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Four senior Punjab Congress leaders and two former Akali Dal MLAs join BJP

They joined BJP in presence of ministers Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Som Parkash, state unit chief Ashwani Sharma, senior party leaders Dushyant Gautam, Tarun Chugh, Sunil Jakhar, Manjinder Sirsa

Congress might soon lose the status of Opposition, says Sunil Jakhar

Jakhar's remarks came after seven Congress leaders including four former ministers joined the BJP at the party office in Chandigarh on Saturday.

Senior Shiromani Akali Dal leader Tota Singh dies after prolonged illness

Senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and former Punjab minister Tota Singh, 81, passed away at a private hospital in Mohali on Saturday after prolonged illness.

State scan: For the Akalis in Punjab, the future lies in their past

Badal is also making a renewed pitch for the release of Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, convicted in the 1993 Delhi blasts case

SAD patriarch Parkash Badal to not accept pension as former-MLA

The former Punjab chief minister said that he had never drawn any pension all his life as he had remained an active legislator from the start.

Sukhbir offers to resign from SAD chief's post, party leaders say no

The party also decided to form a high-powered panel to take feedback from its leaders as well people on the election debacle

AAP juggernaut flattens SAD patriarch Prakash Singh Badal, family

SAD was testing the waters after severing its ties with the BJP with which it had joined hands in 1997 during the state polls and remained its oldest ally for 23 years

Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Badal seeks ban on exit polls

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal sought a ban on exit polls from the Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday. His demand came after a number of exit polls predicted that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is set to form the next government in Punjab, which witnessed a multi-cornered electoral contest on February 20. The counting of votes will be taken up on Thursday. "Opinion & #ExitPolls are now a scam that amounts to electoral malpractice through bags of govt money to subvert free & fair poll. Exit polls show an unethical collusion between Satta & TV Channels. I urge EC to step in to stop this subversion of democracy with money power," Badal said in a tweet. He exuded confidence that the SAD, which fought the polls in a tie-up with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), would form the next government in Punjab and said the top priority for the alliance after coming to power would be to revamp the health and education sectors in the state. "SAD-BSP will revamp education ..

BS Number Wise: In Indian elections, the rich win the vote

Politicians own wealth that the people whose support they seek will take decades to earn

Drug case: Mohali court rejects SAD leader Bikram Majithia's bail plea

The apex court had recently directed the Punjab Police not to arrest the former Punjab minister till February 23 so that he could undertake electioneering in the state

Drugs case: SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia remanded to judicial custody

The pre-arrest bail plea of Majithia, who was booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act on Dec 20 last year, was dismissed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Jan 24

Punjab: SAD leader Majithia surrenders before trial court in Mohali

Facing charges under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, senior Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Majithia applied for regular bail and the trial court started arguments over his plea

Punjab polls 2022: Jalandhar's Football Chowk waits to score a goal again

Jalandhar is well-known for manufacturing sports equipment

Assembly Polls: All 117 seats in Punjab, 59 in UP up for voting on Sunday

Polling in Punjab will be held from 8 am to 6 pm. In Uttar Pradesh, the polling will take place between 7 am and 6 pm

Punjab polls: Over 21.4 million voters to decide fate of 1,304 candidates

All is set for the multi-cornered Punjab Assembly polls on Sunday with over 2.14 crore voters to decide the fate of 1,304 candidates, including 93 women, on 117 seats.

Punjab polls: High-profile political battle of Sidhu, Majithia in Amritsar

It's more than a political battle in Amritsar (East) that will witness a fierce verbal duel for survival in this Punjab Assembly election.

A test for the Badals

The 2022 Assembly election in Punjab will put a party in government and another in the opposition

Arvind Kejriwal alleges Cong, SAD, BJP of plotting to defeat AAP in Punjab

AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday accused the rival parties including Cong, SAD, and BJP of collusion and claimed their only aim is to prevent his party from coming to power in Punjab.

Punjab polls: Won't let UP, Bihar, Delhi 'de bhaiye' enter state, says CM

The word "bhiyas" in reference to people from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar is generally considered offensive

Rajnath slams Congress over illegal sand mining, drug trade in Punjab

Singh also took on the AAP for its claims of ending the drug problem in the state, saying how could the party do so when it made liquor available door-to-door in Delhi