Punjab Vidhan Sabha session Highlights | AAP picks Harbhajan Singh, Sandeep Pathak for Rajya Sabha
In Monday's Punjab Vidhan Sabha session MLA Kultar Sandhwan was unanimously elected Speaker of the 16th Punjab Vidhan Sabha.
The session started with two BJP MLAs - Jangi Lal and Ashwani Sharma - being administered the oath as MLA. Aam Aadmi Party further nominated Harbhajan Singh, Sandeep Pathak for Rajya Sabha.
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Today was the second day of the three-day Vidhan Sabha session. The first session of the 16th Vidhan Sabha took place on March 17. The five Punjab vacancies emerge as the terms of the following Rajya Sabha MPs end on April 9. The deadline for submitting nominations is Monday. Partap Singh Bajwa and SS Dullo of the Congress, Shwait Malik of the BJP, Naresh Gujral of the SAD, and SS Dhindsa of the SAD-Sanyukt are the five Rajya Sabha MPs whose terms are coming to an end.
Punjab has a total of seven seats in the Upper House. Balwinder Singh Bhunder of the SAD and Ambika Soni of the Congress, both Rajya Sabha MPs from Punjab, will complete their terms on July 4. Elections to these two seats will be held later this year.
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13: 18 pm | Punjab's former CM Charanjit Singh Channi met and congratulated the state's new CM Bhagwant Mann in Chandigarh.
13: 04 pm | Aam Aadmi Party appoints office-bearers.
13: 02 pm | Educationist and Chancellor of Lovely Professional University, Dr Ashok Mittal files his nomination as AAP's Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab.
12: 52 pm | IIT Professor Sandeep Pathak, AAP's Firebrand Spokesperson Raghav Chadha and cricketer Harbhajan Singh file their nomination as AAP's Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab.
12: 23 pm | I've come here to file nomination for Rajya Sabha. I want to thank Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann for nominating me at such a young age. I'll raise the issue of Punjab's people & protect their interests in the Parliament, said AAP leader Raghav Chadha in Chandigarh.
11: 55 am | Aam Aadmi Party files nomination of five members to Rajya Sabha - Dr Sandeep Pathak, Harbhajan Singh, Ashok Mittal, Sanjeev Arora and Raghav Chadha.
11.45 am | Congress MLA Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa, a Congress MLA, congratulates Bhagwant Mann and AAP MLAs.
11: 40 am | Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Manpreet Singh Ayali congratulates CM Bhagwant Mann and Vidhan Sabha speaker Sandhwan.
11: 15 am | MLA Kultar Singh Sandhwa unanimously elected Speaker of the 16th Vidhan Sabha
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10: 50 am | Aam Aadmi Party nominates Dr Sandeep Pathak, Harbhajan Singh and Delhi MLA Raghav Chadha to Rajya Sabha from Punjab.
