Below is a list of members sent to the Rajya Sabha by the Akali, Congress and BJP for the last 25 years-:
Almost all have Punjabi identity and are residents of Punjab. It is the constitutional right of Punjab to have its wise, prudent and compassionate people in the
Rajya Sabha. If the Akali Congress and the BJP did not send a good man to the Rajya Sabha, it did not get Kejriwal a contract to rob the Punjabis of their rights.
"In the Service of Free India," book-:
A false narrative about Punjab’s situation was built in the months leading up to Operation Bluestar in June 1984, leading to disastrous consequences, says a new book based on the memoirs of the late BD Pande, the Governor of Punjab from
October 10, 1983, to June 27, 1984, when the state was under President’s rule.
Titled ‘In the Service of Free India’, the book edited by his daughter Ratna M Sudarshan, and published by Speaking Tiger, comes more than a decade after his death in 2009 at the age of 92.
Pande, who also served as the Union Cabinet Secretary and Governor of West Bengal,penned the memoirs between 1986 and 1999 and instructed his family to publish these at least five years after his death.
Pande, who had a front-row seat of the events, lauds the Sikhs as a