Chandigarh: Miss Universe Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu on Wednesday called on Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann at his official residence.

Sharing a video of Kaur’s meeting with Mann, Government of Punjab tweeted on its official page, “Miss Universe @HarnaazKaur Sandhu called on CM @BhagwantMann today at his official residence. Chief Minister congratulated her for making the country proud by bringing the title of Miss Universe back to India after 21 years.” https://t.co/yy3RYfwDrG

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Chandigarh: The Punjab Cabinet on Friday gave approval to recommend the State Governor Banwarilal Purohit for dissolution of 15th Punjab Vidhan Sabha.

A decision to this effect was taken during a virtual Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi here at his official residence this morning.

Disclosing this here today, a spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office said that Punjab governor is authorised to dissolve the State Legislature as per sub-clause (b) of clause (2) of Article 174 of the Constitution of India. This move being a Constitutional necessity would now eventually pave a way for formation of 16th Punjab Vidhan Sabha.

At the end of the meeting, the Chief Minister thanked all his cabinet colleagues, officers, employees and people for overall development and maintaining peace and tranquillity in the state during the tenure of the present government.

The Chief Minister also congratulated the incoming government and hoped that the new government would earnestly implement the promises made to the people. He also hoped that the decisions taken by his government in the public interest such as reduction of electricity rates, slashing VAT on oil besides decreasing rates of sand and gravel etc. would be continued by the next government.

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Chandigarh: Clarifying his recent statement of not letting “UP, Bihar de bhaiye” enter the state, Chief Minister Charanjit Channi today clarified that the comments were aimed only at Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, who was attempting to rule the state through backdoor.

Channi said that his statement has been misconstrued by opposition in the presence of Priyanka Gandhi at Ropar, which received huge criticism from various sectors.

Channi said that his remakes were an attack against Kejriwal. AAP is campaign aggressively in the state and is in neck to neck competition with Congress.

Two days back, Channi, in presence of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, said that Bhaiyas from UP ans Bihar will not be allowed to enter Punjab.

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Chandigarh: In yet another attempt to present himself as an “aam aadmi”, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Sunday suddenly stopped his vehicle on a highway to greet a newly-wed couple when he spotted them at Mandi Kalan village during his visit to Bathinda.

Channi also hugged the groom and had a brief chat with the newly married couple. The video was also tweeted by the Punjab Government, which has now gone viral on the social media. He was also seen taking a bite of sweets offered by the relatives of the couple.

Earlier, CM Channi had said that he is a representative of the common man, the farmer and anyone who is oppressed.

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Chandigarh:In order to ensure better coordination between the government and people’s representatives, the Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Saturday said that he would meet the Ministers, MLAs and other political functionaries every Tuesday in his office from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm.

Disclosing this, a spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office said that the Chief Minister ordered that Cabinet meeting would be held every Tuesday at 3 pm and the directed all the Administrative Secretaries/ Heads of Department to remain present in their offices during this time on every Tuesday. Likewise,he also asked them not to leave their offices till the Cabinet meeting is over.

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Chandigarh: Punjab government, headed by Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, on Thursday has appointed Anirudh Tiwari as the new Chief Secretary of the state after replacing Vini Mahajan.

Mahajan had been serving as CS since June last year, and was handpicked by former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh.

Presently, he was serving as Additional Chief Secretary, Development.

There were three other officers names in the list for the post including Ravneet Kaur, Sanjay Kumar and VK Singh as contenders but government finalised, Tiwari, who is junior to them and is a 1990 batch officer.

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Chamkaur Sahib (Roopnagar): With an aim to bring government at the doorsteps of common man and provide justice to poor, the Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Monday visited his constituency and paid rich tributes to elder Sahibzadas of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji at Gurudwara Sri Katalgarh Sahib.

After paying his respects, the Chief Minister while addressing an impressive gathering at Grain Market Sri Chamkaur Sahib, said that justice would be done soon in Bargari sacrilege case as he is devout Sikh of Guru Sahib and can’t tolerate that culprits responsible for this crime are roaming freely.

Announcing Rs. 50 crore more especially for the development of Chamkaur Sahib Constituency, he further pointed out that every person of his constituency is like a Chief Minister and in an emotional vein said that people of his constituency admire him like a family member. In a brief speech, the Chief Minister also highlighted Theme Park project which would be inaugurated on November 6 besides work on other initiatives such as widening road from Roopnagar to Bela at a cost of Rs. 33 crore, Rs.114 crore for Bela Bridge, Rs. 10 crore for desilting of ponds, Two ITIs at Tripari and Rasoolpur, Skill university in 42 Acres of land at Sri Chamkaur Sahib and Rs. 97 crore has also begun.

Taking iron handedly the Akalis on the issue of Black Farm laws, the Chief Minister said that these laws have been drafted with the consent of Akali leadership and now they have resorted to playing petty politics on this issue to befool people. Challenging the Union Government, he said that he stands strongly with the agitating farmers.

The Chief Minister reiterated that he is a representative of every common man such as shopkeeper, lower or medium class. Lambasting corporate lobby, he said that he will always steadfastly support common man and doors of his house will remain open for every person but *not* for corporates.

Making an announcement to waive off electricity bills of water works schemes, he announced that connection will be restored and remaining bills will be waived off. “Sri Chamkaur Sahib would be developed as a world class tourist hub and theme park would be inaugurated on in November 6”, added Channi.

Meanwhile, the Chief Minister also thanked the Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal on the occasion for bestowing grants with open hand to ensure overall prosperity of Sri Chamkaur Sahib Constituency.

