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  • Punjab Congress chief urges CM Mann to think about launch of Navjot Sidhu from jail

    By PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Saturday appealed to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to think about early launch of Navjot Singh Sidhu who’s serving a year-long sentence in Patiala central jail in a 1988 highway rage dying case.

    The attraction comes a day after the Punjab Cabinet permitted a proposal of granting particular remission to 5 convicts serving phrases in jails. However, the identify of Sidhu doesn’t determine within the record.

    “I appeal to Chief Minister @BhagwantMann Sahab to consider the early release of senior @INCIndia leader @sherryontopp Navjot Singh Sidhu Ji also. Matters of justice should be treated above the partisan divide,” Warring tweeted.

    There had been speculations that Sidhu may be granted particular remission on Republic Day.

    Several Punjab Congress leaders, together with former Punjab Congress chief Shamsher Singh Dullo, had final month lambasted the AAP authorities for not releasing Sidhu.

    On May 20 final 12 months, Sidhu, the previous Punjab Congress chief, was jailed following his give up earlier than a courtroom in Patiala after he was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court.

    The prime courtroom had, in its order, stated any sympathy in imposing an insufficient sentence would do extra hurt to the justice system and undermine the general public confidence within the efficacy of legislation.

    Though the courtroom had in May 2018 held Sidhu responsible of “voluntarily causing hurt” to the person, it had spared him a jail time period and imposed on him a nice of Rs 1,000.

    The Punjab Cabinet on Friday gave approval for sending the case of particular remission to convicts confined in jails of Punjab within the second section to commemorate the seventy fifth Independence Day of the nation being celebrated as ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.

    Similarly, a inexperienced sign was additionally given for sending the instances looking for the untimely launch of life convicts confined within the jails of the state.

    After the Cabinet’s nod below Article 163 of the Constitution of India, these particular remission/untimely launch instances shall be submitted to Punjab Governor below Article 161 of the structure, an official assertion stated.

    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Saturday appealed to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to think about early launch of Navjot Singh Sidhu who’s serving a year-long sentence in Patiala central jail in a 1988 highway rage dying case.

    The attraction comes a day after the Punjab Cabinet permitted a proposal of granting particular remission to 5 convicts serving phrases in jails. However, the identify of Sidhu doesn’t determine within the record.

    “I appeal to Chief Minister @BhagwantMann Sahab to consider the early release of senior @INCIndia leader @sherryontopp Navjot Singh Sidhu Ji also. Matters of justice should be treated above the partisan divide,” Warring tweeted.

    There had been speculations that Sidhu may be granted particular remission on Republic Day.

    Several Punjab Congress leaders, together with former Punjab Congress chief Shamsher Singh Dullo, had final month lambasted the AAP authorities for not releasing Sidhu.

    On May 20 final 12 months, Sidhu, the previous Punjab Congress chief, was jailed following his give up earlier than a courtroom in Patiala after he was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court.

    The prime courtroom had, in its order, stated any sympathy in imposing an insufficient sentence would do extra hurt to the justice system and undermine the general public confidence within the efficacy of legislation.

    Though the courtroom had in May 2018 held Sidhu responsible of “voluntarily causing hurt” to the person, it had spared him a jail time period and imposed on him a nice of Rs 1,000.

    The Punjab Cabinet on Friday gave approval for sending the case of particular remission to convicts confined in jails of Punjab within the second section to commemorate the seventy fifth Independence Day of the nation being celebrated as ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.

    Similarly, a inexperienced sign was additionally given for sending the instances looking for the untimely launch of life convicts confined within the jails of the state.

    After the Cabinet’s nod below Article 163 of the Constitution of India, these particular remission/untimely launch instances shall be submitted to Punjab Governor below Article 161 of the structure, an official assertion stated.

  • Four senior Punjab Congress leaders be part of BJP

    By PTI

    CHANDIGARH: In a significant setback to the Congress in Punjab, 4 of its leaders and former ministers Raj Kumar Verka, Balbir Singh Sidhu, Sunder Sham Arora and Gurpreet Singh Kangar joined the BJP right here on Saturday.

