The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) also took jibes at the ruling party in the state over the announcement
Assembly polls are scheduled in five states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Manipur and Punjab.
Punjab will go to the polls on February 20. The counting of votes will take place on March 10.
Punjab will go to polls on February 20
The Congress has released its list of star campaigners for the February 20 Punjab Assembly elections with the surprise omission of the partys lone non-Sikh Lok Sabha MP from the state, Manish Tewari
Channi's visit comes ahead of Punjab polls where Congress is soon going to announce CM face of the party.
Punjab will go to the polls on February 20
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is likely to announce the name of his party's chief ministerial candidate for the Punjab polls on Sunday, when he visits Ludhiana for a virtual rally, sources said. During his last visit to Punjab on January 27, Gandhi had announced that the Congress will soon declare its chief ministerial face for the February 20 election and a decision on it will be taken after consulting the party workers. Besides taking feedback from the leaders and workers of the party, the Congress is also seeking the opinion of the public on who should be its chief ministerial candidate through an automated call system. For the last several weeks, both Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu have, directly or indirectly, made a case for themselves to be declared as the party's nominee for the top post. Channi also indicated in his constituency Chamkaur Sahib that the chief ministerial face of the Congress could be declared on Sunday. Sid
Mann has been declared as the chief ministerial candidate of the AAP after the party in Punjab held a first of its kind 'Janta Chunegi Apna CM' drive last month.
Om Prakash Jakhu, who mends and cleans shoes for a living at a small shop near the Hoshiarpur Clock Tower, says it is his "junoon" (passion) which keeps him going
Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi filed his nomination papers from Chamkaur Sahib seat
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati will address a public meeting in Nawanshahr on February 8 ahead of the Punjab assembly polls
Twenty-five people lost their lives to Covid-19 in Punjab in last one day, a daily health bulletin said on Friday.
Punjab will go to the assembly polls on February 20. The counting of votes will take place on March 10.
The BJP fielded two Congress turncoats and its former Union minister Vijay Sampla for next month's Punjab Assembly polls
During his day-long visit, Gandhi would pay obeisance at around 9 am at Sri Harmandir Sahib along with 117 candidates in Amritsar
Twenty-two more people died of Covid-19 in Punjab, while 5,136 fresh cases pushed the infection tally to 7,28,042, according to a medical bulletin issued here on Wednesday.
A day after the Congress released its second list of 23 candidates for the Punjab Assembly polls, several aspirants expressed their discontent over the denial of tickets.
SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday announced that senior party leader and his brother-in-law Bikram Singh Majithia will also fight the state assembly elections from Amritsar East
BJP President JP Nadda on Monday announced that the party would be contesting 65 seats out of the 117 assembly elections in Punjab