Shareable assets for: Two Rajasthanis,Two National Parties
Los Angeles/ Sep 08, 2026
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh
Congress and BJP have sent Sachin Pilot and Satish Poonia to steer their Punjab campaigns. Before fighting AAP, both must first settle the wars inside their own camps.
By Gurpartap Singh Mann
Sachin Pilot has been appointed General Secretary in-charge of Punjab Congress after Bhupesh Baghel faced so much opposition that “Go Back Baghel” posters began appearing at party programmes. Baghel has been moved to Assam; Pilot must now land in Punjab amid heavy political turbulence, on a runway already full of potholes.A few weeks earlier, the BJP appointed another Rajasthani, Satish Poonia, as National General Secretary and Punjab in-charge. Thus, two national parties will be taken towards the 2027 election by...Read More
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The Arithmetic Favours an Alliance. Punjab Needs a Balanced Vidhan Sabha
Los Angeles/ Sept 03, 2026
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh
In December 2025, I wrote that an alliance between BJP and a Panthic party was socially important for Punjab. My argument was not based on votes alone. BJP, despite its growing support, had failed to cross Punjab’s stubborn emotional barrier. It needed a credible Panthic bridge. It still does.
Eight months later, alliance discussions are no longer just drawing-room gossip.
Sukhbir Singh Badal met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 7, their first political meeting since SAD left the NDA in 2020. Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Bikram Singh Majithia then spoke in favour of a reunion. BJP continues to publicly claim that it will contest all 117 seats. But The Indian Express reports that backroom talks with the Badal-led SAD...Read More
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Changing a Minister Will Not Stop Paper Leaks.
Change the System
Los Angeles/ July 29, 2026
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh
Changing the Education Minister may calm public anger for a few days. The minister heads the department and must accept political responsibility when an examination affecting millions of students collapses.
But let us be honest. The minister would probably be the last person to see or handle the question paper.
Removing him may punish one political face. It will not stop the next leak. Ministers will change, officials will be transferred and middlemen will be arrested. The system will remain...Read More
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Jaswant Singh Khalra Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize
BY Gurpartap Singh Mann
Los Angeles/ July 27, 2026
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh
The rules bar a posthumous award, but they cannot diminish his place among the world’s greatest defenders of human rights
The Nobel Peace Prize is not reserved for those who end wars or sign agreements. Over time, it has also become the world’s highest recognition for people who defend human dignity through peaceful means. The Nobel tradition accepts a basic truth: there can be no real peace where citizens are picked up, made to disappear, killed and denied even the dignity of a known grave...Read More
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FBI Accuses Local Punjab SHO in $400,000 Extortion Bid as organised crime: Punjab’s
Gangster Raj Stands Exposed
Operation Hard Ball Is A Wake-Up Call For AAP
Los Angeles/ July 09, 2026
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh
Punjab did not need the FBI to know that its gangsters operate from abroad and from jails.
Every trader, transporter, builder, NRI family and small businessman knows this bitter truth.
Extortion calls come from foreign numbers. Threats are issued from jails. Shootings are
arranged locally. Money is collected silently. Fear travels faster than the police.
What is new, and far more shameful, is that the FBI and the United States Department of
Justice have now placed Punjab’s gangster ecosystem inside an international organised-crime
investigation...Read More
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Channi Lost the Chair, But Won the Bargaining Table
Los Angeles/ July 06, 2026
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh
That is the real meaning of the Morinda meeting. The Congress high command thought it had settled Punjab by retaining Amarinder Singh Raja Warring as PPCC president, Partap Singh Bajwa as Leader of Opposition, and making Channi chairman of the campaign committee. Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa got the core committee, Vijay Inder Singla election management, and Dr Amar Singh the manifesto committee. On paper, it looked like balance. In reality, it was a distribution of chairs without settling the question of power...Read More
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Five Vehicles, One Road, One Destination: Punjab Vidhan Sabha
Los Angeles/ June 25, 2026
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh/ Gurpartap Singh Mann
AAP has started early, BJP has a map, Akali Dal is repairing its old bus, Waris Punjab De is a new jugaad ride, while Congress still has the biggest engine.
Punjab’s next Assembly election may be few months away, and the road has already opened and the vehicles are revving up for the race...Read More
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BJP’s Ranjit Singh Moment: Punjab Must Give This Promise a Serious Hearing
BJP has capacity, but will Punjab accept a repainted Badal slogan?
Los Angeles/ June 23, 2026
NRIpress.club/Ramesh/ A.Gary Singh
Maharaja Ranjit Singh is not merely a name in Punjab’s history. He is the highest benchmark
of governance this land has known. Any party that invokes him is not making an ordinary
political promise. It is placing itself before a very high court of public memory.
Historians have spoken of him with rare admiration. Matthew Lockwood, who nominated
Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the BBC World Histories poll, described him as a modernising and
unifying force whose reign “marked a golden age for Punjab and north-west India.” Indu
Banga and J.S. Grewal’s volume on the Maharaja described his reign as “the most glorious
epoch in the history of the Punjab.” Jawaharlal Nehru, in The Discovery of India, quoted
Henry T. Prinsep’s famous assessment: “Never was so large an empire founded by one man
with so little criminality...Read More
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