KEEPING TABS ON POWER POLITICS IN PUNJAB, HARYANA, HIMACHAL PRADESH AND JAMMU AND KASHMIR
Khaira...i have already said whatever I had to.” But, then, journalists don’t give up easily and kept firing questions pertaining to infighting in Punjab. The AAP chief abruptly ended the press conference and left for a luncheon meeting with the party leaders from Punjab. about heritage or folklore,” remarked a Congress leader from Mansa. If she gets the Congress ticket, the contest between the two Badal bahus will be the big battle of the parliamentary polls in this party of the country. press meet, a TV reporter told the Bholath MLA that whenever he addresses press conferences, his gaze is focused on televisions cameras as if no journalists are present there. “By looking at cam- eras, I talk to people of the state,” pat came the reply from Khaira. However, the AAP leader, who has been suspended from the party since, perhaps did realise that he was holding a press conference and not going live on social media. He also addressed the reporters present, and not just cameras, while delivering his opening remarks and answering queries. INLD MLA from Jind, late Hari Chand Middha, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) last week, but it did not come as a surprise. He was often seen with BJP leaders in the past. Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar was at his father’s cremation before any INLD leader’s visit two months ago. Krishan joined the party at the chief minister’s residence where he was also assured “due place” in the party. All eyes are on the Jind byelection likely to be announced any time now. The new entrant had promptly removed INLD flags and photos from his office and vehicles. His phone’s caller tune, Hari Hari Pagadi (green turban), the trademark colour of turbans worn by leaders of his former party, is also gone.