New Delhi: The Congress and the Shiromani Akal Dal(SAD)-Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) alliance were neck and neck during the early trends of the vote count in Punjab. The counting for the 117-seat Punjab Assembly began at 8 am on Tuesday. The early trends were somewhat similar to the post-poll survey that projected a close contest between the Congress and the SAD-BJP alliance. Congress is contesting all 117 seats, while SAD 94...
07:40 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Chandigarh: Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh is confident of the party's win in the Assembly elections. Singh said that the party will not fall short in the 117-seat Punjab Assembly. "We are not going to fall short. The non-governance and corruption of the ruling state government have favoured us," a confident Amarinder Singh said. On the other hand, Punjab's Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal has claimed that Chief...
05:25 PM, Mar 05, 2012
While the Uttar Pradesh elections hog the lion's share of coverage in national media, the Punjab elections are proving to be the more colourful of the two. YouTube, Facebook, and other media platforms are full of the hilarious conversations between cartoon characters Jeeta and Jaggi created by the Congress, who take pot shots at the failings of the SAD"BJP (Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party) government. SAD has responded through their...
12:28 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Chandigarh: Constituencies from where women candidates staked their political fortunes witnessed high polling in the January 30 Punjab assembly election. A total of 93 women out of 1078 contestants entered the race for the state assembly this time. A turnout of 87.21 per cent was recorded in Malerkotla constituency where wives of two top cops, one retired and another serving crossed swords. The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal had fielded first-timer...
06:31 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Chandigarh: Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal on Wednesday accused the Election Commission of acting on "direct commands" of Congress to "vilify" SAD and its leaders through a raid conducted at the house of an Akali Dal candidate, a confidante of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, in Muktsar district. A SAD press release in Chandigarh this evening said the raid conducted jointly by the IT department and the Election Commission officials...
01:17 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Amritsar: Targeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, wife of deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal Harsimrat Kaur on Wednesday said that Punjab had high hopes from him, but the PM did nothing for the state. "The last time he was here in Amritsar, we thought he would promise something big for the city but he turned out to be a hollow man," the SAD Lok Sabha MP from Bathinda said while addressing...
12:24 AM, Jan 26, 2012
New Delhi: Across the five states getting ready for the Assembly elections, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa, nearly Rs 45 crore of illegal money has been seized so far. Out of that, nearly Rs 30 crore has been seized from Punjab only. But it's not just cash, which is the king during elections. In the state with the maximum number of crorepati candidates in the fray, everything is...
10:21 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Wednesday conducted a raid at the residence of a close aide of Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal and recovered narcotics from his house. The raid was carried out in collaboration with the Income Tax department. Dayal Singh Kollianwali, a close aide of the SAD chief, lives in Kollianwalli village in Lambi constituency, from where Parkash Singh Badal is contesting the Assembly elections. There...
06:08 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Gurdaspur: Launching a scathing attack on the SAD-BJP government in Punjab, UPA Chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi today accused it of using central funds for their own benefits rather than for the progress of the state. Refuting the allegation that the central government had always given a step-motherly treatment to the state, Gandhi said the UPA government under the leadership of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had given sufficient grants...
04:41 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Faridkot: Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh said on Sunday that serving the poor was the party's 'dharma' and its government at the Centre brought in the Food Security Bill in keeping with that spirit. Claiming that the party was serving the poor right since Independence, Amarinder at a rally in Jaito said the Food Security Bill brought in Parliament will enable the poor across the country to get 'aata'...
09:58 PM, Jan 22, 2012
Amritsar: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while addressing a rally in Amritsar, stepped up attack on the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) saying that Punjab has lost its spot as India's top state during its rule. Singh said, "Punjab is ruled by a government which does not do justice to the hard work and capability of the people here." Singh also said that there is an electricity crisis in Punjab and...
03:09 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Phagwara: BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Friday claimed that the "pro-incumbency factor" would help SAD-BJP alliance to come back to power as the coalition had "ushered a golden period of social harmony and development" in Punjab. "The visible symbols of development in rural and urban areas during the five-year good governance of the alliance will help will get a comfortable majority in the state," he told reporters. Jaitley, however, admitted...
12:03 AM, Jan 21, 2012
Kapurthala: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday lashed out at the Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP alliance in Punjab, accusing it of failing to properly utilise the money given to the state by the Centre for various development works. "The Centre gave huge amount of money to the Punjab government for the state's progress, but it did not reach the people," she said at a rally in Kapurthala while kickstarting the Congress...
02:03 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Chandigarh: From Cartoons to Kolaveri, political parties in Punjab are out to establish that their rivals have done nothing for Punjab. Going by that logic the voters are left wondering if any party has done anything for the state at all. Punjab's politics is synonymous to the battle of Punjab's two leading politicians, Captain Amarinder Singh of the Congress and Parkash Singh Badal of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). The...
10:36 AM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: Former India hockey captain Pargat Singh has joined the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) ahead of Punjab elections this month. He will contest from the Jalandhar Cantonment constituency. Pargat will formally join the Akali Dal on Monday. He has resigned from the post of Director, Sports to contest the elections. SAD zeroed in on Pargat after Punjab Markfed chairman and Kapurthala SAD unit president Jarnail Singh Wahid refused to...
02:32 PM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: Congress on Monday finalised its list of candidates for Assembly elections in Punjab, where the party is poised for keen contest with the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal " Bharatiya Janata Party combine. The names were decided by the Central Election Committee of the Congress headed by party chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as its permanent member. The candidates for Assembly polls in Uttarakhand have already...
12:55 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Chandigarh: Peeved at the Punjab government for not heeding to their demands, teachers demanding permanent jobs in the state on Tuesday threatened to immolate themselves after one of their lady colleagues was allegedly slapped in public view by an Akali Dal sarpanch. A delegation of Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) teachers association led by its chief Pritpal Singh on Tuesday went to the private residence of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh...
01:20 PM, Dec 06, 2011
A sarpanch belonging to the Shiromani Akali Dal repeatedly slapped and manhandled a woman teacher in Gidderbaha in Punjab. ...
07:36 PM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a Shiromani Akali Dal Sarpanch Balwinder Singh of Gidderbaha in Punjab slapped and manhandled a woman teacher during the public visit program of Harsimrat Kaur Badal who is Member of Parliament and wife of Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal. A group of teachers from the education guarantee scheme teachers union had gone to the venue to put forth their demands for jobs....
01:25 PM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: A Shiromani Akali Dal MP on Thursday alleged that Sikhs were being "deliberately targeted" in Italian airports and charged the government for its failure to safeguard the interests of the community despite assurances. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Harsimrat Kaur Badal said she was registering a strong protest on behalf of the entire community against the "ill-treatment" of Sikhs at airports in Italy and other...
12:47 AM, Dec 02, 2011
