LUDHIANA: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Sunday announced Charanjit Singh Channi as the party’s chief ministerial for Punjab ahead of the 2022 assembly elections. Addressing a virtual rally in Ludhiana named ‘Aawaz Punjab Di’, Rahul Gandhi said, “A leader cannot be made in 10 to 15 days but it take years of hard work, […]
NEW DELHI: A day after Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi defended religious conversions in the state in an exclusive interview with the New Indian, several Sikh leaders leaders are now hitting out at him for hurting the sentiments of Sikhs. When asked about the conversion of impoverished and underprivileged Sikhs to Christianity in the […]
CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Punjab affairs co-in-charge Raghav Chadha, on the arrest of the Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s nephew, said that his nephew himself had admitted that the money seized during the raids was related to sand mafia and transfer-posting. Addressing the media during a press conference held at the party headquarters on […]
NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: Punjab, India’s most important border state, will be voting on February 20, 2022 to elect its new government. It’s witnessing a quadrangular contest with ruling Congress trying to retain power. Its main challenger Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), Bharatiya Janata Party led coalition of former Chief Minister Captain Amrinder Singh […]
MOGA (PUNJAB): Malvika Sood, sister of Bollywood actor Sonu Sood, is contesting Punjab assembly elections 2022 from Moga assembly constituency as a Congress candidate. She says she entered politics as many issues of the people haven’t been addressed and she intends to improve health and education sector once voted to power. The New Indian caught […]
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 […]
NEW DELHI: It appears the Congress is not taking chances with its CM candidate probable in Punjab. The Congress on Sunday released its third list of eight candidates, including Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi from the second seat of Bhadaur assembly constituency. Earlier Congress had announced that Channi would be fighting from Chamkaur Sahib assembly […]
KAIRANA(SHAMLI): The battle-lines have been drawn. Ahead of first phase of Uttar Pradesh elections on February 10, the poll plot has shifted to Kairana, the hotbed of communal violence since 2014 that saw the exodus of several Hindus families. But was the tension always simmering between Hindus vs Muslims here? No. BJP’s candidate Mriganka Singh […]
NEW DELHI: So who’s going to be the Chief Minister pick for Congress in Punjab this elections around? In an attempt to generate more suspense on the subject, the Congress on Monday released a video with Bollywood actor Sonu Sood talking about what kind of Chief Minister the state deserved. The video also featured Charanjit […]
GORAKHPUR/NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) first list of candidature “symbolises social justice”. This is how Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath reacted to the first list of 107 names that was released for the first and second phase of elections as he took a swipe at the Samajwadi Party’s list, accusing Akhilesh Yadav of […]