Jagtar Singh

  Sukhbir Singh Badal promises new farm laws the way his party did on Section 5 of river waters Act Jagtar Singh Ground Zero   Chandigarh: Every political party has the right to strategise its tactical and line as such, there is nothing wrong in the rejection of the farm bills by Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal today at a media briefing after the core committee meeting of his party. His party had supported Punjab amendment bills 48 hours earlier facilitating unanimous adoption of the same in the Assembly. These bills were piloted by Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh. Sukhbir today attacked the Punjab amendment bills as betrayal with the state. However, he repeated history by ending up his press conference   with the promise to enact new laws and declare the entire state as market immediately after coming into power in 2022 and the decision regarding which would be taken at the very first cabinet meeting. The press release issued after the p...

  Akali Dal retrieves past agenda of federalism from its dustbin of history   Ground Zero Jagtar Singh Chandigarh: It was not surprising when within days of the exit from power and end to the alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Shiromani Akali Dal on the late evening of October 4   announced the setting up of a “high powered committee” to “coordinate with regional and other like-minded parties in the country to ensure the setting up of a genuinely federal structure in the country”. The party has often functioned differently when in power and out of it going by the record. The committee comprises Balwinder Singh Bhunder, Prem Singh Chandumajra, ‘Jathedar’ Manjinder Singh Sirsa and Naresh Gujral. These lines speak volumes about the desperate move of the party to return to its roots. The use of prefix ‘Jathedar’ for Manjinder Singh Sirsa who heads the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee but also inclined to the Sangh Parivar dynamics is also a poin...