Amritsar Former minister and Congress leader Navjot Kaur Sidhu toady said Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh should resign if the Congress gets wiped out in the state in the Lok Sabha elections. She said ‘Capt Sahib’ was sure to grab all 13 seats but if the Congress failed to fareRead More

Patiala Polling remained largely peaceful in Patiala, barring an incident where an Akali sarpanch was arrested for misbehaving with election staff. Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, who was here along with his wife Preneet Kaur, daughter Jai Inder Kaur and son Raninder Singh, to cast his vote, expressed confidence thatRead More

Chandigarh Facing sweltering heat, at least 65.77 per cent voters cast their ballot for 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab today. The figure was 70.69 per cent in the 2014 elections. Except minor skirmishes, polls were largely peaceful in the seventh and the final phase. A firing incident, following aRead More

Chandigarh As polling drew to an end, several Punjab ministers today joined the chorus against Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu for his “friendly-match” jibe, aimed  at Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, on the last day of campaigning in Bathinda. Threatening to take up the matter with the party highRead More

Chandigarh The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is unlikely to repeat its feat of winning four seats in the state, but it may cause a dent in the fortune of other candidates in some of the key constituencies. The party seems to have a chance of re-winning the Sangrur seat onlyRead More

Gurdaspur Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu took up the cudgels on behalf of Congress candidate Sunil Jakhar by holding an impressive rally at the Hanuman chowk, right in the heart of the city, and urged the gathering not to be swayed by “glamour and stardom” and instead caste votes inRead More

Muktsar Sukhbir Singh Badal, SAD chief, is contesting election from the Ferozepur constituency, but focusing mainly on forming the state government in 2022. Even on the penultimate day of the campaigning, in his public speech he laid stress on forming the state government and not just reminded people of theRead More

Patiala Refuting any role in the denial of ticket to Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife from Chandigarh, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday said she had been offered ticket from Amritsar and Bathinda, but she refused the same. Ticket allocation was done by the Congress high command in Delhi, andRead More

Bathinda The fight for high-stakes Bathinda Lok Sabha constituency has turned into a battle between Congress’ 1984 versus SAD’s Bargari in the last lap of the campaign with both parties exploiting the emotive issues. With the Akalis on the back foot on the sacrilege issue, PM Narendra Modi mounted anRead More

Chandigarh Senior Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday backed his wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu over her statement on the denial of ticket for the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat. Rallying around his wife for her allegations that she was denied ticket at the behest of Capt Amarinder Singh and party’sRead More