Ahead of the Assembly elections, Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday visited Mata Vaishno Devi shrine atop Trikuta hills in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The cricketer-turned-politician reached base camp Katra in the afternoon and straightway flew to the ‘Bhawan’ (sanctum sanctorum) to offer prayers at the revered shrine, they […]
Weeks ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections, the Supreme Court is scheduled to re-examine on Thursday the sentence awarded by it to cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu in an over 32-year-old road rage case. Sidhu is presently the Punjab Congress President and voting in the state assembly election is scheduled for February 20.The apex court had […]
SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Wednesday said the fight for Amritsar East seat is a fight for restarting development projects in the constituency. He said the work in the constituency completely stalled during the last 18 years of Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu’s administering it.Majithia is contesting from Amritsar East seat from where […]
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday targeted Samajwadi Party, saying if Akhilesh Yadav becomes the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, his government will show “red light” to development and green light to “mafia and musclemen”. “There was ‘Bahubali’ (musclemen) in every district under the previous regime, but in the present Yogi Adityanath’s regime, there […]
Senior Punjab Congress leader Sunil Jakhar has claimed that 42 MLAs wanted him to be the chief minister of the state after the unceremonious exit of Amarinder Singh last year. Only two legislators favoured Charanjit Singh Channi, he said.Jakhar is heard saying this in a video, which has surfaced online, while addressing a gathering in […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday attacked the government alleging that two Indias, one for the rich and one for the poor, have been created and the gap between them was widening, even as he claimed that the country was at risk both internally and externally. Speaking first from the Opposition side in Lok Sabha […]
Former Punjab minister and Congress leader Jagmohan Singh Kang and his sons Yadvinder Singh Kang and Amarinder Singh Kang join Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Kang had a few days back threatened to contest as Independent from Kharar after being denied ticket by the Congress.On Thursday, he had said that his son Yadvinder Singh Kang would […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Punjab police not to arrest till February 3 the Lok Insaf Party MLA, Simarjeet Singh Bains, who is facing an arrest warrant in connection with a rape case. Initially, the apex court was of the view that the accused MLA be permitted to remain out till February 23 for […]
SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Tuesday said he will not fight from Majitha assembly seat and will only contest from Amritsar East from where he has entered the fray against Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu. Yhe former minister further said his wife Ganieve Kaur will contest from Majithia assembly segment in his place.Ganieve […]
Fifteen former bureaucrats with experience in the electoral process have been appointed as special observers for the assembly polls in five states. They will be supervising and monitoring the work being done by the electoral machinery in their assigned states and ensure that stringent and effective action is taken based on intelligence inputs and complaints, […]