New Delhi Mar 26 PTI The newly appointed Punjab Assembly Speaker and Punjab finance minister - both from the Aam Aadmi Party AAP - attended the budget presentation in the Delhi assembly on Saturday to understand the process AAP functionaries said Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan and Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema were in the House as Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia presented the budget They were here to learn and acquaint themselves with the budget presentation process as they will be doing so for the first time in Punjab a senior AAP leader said here The AAP had won 92 of the 117 assembly seats defeating the Congress and the SAD-BSP combine as well as the BJP Sisodia announced a Rs 75800 crore-budget -- up by 986 per cent since previous budget -- for financial year 2022-23 on Saturday He said the 2022-23 budget is a Rozgar Budget The budget for the financial year 2021-22 was Rs 69000 crore This is the eighth consecutive budget of the AAP government PTI AKM AKM VN VN
Chandigarh Mar 22 PTI The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday paid tributes to former governor Sunith Francis Rodrigues and other personalities who passed away since the last session Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann led the Vidhan Sabha in paying tributes During the first session of 16th Punjab Vidhan Sabha here the House paid respects to the former Punjab governor and former army chief Sunith Francis Rodrigues Rordrigues headed the Indian Army between 1990 and 1993 and served the governor of Punjab between 2004 and 2010 The House also paid rich tributes to Brig LS Lidder who died in an IAF chopper crash along with Chief of Defence Staff CDS General Bipin Rawat and other senior military officers The members of the House also remembered BSF Jawan Dharminder Kumar who laid down his life while patrolling in Assam Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Dr Sukhwinder Kumar Sukhi demanded that the names of Lidder and Kumar be included in the obituary references The House also paid tributes to actor-athlete Parveen Kumar Kumar best known for playing Bheem in the TV series Mahabharat and for winning an Asian Games gold medal died last month The House also paid tributes to former minister Ramesh Dutt Sharma former MLA Sant Ajit Singh and former MLA and freedom fighter Harbans Singh The Vidhan Sabha also paid tributes to freedom fighters Prem Ballabh Arjan Singh Mohan Singh Gopal Singh Melo Devi Dharam Singh Jarnail Singh and Sukhdev Singh Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan proposed the name of Rana Mahindra Partap Singh the brother of MLA Rana Gurjit Singh for obituary references A two-minute silence was observed in the memory of departed souls as a mark of respect during the obituary references PTI CHS VSD RDK RDK
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