    Former Congress MLA from Barnala, Kewal Dhillon, and former SAD MLAs Sarup Chand Singla and Mohinder Kaur Josh additionally joined the BJP.

    They joined the BJP within the presence of Union ministers Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Som Parkash, state unit chief Ashwani Sharma, and senior get together leaders Dushyant Gautam, Tarun Chugh, Sunil Jakhar and Manjinder Singh Sirsa.

    Union Home Minister Amit Shah was additionally in Chandigarh on Saturday for a gathering with get together leaders and inaugurating the Khelo India Youth Games in Haryana’s Panchkula.

    Meanwhile, the Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring stated these leaders betrayed the get together.

    Balbir Sidhu, a three-time MLA from Mohali, was the well being minister within the earlier Congress authorities, whereas Gurpreet Kangar, a three-time MLA from Rampura Phul, was the income minister.

    Verka, a outstanding Dalit chief from the Majha area, can be a three-time legislator and was the minister for social justice and and empowerment and minorities within the earlier authorities.

    Sunder Sham Arora, a former MLA from Hoshiarpur, was the trade and commerce minister within the earlier Congress authorities.

    Balbir Sidhu’s brother Amarjit Singh Sidhu, who’s the mayor of Mohali company, additionally joined the BJP.

    Balbir Sidhu, Sunder Sham Arora and Gurpreet Kangar had been dropped from the ministries after the Congress changed Amarinder Singh with Charanjit Singh Channi because the chief minister final 12 months.

    The induction of 4 senior leaders of the Punjab Congress into the BJP is being seen as an enormous achieve for the saffron get together which is increasing its presence within the state.

    Verka is a Dalit face whereas Kangar and Sidhu are Jat leaders and Arora is a Hindu face.

    After Sunil Jakhar left the Congress and joined the saffron get together, it was speculated that extra leaders would give up the grand outdated get together.

    Reacting to the event, Punjab Congress chief Warring stated all these leaders who abandoned the get together and joined the BJP had “betrayed” the Congress “like an ungrateful son deserts his mother”.

    “Scared, they apparently wanted safe, secure political asylum, somewhere and the BJP provided it”, Warring stated.

    “They owe their current stature, that qualified them for the new political asylum to Indian National Congress, which groomed them like a mother grooms her children,” he stated.

    “And when it was their turn to reciprocate, they betrayed their mother for greener, nay, saffron pastures,” he alleged.

    The PCC president stated whereas the lack of any chief or a employee is felt by the get together, on the identical time it results in extra openings and alternatives for the loyal and recent blood whose progress in any other case will get blocked.

    Warring stated, “best of luck for joining the BJP grateful that the elite who enjoyed all the privileges in the party have vacated the space for younger leadership from common background.”

    He identified that lots of the leaders who abandoned the get together had acquired all of the privileges, with their sons and brothers occupying all prestigious and highly effective positions at the price of different loyal and hardworking leaders and employees.

    Alleging that these leaders had been gripped by some worry for causes “not publicly unknown”, he stated, “hope you all now feel safe and secure in your new saffron pastures as you were obsessively stressed and scared for the reasons best known to you and not publicly unknown, either.”

  • Sangrur bypoll: Punjab Congress chief Warring endorses economist’s suggestion of electing Sidhu Moose Wala’s father unopposed

    By PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Friday endorsed the suggestion of electing slain singer Sidhu Moose Wala’s father unopposed from the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat.

    Noted economist Sardara Singh Johal has steered that Moose Wala’s father, Balkaur Singh, must be elected unopposed from the Sangrur seat.

    The seat fell vacant after Bhagwant Mann contested and gained from Dhuri meeting phase within the 2022 meeting elections.

    Mann, who at current is the Punjab Chief Minister, had gained from Sangrur parliamentary seat in 2014 and 2019.

    Polling for the seat might be held on June 23 whereas counting will happen on June 26.

    On May 29, Moose Wala was shot useless by unidentified males in Punjab’s Mansa district.

    On his Facebook web page, Johal termed the well-known singer’s killing “very unfortunate and painful.”

