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Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
PunjabAkali Dal open to alliance with BSP: Badal Special Correspondent “The UPA won but the country and democracy lost”Dal hopes the Speaker will hold full and fair inquiryCHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who is also the Patron of the Shiromani Akali Dal, has said that the party is open to forging an alliance with any political party to ensure defeat of the Congress...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
News: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Advts: | | | | - Punjab Akali Dal to vote against UPA government: Badal Special Correspondent Party president rules out abstention even by a single MP Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal. CHANDIGARH: Refuting all speculations, the president of the Shiromani Akali Dal, Sukhbir Singh Badal has said that all the eight MPs from the...
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Taking a serious view of party MP Sukh Dev Singh Libra's abstention during the trust vote, Badal said stringent action would be taken against him.
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
• Sukhdev Singh Libra, SAD: “There is no place for Libra in the party,” said President of SAD Sukhbir Singh Badal after the Ropar MP defied the party whip. “Libra has been expelled from the party for his anti-party activities and for abstaining from the trust vote,” he said. On the other hand, Libra said: “The nuclear deal is in favour of the country and for me, the country’s interests comes...
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Times of India (Free subscription) | yesterday
... a member from Lakshwadweep, for remaining absent during the floor test. SAD leader Sukhbir Singh Badal said in Chandigarh that "Libra has been expelled from the party for his anti-party activities and defying the party whip by abstaining from the trust vote". BJP had expelled eight MPs, while JD(S), Shiv Sena, TDP and BJD had ousted one member each.
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Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
"Chatterjee had pressurised the party (CPI-M) to nominate him as candidate for the post of president last year and told the party that he would persuade the Congress to accept his candidature, but the party leaders refused the demand," said CPI-M central committee member Badal Chowdhury.
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... after a meeting of the party's office bearers presided by Sharad Yadav. SAD leader Sukhbir Singh Badal said on Wednesday night in Chandigarh that "Libra has been expelled from the party for his anti-party activities and defying the party whip by abstaining from the trust vote". While BJP had expelled eight MPs on Wednesday for defying party line, JD (S), Shiv Sena, TDP and BJD had ousted...
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Sify (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... by BJP and other parties for defying whips during the trust vote. SAD leader Sukhbir Singh Badal said late Wednesday in Chandigarh that "Libra has been expelled from the party for his anti-party activities and defying the party whip by abstaining from the trust vote." While BJP had expelled eight MPs on Wednesday for defying party line, JD-S, Shiv Sena, TDP and BJD had ousted one member...
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... at the office and burnt an effigy of the MP. •SAD: In Chandigarh, even as SAD president Sukhbir Badal said the party had expelled Sukhdev Singh Libra and had requested the Lok Sabha Speaker to disqualify him from the House, the rebel MP said he had abstained from voting against the UPA Government because he felt that the deal was in the interest of the nation. Dismissing allegations that...
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... exercise jurisdiction in the matter, as clarified by the Supreme Court in 1987 in Prakash Singh Badal vs Union of India. "The Speaker has not been clothed with a suo motu power for the obvious reason that he is supposed to be a non-party man and has been entrusted with the jurisdiction to act judicially," SC said. Although an MP can remain in the House even after he is expelled from his...
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Chandigarh:: SAD(B) MP Sukhdev Singh Libra sprung an unpleasant surprise on his party on Tuesday when he defied the whip and abstained from voting in Parliament. A furious SAD(B) president Sukhbir Singh Badal admitted that the Ropar MP did not come to vote despite the party whip to all its eight MPs to be present in the Lok Sabha to vote against the UPA Government. “As per our intelligence inputs,...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Punjab to launch olive cultivation It will ensure better returns to the farmers Chandigarh: The Punjab Government is all set to launch olive cultivation over 300 hectares under a pilot project to ensure better remunerative returns to the farmers and towards a push for diversification of agriculture. Reviewing the prospects of the olive plantation in a meeting here, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal...
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... performance," the Faridkot MP told reporters outside Parliament House here. At the same time, Badal said, the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cannot be forgotten. "Also the way in which it (Congress) is trying to divide the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC), and the turban controversy in France, are issues that have to be kept in mind," Badal, whose SAD is in power in Punjab, said....
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
... the first Sikh Prime Minister.” The party stood like rock with Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, he asserted.“Though there was no need for this, the Shiromani Akali Dal issued a whip to all its MPs to be present in the House when the motion for vote of confidence is moved on Tuesday and vote against it. This was done to put at rest all speculations.” The party’s top leadership had...
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Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
... Vedanti quit his office for failing to take action against the dera chief.Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal termed the Dabwali incident as ‘extremely sad and unfortunate’. He urged the Haryana government to take immediate action under law against all the guilty.
