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- ↑ Service, Tribune News. "Expelled BJP leader Anil Joshi joins SAD". Tribuneindia News Service. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
- ↑ Cabinet Ministers – BJP Punjab Archived 15 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Mittal Family: Information about Madan Mohan Mittal
- ↑ STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2007 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF PUNJAB
- ↑ Results Punjab State Assembly Elections 2012 Archived 6 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine