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LAMBI (PUNJAB): Congress candidate from Lambi assembly constituency against Siromani Aki Dal (SAD) patriach Prakash Singh Badal feels that he did not bring development here despite being chief minister for five times. He also says that senior Badal is on a “weak wicket” this time and it is reason why he has been forced to […]

BAGHPAT: People of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand will be voting to elect their governments in the coming days. All eyes, however, are fixed on the outcome from Uttar Pradesh (UP) where the mother of all battles is being fought. After all, UP is India’s most populous and politically important state. The final […]

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 […]

In the middle of election campaigning, and at a time, when he has locked horns with his bete noire within Congress — in another sign of growing fissures and internal wrangling in the party leadership in Punjab, The New Indian’s Executive Editor Rohan Dua caught up with CM Charanjit Channi at his maternal home Makrauna […]

CHANDIGARH: In what could spell fresh trouble for Congress and one of its chief ministerial faces ahead of February 20 Punjab assembly elections, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Bhupinder Honey, the nephew of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi in connection with a money laundering case related to illegal mining case. According to financial probe […]

MOGA (PUNJAB): It is 5 p.m. in Punjab’s Moga and Bollywood actor Sonu Sood, who grabbed the limelight during the COVID pandemic in 2020, is still canvassing for his sister Malvika Sood, who is contesting Punjab assembly polls as a Congress candidate. The elders in the dusty lanes of the small town describe Sonu Sood […]

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 […]