Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is expected to make the announcement at a virtual rally scheduled to be held in Ludhiana on Sunday. AICC sources said the party’s internal surveys had put Channi ahead of others “by a huge margin”. The Congress is learnt to have reached out to a cross-section of party workers, leaders and […]
A total of 1,304 candidates are in the fray for 117 assembly constituencies of state of Punjab after 341 candidates withdrew their nomination papers on February 4, the last day of withdrawal. Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab, S. Karuna Raju said here on Saturday that 2,266 candidates had filed their nominations papers for 117 Assembly constituencies […]
Five-time Chief Minister of Punjab Parkash Singh Badal visited Fortis Mohali on Satuday as a part of his regular periodic check-up. In a statement released through the party office, his Advisor Harcharan Bains said Badal was advised regular bi-weekly or tri-weekly precautionary check-ups and he has been maintaining this periodic regimen, especially after being affected […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will announce the party’s chief ministerial candidate for Punjab on Sunday. The announcement will be made at 2 pm through a virtual rally that Gandhi will address from Ludhiana, an official tweet from the Punjab Youth Congress said.Gandhi is in the state to gather voter feedback to zero in on the […]
A chief ministerial face will decide whether 60 candidates are elected as MLAs or not, Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu said on Saturday, referring to the number 60, one more than 59 lawmakers needed to form government in Punjab with 117-member assembly. For the last several weeks, both Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and […]
Congress MP Manish Tewari has broken his silence on being excluded from the party’s star campaigners list for Punjab polls. Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, and Rahul Gandhi among others are on the list that does not name Manish Tewari and Ghulam Nabi Azad. Tewari, who is the party’s only Hindu MP in Punjab, and Azad […]
An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, while no reports of any casualty or damage to property was received from anywhere so far. It sent tremors across parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi NCR and other parts of North India. A statement issued by the India Meteorological Department […]
Fast track courts for sacrilege incidents, free power up to 300 units, 33 per cent reservation for women in the police force, debt waiver for farmers having up to five acres of land are among many promises made by the BJP and its allies PLC and SAD (Sanyukt) for the February 20 Punjab Assembly polls.The […]
A Jalandhar court has remanded Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s nephew Bhupinder Singh Honey to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) remand in the illegal sand mining case till February 8. Bhupinder Honey was produced in the Jalandhar court Friday afternoon. During this period, he will be able to meet his family for two hours everyday. […]