As party president, I take the responsibility for SAD’s defeat in Punjab polls: Sukhbir Singh Badal

As party president, I take the responsibility for SAD’s defeat in Punjab polls: Sukhbir Singh Badal

Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday said as the president of Shiromani Akali Dal, he takes responsibility for his party’s defeat in the Punjab assembly election and the SAD‘s core-committee will meet on March 14 to analyse the poll results. The Aam Aadmi Party scripted a stellar victory in Punjab on Thursday, winning a three-fourth majority … Read more

AAP sweeps Punjab with 92 seats, highest tally for any party in four decades

AAP sweeps Punjab with 92 seats, highest tally for any party in four decades

AAP has bagged a historic win in Punjab Assembly polls by winning a three-fourths majority with 92 seats – the highest number of seats won by any party in the state in over four decades. It is AAP’s maiden victory in the state and a vast improvement from its performance in the 2017 elections when … Read more

Punjab Polls: Witnessing a multi-polar contest

Punjab Polls: Witnessing a multi-polar contest

Punjab’s 117 assembly constituencies will vote in a single phase on Sunday. So far, Punjab has been a bipolar polity witnessing a direct contest between the Congress and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in alliance with the BJP. However, the poll pitch has changed in 2022. SAD has broken off its alliance with the BJP over … Read more

Akalis got BJP’s urban vote, but they never reciprocated and sabotaged our prospects: Hardeep Singh Puri

Akalis got BJP’s urban vote, but they never reciprocated and sabotaged our prospects: Hardeep Singh Puri

As Punjab goes to polls on Sunday, ET’s political team catches up with Petroleum & Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, BJP co-incharge for the state. The alliance with Shiromani Akali Dal, he feels, did more harm than good to BJP. Was withdrawal of farm laws more of a national security move than … Read more

BJP’s Sarabjit Kaur becomes Chandigarh mayor, defeats AAP rival by just 1 vote

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BJP municipal councillor Sarabjit Kaur Saturday became the new Chandigarh Municipal Corporation mayor, defeating Aam Aadmi Party’s Anju Katyal by just one vote in a direct contest. Out of the total 36 votes, 28 were polled while seven Congress councillors and the lone Shiromani Akali Dal councillor abstained. Kaur bagged 14 votes while Katyal got … Read more

Chandigarh Municipal Corporation Polls: New entrant AAP emerges No. 1; BJP mayor loses

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New entrant Aam Aadmi Party emerged as the leading outfit in the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation polls, winning 14 of 35 wards in the results declared on Monday. The BJP, which enjoyed a majority in the previous MC House, came a close second registering win in 12 wards. The Congress bagged eight seats and the Shiromani … Read more

SAD’s constitution case: Hoshiarpur court summons ex-CM Parkash Singh Badal

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A court in Hoshiarpur has summoned former Punjab Chief Minister and SAD patriarch Parkash Singh Badal to respond to an allegation that he submitted a false undertaking to the Election Commission of India to seek SAD’s recognition as a political party. Hoshiarpur’s Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Rupinder Singh issued summons to Badal directing him to … Read more

View: With the enforced resignation of Amarinder Singh, the Congress has shot itself in the foot

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The Congress has scored a self-goal in Punjab, and it has done it by showing Amarinder Singh the door. The state’s MLAs wanted him to be replaced because of the anti-incumbency against him. But surely, he could not be unpopular and the Congress very popular? It is true that MLAs were unhappy with Singh’s lack … Read more

Charanjit Singh Channi’s journey from being elected to municipal council to becoming first Dalit CM of Punjab

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From being elected president of a municipal council to being handpicked as first Dalit chief minister of Punjab, Charanjit Singh Channi has seen a meteoric rise in the last two decades. The 58-year-old three-time legislator from Chamkaur Sahib assembly constituency in Rupnagar district had joined the Congress in 2012 and was holding the portfolios of … Read more

SAD wins crucial election to Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee; clinches 27 of 46 seats

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Ahead of the Punjab assembly polls, the Shiromani Akali Dal on Wednesday won the crucial elections to the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC), clinching 27 out of the total 46 seats. Buoyed by the win, the third on the trot in the DSGMC elections, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal said it … Read more