Express News Service
CHANDIGARH: Since March 10, Punjab has turned basanti (a shade of yellow) to herald change this spring.
Anecdotes have it that Shaheed Bhagat Singh and his associates sang ‘Mera rang de basanti chola’ composed by fellow revolutionary freedom fighter Ram Prasad Bismil in jail.
With the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) searching for to applicable Bhagat Singh and the color related to him, basanti is the flavour of the season in the case of headgears, if not the cholas (lengthy, lose attires).
So, yellow turbans are the brand new pattern within the state and are being most popular by AAP leaders and supporters, proper from the newly elected chief minister, Bhagwant Mann.
The color is related to inquilab (revolution), patriotism, new starting and spring (basant actually means spring).
When the AAP had come to energy in Delhi, all social gathering employees and supporters donned the white Gandhi topi with the phrases Main Hoon Aam Aadmi.
On Wednesday, when Mann took oath as Punjab CM, yellow dominated the panorama at Khattar Kalan, the ancestral village of Bhagat Singh, the place the swearing-in ceremony befell.
“The sale of basanti turbans has gone up as there’s tremendous craze for them. We have been selling around 50 turbans a day,” stated a shopkeeper.
During the Congress rule, social gathering leaders didn’t have a particular color alternative for his or her turbans, though former CMs Amarinder Singh and Charanjit Singh Channi usually most popular pink and purple, respectively, whereas different leaders largely wore white.
Political analyst Prof Jagrup Singh Sekhon stated, “Political leaders are wearing turbans of different colours as there is a historic significance to that. SAD leaders earlier used to wear black turbans as their movement came out of protests. Later, they switched to dark blue. Congress leaders mostly use white, a colour associated with purity, while Communists wear red, the colour of revolution.”
New Punjab authorities straight will get into enterprise on day one
Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and newly elected MLAs had been administered oath as members of the sixteenth Punjab Vidhan Sabha right here on Thursday.
The first session of the state Assembly started on Thursday.
Protem Speaker Inderbir Singh Nijjar administered the oath to the newly elected legislators, most of them first-timers.
Mann, who was sworn-in because the Punjab chief minister on Wednesday at Khatkar Kalan, was the primary one who was administered the oath by the Protem Speaker.
Mann ended his oath with the slogan “Inqlab Zindabad” (lengthy reside revolution).
After Mann, girls MLAs had been administered the oath.
Some of the MLAs, together with Aman Arora, bowed earlier than coming into the House.
Several MLAs got here with their members of the family for the ceremony.
Just a few MLAs, together with Congress legislator Sandeep Jakhar, took oath in Hindi.
AAP MLA from Malerkotla, Mohammad Jamil Ur Rahman, took oath in Urdu.
Nabha MLA Gurdev Singh Dev Mann reached the Punjab Assembly on a bicycle.
Among Congress MLAs who had been administered the oath had been Sukhjinder Randhawa, Tript Rajinder Bajwa and Partap Singh Bajwa.
Five legislators, together with Congress MLA Rana Gurjeet Singh, his son and Independent MLA Rana Inder Partap Singh, and SAD MLA Ganieve Kaur weren’t current within the House for oath taking.
AAP had stormed to energy, profitable 92 of the 117 Assembly seats within the elections held just lately.
Talking to reporters, a number of AAP MLAs stated they may fulfil all guarantees made to individuals of the state.
Moga AAP MLA Dr Amandeep Kaur Arora stated,”We will have to start from zero as the entire system has to be changed. We will do all work. Whatever guarantees have been promised will be fulfilled. Punjab will be shown as a model state,” stated Arora, who defeated Congress candidate Malvika Sood Sachar from Moga.
AAP’s senior chief and two-time MLA Harpal Cheema stated that every one pre-poll guarantees made by his social gathering will likely be honoured.
Kharar legislator Anmol Gagan Mann stated, “Now, it is our responsibility to live up to the expectations of people and for this, we will work day and night. It will be our first priority to make the state corruption and drugs-free.”
AAP MLA Labh Singh Ugoke, who defeated former chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi from Bhadaur seat, stated his precedence will likely be to enhance well being services in his constituency.
