Of the 117 seats, 34 (one-third) seats are reserved for the scheduled castes. Among the reserved seats, eight of the 34 reserved seats have...

Congress's chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the BJP government is insulting a Dalit who was made the chief minister of Punjab and ...

The 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...

Punjab's dalits saw an assertive, new leadership in the form of Bhim Army's Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan. This fuelled the 'leaderless' third ...

BJP general secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam, who is the party's in-charge for the state, said, "This is an old habit of the Congress. It be...

In view of the Bharat Bandh call on April 2, the Punjab government has decided to suspend the services of public transport across the state.

The matter was raised by the Election Commission recently in a meeting with representatives of the political parties in poll-bound Punjab.

AAP is being seen as a serious contender in the state that has given four MPs to the party in 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

As the electoral race is hotting up in the three states, Congress has prepared specific poll promises on shiksha (education), suraksha (sec...

Just when political parties are according top positions to their Dalit leaders in the run-up to the elections, the number of atrocity cases...

Party leaders told ET that in Punjab, which has India's largest population of people born into the Scheduled Castes, the AAP will release i...

Condemning the "series of excesses and atrocities" against the members of Dalit community, the Congress' Punjab unit chief said such incide...

"There appears to be a dangerous pattern behind the incidents of verbal and physical abuse and violence on Dalits everywhere which are igno...

Kejriwal demanded Bharat Ratna for Kanshi Ram whom he described as a great visionary and only leader of Dalit samaj after B R Ambedkar.

When Speaker Sumitra Mahajan rejected notices for adjournment of the Question Hour, Congress members trooped into the Well raising slogans ...

"Punjab has now turned bankrupt under Akali-BJP regime. This government cannot pay salary for three months. Old age persons are not getting...

India’s most powerful dalit leader must win over Doaba, Punjab’s dalit heartland if she wants any real presence in the state.