    “The society lost a forceful and popular voice. It is a cultural loss.Yet the loss for the parents is unimaginable and cannot be compensated,” he stated.

    Offering his condolences to Moose Wala’s dad and mom, Johal stated, “I feel it may be a bit consoling if the father of Sidhu Moose Wala is elected in the by-election to the Parliament from Sangrur constituency unopposed.”

    Warring endorsed Johal’s views.

    “Nothing can compensate Sidhu Moose Wala’s loss to his parents. Dr SS Johl (sic) has suggested his father Balkaur Singh Ji be fielded as consensus candidate for Sangrur bypoll & he gets elected unopposed. I endorse it. Hope all other parties agree. Let’s put politics of oneupmanship aside,” Warring stated in a tweet.

    Former AAP MLA Kanwar Sandhi additionally concurred with the view.

    “Agree with Sardara Singh Johal, provided family agrees. Some purpose to live it will be for devastated family,” stated Sandhu in a tweet.

    The two leaders’ statements got here on the day when the ruling AAP introduced the identify of its candidate for the Sangrur seat bypoll.

    Mann introduced Gurmail Singh, in-charge of Sangrur district, because the candidate for the June 23 bypoll.

  • Punjab Congress chief Warring slams CM Bhagwant Mann for not visiting Patiala after violence

    By PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Sunday slammed Bhagwant Mann for not visiting Patiala after a violence there when he ought to have been “most visible”.

    In an obvious reference to AAP nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal, Warring mentioned it bodes in poor health for a delicate state like Punjab that its chief minister was “completely dependent on and subservient to someone else”.

    “Even his (Maan’s) pre-recorded messages, broadcast from time to time, have an exterior imprint.

    “Punjab cannot afford a chief minister who cannot act on his own and needs to be continuously programmed by someone else,” the state Congress chief claimed.

    Two teams had clashed on Friday in Patiala over an anti-Khalistan march, hurling stones at one another, and forcing police to fireside within the air to deliver the scenario beneath management.

    The Punjab police booked 25 accused by identify to this point in six FIRs registered in reference to Friday’s incident which left 4 individuals injured.

    “It is surprising that the chief minister is out of action, vanishing completely on a day when he should be the most visible and involved in the affairs of the state,” Warring mentioned in a press release right here.

    “We understand that yesterday you (Mann) were scheduled to attend the chief ministers’ conference in Delhi. But why did you not visit the city (Patiala) today?” he posed.

    Taking a swipe at Mann, Warring mentioned, “Probably because your master is busy and away in Gujarat and you can’t take a step outside or utter a word without his permission.”

    Punjab BJP common secretary Subhash Sharma additionally hit out on the chief minister Mann for blaming two political events for the violence in Patiala.

    Saying that police have arrested the alleged mastermind Barjinder Singh Parwana, Sharma requested which political celebration did Parwana belong to.

    “The Punjab Police is saying that Parwana is the mastermind while you (Mann) are blaming the opposition parties. Nothing can be more shameful than this,” the BJP chief mentioned.

    According to the police, Parwana, a resident of Rajpura within the district, is among the masterminds of Friday’s incident.

    He had been accused of frightening the Sikh radicals to maneuver in direction of the Kali Mata temple on Friday.

    Mann on Saturday mentioned the clashes in Patiala have been between two political events and never two communities.

    “This was a clash between two political parties and not between two communities. In Punjab, people live in peace. A probe is going on over who instigated the violence. No one will be spared,” Mann had mentioned in Delhi.

    Aam Aadmi Party spokesperson Malvinder Singh Kang on Sunday mentioned these making an attempt to disturb the peace and communal concord within the state wouldn’t be spared and added that the chief minister monitored the entire scenario.

    Any exercise that disturbs peace and brotherhood in Punjab is not going to be tolerated, Kang mentioned.

    “Punjab doesn’t want ‘Khalistan’ or such anti-Punjab narrative. Today Punjab must get again on the trail of progress, our youth and farmers have to be saved, and Punjab’s water and pure sources want our consideration.

