The meteoric rise of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the 2014 Parliamentary polls and then in the 2017 Assembly elections in Punjab followed by its nosedive owing to ‘mass exodus’ of its legislators is proving a litmus test for the party in the February 20 Assembly polls in the state. Political observers say AAP … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said it is only the National Democratic Alliance that has a vision of a ‘Nawan’ (new) Punjab to develop its agriculture and industry and the state does not need the “hollow promises” of other parties. Addressing a virtual rally for assembly segments of Ludhiana and Fatehgarh Sahib parliamentary constituencies, … Read more
Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday ruled out the possibility of a post-poll alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in Punjab. The senior BJP leader categorically said the alliance of the two parties was a “bad marriage”. The SAD did not allow the saffron party to expand … Read more
Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Friday accused Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu of having “failed” the people of Amritsar East as their representative as he filed his nomination papers from the assembly constituency here. Majithia also alleged that Sidhu, who is the sitting MLA from Amritsar East, has not done anything … Read more
Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi has dubbed as “political vendetta” the Enforcement Directorate’s raid on his relative’s premises over the alleged sand mining scam, even as the Congress leadership accused Prime Minister Modi of targeting the country’s “only Dalit CM”. Punjab Congress Committee chief Navjyot Singh Sidhu maintained that the raid per se didn’t … Read more
Ahead of the Punjab Assembly election, former India cricketer Dinesh Mongia and sitting Congress MLA Fateh Singh Bajwa joined the BJP in New Delhi on Tuesday in the presence of Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. Bajwa, MLA from Qadian, is the brother of senior Congress leader Pratap Singh Bajwa. Besides Bajwa, Balwinder Singh Laddi, sitting … Read more