Ugoke stated he would really like that agriculture-based trade is promoted in Punjab.
AAP MLA from Amritsar East seat Jeevnjyot Kaur stated she was assured that she would win the elections.
People had seen the Kejriwal mannequin of governance in Delhi and so they had been conscious of the work finished within the nationwide capital, she added.
Kaur defeated Congress social gathering’s Navjot Sidhu and Shiromani Akali Dal candidate Bikram Singh Majithia from the Amritsar East seat.
She stated Sidhu and Majithia had nothing to speak about public points and growth.
Mann on Thursday warned that corrupt bureaucrats would get no sympathy beneath his authorities, but in addition assured police and administration officers that there shall be no vendetta or political stress on them.
Addressing senior officers for the primary time after assuming cost because the chief minister, Mann urged them to discharge their duties as public servants in letter and spirit, respecting the large mandate obtained by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) within the meeting polls.
According to an official launch, the chief minister stated his authorities won’t bask in political vendetta and requested all the state administration to discharge their duties fearlessly with none political stress, not like the sooner regimes.
He additional stated, “I do not keep red diary like the earlier political regimes and have only a green one so you need not worry about any vendetta.”
Without mincing phrases, Mann stated corrupt officers haven’t any place in his authorities.
“Corrupt officers have no place in my government and if any such complaint comes to my notice, then do not expect any sympathy for such officers,” he stated.
The AAP chief additionally introduced to reward each civil and law enforcement officials with ‘Best Performance Award’ quarterly for making the distinction within the lives of frequent man on the grassroots stage moreover making certain free and truthful justice to every body, to spice up their morale.
He hoped the initiative will encourage officers to carry out much better and effectively.
“The people who have given us an opportunity to serve the state are the real rulers in the democracy. They have the power to allow the leaders to rule or show them the door,” he added.
The chief minister asserted that the prime concern for the AAP authorities needs to be to make the state “real Punjab”, not London, California or Paris.
He additionally appreciated the big capabilities and capacities of each civil and law enforcement officials.
Mann additionally directed the director normal of police to ship congratulatory messages to members of the family of all police staff on birthdays with a way of belongingness.
Reiterating his dedication to make Punjab a mannequin state, Mann stated the foremost concern of his authorities will likely be to create ample job alternatives for youth to test the “unfortunate trend of brain drain from our state to foreign shores”.
“This scenario has even forced the poor and hapless parents to sell their properties for sending their wards abroad for better prospects to earn livelihood,” he stated.
He promised his authorities will quickly provide you with a complete motion plan to generate great job potential for the unemployed youth.
Earlier, state Chief Secretary Anirudh Tewari welcomed the chief minister and guaranteed that each the civil and police administration will work in tandem with full synergy to implement pro-people insurance policies and applications on the floor stage.
Additional Chief Secretary to CM, A Venu Prasad and DGP V Ok Bhawra additionally attended the assembly.
Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday stated Mann has unfurled a “new anti-mafia era in Punjab” and hoped he would rise to the expectations of the individuals.
On March 11, a day after the AAP stormed to energy in Punjab, wining 92 of the 117 meeting seats, Sidhu had stated the individuals have taken a “very good decision” and “laid a new foundation”.
Mann was sworn in because the Punjab chief minister on Wednesday.
“The happiest man is the one from whom no one expects. Bhagwant Mann unfurls a new anti-mafia era in Punjab with a mountain of expectations. Hope he rises to the occasion, brings back Punjab on the revival path with pro-people policies. Best always,” Sidhu stated in a tweet, a day after he resigned as Punjab Congress president.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi had requested its chiefs in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Punjab and Manipur to resign after the social gathering’s drubbing within the just-concluded meeting polls in these 5 states.
Sidhu, who fought the Punjab meeting polls from the Amritsar East, misplaced to AAP’s Jeevnjyot Kaur by 6,750 votes.
After the meeting ballot verdict, Sidhu had welcomed the change ushered by the individuals of Punjab, whereas saying individuals’s voice is the voice of God and their verdict needs to be humbly accepted.
(With PTI Inputs)