Senior BJP leader and former Punjab minister Madan Mohan Mittal on Saturday joined the SAD in the presence of party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal here. Mittal was upset after his son, Arvind Mittal, was denied a ticket by the BJP from Anandpur Sahib assembly seat. The BJP has fielded Parminder Sharma from the constituency. Welcoming […]
Two high-end SUVs, watches worth Rs 44 lakh and residential properties worth Rs 35 crore are part of the total assets declared by Navjot Singh Sidhu, the Congress’ candidate from the Amritsar East assembly seat and its Punjab chief. The 58-year-old former India cricketer on Saturday filed his nomination papers before the returning officer in […]
Congress leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira was released from the central jail in Patiala on Friday, a day after the Punjab and Haryana High Court granted him bail. The Enforcement Directorate arrested Khaira in November in connection with its money laundering investigations.The Punjab and Haryana granted him regular bail on a personal bond of Rs 5 […]
Days ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections, fresh controversy seems to be plaguing the Congress, and more specifically Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Navjot Singh Sidhu. NRI Suman Tur, who claims to be sister of Sidhu’s, described her brother as a ‘cruel person’ and alleged that he had deserted their old mother after their father’s […]
Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Punjab Dr S Karuna Raju on Friday disclosed that as per the data available on the encore software only 176 nominations were filed in the State on the third day. With 126 nominations filed on earlier days, now the total number of nominations filed in the state are 302. Dr Raju […]
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 for […]
The BJP fielded two Congress turncoats and its former Union minister Vijay Sampla for next month’s Punjab Assembly polls as it released its second list of 30 candidates on Thursday. The BJP is contesting the polls in alliance with former chief minister Amarinder Singh’s Punjab Lok Congress and Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa-led Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt).The […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said the party will go to the Punjab Assembly polls with a CM face and the decision on it will be taken soon after consulting party workers.Addressing a virtual rally here, Gandhi said Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and state party president Navjot Singh Sidhu has assured him that […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday orally asked the Punjab government not to take any coercive step against SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia till January 31 when it hears his pre-arrest bail plea in a drugs case. A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices A S Bopanna and Hima Kohli took note of […]
In what could be a mother of all political battles, ex-minister and senior Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia will take on Punjab Pradesh Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu from Amritsar (East). Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal made the announcement in Amritsar on Wednesday evening, hours after Majithia, who was booked in a drugs […]