Chandigarh Jan 24 PTI Fifteen-year-old Aekom Warring maybe too young for politics but not for canvassing and is busy making a connect with voters in her father Amarinder Singh Raja Warrings Gidderbaha Assembly constituency in PunjabWith folded hands Aekom Warring goes from house-to-house greeting voters and asking them to elect her father for the development work carried out by him in the last 10 years Amarinder Sing Raja Warring is eyeing a third term in a row from Gidderbaha Assembly seat in Punjabs Muktsar district He was earlier elected from this seat in 2012 and 2017Family members of several other contestants in the fray for the February 20 Punjab Assembly polls are going door-to-door to garner support for the coming electionsWith a ban on big gatherings and rallies by the Election Commission of India in view of COVID-19 family members of candidates are meeting voters personally to ensure they vote for their contestantsAekom Warring exudes confidence that voters of Gidderbaha will vote for her father for the unprecedented development works carried out during the last 10 years and make him victorious againMy father did what he promised to the people of the area she says while adding that she is getting a very good response from the peopleAn elderly man in a village even praises Amarinder Singh Raja Warring for ensuring water to his fields when the teenager visits his houseA few days back Aekom Warring inaugurated the poll office of her father in Gidderbaha Amarinder Singh Raja Warring became the transport minister when Charanjit Singh Channi took over the chief minister last SeptemberSimrat Kaur Khangura wife of Congress candidate Dalvir Singh Goldy is also touring her husbands assembly constituency to garner supportGoldy who is a sitting MLA will again contest from Dhuri assembly segment He will take on Aam Aadmi Partys chief ministerial face Bhagwant Mann in a high-stake electoral contestA post graduate in English Khangura 39 says she is visiting each and every house of the constituency and is getting a very good response from the voters Starting her campaigning at 730 am Khangura returns home in the evening onlyIt is not that for the first time or second time I am visiting people I frequently go to them and I get a warm welcome she says On how she views AAP leader Bhagwant Mann as a contestant against her husband Khangura says she does not see him anywhereShe claims Mann a two-time MP from Sangrur Lok Sabha seat visited Dhuri constituency only twice in 2014 and 2019 during the Lok Sabha pollsBhagwant Mann has not been seen in this constituency Khangura told PTIThe AAP leader does not have anything to say for what he did for this area she addsShe says her husband Goldy has done a lot of development work including setting up several sports grounds smart schools and upgrading some schools in Dhuri Assembly constituencyDhuri is one of the assembly constituencies which fall under Sangrur Parliamentary constituency Punjab goes to polls on February 20 and is set for a multi-cornered contest PTI CHS VSD DV DV

Chandigarh Jan 18 PTI Bhagwant Mann will be the Aam Aadmi Partys AAP chief ministerial face for the Punjab Assembly polls party chief Arvind Kejriwal announced on Tuesday The 48-year-old two-time Sangrur MPs name was announced at a public event where Kejriwal declared the result of the AAPsJanta Chunegi Apna CM drive in which it had asked the people of Punjab as to who should be the partys chief ministerial candidate Mann is the partys state unit chief The party had received 2159 lakh responses under its campaign to elect its CM face for the Assembly polls party leaders saidAddressing the media here Kejriwal said Out of 2159 lakh votes received many people included my name I had earlier said that I am not in the race We declared those votes naming Kejriwal as invalid Out of the remaining 933 per cent people named Sardar Bhagwant Manns name On the second slot was Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu who got 36 per cent votes added KejriwalBhagwant Mann is officially declared as Punjabs next CM and AAPs CM face said Kejriwal After his name was announced Mann got emotional The comedian-turned-politicians mother and sister were also present at the eventThe AAPis the only outfit among major parties contesting the polls which has announced its chief ministerial faceVoting for Punjabs 117 Assembly seats is scheduled for February 20 and the counting will take place on March 10 PTI CHS SUN DV DV