    “The Mann government is working tirelessly to take Punjab forward in the right direction, and to end mafia and corruption,” he mentioned.

    The conflict in Patiala was the primary main law-and-order incident within the state beneath the Bhagwant Mann authorities.

    Opposition events had attacked the AAP dispensation of Punjab, alleging that regulation and order within the state has collapsed.

  • Alka Lamba seems earlier than police in Rupnagar, Punjab Congress leaders stage protest

    By PTI

    RUPNAGAR: Congress chief Alka Lamba, summoned over a case of “inflammatory statements” towards Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, appeared earlier than the police right here on Wednesday as occasion staff held a protest exterior the SSP workplace over the matter.

    The case was lodged towards former AAP chief Kumar Vishwas in Rupnagar city’s Sadar police station on April 12.

    Ahead of the Assembly polls, Vishwas had accused Kejriwal of supporting separatists.

    Lamba has been accused of backing the remarks made by Vishwas.

    Led by the Congress’ state unit chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, the occasion staff staged the protest exterior the workplace of Rupnagar senior superintendent of police (SSP) and raised slogans towards the Bhagwant Mann authorities.

    Besides Warring, senior occasion leaders, together with Punjab Congress Legislature occasion chief Partap Singh Bajwa, MLAs Sukhjinder Randhawa, Raj Kumar Chabbewal, former ministers Bharat Bhushan Ashu, Balbir Sidhu, Gurkirat Kotli and Punjab Youth Congress chief Brinder Dhillon accompanied Lamba when she reached Rupnagar to seem earlier than the police.

    Addressing the protesters, Warring slammed the AAP authorities in Punjab, accusing it of “misusing” the police for political vendetta.

    He stated your complete state management of the occasion got here to Rupnagar in help of Lamba.

    “We will not tolerate any injustice against our sister (Lamba),” Warring stated.

    Former Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu reached Rupnagar, individually, in help of Lamba.

    “You (AAP) are trying to scare Alka Lamba. The people of Punjab have always stood by their daughters and sisters. We all stand by her,” he advised reporters exterior the Rupnagar SSP workplace The former cricketer left the place after speaking to reporters.

    Lamba, whereas speaking to the reporters, slammed the Mann-led authorities for sending police to her home to summon her.

    She accused the AAP authorities of “misusing” the police towards its political rivals.

    A heavy police pressure was deployed exterior the Rupnagar SSP workplace. The Punjab police on had on April 20 visited the properties of Vishwas and Lamba in reference to a case registered over “inflammatory statements” towards Kejriwal.

    Police had earlier summoned Lamba, the previous AAP chief, on April 26 however she was later requested to seem earlier than it on April 27.

  • Amrinder Singh Raja Warring’s ‘3-D mantra’ for strengthening Punjab Congress: Discipline, dedication, dialogue

    Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, a former transport minister of Punjab, mentioned disciplinary motion shall be taken in opposition to anybody making an attempt to weaken the Congress.

  • Why making individuals wait until July 1 without cost energy, Punjab Congress chief asks CM Bhagwant Mann

    By PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Shortly after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann introduced 300 items of free electrical energy for each family within the state each month from July 1, Congress chief Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Saturday requested why was the AAP delaying in implementing its pre-poll promise.

    Former MP and Punjab Congress legislature celebration chief Partap Singh Bajwa too stated they might undergo the main points of the order to see if there was any “hidden agenda” in it.

    He made the comment even whereas welcoming the AAP authorities’s transfer.

    Chief Minister Mann on Saturday introduced the implementation of his celebration’s pre-poll promise of 300 items of free energy to each family each month from July 1.

    Giving 300 items of free electrical energy was one of many main ballot guarantees of the Aam Aadmi Party throughout the Punjab meeting elections.

    The celebration’s nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal had promised it in June final yr.

    Congress MLA from Bholath Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Saturday requested CM Mann why free electrical energy can be given from July month solely.

    “I welcome @BhagwantMann for fulfilling his promise of 300 units of free electricity but why wait till 1st July? Is there an issue of fiscal management? And please clarify if the bill is 301 units, will the consumers be charged the full bill? Lastly any move to do away with the tubewell subsidy?” requested Khaira in a tweet.

