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  SHIMLA: Riding high on its landslide victory in the assembly elections in Punjab, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has roped in ultra-marathon runner Sunil Sharma for the elections in Himachal Pradesh. Along with his four ‘friends’, Sharma was formally inducted into the party in presence of Delhi Health Minister and […]

NEW DELHI: BJP national general secretary, Tarun Chugh, has taken strong exception to the manner in which the BJP leaders in other states were being booked by the Punjab Police on the instructions of AAP chief minister Bhagwant Mann. Chugh said that 3 such cases were registered against the BJP leaders in Delhi and Maharashtra, […]

NEW DELHI: Former Haryana Congress president Ashok Tanwar joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) giving a boost to the party’s expansion plans in Haryana where it has already appointed a poll in charge for the next Assembly polls. Tanwar joined the AAP in Delhi in the presence of party supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind […]

NEW DELHI: Former Bengaluru Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao has joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in presence of party convener and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, giving a boost to the party’s prospects in Karnataka. Along with Rao, a number of other people joined the AAP at the party headquarters here on Sunday. Rao said he […]

  KHATKAR KALAN: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) parliamentarian Sanjay Singh on Wednesday said that the party’s massive victory in Punjab will boost its strength in the Rajya Sabha and party MPs would not have to beg the chair for “a minute” to raise issues of public importance. At present, the AAP has three members, Sanjay […]

SHIMLA: For the past several decades, never has any political party been able to repeat its government in Himachal Pradesh. Be it the BJP or the Congress, both have had to make way for their rival every five years. With the next Himachal Assembly elections due in December, the BJP and the Congress, traditionally ruling […]

CHANDIGARH: Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) sprang a surprise by registering a landslide victory in the Punjab assembly elections on Thursday, ousting the Congress party from yet another state. As per the Election Commission of India (ECI), the AAP was set to win 92 seats in the 117-member Punjab legislative assembly. AAP leader Bhagwant Mann, […]

AMRITSAR: With only less than 30 hours left for campaigning for the Punjab assembly polls to end, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and former state minister Bikram Singh Majithia is leaving no stone unturned in pushing his case against his political rival cricketer-turned politician and Congress candidate Navjot Singh Sidhu at one of the hotly […]

On Wednesday, poet Kumar Vishwas tried to snare Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal by claiming that in 2017, he (Kejriwal) had told him he would “either be the Chief Minister of Punjab or the Prime Minister of Khalistan”. “Punjab is not a state, but an emotion. Before the last assembly elections in Punjab, I […]

Although most voters remained wary of sharing their ballot preferences even on polling day, two salient issues —unemployment and price rise — seeped out in conversations with those standing or walking near some of Goa’s polling booths. The veritable cattle market of defections that followed the last assembly elections still rankles. The Congress won 17 […]