On the occasion, the local leadership of the Congress Party also honoured the Chief Minister and the Finance Minister.

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Chandigarh: In his maiden media address after assuming charge as Punjab Chief Minister, Charanjit Singh Channi on Monday got emotional and said that Congress has made a common man the chief minister.

“It is a people and workers’ government and I will fulfil all genuine demands of the workers soon,” he said while appealing all agitating employees to return to the work immediately.

Newly appointed CM also urged Union government to repeal contentious three-farm bills.

He said that his government will waiver water and electricity bills of farmers.

Channi also praised former chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh’ s working and said Captain did a lot of good work for the people of Punjab. His government will take forward his work.

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Chandigarh: Even after changing the Chief Minister in Punjab, it seems that the infighting in the Congress is still persisting with former PPCC chief Sunil Jakhar has objected to Punjab Congress in-charge Harish Rawat’s statement just a few hours before swear in ceremony of the new Congress CM.

Resentment was comprehensible in Jakhar’s message which he posted on his official twitter handle on Monday morning as he wrote, “On the swearing-in day of Sh @Charnjit_channi as Chief Minister, Mr Rawats’s statement that “elections will be fought under Sidhu”, is baffling. It’s likely to undermine CM’s authority but also negate the very ‘raison d’être’ of his selection for this position.”

After Captain Amarinder Singh had resigned from his post on Saturday, there were reports that party high command chose Jakhar as Captain’s successor.

However, after spree of meetings and feedback from party workers, Congress party named Charanjit Singh Channi as the first Dalit CM of Punjab.

He will take oath as the Chief Minister of Punjab on September 20, 2021 at Punjab Raj Bhawan at 11am.

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Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said it was unfortunate that the farmers agitating against the black Farm Laws had given a political twist to his remarks instead of understanding the pain and misery caused to the people on account of their protests in the state, which were quite uncalled for, given his government’s continued support to them.

Reacting to Samyukt Kisan Morcha’s criticism of the remarks he had made yesterday on the issue, the Chief Minister lamented that despite his government’s unequivocal support to their cause, the farmers had misinterpreted his appeal and had, instead, tried to link it with the upcoming Assembly polls in Punjab. His government, as well as the people of Punjab, had always stood with the farmers on the issue of the Farm Laws, and it was sad that they were now suffering due to the continued protests of the farming community across the state, he added.

The Chief Minister asserted that there was no question of trying to split the farmers of Punjab and Haryana, all of whom were equal victims of the apathy of the BJP-led governments at the Centre and in the neighbouring state. “My government, in contrast, has not only firmly supported the farmers’ fight against the Farm Laws but had even brought in amendment Bills in the Vidhan Sabha to mitigate their adverse impact,” he pointed out, adding that those Bills had, unfortunately, not been forwarded by the Governor to the President for assent.

Pointing out that the farmers’ fight was against the BJP, which was solely responsible for thrusting the anti-farmer legislations on Punjab and other states, Captain Amarinder said inconveniencing the people of Punjab was not justified in the circumstances.

He rejected the Morcha’s claims that there was no paralysis of the government in Punjab due to the farmers’ protests, pointing out that it was not the Adanis or the Ambanis whose interests were being hurt by such protests but the common people of the state, as well as its economy.

The Adanis’ assets in Punjab were a miniscule 0.8% of their total assets, and the presence of the Reliance Group stood at a nominal 0.1%, the Chief Minister observed, adding that the losses caused to these industries due to the farmers’ unrest in the state were too minor to be of any serious concern to them. “It is the people of Punjab who are suffering due to the disruption of services as a result of the protests,” he said.

Continued protests in Punjab will push industry out of the state, which would have a severe impact on the economy, which his government was still trying to revive from the crisis into which the previous SAD-BJP government had pushed it, said the Chief Minister. Already, the situation was becoming serious on the grain storage and procurement front due to the agitation, with lifting of the stocks by the FCI and state agencies getting obstructed, he said. With the wheat stocks having already completed 4 years of storage, the unused capacity was getting ruined, while also resulting in financial burden on the public exchequer due to payment of guaranteed charges to the silo owners as per agreements of hiring, said Captain Amarinder, disclosing that the stocks lying in the FCI Adani silo at Moga alone was worth Rs 480 crore.

All the movement of wheat stocks from FCI Adani silo, Moga and FCI silo, Kotkapura is halted due to the on-going farmers protest against the Farm Laws, whereas, 160855 MT of wheat stocks of previous crop years stored in the Adani silo, Moga by FCI needs to be liquidated on priority, as deterioration of these stocks may lead to losses to the Public exchequer. The value of stocks in Moga Adani silos is approximately Rs 480 crores.

Further, pointed out the Chief Minister, construction of silos awarded by FCI in the state was getting delayed as farmer unions were not allowing JCBs and trucks to enter the construction sites. This was a serious cause of concern since the GoI/FCI had already announced that from RMS 2024-25 onwards, procurement of wheat in the central pool will only be done as per the available covered/scientific storage capacity. What is further likely to damage the state’s interests is reports of silo concessionaires/parties also considering to shut down the projects being set up in Punjab, he added.

“If things continue in this manner, we will lose out on investment, revenue and employment opportunities,” the Chief Minister warned, adding that this would lead to serious paralysis of the government in Punjab.

The farmers could not possibly want to lead Punjab and its people back into the depths of despair from which his government had barely managed to pull them out over the past four and a half years, said Captain Amarinder, once again urging the farmers to discontinue their protests in Punjab, which was not even remotely responsible for their plight.

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