AAP to hold meetings on civic polls results
CHANDIGARH: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has decided to hold a series of meetings in all zones of the state from Monday to review the results of the local body elections. The AAP leadership would hold meetings with all officebearers, local leaders and civic polls candidates from all over the Punjab from Monday to analyse the state of the organisation and formulate a strategy to strengthen the party for the 2022 assembly elections, according to a party statement. The meetings would be held by AAP state president and MP Bhagwant Mann, leader of opposition Harpal Singh Cheema, Punjab affairs in-charge Jarnail Singh and co-incharge Raghav Chadha.
AMBALA : Former Haryana chief minister and leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda, while hitting out at the government over rising fuel prices along with the ongoing farmers’ protest, said that instead of increasing crop prices, the government is raising prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas.
Hooda was in Yamunanagar to attend an event at Gurdwara Thada Sahib.
“If oil prices increase, transportation cost and hence prices of everything will rise. Amid pandemics and recession, the government is killing people by raising price of essential commodities,” he said.
“If the government wants to do some good for the country, it will have to make laws keeping in mind the farmers’ interests, not capitalists,” he added.
The three highly contentious agriculture laws did not see broad debates and deliberations at the initial stages as required, given the importance of the legislation. Stakeholders always be taken into confidence through wider discussions, consultations and consensus to avoid ambiguity or any misperception. The Centre needed to bring these three laws in Parliament by convening a joint session to prevent resentment among stakeholders. It is high time that the laws are re-tabled in Parliament.
Ravi Bhushan Kurukshetra
NEW DELHI: A 42-year-old man was shot dead in Shyam Vihar area of Najafgarh on Sunday evening, police said.
Senior officers said Naresh Singh, who worked as a financer for local property agents, was shot at least ten times. They said initial investigation suggest that the murder could be a fallout of a financial dispute over ₹6-7 lakh and a car. Investigators said Singh lived in Dharmpura, Najafgarh. They said the incident took place at 8.30pm when Singh with sitting with at least four others near a property dealer’s shop in Shyam Vihar.