AMRITSAR: Following the expulsion of Akali rebel Gurpartap Singh Tikka and senior deputy mayor Ajay bir Pal Singh Randhawa from the primary membership of the party, several Youth Akali Dal leaders have resigned from their posts and decided to support Tikka. After being denied ticket, Gurpartap Tikka had filed his nomination ...

AMRITSAR: Nineteen candidates filed their nomination papers on Monday for 25 assembly constituencies of the Majha region spread over Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran and Pathankot districts. Prominent among those who filed their papers included Youth Akali Dal chief and sitting MLA Bikram Singh Majithia from Majitha. Charanjit Kaur Bajwa, wife of ...

JALANDHAR: The Adampur Bachao Action Committee will organise protest marches in the town on Sunday against the candidature of Pawan Kumar Tinu as Shiromani Akali Dal candidate from the Adampur assembly constituency. It has also appealed to other Sikh organizations to join the protest. The core committee of the organization will ...

AMRITSAR: Youth Akali Dal chief and sitting Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MLA from Majitha, Bikram Singh Majithia on Thursday started his election campaign after paying obeisance at Baba Budha Sahib (Janam Ashthan) gurdwara in Kathunangal village in his constituency. However, the speech that he gave on Thursday from the premises of ...

THATHA (SULTANPUR LOOHI): Former Akali minister and Youth Akali Dal patron Bikram Singh Majithia on Tuesday said the cm was a "puppet" in the hands of the UPA government, and the Congress was using the services of the centre investigating agency only to "malign" the SAD-BJP government. He questioned how BJP ...

SAS NAGAR: A former Akali leader now in the camp of ousted finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal is suspect in Rs­ l0-lakh swindle. The district police have registered a case against Yadwinder Singh Buttar, former Youth Akali Dal leader from Gurdaspur local property dealer Kulwinder Singh; and Raghbir Singh, farmer at ...

BATALA: Against the threatening words used by Youth Akali Dal patron Bikram Singh Majithia against PPCC president Captain Amarinder Singh, hundreds of Congress workers staged a dharna at Gandhi Chowk and blocked traffic for two hours on Friday. Raising slogans against Majithia, the Congress workers, under PPCC, chief spokesmen, Ashwani ...

GURDASPUR: Youth Akali Dal patron and former cabinet minister Bikram Singh Majithia, while addressing a historic rally of the district Youth Akali Dal here on Tuesday, sought special economic package for residents of border areas of Punjab who stood guard in the Indo-Pak wars of 1965 and 1971.He demanded that ...

SAHNEWAL (LUDHIANA): Congress state president Capt Amarinde Singh is a "pawn" in the hands of the Reliance group and opposing the Bathinda refinery project at their behest, Youth Akali Dal patron Bikram Singh Majithia said on Tuesday. In return, the Ambanis will bankroll his preelection campaigns and road shows in Punjab, ...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab has set a target to produce 10 per cent of its power from renewable sources, and to realise this, young faces were being given representation in Punjab Energy Development Authority (PEDA), Youth Akali Dal patron Bikramjit ingh Majithjia said here on Monday. He said this on the occasion of ...

PATIALA: Punjab Minister for Public Works Parminder Singh Dhindsa on Wednesday said the state government would seek royalty from the Centre for its river waters being used for agriculture in the state and also for supplying water to other states for drinking and other purposes. The argument is that the food­ ...

CHANDIGARH: Nearly 10 months after the attack on Ludhiana Tehsildar Maj G.S. Benipal in his office, three prime accused, including two Ludhiana councillors, were granted bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday. The three are Simarjit Singh Bains, councillor and Youth Akali Dal Ludhiana president; Kamaljit Singh Karwal, ...