Badal announces memorial in Doaba belt

Says will exclusively highlight Punjabi martyrs, to be better than the one at Anandpur Sahib

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today announced the setting up of a high-tech memorial in Doaba region that would exclusively highlight Punjabis who were part of the freedom struggle.

The memorial, Badal said, would even outshine the Virasat-e-Khalsa complex that had come up at a cost of Rs 350 crore in Anandpur Sahib.

Addressing a gathering on the occasion of Bhagat Singh's martyrdom day at his ancestral Khatkar Kalan village, Badal said the deputy commissioners of four Doaba districts had been told to identify 20 to 25 acres of land for the memorial. 

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First session of new Assembly begins

MLAs take oath on opening day l BJP’s Babbu is Deputy Speaker

14th Vidhan Sabha came into being today with all MLAs, barring one, present to take the oath of allegiance to the Constitution as a legislator on the opening day of the Budget Session.

Starting with the leader of the House, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, and followed by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, the session saw the entire Punjab Cabinet take oath, but not before newly named Congress Legislative Party leader Sunil Jakhar was called to take oath.

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MURDEROUS DGP AND DEATH PENALTY FOR SIKH ACTIVIST: BADAL'S GIFT TO SIKH COMMUNITY Bhai balwant singh to be hanged till death on 31 march 2012

BADAL'S REVENGE: Death Penalty for Rajoanna and promotion of Saini DGP 

During the first days of inauguration, the newly formed purported 'Panthic' government of Parkash Badal 'gifted' the Sikh community with the announcement of installing a human-rights violator to the top police post in Punjab, and the setting of the execution date for political prisoner, Balwant Singh Rajoanna.

Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoanna's execution by hanging has been set for March 31st, 2012 for his alleged association with Shaheed Bhai Dilawar Singh Babbar and Bhai Jagtar Singh Hawara who were responsible for bringing the ex-Punjab Chief Minister Beant Sinh to justice, on August 31st, 1995.

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