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after conquering Punjab, aaP makes big

mark in rajya sabha and eyes rajasthan

The AAP government has said that in all the government offices the portraits of Bhagat Singh

and Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar will be installed

OuR BuREAu

Chandigarh/Jaipur
ll the five nominees of the
Aam Admi Party (AAP),
Aincluding former cricketer
Harbhajan Singh were on Thursday
elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha.
With AAP registering a landslide
victory in the recently-concluded
Punjab elections and the party win-
ning 92 out of 117 seats in the state
Assembly, the election of AAP can-
didates into the Upper House of Par-
liament was a certainty. Five out of
the seven Rajya Sabha seats in Pun-
jab will become vacant on April 9.
AAP nominated former crick-
eter Harbhajan Singh, Delhi MLA
Raghav Chadha who is also AAP
co-in-charge of Punjab, IIT Delhi
Professor Sandeep Pathak, Chancel-
lor of Lovely Professional University
Ashok Mittal and founder of Krish-
na Pran Breast Cancer Care Charita-
ble Trust Sanjeev Arora to these five
vacant seats from Punjab.
Returning Officer-cum-Secre-
tary, Punjab Vidhan Sabha Surind-
er Pal said that as no candidate had
withdrawn his nomination till March Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Thursday. (ANI Photo)
24, the last day for doing so, Sandeep
Kumar Pathak and Raghav Chadha
(first cycle), Harbhajan Singh, Ashok on the occasion of Shaheed Diwas.
Mittal and Sanjeev Arora (second The WhatsApp helpline number is
cycle) were declared unopposed as 9501200200.
winners. After Bhagwant Mann had
Congress leaders Partap Singh sworn in as chief minister on March
Bajwa and SS Dullo, BJP’s Shwait 16, he had announced that the gov-
Malik, SAD’s Naresh Gujral and SS ernment will launch a helpline to
Dhindsa from SAD-Sanyukt are the curb corruption in the state. He
five Rajya Sabha MPs who are retir- said that WhatsApp number will
ing from the Rajya Sabha. be his personal number and people
The term of SAD’s Balwinder can send videos or audios and lodge
Singh Bhunder and Congress lead- complaints as he will personally look
er Ambika Soni, who are also Rajya into every corruption case.
Sabha MPs from Punjab, will end on Mann said, “On Shaheed Diwas
July 4. Elections to these two seats AAP leader Raghav Chaddha (center) has now gone to Rajya Sabha (ANI Photo) (Martyrs’ Day), we are launching the
would be held later this year. anti-corruption helpline number to-
Raghav Chadha on Thursday nominated Chadha for Rajya Sabha party’s co-incharge for Punjab. day where you can lodge complaints
tendered his resignation from Del- from Punjab. Chadha is an MLA Meanwhile, the Punjab govern- and we will take action accordingly.”
hi Legislative Assembly to Speak- from Delhi’s Rajinder Nagar As- ment on Wednesday launched an an- Mann took the oath of office
er Ram Niwas Goel. The AAP has sembly constituency while also being ti-corruption action helpline number Continued at next page... >>

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