Punjab CM Mann says state to boycott NITI Aayog meeting; terms Budget as ‘Kursi Bachao Budget’ | Chandigarh News

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Thursday announced that the state government would boycott the NITI Aayog meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on July 27. Interacting with mediapersons during his two-day visit to Jalandhar to listen to the grievances of the people from the Doaba and Majha regions at his Jalandhar residence, the chief minister said the decision was taken after the Union Budget failed to allocate funds to Punjab despite the state’s significant contributions to the nation. Mann termed the Union…

AAP starts work to expand party organisation to booth level | Ahmedabad News

AAP leaders Isudan Gadhvi and Gopal Italia held meetings with party workers in Junagadh and Rajkot on Friday, as part of the party’s ‘Mission Vistaar’, a campaign to create a organisation at booth levels in Gujarat. Gujarat AAP president Gadhvi and AAP national joint secretary Italia held meetings with local leaders and workers at circuit house in Junagadh first and then in Rajkot. In a statement, the party said that the objective of Mission Vistaar was to enrol new workers and create an organisation of the party right down to…

AAP, Congress under attack, focus on assembly polls: Delhi BJP holds key party meeting | Delhi News

The arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal among other key leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in different cases, the AAP’s alliance with Congress to fight Lok Sabha elections, and the development projects executed by Centre in the capital – the first extended executive meeting of Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saw party leaders stepping up attack on rivals. Eyeing the assembly elections due next year, the party leaders spoke of increasing efforts to ensure that Delhi has a “double-engine” government. “This election saw a coalition…