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The induction of ex-Congress MP from Ludhiana, Ravneet Singh Bittu, grandson of slain former Punjab chief minister and Congress stalwart Beant Singh, into the new Narendra Modi-led Union ministry as the Minister of State (MoS) within three months of switching to the BJP – and despite losing the Lok Sabha polls – has signalled a new approach of the ruling party towards Punjab politics.
“Ye Ravneet Bittu mera dost hai, paanch saal se dost bana hai mera. Ye Ravneet Bittu ko Ludhiana se Dilli ki sansad mein bhejiye, isko bada aadmi banane ka kaam main karunga (Ravneet Bittu is my friend. He has been my friend for the past five years. Vote for him and send him to Parliament and it is my responsibility to make him a big man),” former Union Home Minister Amit Shah said at a rally in Ludhiana in Punjab on May 26.
It was an unusual start to the day for a BJP candidate to hug his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) rival at a mosque to extend Eid-ul-Fitr wishes.
Joining an exclusive club of ex-diplomats who made the switch to politics under the Narendra Modi government, former Indian Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Tuesday joined the BJP. Like him, Union Ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and S Jaishankar are also former diplomats.
The Election Commission of India will announce the schedule of Lok Sabha polls 2024 on Saturday, March 16, the poll panel informed.
President Droupadi Murmu on March 14 appointed retired IAS officers Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu as the new Election Commissioners. The two names were picked by a panel chaired by that met here in the national capital earlier in the day.
A selection committee headed by the Prime Minister on Thursday picked retired IAS officers Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu as the new Election Commissioners, with Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the Opposition member in the panel, recording his dissent and questioning the procedure followed.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led high-level committee on March 14 picked former bureaucrats Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu as the , the leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury informed.