.htm#3

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Busy in SGPC polls, SAD overlooking flood crisis, allege Cong leaders

Posted on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 by Punjabi Articles


The Congress has alleged that the ruling SAD leadership is busy in the SGPC elections while the people living in flood affected villages along the Sutlej river are facing a tough situation.

After visiting the flood affected areas in the Ferozepur and Moga districts, former health minister and senior Congress leader Dr Malti Thapar said the SAD leadership should take care of the residents affected by the floods rather than drawing strategies to win over the religious sentiments of Sikh masses in the ensuing SGPC elections.

She said many villages in the Dharamkot tehsil of the Moga district and other adjoining villages of the Ferozepur district are surrounded by the flood waters.

"The local administration has not provided any help to the affected people," she claimed.

She said the local people of flood affected villages have informed her that the administration has not provided them with boats, fodder for cattle and medicines.

She met the sarpanches and panches of a few villages and inquired about their problems. "I would send a detailed report of your problems to the Union Government through a proper channel for immediate relief," she assured the people. Dr Thapar said the state government should deploy medical veterinary and officers for 24 hours in the flood affected areas with regular supply of medicines to check the spread of dreadful diseases.

Adding that the people were suffering from many kinds of skin ailments and viral fever, she alleged that the state government has not provided adequate medicines for them. She also demanded the government to order a special 'girdawari' for evaluating losses to the crops.

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Cong to launch morcha against Mansa acquisition

Posted on Saturday, 20 August 2011 by Punjabi Articles



The Punjab Congress will launch a morcha on September 2 by courting arrest in batches to force the government to scrap land acquisition for Indiabull’s Gobindpura thermal project in Mansa district.

Pradesh Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh will lead the agitation, which will be started at Baretta mandi from where Congress activists will march to Gobindpura. The PPCC president said here today that party workers would defy prohibitory orders and continue to court arrest till the land acquisition process was scrapped. He said everyday one District Congress Committee would take the responsibility of leading the agitation.

Till now, it is the Akalis that have been known for their morchas, including the Jaito and Kapoori morchas, which were organised to force the British to restore the throne of Maharaja Ripudaman Singh of Nabha and ensure that the Punjab waters did not flow into the Sutluj Yamuna Link (SYL) canal.

The Akalis had used the same tactics as proposed by Amarinder when the then SAD president Parkash Singh Badal and MP Sukhbir Badal were lodged in the Patiala jail in December 2003.

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SAD, CONG READY FOR SHOW OF STRENGTH AT RAKHAR PUNIA FAIR

Posted on Friday, 12 August 2011 by Punjabi Articles


Ahead of the crucial SGPC elections on September 18, the ruling SAD would be sounding the poll bugle during the Rakhar Punia fair at Baba Bakala, around 30 km from here, on Saturday. The Congress, on the other hand, would also utilise the occasion to put up a show of strength.

Youth Akali Dal chief Bikramjit Singh Majithia, who is putting in great effort for the SAD rally, stated that “theirs would be a massive show of strength”. “Our pandal is almost double the size than that of the Congress and we are expecting a minimum turnout of anywhere between 70,000 and 80,000. Our supporters will come from only Amritsar district while the Congress is mobilising support from three districts,” he said.

According to him, they would expose the “true face of the Congress” before the people and tell them as to how it “has tried to finish off Punjab, religiously, socially and politically”. “The Congress may have changed its strategy but its designs are the same. It is now indirectly trying to break the SGPC and weaken Sikhs through people like Paramjit Singh Sarna and Ravi Inder Singh,” he added.

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SUKBIR''S ANNOUNCEMENTS TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: CONG

Posted on Monday, 25 July 2011 by Punjabi Articles

The announcements made by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal at Jalandhar to woo the urban voters ahead of next year's state Assembly polls are "too little too late", Congress today said.

"The people of Punjab cannot be fooled by the tempting promises of Sukhbir Singh Badal which have no scope of being executed," Congress spokesman and Ludhiana MP Manish Tewari said at a meeting of party workers here. Sukhbir Badal had made series of announcements in Jalandhar yesterday, which were related to urban development in the state.

Among the packages were grant of municipal corporation status for big cities like Moga, Phagwara and Pathankot, extending non-construction period of buildings up to 15 years and amnesty in payment of arrears of house tax, water supply and sewerage charges.

 Tewari claimed that for the last four and a half years the Akali-BJP government did nothing "except for looting and robbing the state of all its resources." The Congress leader said people know the real face of this government and such announcements at the fag end are not going to help.

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