    While welcoming the AAP authorities’s transfer, Qadian MLA Partap Singh Bajwa stated, “As the Opposition, we will go through the details to ensure there are no hidden agenda unforeseen to the public eye with the policy.”

    “I hope this new policy will not change the current power subsidies for our farmers. After all the devil is in the details,” stated Bajwa.

    Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring too insisted on analyzing the main points of the order, saying “the Proof of the pudding is within the consuming”.

    “Bhagwant Mann Ji , The Proof of the pudding is within the consuming… The truthfulness of your 300 unit free energy can be examined within the particulars and circumstances hooked up to it…Best of luck to PSPCL which has to outlive now, one way or the other.”

    Punjab BJP chief Subhash Sharma took on the Bhagwant Mann-led authorities, saying the AAP-led regime was simply making bulletins.

    Referring to ads put out by the state data and public relations division in varied newspapers on the state authorities’s 30-day report card, Sharma stated the federal government had introduced the organising of an anti-gangster taskforce however regardless of that greater than 30 murders have taken place within the state in final one month.

    “People of Punjab want results and performance but your government has failed completely on this front,” alleged Sharma.

  • Punjab Congress youth wing chief confronts Navjot Singh Sidhu over ‘corruption’ inside get together

    By PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Infighting within the Punjab Congress got here out within the open Thursday at a protest assembly when a colleague dared Navjot Singh Sidhu to take names if he felt anybody within the get together was concerned in wrongdoing.

    The embarrassing state of affairs for the get together arose when Punjab Congress youth chief Brinder Singh Dhillon interrupted Sidhu, a former Punjab Congress Committee (PCC) chief, in his speech.

    Sidhu was addressing the Congress leaders and staff throughout the protest in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central authorities over continued rise in petrol, diesel, and cooking gasoline costs outdoors the Punjab Congress Bhawan right here.

    Sidhu spoke about selling folks with clear picture for the get together’s revival within the wake of its decimation within the latest Punjab meeting elections.

    “I did not take anybody’s name nor will I do that. ‘Kyonki yeh public jo hai sab jaanti hai’ (because the public knows everything),” Sidhu stated cryptically.

    He stated it’s going to do nobody any good, in the event that they select to fill their very own coffers.

    “No matter how many addresses you deliver, nothing will happen,” he stated.

    He stated he can be the primary one to take a stand if any “false” FIR was lodged in opposition to any Congress employee.

    “But if money is recovered from anybody’s house, I will not stand with him,” he stated.

    “Kyonki choran naal nahin khadna (I am not going to support the corrupt).”

    “I will not point a finger at anyone. A hundred people may have spoken against me but Sidhu never spoke against any Congress worker,” he stated.

    Dhillon stood and interrupted Sidhu shouting at him to attract his consideration.

    “Sidhu sahab, what you are doing is wrong,” Dhillon stated confronting him.

    “Kyon nahi naam laoge, kyon nahin naam laoge (why won’t you take names?),” Dhillon requested Sidhu in Punjabi.

    “If something is wrong then call it out, and if something is right then say that too,” he stated, pleading Sidhu to call those that he thinks indulged in corruption.

    Dhillon then instructed Sidhu if he was not going to take names then he was indulging in mere “drama”.

    “Phir tusi drama kar rahe ho (then you are doing a drama),” he stated.

    The warmth from his get together employee made Sidhu cease his deal with.

    Later, Dhillon by a tweet appealed for unity within the get together and clarified that his outburst was not in opposition to any particular person.

    “No fight against any individual, we should not be throwing mud at each other as it was a collective defeat. We have suffered because of infighting and if we do not course correct, we will be finished. Time to stand together and fight for public not for individual glorification,” he posted.

    A bit of Punjab Congress leaders have been holding conferences not too long ago and batting for a key function for Sidhu forward of the seemingly announcement of the brand new PPCC chief.

    The Congress acquired a drubbing within the Punjab meeting polls profitable solely 18 seats, because the Aam Aadmi Party stormed to energy bagging 92 of the 117 meeting segments.

