KEEPING TABS ON POWER POLITICS IN PUNJAB, HARYANA, HIMACHAL PRADESH AND JAMMU AND KASHMIR
the party office there. AAP
MLAS routinely hold meetings and press conferences with or without
Cheema. Whenever he has to meet party leaders, journalists and supporters, Cheema tells them to come to the “Sector 39 office”. “As LOP, Khaira also had a sprawling government bungalow in Sector 16 where he held his meetings and press conferences, but he did not let the party use it,” said a party leader. The state unit leaders had openly griped about it then, but don’t seem to have this grouse now. get to sit on main dais with Modi, not even in second row. However, SAD leaders Bikram Majithia and former speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon were accommodated. When senior leaders tried to intervene and repeatedly urged Malik and other organisers to accommodate the three, they requests went unheard. An upset Mittal did not turn up at the rally. development of the city.
Though she won the seat in 2014, defeating Congress candidate and her estranged brother-in-law Manpreet Singh Badal by 19,000 votes, she trailed him by 29,000 in urban area. Though she tried to pay more attention to the city, the last election’s trend appears to worry her even now. every available opportunity to drive home the point. The Panchkula unit of Youth Congress celebrated the birthday of Rohtak MP Deepender Hooda at his father and former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s residence in Chandigarh last week. Besides Hooda, former speaker Kuldeep Sharma was also present on the occasion when cake and sweets were distributed. Interestingly, the cake had an open hand, election symbol of the Congress, designed on it. And, no one is going to mind it. Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited across the state under the corporate social responsibility scheme to give a give a push to Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The MP recently called up officials to convey his unhappiness, expressing willingness to pay the cost of removing his name from the blue and yellow coloured dustbins in rural and urban areas of his parliamentary constituency.