Aam Aadmi Party’s chief ministerial face Bhagwant Mann will contest the Punjab Assembly elections from the Dhuri assembly seat in Sangrur district.The announcement was made by party’s senior leader Raghav Chadha in Mohali on Thursday. Mann was declared as the AAP’s chief ministerial candidate for Punjab Assembly polls on January 18 by party’s national convenor […]
The Congress sought the Election Commission’s (EC) intervention on Thursday on the ED raids on a relative of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and alleged that the action was politically motivated to malign and defame the chief minister and the party-led state government. A delegation of Congress leaders met EC officials virtually and submitted […]
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Thursday released a list of 14 candidates for the February 20 Punjab assembly polls.The Mayawati-led party has tied up with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) for the Punjab assembly elections. According to the seat-sharing arrangement between the two parties, the BSP will field candidates in 20 of the 117 […]
Former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday tested positive for COVID-19.The 94-year-old Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch was admitted to Ludhiana’s Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH ) in the afternoon.DMCH Medical Superintendent Dr Sandeep Sharma said Badal tested positive for coronavirus. “He is stable”, Sharma said.Hospital’s Covid section incharge Rajesh Mahajan said the […]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has siezed around Rs 10 crore in cash, including Rs 8 crore from premises linked to a relative of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, during the raids conducted in an anti-money laundering investigation against illegal sand mining operations in the poll-bound border state, officials said on Wednesday. The raids that […]
Complying with directions of Election Commission, 3,54,075 licensed weapons have been deposited with police ahead of February 20 Punjab Assembly elections, state’s Chief Electoral Officer Dr S Karuna Raju said here on Wednesday. “This is 91.10 per cent of the total 3,90,275 licensed weapons in the state,” he said.The licensed gun owners deposit their firearms […]
Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge came out in support of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Wednesday over the ED raids against his relatives and said this “vendetta” will help the party emerge victorious in the upcoming state Assembly polls.”ED raids on the relatives of Punjab […]
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi said that there was an attempt to put pressure and target him and his ministers, hours after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday raided multiple locations in the state, including those linked to a relative of him. Premises linked to Bhupinder Singh alias Honey, a relative of Channi, were […]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday seized Rs 6 crore in cash, including Rs 4 crore from the premises linked to a nephew of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, during raids against illegal sand mining operatives in the border state, officials said. The search operations at a dozen locations in Mohali, Chandigarh, Ludhiana and […]
SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday said making Bhagwant Mann as the chief ministerial face reflected the “complete bankruptcy” of the Aam Aadmi Party. he Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader also called Mann as a “dummy face”, alleging that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would be the “real face” of the AAP in the […]