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As Punjab BJP president Vijay Sampla’s ‘Vijay Sankalp Rath Yatra’ reached Phagwara on Tuesday evening it became an occasion for bringing out in the open the factionalism in Phagwara unit of the party.

Union minister of state (MoS) for commerce and industry, som parkash on Friday claimed that Punjab’s industry is unable to avail the benefits of the centre’s schemes because of the state government’s failure to effectively implement them. Parkash made these remarks during his interaction with city businessmen at Ludhiana Exhibition Centre.

A 12-year-old boy was shot dead by his wrestling coach at his residence in Paladi Kalan village of Rai in Sonipat district late on Sunday night

Levelling serious allegations against Phagwara BJP MLA som parkash, ex-Punjab minister and district Congress Committee, Kapurthala, president Joginder Singh Mann has alleged that the former met Punjab Police inspector Inderjeet Singh, now dismissed when the STF had brought him to Phagwara after his arrest.

Holding that poor quality wheat and that too lesser in prescribed 30 Kg quantity was being distributed to Blue Card holders in Phagwara by the Food and Civil Supply department, local MLA and chief parliamentary secretary som parkash has written to Food and Civil Supply minister Adesh Partap Singh Kairon for a vigilance probe and action against the guilty officials.

"The party candidate should be local.People of Phagwara and BJP party cadre want that the candidate should be a permanent resident of the constituency," he said.

A 12-year-old boy was shot dead allegedly by his wrestling coach at the former’s residence in Paladi Kalan village in Sonipat district late on Sunday.

While the BJP is confident of expanding its base and is focusing on winning over scheduled castes in Punjab, there is serious infighting among party's Dalit leaders, which came out in the open during the state executive meeting on January 9, causing embarrassment to the party leadership.

BJP replaced som parkash with Anita in Hoshiarpur, facing Raj Kumar Chabbewal. Parampal Kaur Sidhu contests Bathinda. Polls for 13 Punjab Lok Sabha seats are on June 1; BJP named 9 candidates so far.

The results of assembly elections have also come as a shocker for Punjab BJP president Vijay Sampla, with the tally coming down from 12 to three.

In a big relief for the small-scale bicycle industry which had been up in arms against the new bicycle reflector law, they have been given a relaxation of six months from it.

Lok Insaaf Party leaders and workers led by MLA Simarjit Singh Bains, who had announced to gherao Union minister som parkash’s residence here on Thuersday over farm laws, were stopped at a distance by the police.

The bicycle industry in Ludhiana is relieved after the central government decided to give a six-month relaxation from the new regulation. This relaxation is the result of a meeting between a delegation from the bicycle industry and union minister of industry and commerce, Piyush Goyal, his deputy, som parkash, and senior officials from the department of industry and commerce. Another major decision made at the meeting was the slashing of the application fee for a certificate of conformity to the Indian Standard, Bureau of Indian Standards, by 80%. BJP general secretary, Jeewan Gupta, who was part of the delegation, said that the center is very much concerned about the woes of the small industry, and that the union ministers, Piyush Goyal and som parkash, accepted the demands of the bicycle industry and gave a six-month relaxation to the small industry from the new regulation. They have been given until June 30 to comply with the new norms of fixing approved reflectors on bicycles, and the second demand of the industry, reducing the fee for a certificate of conformity to the Indian Standard, was also accepted. The micro units will now get a concession of 80 on the application fee for this certificate. Gupta said, "during the first meeting with the industrialists a

Three students said though there was large scale unemployment, they were not sure if merit was considered in recruitments by the government.