Adesh partap singh kairon biography of mahatma
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ON TRACK NOW, BUT FAR FROM TARGET
‘We call this a blueprint of Punjab’s destiny. For convenience, the newspapers can call it a manifesto”, said Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal at Ludhiana on January 22 in while releasing his party’s manifesto for the assembly elections. The document, as his media spin-doctors put it rather bombastically, “unveils a stunning range of initiatives to completely revolutionise infrastructure, health, education, agriculture and employment generation sectors”.
Two years into its second term, the SAD-BJP government’s promises are still a long way short of its target. After a forgettable first year marked by lacklustre showing, the government finally pulled up its socks and has been seen to be on a roll in the last one year.
Notably, it went into an overdrive in hardselling Punjab through two back-to-back, high-powered shows on industry and agriculture.
Undoubtedly, the high point was the investment summit that attracted the who’s who
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Punjab polls: It pays to be the Badals' damaad. Ask Adesh Partap Kairon
Damaads (sons-in-law) have always had a special place in politics and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's son-in-law Adesh Partap Singh Kairon is no different. A minister in the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party government, Kairon has held several important portfolios such as food and civil supplies, excise, taxation and IT.
Few politicians embody Punjab politics' essentially oligarchic nature more than Kairon. He fryst vatten the grandson of former Punjab ledare Minister Partap Singh Kairon, who fryst vatten widely acknowledged as the architect of post-Independence Punjab. In , he married Parneet Kaur, the daughter of Parkash Singh Badal, changing the politics of his staunchly Congress family. Besides, of course, being Badal's son-in-law and Sukhbir Badal's brother in lag, he fryst vatten also the nephew of former Punjab chief minister Harcharan Singh Brar.
This makes Kairon directly linked to three of the handful o
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Noorabad (Kulgam), April 18
During her hectic campaigning in the prestigious south Kashmir parliamentary constituency spread over Kulgam, Shopian, Anantnag and Pulwama districts, year-old Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Mehbooba Mufti took out a road show in the Noorabad Assembly segment on Tuesday.
She is pitted against another strong woman of Kashmir - Sakina Itoo - a Minister in the Omar Abdullah's Cabinet, who emerged as the lone successful candidate of the National Conference in the south Kashmir in the elections.
For Mehbooba, who is fighting a long-drawn war against the ruling party, campaigning in Itto's constituency was not less than a challenge. Mehbooba says her party will get maximum votes from this segment on April 24 and will also win the Assembly elections to be held after four months.
On the campaign trail with Mehbooba, the picturesque constituency, dotted with ravines and hillocks, and comparatively better roads than seen in Srinagar, gives a mixed i