Amritsar, January 24 (DMS)- Expressing concern over the increase in the number of attacks on Indian students in Australia, veteran Congress leader and MP Partap Singh Bajwa has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to send an all-party parliamentary delegation to Australia to study the deteriorating situation there. Bajwa has also asked the Australian Government to take the necessary steps to check the “unbridled violence” against Indian students who had opted to go to that country after spending billions of dollars and had given a big boost to the economy of Australia with their efforts and money. “The PM should give personal attention to the issue. A large number of Indian students have gone to Australia after spending huge amounts and with very high hopes and ambitions. But their dreams have gone sour with increasing attacks against them. The Australian Government should also realise its duty to ensure the safety and security of Indians and to protect them against violence which has become a blot on an otherwise safe, secure and developed country,” said ...
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Chandigarh, January 16 (Doaba News Service)- The PPCC election schedule is still to be announced but the knives are already out. Senior party leaders today met party Central Election Authority Chairman Oscar Fernandes and claimed that former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh was the best person to lead the party in the state even as they complained of widespread irregularities in the party membership drive. The Congress leaders, who were led by former MP Rana Gurjeet Singh, met Fernandes before he presided over a meeting held at the Pradesh Congress bhawan here to mark the end of the party membership drive. Rana Gurjeet Singh told The Tribune that the delegation that included senior leaders like Choudhary Santokh Singh, Avtar Singh Brar, Amarjit Singh Samra, Sukhjinder Randhawa, Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Harpartap Singh Ajnala, Kanwaljit Singh Lalli, Raman Behl, Sukh Sarkaria and Brij Lal Goyal met Fernandes with the intention of conveying the sentiments of Congress workers to him. “We told the central leader that though it was the prerogative of the high command to appoint anyone but the people of Punjab were anxiously awaiting Amarinder’s re-appointment as the PPCC ...
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