Politics

Q&A – Will Go Back To Our Professions, Travel If We Don’t Get Our Chance: Sidhu’s Wife On 2022 Polls, CM Face

Would it be the end of political road for Navjot Singh Sidhu and namesake wife if he is not chosen to lead Congress this assembly elections after being wooed by the Gandhi family in 2017 ,20 days before then polls?  The mercurial ex cricketer has had a bumpy ride on a tough wicket with bouncers […]

Affluent Punjab Netas Build Wealth, Palatial Homes, Question Our Doles, Call Them Freebies: Kejriwal (Part-2)

As the battle for Punjab heats up, The New Indian‘s Executive Editor Rohan Dua catches up with Aam Aadmi Party’s chief Arvind Kejriwal and the party’s CM candidate Bhagwant Mann. Kejriwal and Mann come clean on a gamut of issues — their personal camaraderie, their political opponents, Navjot Singh Sidhu, and the prospects of their party in the upcoming […]

BJP Takes Direct Fight To Akhilesh, Fields Modi Mantri Against Him In Karhal

LUCKNOW: On a day when Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav took a poll plunge as he filed his nomination papers from Karhal in Mainpuri, BJP stalked him with a plan to pin him to his family borough by fielding a Scheduled Caste (SC) candidate S P Singh, who is a Modi cabinet minister. UP deputy […]

ECI Extends Ban Of Road Shows/Rallies and Processions Till February 11

NEW DELHI:  Election Commission of India today announced that the ban on Road Shows, pad-yatras, cycle-bike-vehicle rallies and processions will continue till February, 11. Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra Along With Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Anup Chandra Pandey held another comprehensive review of the present situation of Covid-19 infection particularly in the election states. […]

Friends Turn Rivals. Manpreet Reneged On Drug Promise: AAP’s Candidate Jagroop Gill

BHATINDA: Jagroop Singh Gill, who was once considered a close associate of Congress leader and Punjab’s finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal is now contesting against him in 2022 assembly election on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ticket. Accusing the Congress of not fulfilling the promise of eradicating the drug menace and unemployment in the constituency, Gill […]