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POLITICS AT BAISAKHI CONFERENCE
Badal claims credit for progress of state
Talwandi Sabo, April 14
The SAD-BJP combine today celebrated Baisakhi by firing salvos at the Congress and accusing it of discriminating against Punjab and perpetrating injustice on the people of the state.
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal, Balwinder Singh Bhunder and Capt Kanwaljit Singh discuss an issue at the political conference at the Baisakhi mela at Talwandi Sabo on Monday. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh
Capt, Bhattal address media separately
Talwandi Sabo/Bathinda, April 14
While Capt Amarinder Singh Badal and Rajinder Kaur Bhattal refrained from blaming each other in public, they held separate press conferences.
Rift at bay on dais: Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, PPCC chief, Jagmeet Brar and Capt Amarinder Singh at the Baisakhi Mela in Talwandi Sabo on Monday.
Tribune photo: Kulbir Beera
Rana Gurjit pitches for Khadoor Sahib constituency
Amritsar, April 14
The Congress MP from Jalandhar today made his intentions clear to contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections from the Tarn Taran parliamentary constituency, rechristened as Khadoor Sahib after delimitation, while addressing the party’s rally to mark Baisakhi at Chohla Sahib, about 50 km from here, today. With Jalandhar having been made a reserve seat, Rana Gurjit Singh had to move to the Majha heartland.
Supporters also put up separate shows
Patiala, April 14
Fissures in the Punjab Congress widened with supporters of former CM Amarinder Singh and those of PPCC chief Rajinder Kaur Bhattal putting up separate “welcome shows” for the two leaders as they left the city and proceeded towards Talwandi Sabo to participate in the party’s Baisakhi conference there today.
Cong coordination panel meeting today
Amarinder not to attend: Sonia
Chandigarh, April 14
Former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today faxed message to Congress president Sonia Gandhi expressing inability to attend meeting of the newly formed state-level Coordination Committee scheduled to be held in Delhi tomorrow.
Boy’s drama of abduction flops
Nabha, April 14
Aganrahitpal Singh here staged the drama of his own abduction. He returned home after 20 days after his ‘plan’ flopped.
DSP Arshdeep Singh Gill said Aganrahitpal, a resident of Guru Nanak Pura mohalla here and studying in
RIMT, Gobindgarh, failed to return after he left for his college on March 18.
Devotees scramble to have a glimpse of handwritten Guru Granth Sahib as the
Guru Manyo Granth Yatra reaches the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Monday.
Photo: Vishal Kumar |
7-year-old boy kidnapped
Amritsar, April 14
Lakhbir Singh (7) was kidnapped by two migrant labourers as his father allegedly refused to give advance payment to them. A case was registered at Lopoke police station in Amritsar (Rural) police district here today. According to complaint by a relative of the victim and resident of Khiala Kalan village, said the two accused, Shiv (19) and Ranjit (20), used to work at their farms and asked for advance money from the victim’s father Baldev Singh.
Turban Ban
Radicals meet Pak PM
Amritsar, April 14
Representatives of the SGPC and radical Sikh organisations of different countries today met Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gillani at his residence in Islamabad and urged him to take up the issue of a ban on turban with his French counterpart.
300-METRE WONDER: A Nihang, wearing a 300-metre dastar, pays obeisance at the Golden Temple, Amritsar, on the occasion of Baisakhi on Monday. Photo: Vishal Kumar
Tiwana silences her critics
 Ludhiana, April 14
Newly elected president of the Punjabi Sahit Akademi Dalip Kaur Tiwana has sought to put to rest all doubts raised by her critics that she may not be able to devote enough time to the
akademi.
More results declared
Undertrial former cop’s death
SDM to conduct probe
Tarn Taran, April 14
Mystery shrouds the death of a former cop who was brought here on production warrant by the Verowal police from the high- security central jail, Amritsar on April 12 night.
Sodomy cases highest in Ludhiana
Chandigarh, April 14
A study based on sodomy cases and sodomy-related deaths in Punjab over a two-year period, besides holding the industrial city of Ludhiana responsible for as many as 23 per cent of such cases, also makes out a case for introducing sex education amongst children of the migrant population of the city.
Baisakhi fest concludes
Anandpur Sahib, April 14
The three-day Baisakhi celebrations concluded here today. Thousands of pilgrims paid obeisance at Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib.
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Former US President Bill Clinton is making all-out efforts to woo Punjabis, particularly those based in California, in his bid to solicit their support for his presidential candidate wife Hillary Clinton.
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