Congress Protest Punjab Assembly

With Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders flocking to Punjab as the Assembly poll campaign heats up, the ruling Congress has now decided to bring the fight to its rival's home turf, Delhi.

The Congress party today made a clean sweep of Punjab's seven municipal corporations in the state local body polls. The party bagged all the bodies for which the results were declared today: Moga, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Abohar, Pathankot, Batala, and Bathinda - the last one also being the most stunning result of the day as it was after 53 years th...

Ahead of a two-day special assembly session to counter the Union government's farm laws, protests continued in Punjab today with farmers from Sangrur district surrounding a Congress MP and demanding his resignation from the Lok Sabha in solidarity with the protesters.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has rejected the one-week ultimatum issued by the farmer unions for holding a special Assembly session to negate the farm laws, upsetting the farmers further. The farm unions had warned the state government of protests against the Congress if they fail to meet the deadline.

All Congress legislators today submitted their resignation to the Punjab Assembly Secretary today to protest the Supreme Court's ruling favouring Haryana on the Sutlej-Yamuna Link issue.

A group of protesting Congress lawmakers has spent a record 36 hours in the Punjab assembly and still hasn't budged. During that time, they have ordered food, applied themselves to yoga and meditation and even enacted a mock session.

Congress lawmakers spent Monday night inside the Punjab assembly, seeking a debate on the no-confidence motion against the ruling SAD-BJP government, which was defeated by voice vote. About 23 Congress legislators are still inside the Punjab assembly, after security officials refused to allow other congress legislators from joining them.

There was high drama in the Punjab Assembly on Monday as 32 Congress lawmakers staged a protest inside the House for over three hours even after the Speaker adjourned it for the day.

Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal in a show of strength at a rally in Bathinda today took on the Opposition parties and Sikh radical groups, which the Akali Dal leaders say, have orchestrated a two month long anti-government protests.

Members of the Congress clashed with the police in Chandigarh today as the party held a protest march towards the Punjab State Assembly. The police used water cannons to control the protestors, who stormed the barricades, insisting on continuing their rally towards the assembly complex.

With Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders flocking to Punjab as the Assembly poll campaign heats up, the ruling Congress has now decided to bring the fight to its rival's home turf, Delhi.

The Congress party today made a clean sweep of Punjab's seven municipal corporations in the state local body polls. The party bagged all the bodies for which the results were declared today: Moga, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Abohar, Pathankot, Batala, and Bathinda - the last one also being the most stunning result of the day as it was after 53 years th...

Ahead of a two-day special assembly session to counter the Union government's farm laws, protests continued in Punjab today with farmers from Sangrur district surrounding a Congress MP and demanding his resignation from the Lok Sabha in solidarity with the protesters.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has rejected the one-week ultimatum issued by the farmer unions for holding a special Assembly session to negate the farm laws, upsetting the farmers further. The farm unions had warned the state government of protests against the Congress if they fail to meet the deadline.

All Congress legislators today submitted their resignation to the Punjab Assembly Secretary today to protest the Supreme Court's ruling favouring Haryana on the Sutlej-Yamuna Link issue.

A group of protesting Congress lawmakers has spent a record 36 hours in the Punjab assembly and still hasn't budged. During that time, they have ordered food, applied themselves to yoga and meditation and even enacted a mock session.

Congress lawmakers spent Monday night inside the Punjab assembly, seeking a debate on the no-confidence motion against the ruling SAD-BJP government, which was defeated by voice vote. About 23 Congress legislators are still inside the Punjab assembly, after security officials refused to allow other congress legislators from joining them.

There was high drama in the Punjab Assembly on Monday as 32 Congress lawmakers staged a protest inside the House for over three hours even after the Speaker adjourned it for the day.

Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal in a show of strength at a rally in Bathinda today took on the Opposition parties and Sikh radical groups, which the Akali Dal leaders say, have orchestrated a two month long anti-government protests.

Members of the Congress clashed with the police in Chandigarh today as the party held a protest march towards the Punjab State Assembly. The police used water cannons to control the protestors, who stormed the barricades, insisting on continuing their rally towards the assembly complex.