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With his switch, ahead of the Jharkhand assembly elections expected to be held later this year, Soren joins a long list of former CMs who rebelled against their own party
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Badal breathed his last at the Fortis Hospital in Mohali, where he was admitted since April 16 after complaining of breathing issues.
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Madan Kaushik, Vishnu Deo Sai, its former presidents of Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh respectively, Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi, Manoranjan Kalia and Amanjot Kaur Ramoowalia, all three from Punjab, have been made special invitees to the national executive, it added.
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Singh also merged his newly formed Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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The 80-year-old Singh will also merge his newly formed Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) with the BJP. Singh had floated the PLC last year after quitting the Congress following his unceremonious exit as chief minister.
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Singh will also merge his newly formed party with the BJP
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"Urge the Himachal Pradesh CMO to take strict action against the perpetrators," Singh said in a tweet.
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In a statement a day after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) took stock of the drubbing received by the party in five states, Amarinder Singh took digs at the pompous state Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu and the corrupt Charanjit Singh Channi, who replaced him as CM.
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Navjot Singh Sidhu is trailing from Amritsar East, Amarinder Singh is trailing in Patiala Urban and Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi is trailing from Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur.
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Punjab election 2022: The biggest gainer has been Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal, whose assets have increased by Rs 100 crore.
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The Congress had in November last year issued her a show-cause notice seeking an explanation from her for alleged "anti-party activities".
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"This election is for stability and safety. Our motto is to bring back Punjab on track," BJP president JP Nadda said while announcing the seat-sharing pact.
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A few days ago, Amarinder Singh’s wife and Congress MP from Patiala, Preneet Kaur had tested positive for the infection.
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Amarinder Singh said Channi government had utterly failed in ensuring law and order in the state.
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The BJP has announced that it will contest the Punjab assembly polls in alliance with Singh’s party. The meeting is underway at Shah’s residence where all three are present.
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The seat-sharing pact would be decided later after discussing all the factors including winnability of the prospective candidates, Singh told reporters, with Union Minister and BJP's Punjab in-charge Gajendra Singh Shekhawat by his side.
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Early indications suggest a three-way race in Punjab involving the Congress, SAD-BSP combine, and Aam Aadmi Party. However, by teaming up, Captain Amarinder Singh’s Punjab Lok Congress and the BJP could upset the equations in this multi-cornered contest
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Amarinder Singh quit the Congress and launched his Punjab Lok Congress after his unceremonious exit as the Punjab chief minister in September.
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Amarinder Singh described his meeting with the Haryana CM a courtesy call.
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The meeting comes on a day when a bill to repeal the three contentious farm laws, against which farmers have been protesting for over a year, was passed by the Lok Sabha.
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Issuing the notice to Kaur, Congress leader Harish Choudhary, the in-charge of party’s Punjab affairs, wrote, "For the last many days, we are continuously receiving reports from Congress workers, MLAs, leaders from Patiala and the media about your anti-party activities."
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Amarinder Singh, who led the Congress to a two-third majority victory in the 2017 polls, resigned as the chief minister in September following a bitter intraparty feud between him and Congress' Punjab unit chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.
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Modi on Friday announced that the government has decided to repeal the three farm laws, which were at the centre of protests by farmers for the past year.
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The Kartarpur Corridor links Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan, the final resting place of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev, to Dera Baba Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur district.
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Sidhu also dubbed the former CM as a "spent cartridge" and a "dying duck in a thurderstrom, a lost cause", a day after the veteran leader resigned from the Congress and announced the name of his party, Lok Punjab Congress.