New Delhi Oct 23 PTI Over 60000 students have secured admission to Delhi Universitys DU undergraduate courses under the three cut-off lists and the university has so far received over 17 lakh applicationsFriday was the last day for the colleges to approve the applications The payment gateway closed at 5 pm on SaturdayThe special cut-off list for the students who were not able to apply in the first three lists will be released on Monday while the fourth list will be released on October 30According to official data 60155 students have paid the fees and the university has processed 170696 applicationsAt Aryabhatta College 524 admissions have taken place till now and admission in the unreserved category is likely to be closed in English Honours History Honours Political Science Honours Mathematics Honours BA programme History and Political Science In the OBC category it is closed in Political Science Honours and Mathematics Honours The admissions are likely to continue in the other categories and subjectsAt Miranda House a few seats are left in Sociology Honours and HistoryHonours according to officials while the college will decide the subjects that will be open in the special cut-off list on SundayProfessor Hansraj Suman president of the Aam Aadmi Partys teachers wing -- Delhi Teachers Association -- said the DU administration should ask for data from colleges on the number of seats filled up in the reserved categories and it should be uploaded on its websiteHe also demanded that the seats under the reserved categories be filled up in a special drive that should be launched before the classes commence for the first-year studentsIn a related development the university also released the re-admission schedule for admission to Bachelor of Management Studies Bachelor of Business Administration Financial Investment Analysis and BA Honours Business Economics for which entrance tests were conducted by the National Testing AgencyThe DU will declare the ranks secured by the candidates in the entrance exams on October 25 with the candidates having the option to change the college-programme preference between October 26 and 10 am on October 27The first allotment list will be displayed on October 30 while the candidates will be able to apply between October 31 and November 1 The colleges will have time till November 2 to reject or approve the applications and November 3 will be the last day for making paymentsThe second and third allotment lists will be announced on November 6 and November 13 PTI SLB RC

Chandigarh Oct 22 PTI AAP leader Raghav Chadha alleged on Friday that Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi was indulging in just photo opportunity and that his government has failed to fulfil the promise of compensating the farmers whose cotton crop was destroyed due to pink bollworm infestation Cotton crop on more than one lakh hectare land has been destroyed due to the pest attack Chadha who is the Aam Aadmi Partys Punjab co-incharge told a news conference here Chadha said that Channi had nearly a month ago met the affected farmers in Bathinda region and promised them that the state government would compensate them for the huge damage caused to the cotton crop due to the pest attack The chief minister did not honour his promise to compensate even those farmers with whom he got pictures clicked which were later used by the government for publicity purposes across the state to give an impression that the present dispensation was farmer-friendly the AAP leader alleged During the conference Chadha repeatedly referred to Channi as a dramebaaz chief minister who only likes the camera glare and the limelight without delivering on ground During his visit he told farmers at Kartar Singh Wala village that the government will compensate those who suffered crop losses on account of the pest attack but a month has passed now no farmer has got compensation he claimed Dramebaaz CM got himself photographed with a farmer Balwinder Singh Khalsa He advertised this photo throughout Punjab but even Khalsa did not get any compensation Another hoarding put up across the state on bus shelters in busesshows a picture of farmer Harpreet Singhhis crop was also damaged but no compensation was paid to him too Both these farmers like several others feel cheated and used he said Channi believes in lights camera but no action said Chadha The chief minister is only using photos clicked with affected farmers from Punjab to garner votes He said there was nothing new in false promises made by the Congress leaders and referred to Channi and his predecessor Amarinder Singh as Bobbsey Twins When Amarinder Singh was chief minister he ran a campaign saying loans of all farmers will be waived He too got a picture clicked with farmer Budh Singh of Gurdaspur who had Rs 25 lakh loan but his loan was not waived Chadha said The AAP demands that the government should not use farmers for photoshoots but give compensation he said The AAP demands Rs 75000 per acre compensation to the farmers whose crop was affected by pink bollworm attack he said Farmers of Punjab are not a commodity that their photos will be exhibited to catch votes said Chadha upping the ante against the government ahead of the assembly polls early next year PTI SUN VSD SMN SMN

