Sunil Jakhar's pole-vault shows loyalty quotient in Congress can't be one-way obligationThe 'Hindu' card he referred to was Jakhar's comments pre-assembly polls that he never felt he would be discriminated in the Congress on re...
20 May, 2022, 01.09 PM IST
Whether Dalit polarisation will reap benefits in Punjab has to be seenOf the 117 seats, 34 (one-third) seats are reserved for the scheduled castes. Among the reserved seats, eight of the 34 reserved seats have...
14 Feb, 2022, 11.58 PM IST
Congress terms arrest of Punjab CM Channi's nephew as 'political'The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Bhupinder Singh Honey in an illegal sand mining case from Jalandhar under provisions of the PMLA.
04 Feb, 2022, 11.34 PM IST
AAP chooses Bhagwant Mann, pressures Congress to name CM nomineeAAP lampooned the Congress over its in-fighting on the leadership issue. Using its official Twitter handle, AAP used a popular Bollywood so...
19 Jan, 2022, 03.28 PM IST
Raid nothing but a political vendetta against me: Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh ChanniPunjab Congress Committee chief Navjyot Singh Sidhu maintained that the raid per se didn't mean that anybody was guilty, and that it was fo...
19 Jan, 2022, 07.02 AM IST
Punjab turmoil: Talk more in private, less in public, Congress to it leadersRecently, Punjab Congress in-charge Harish Rawat openly said Amarinder Singh's "proximity" with BJP leaders like Amit Shah puts a question ...
01 Oct, 2021, 05.44 PM IST
Sidhu could not bear to see a Dalit as CM: AAPThe Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday said Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned as Punjab Congress chief because he "could not bear to see a Dalit Chief Mi...
28 Sep, 2021, 04.37 PM IST
Making sense of Congress' choice of Charanjit Singh Channi as Punjab CMPunjab's dalits saw an assertive, new leadership in the form of Bhim Army's Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan. This fuelled the 'leaderless' third ...
23 Sep, 2021, 11.18 AM IST
Punjab politics: Beyond messaging, Congress has delicate tasks at handAfter the political messaging by elevating Charanjit Singh Channi as Punjab's first Dalit chief minister, the Congress has the tough task o...
21 Sep, 2021, 09.28 AM IST
AICC General Secretary Rawat's reported remarks on Sidhu baffling, says Sunil JakharJakhar was one of the frontrunners for the post of new Congress Legislative Party leader after Amarinder Singh was nudged into quitting ost...
20 Sep, 2021, 02.45 PM IST
Channi to Steer Congress in PunjabBesides sending a pre-poll message to the poll-bound state with around 34% Dalit population across the Hindu-Sikh communities, the Congress...
20 Sep, 2021, 07.21 AM IST
Charanjit Singh Channi to be the captain of Punjab. Here is all you should know about the new CM"It gives me immense pleasure to announce that Sh. #CharanjitSinghChanni has been unanimously elected as the Leader of the Congress Legisla...
19 Sep, 2021, 07.49 PM IST
Navjot Sidhu as Punjab Congress Chief is central leadership’s Package SolutionThe proposal to make Sidhu the party’s state president is quite contrary to what Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh has been demanding. Sing...
02 Jul, 2021, 08.25 AM IST
As Capt Amarinder Singh arrives in Delhi, Punjab Congress MLAs want him to walk the talk on ‘sacrilege’, BadalsRahul Gandhi too has been informally talking to some of these MLAs. Yet, some of these leaders also said the Congress high command should h...
03 Jun, 2021, 07.42 AM IST
View: Kejriwal may shift to Chandigarh leaving Sisodia in charge in Delhi if AAP winsAt that point Kejriwal could well say that professions of not leaving Delhi had been a jumla (idiom), as BJP did on promise to refund Rs 15...
14 Jan, 2017, 07.58 PM IST
Majority suffering the "dictatorship of the few": Speaker Sumitra MahajanHer remarks came after an hour-long protest by Congress on Dalit killings in Punjab that led to a verbal duel between Jyotiraditya Scindia ...
16 Dec, 2015, 12.37 PM IST
Assembly elections: Dalit assertion in Punjab's Doaba does not mean votes for MayawatiIndia’s most powerful dalit leader must win over Doaba, Punjab’s dalit heartland if she wants any real presence in the state.
26 Jan, 2012, 03.38 PM IST