GURDASPUR: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee SC cell convener Joginder Singh Chhina has criticised the SAD-BJP alliance for not disbursing Central scholarship money to the tune of Rs 95 crore meant for about 3 lakh school students from minority com­ munities, as reported by Hindustan Times on Monday. Stating that the ...

LUDHIANA: Gulchain Singh Charak, Congress in-charge, Punjab affairs, said here on Thursday that several union ministers would visit the state to apprise people of central schemes for which the Akali­ BJP government was trying to take false credit. Talking to reporters after meeting block presidents, councilors and Punjab Congress delegates at ...

PATIALA: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh and Punjab Youth Congress president Ravneet Singh Bittu condemned the assault on BDPO Rajinder Gupta, and asked the police to immediately act against the culprits. "Our officers are there to serve the people and not to be manhandled and beaten up ...

QADIAN (BATALA): Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has alleged that Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh and the Congress were trying to derail the SGPC elections. He said Punjab Congress leaders and workers should 1-(0 to New Delhi to protest against corruption rather than doing so in the state. ...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Captain Amarinder Singhon Monday asked the Congress government in Haryana to be more considerate about its "Punjabi brethren" and stop construction Of the Hansi­ Butana toe wall that has been at the centre of a dispute between the two states. He said while Punjab chief ...

LUDHIANA: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Captain Amarinder Singhon Thursday condemned the silence of chief minister Parkash Singh Badaland deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal following the death of a farmer during a police lathi charge on protesters in Mansa on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference after meeting workers of Jagraon, ...

CHANDIGARH: Former MLA Arvind Khanna, who is the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary, has rubbished the charges, and served a legal notice to Simranjit Singh Mann to withdraw the allegations and tender an unconditional public apology to avoid a criminal defamation suit. Terming the allegations wild and baseless, Khanna said ...

CHANDIGARH: The Congress said on Monday that the 16 flagship programmes of the UPA government started in the state belied the claims of the SAD-BJP government that the Centre was discriminating against Punjab by denying it grants. Speaking at a meeting of the UPA flagship programmes implementation monitoring committee, party in ...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday condemned use of force against the farmers in Mansa who were protesting acquisition of their land. Singh also slammed the arrest of Budh ladha MLA Mangat Rai Bansal by the police. Airing his views, Amarinder said, "It was quite unfortunate that ...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh on Sunday alleged that chief minister Parkash Singh Badal had betrayed Sant Harchand Singh Longowal and sabotaged the Rajiv-Longowal Accord as it suited his (Badal's) political ambitions. Speaking on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the accord, Amarinder said, "Badal may ...

CHANDIGARH(Punjab): The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) on Monday appointed nine more coordinators for coordinating meetings in assembly segments. The move has been necessitated to streamline and rationalise the number of constituencies each coordinator will have to coordinate. The new coordinators are Love Kumar Goldy, RC Dogra, Tejinder Bittu, Ashok Sharma, Upinder ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) on Thursday released a list of district coordinators for the first phase of the assembly-wise rallies across the state in the coming months. In all, 25 coordinators for rural and urban districts would be supervising the arrangements. Ch Jagjit Singh has been appointed in-charge for ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) will start the second phase of public meetings in assembly constituencies from Patti in Tarn Taran district on April 8. Acoording to a Congress spokesperson, the public meetings will be addressed by PPCC president Capt Amarinder Singh and other senior party leaders. The party will ...