Despite heavy security deployment, groups of farmers from Punjab managed to reach near two Delhi border points on Friday morning after breaking police barricades in Haryana.
Those joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers for the first time include three former chief ministers -- Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh), Manohar Lal Khattar (Haryana) and H D Kumaraswamy (Karnataka).
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said he cannot restore the river water-sharing pact with three neighbouring states that was scrapped by a unanimous vote in the state assembly earlier this week.\n\n
Peace is only possible if the government writ runs large, said Captain Amarinder, making it clear that he did not favour negotiations in Jammu and Kashmir till the Indian Army had an upper hand.
The Congress leader tweeted his request to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after Pakistan PM Imran Khan's announcement that the IAF pilot would be released on March 1.
The Punjab CM said a young leader with a forward-looking approach would "galvanise" the rank and file of the party after the "unfortunate" resignation of Gandhi.
Chief Judicial Magistrate C L Mohal told the Punjab chief minister to appear in a Chandigarh court on September 20.
'One needs to understand what kind of means the BJP use to bring other party leaders in their party.' 'They are unscrupulous politicians and money plays an important role.'
Union ministers Arjun Munda, Piyush Goyal and Nityanand Rai and farmer leaders from Punjab will meet on Sunday for the fourth round of talks.
In a letter to Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Singh said it is a historic occasion, but regretted his inability to be present.
Embattled former chief minister Amarinder Singh moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday, challenging his expulsion from the state Assembly.
Congress leader and former chief minister Amarinder Singh was on Wednesday expelled from the Punjab assembly after being indicted by a House committee in a graft case and his seat declared vacant. A resolution to his effect was moved by ruling Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Harish Rai Dhanda and passed in the assembly amid protests by slogan-shouting Congress members who boycotted the proceedings.
Modi brought up the emotive issue of the gurdwara in Kartarpur Sahib, a place sacred to Sikhs as Guru Nanak Dev spent the last years of his life there, and blamed the Congress for country's partition, saying they did it for sake of power.
During the hearing lasting four hours, the Congress leader's counsel said that the case, relating to a land deal in Amritsar in which Singh had been indicted by the committee, is sub-judice as the land exemption had already been challenged in the high court.
He said four weeks have been given to submit the report to find out who was at fault.
Amarinder Singh, who was removed as Congress Punjab unit chief, said he would have suggested a different name to replace him had he been consulted.
The "silence" of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on the attack on Lieutenant General (retired) Kuldeep Singh Brar is "seditious", Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh alleged on Wednesday. It is shocking that the chief minister has preferred to keep quiet on such a critical issue that is directly related to Punjab, he said.
Captain Amarinder Singh, deputy leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha and the former chief minister of Punjab believes that it is constitutionally wrong not to have a Leader of Opposition. In an interview with Kavita Chowdhury, he asserts that the Congress party is confident it will bounce back. Edited excerpts:
'His success confirms that the infirm 132-year-old party can still get to its feet if it allows regional leaders to come to the fore,' argues Amulya Ganguli.
A panel of Union ministers will hold a fourth round of talks with farmer leaders in Chandigarh on Sunday over their demands, including loan waiver and bringing an ordinance on giving legal guarantee to a minimum support price (MSP) for crops.
The Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) will on Saturday hold dharnas outside the residences of three senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in Punjab on the fifth day of the farmers' protest over their various demands, including a legal guarantee for a minimum support price (MSP).
Singh will meet President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. He will also visit 'Nankana Sahib', near Lahore, the birthplace of Guru Nanak.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the expulsion of former chief minister of Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh from the state assembly.A bench headed by Justice B N Agrawal, however, stayed the state assembly's decision asking Election Commission to declare Singh's assembly seat as vacant.The former chief minister was expelled from the House after a resolution was passed on the basis of the report of a special committee, which was appointed by the Punjab assembly.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the Punjab government on a petition filed by former chief minister Amarinder Singh challenging his expulsion from the state assembly. The apex court also issued a notice to Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal in his personal capacity.
The Congress on Tuesday removed Amarinder Singh as its Punjab unit chief in the backdrop of the party's dismal show in assembly elections last year and appointed MP Pratap Singh Bajwa in his place.
Congress candidate from Amritsar Amarinder Singh on Friday held Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal allegedly accountable for Operation Bluestar. At a press conference, he said, "It was Parkash Singh Badal who during the troubled period had instigated the innocent youth to disturb the peaceful situation of Punjab and later he met the then home minister urging him to go ahead with Operation Blue Star."
Law and order has worsened in Punjab which is on the decline economically and socially, making the state a fit case for bringing it under President's rule, former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said in Amritsar on Tuesday.
Barring 2004 and 2009 when Navjot Singh Sidhu won the Amritsar seat as a BJP MP and 1998 when Daya Singh Sodhi from BJP was elected as the MP, it has essentially a Congress bastion.
Gandhi has written the letter, seeking passage of a resolution urging the central government to pass the bill, to the chief ministers of those states where the Congress is in power.
Haryana Police lobbed tear gas shells at farmers from Punjab at Shambhu border between the two states as thousands of protesters stayed put there on Wednesday, the second day of their 'Delhi Chalo' march.
He said Parrikar had no right or authority to order the services chiefs to accept what is not acceptable to them, adding he had once again shown his inability to understand the services.
Singh had moved the High Court last week challenging the assembly's September 10 decision to strip him of his membership and declaring his Patiala seat vacant after a House Committee indicted him and three others in the case. The committee charged them with releasing 32.10 acres of Improvement Trust, Amritsar land for development by private colonisers in violation of rules following a complaint by a senior Congress leader Bir Devinder Singh.
Raninder Singh is allegedly involved in a hawala deal.
The decision to expel Dayma was announced by Onkar Singh Lakhawat, the chairman of the Rajasthan BJP's disciplinary committee.
The resignation also signals a continuing saga of unaddressed concerns of young leaders, once considered close to former Congress president Rahul Gandhi.
This is a challenge India's political establishment will have to face unitedly, without looking for electoral benefit, warns Vir Sanghvi.
The strategist is expected to visit Punjab for 2-3 days in mid-February for an early assessment.
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