    Sidhu was defeated by AAP candidate and political greenhorn Jeevan Jyot Kaur from Amritsar East constituency.

    Following the ballot debacle in 5 states — Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Manipur, and Punjab — Congress president Sonia Gandhi had requested the get together’s state unit chiefs to place of their papers, and Sidhu, too, tendered his resignation.

  • Over 20 Punjab leaders together with Navjot Sidhu maintain assembly

    By PTI

    CHANDIGARH: More than 20 Punjab Congress leaders, together with former state unit chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, held a gathering at Sultanpur Lodhi in Kapurthala district on Saturday.

    Sukhpal Khaira, Congress MLA from Bholath who was current on the assembly, mentioned that it was a part of efforts to make sure a speedy revival of the get together in Punjab.

    He mentioned like-minded Cong MLAs, ex-MLAs, 2022 meeting election candidates and the previous PCC president converged on the residence of former MLA Navtej Singh Cheema at Sultanpur Lodhi.

    “‘We’re sure party will take future decisions on merit n honesty in accordance with the mandate of ‘Badlav’ (change),” mentioned Khaira in a tweet.

    Sidhu, who stop as Punjab unit chief on the path of Congress president Sonia Gandhi following the get together’s defeat within the current meeting polls, shared an image of the assembly on Twitter. “We will fight for Punjab’s rights and truth with good intentions and honesty,” he tweeted.

    Other distinguished leaders current on the assembly have been MLA Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal, Rakesh Pandey, Mohinder Singh Kaypee, Ashwani Sekhri, Nazar Singh Manshahia, Pirmal Singh Dhaula and Davinder Singh Ghubaya.

    The Congress acquired a drubbing within the recently-held Punjab meeting polls because it may win solely 18 seats. The Aam Aadmi Party stormed to energy by bagging 92 seats of the 117-assembly segments within the state.

    Navjot Sidhu was additionally defeated by AAP candidate and political greenhorn Jeevan Jyot Kaur from Amritsar East seat.

    Sidhu had resigned because the get together’s Punjab chief after Congress president Sonia Gandhi had requested its state unit chiefs in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Punjab and Manipur to place of their papers following the ballot debacle.

  • Punjab Congress leaders blame Navjot Singh Sidhu, Charanjit Singh Channi over ballot debacle

    Express News Service

    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress leaders have demanded that former Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu needs to be proven the door and blamed them for the celebration’s debacle within the polls.

    In a gathering of celebration candidates from the Malwa area of the state known as by AICC Punjab affairs in-charge Harish Chaudhary on Tuesday, many leaders blamed infighting and indiscipline for the heavy defeat.

    Gurpreet Singh, who misplaced from Bassi Pathana seat from the place Channi’s brother Manohar Singh fought as an impartial candidate, blamed Channi. “The former Punjab CM is the only reason for the defeat. People did not like Channi as the CM face. He should be expelled. How could people of Punjab listen to Channi when his brother did not. Had Sidhu been the CM face, we would have won at least 50 seats,” he stated.

    Pointed out that Sidhu himself misplaced from Amritsar East, Singh blamed Channi once more. “When Channi was the CM face, what could Sidhu do?”

    Former minister Balbir Singh Sidhu stated, “Both Channi and Sidhu should resign as they are responsible for this defeat. When I was removed from the cabinet after Amarinder Singh was shown the door, what was my fault? Now, both of them have scripted the debacle of the party. Infighting led to this. Channi’s statement on migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in the state also triggered an uproar,” he stated.

    Another former minister, Randeep Singh Nabha stated inside combating and indiscipline amongst senior leaders prompted the voters to assume that AAP was a greater various. The level of indiscipline was raised additionally by former minister Amarinder Raja Warring. “Congress lost due to indiscipline and senior leaders who did not speak to each other,” he stated.

    Former minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu stated, “The reasons because of which we lost will be out in the open soon. I do not think that the party was weak or we lost because of the leadership.” Chaudhary stated he was taking duty for the defeat. Channi and Sidhu additionally attended the assembly however did not remark.