Union Home Minister Amit Shah addresses a public meeting on completing nine years of BJP-led Central Government, in Gurdaspur on June 18, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched a scathing attack on the AAP dispensation in Punjab on June 18, saying the State’s law and order is going from bad … Read more
Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema. File | Photo Credit: PTI With the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab inching close to completing nine months in power, Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema, who has been dealing with the stiffest task of bringing the cash-strapped State back on track fiscally, has seemingly demonstrated an assertive … Read more
Chandigarh: Infighting in the Punjab Congress came out in the open Thursday at a protest meeting when a colleague dared Navjot Singh Sidhu to take names if he felt anyone in the party was involved in wrongdoing. The embarrassing situation for the party arose when Punjab Congress youth chief Brinder Singh Dhillon interrupted Sidhu, a … Read more
Around 22 farmer unions have formed a new political party named ‘Samyukt Samaj Morcha‘ which will make its electoral debut in the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections. Addressing a press conference in Chandigarh, farmer leader Balbir Singh Rajewal said that there is a need to change the system and we want to appeal to people to … Read more
Congress has hit out at former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh for his statement that not only he would launch a regional party but could consider aligning with BJP if the contentious farm laws are withdrawn by the Centre. “His (Singh’s) statement is really shocking. It seems he has killed the ‘secular Amarinder’ within … Read more
A cautious AICC on Thursday avoided any tit-for-tat response to former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh‘s frontal attack on the PPCC and AICC leadership. Senior AICC functionaries desisted from locking horns with Singh and Congress fielded a relatively junior spokesperson to say Singh, an elderly leader, may have got angry and said many things and … Read more
Governance in Punjab has been the biggest casualty in the Congress party’s ‘Game of Thrones’, the opposition AAP said on Saturday after Chief Minister Amarinder Singh resigned following months of a power tussle in the ruling party. In a video message, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) spokesperson Raghav Chadha said the issues of Punjab have been … Read more
AAP MLA Raghav Chadha on Friday called Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu “Rakhi Sawant of Punjab politics” over his criticism of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, drawing the ire of netizens who slammed him for his “misogynist” comment. “The Rakhi Sawant of Punjab politics -Navjot Singh Sidhu- has received a scolding from Congress high command … Read more
Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt) leader and former Punjab minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan joined the Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday in the presence of party’s national convenor Arvind Kejriwal. Sekhwan was a minister in the Parkash Singh Badal-led Akali government. After reaching the Amritsar airport in the afternoon, Kejriwal travelled to the residence of Sekhwan at … Read more