Chandigarh: Hours after blaming Navjot Singh Sidhu’s inept handling of the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the poor performance of the Congress in the urban areas, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday evening said he intended to change the minister’s portfolio. In an interview with a news channel, the Chief Minister said […]
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Congress has to pay for Sidhu’s Pakistan visit: Punjab CM
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday said the Congress has to pay for his cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu’s visit to Pakistan. “The loss of Bathinda for the Congress is because of Sidhu’s reckless remarks on the desecration of the religious texts in 2015,” he told reporters here. “Indians will not tolerate […]
BJP’s Union Minister candidate trailing in Amritsar
Chandigarh: Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development and the BJP’s candidate for Punjab’s Amritsar Lok Sabha seat, Hardeep Singh Puri, has been trailing his rival and Congress candidate Gurjit Aujla, as per available trends. The diplomat-turned-politician Puri is facing a tough fight in the constituency dominated by the Jatt community, say political observers. […]
‘Quit if you can’t work with CM’, another Punjab minister tells Navjot Singh Sidhu
Chandigarh: Strongly criticising his Cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu for his comments against Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, Punjab minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa hit out at the cricketer-turned-politician, asking him to quit if he cannot work with the Chief Minister. Sidhu should quit as a minister in the Punjab Cabinet, since he has […]
Navjot Singh Sidhu damaging Congress with ill-timed comments: Punjab CM
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday criticized his Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu for damaging the Congress with his ill-timed comments against him and the party leadership in the state. If he was a real Congressmen, he should have chosen a better time to air his grievances instead of just ahead of voting in […]
EC notice to Sunny Deol for poll code violation
Chandigarh: The Election Commission on Saturday sent a notice to actor and BJP candidate from Punjab’s Gurdaspur Sunny Deol for allegedly violating the model code of conduct. A notice was served for holding a public meeting in Pathankot town after the campaigning came to an end at 5 p.m. on Friday, an election official told […]
HC dismisses Sunny Deol’s plea for adequate forces
Chandigarh: Actor and BJP-Akali Dal candidate Sunny Deol from Punjab’s Gurdaspur on Friday moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court for deployment of adequate paramilitary forces as the seat has been declared “prone to violence”. However, his plea was disposed off by a Division Bench of the High Court after the Election Commission assured that […]
Punjab Congress candidate’s wife owns Swiss account
Chandigarh: Congress Lok Sabha candidate from Punjab’s Gurdaspur and outgoing lawmaker Sunil Jakhar has declared over Rs 7 crore deposits in a Swiss bank in his wife’s name, his affidavit filed with poll authorities said. He has declared deposits of Rs 7.37 crore by his wife Silvia Jakhar in the Zurcher Kantonal Bank, Zurich, Switzerland. […]
‘Fans of Sunny Deol’ costs him Rs 174,644
Chandigarh: A Facebook page titled ‘Fans of Sunny Deol’ costs the actor-turned-politician and BJP candidate from Punjab’s Gurdaspur seat Rs 174,644 and this amount was included in his poll expenditure, it was announced on Wednesday. Acting on the complaint of the Congress on May 6, Chief Electoral Officer S. Karuna Raju said an inquiry was […]
Poll agent held for influencing voters in Haryana
Chandigarh: A polling agent was arrested for interfering with the voting process in a booth in Haryana’s Faridabad. “Prompt action taken. FIR (first information report) lodged. Person behind bars. Observer enquired the matter personally and is satisfied that polling was never vitiated,” said the District Election Office on its official Twitter account on Sunday. The […]