New Delhi Sep 19 PTI The Aam Aadmi Partys Punjab chief ministerial candidate will hail from the state and will be somebody who can be called the pride of the state party leader Raghav Chadha said With assembly polls in Punjab set for early next year the AAP is going all out to win the battle and has already promised free 300 units of power to the people of the state if it forms the next governmentChadha the AAPs Punjab co-in charge told PTI in an interview that people of the state want to give the Arvind Kejriwal led party a chance in the next polls as the Akali Dal has become irrelevant while the Congress has been the most nikami sarkar useless government ever in the history of electoral politics of PunjabHe said the chief ministerial candidate of the party for Punjab will be decided by the political affairs committee in due course of timeOn chances of AAP MP and Partys Punjab unit president Bhagwant Mann being chosen he said at this point and time I can only say three characteristics of the CM candidate of AAP One is that he will hail from the state of Punjab he will be from the 28 crore population of Punjab and thirdly he will be somebody who can be called the aan baan shaan pride of PunjabDelhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Partys national convener Arvind Kejriwal in June had said that the partys chief ministerial face for the 2022 Punjab assembly polls would be from the Sikh communityOver reports that Manns supporters want that he should be named as the CM candidate Chadha said All are supporters of Kejriwal and of the Kejriwal model of governance I dont wish to comment on individuals but the vote is for Jhaadu partys sign and for KejriwalSeveral AAP volunteers in Sangrur and Barnala districts are holding meetings to press the party leadership to choose Mann as the chief ministerial face sources in the party saidTalking about the political situation of Punjab Chadha claimed that the Akali Dal is slowly becoming irrelevant because people have utmost hatred for the party of Badals and want it to be defeatedAs far as the Congress is concerned it is on a suicide mission and on self destruction mode and they do not need an opposition They are their own opposition and people are just waiting for the AAP and for elections to happen he saidOn Amarinder Singhs resignation from the chief ministers post on Saturday Chadha has said that governance in Punjab has been the biggest casualty in the Congress partys Game of ThronesThe people of Punjab are yearning for a change They feel they have tried everyone and now only AAP is their hope and they wish to try AAP they wish to vote for AAP and are banking heavily on the Kejriwal model of governance in Delhi that was showcased in the last six years he saidChadha said when he asks people of the state who they will vote for in the next polls they reply that this time they want to give a chance to AAPOn the impact of the ongoing farmers protest on the polls Chadha alleged that all three parties - BJP Congress and Akali Dal - have betrayed the Indian farmers and backstabbed them I dont look at the farmers protest through the prism of politics and it would be unfair for anyone to do that but I can most certainly say that the BJP is not even a player in Punjab because of enacting these three laws Akali Dal is hated because they were the people who brought this law as Harsimrat Kaur Badal being the minister in the Union Cabinet proposed this legislation and Captain Amarinder Singh is also hated because he was part of the drafting committee of these laws he saidThe AAP and its leader Arvind Kejriwal have stood with the farmers throughout and have been rock solid behind them and will work for the welfare of the farming community and their uplift he saidAsked if the AAP will be benefited by the vote bank of Akali Dal he claimed that everyone will be voting for the AAP not just those who are traditionally Akali Dal or Congress votersThis time all these divisions and classifications are not going to work Just like when elections happen in Delhi people from all caste creed and religion vote for Arvind Kejriwal Similarly they will vote for Kejriwal in Punjab he saidTalking about the partys vision for Punjab Chadha said reforms that have been carried out in the national capital will also be carried out in PunjabWith utmost sincerity and dedication we will work work towards making Punjab khush haal happy and achieving our dream of rangla Punjab vibrant and colourful by solving the problem of unemployment debt trap of the state uplift farmers and giving them their due working for the landless labourers ease of doing business for the business community and the traders reforming completely the electricity and the water sector he saidThe party will also strive to bring to Punjab world class education in primary and secondary schools as well as an affordable and accessible healthcare systemIn 2017 the AAP had emerged as the main opposition party in the state after winning 20 out of the 117 assembly seats The Congress had won 77 while an alliance of Shiromani Akali Dal and BJP won 18 seats Assembly polls in Punjab are scheduled for 2022 PTI UZM DV DV

The campaign aapka vidhayak aapke dwaar will officially kickstart from August 25 but the groundwork has already begunThe campaign has started in Timarpur with MLA Dilip Pandey even getting DDA officials on board to visit local residents and solve the problemsPandey visited the Signature View Apartment in Mukherjee Nagar area to interact with its 1000 plus residents and take stock of the local issuesFor the next 45 days the party will focus on phase one of the campaign and go door-to-door to address the peoples issuesIn this phase the AAP also aims to apprise people of the rules and regulations when it comes to local problems