Amritsar, Punjab: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Partap Bajwa today said the ‘tankhah’ (religious punishment) awarded to Revenue Minister Bikram Majithia for distorting the Gurbani during an election rally for Arun Jaitley was “too mild a punishment”. “Majithia should be exiled from Punjab at least for a year. Only then can the drug mafia nexus in Punjab be broken and ...

Chandigarh: Judicial magistrate Pradeep Synghal on Monday issued notice to Punjab cabinet minister Bikram Singh Majithia on a petition filed by an advocate seeking action against him for hurting religious sentiments by distorting Gurbani. The court has directed Majithia to f ile reply to the petition on July 28. Majithia had courted controversy by distorting Gurbani during election campaign in ...

Amritsar, Punjab: Some Sikh organisations and political parties l i ke the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have demanded a criminal case against revenue minister Bikram Singh Majithia and his ex-communication from the Sikh community for distorting a ‘shabad’ of Guru Gobind Singh by adding Amritsar BJP nominee Arun Jaitley’s name to it. While reciting the shabad “Deh Shiva ...

Amritsar, Punjab: BJP candidate Arun Jaitley today launched a scathing attack on his Congress rival Capt Amarinder Singh, terming him “a monarch in a democracy”, while accusing him of “not speaking a word on what he did for Punjab” during his stint as the CM. In his latest Facebook post, Jaitley said, “Captain creates fake propaganda and then buys the same ...

Amritsar, Punjab: Daring BJP candidate from Amritsar Arun Jaitley to a public debate on sensitive political issues, the Congress today said the prestigious Lok Sabha seat, that was also the religious capital of the Sikhs, was not the “fiefdom of the Badals which they can pass on to an outsider who has no concern for the issues related to the state”. ...