Punjab By Election 2019

Polling for the bypolls to four assembly seats in Punjab began on Monday morning.

A week after Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh accused cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu of shirking his responsibilities and making controversial remarks ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the cricketer-turned politician today struck back by claiming that he was being unfairly "singled out" for the party's poor performance in the sta...

The Shiromani Akali Dal on Tuesday seemed to pass the buck to the BJP for the alliance's poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections, with the party concluding at a core committee meeting in Chandigarh that Punjab's Dalit voters gravitated towards other parties for fear that the Narendra Modi government may scrap the reservation system if it return...

Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar, who lost the Gurdaspur seat to actor-politician Sunny Deol, has stepped down from his post - the latest in a string of several state unit chiefs to resign over the Congress's crushing defeat in the Lok Sabha polls.

A day after its traumatic defeat to the BJP, the Congress has been called upon to firefight in Punjab. Chief Minister Amarinder Singh -- who delivered the party's only decisive victory in a state -- has contacted the senior leadership of the party, demanding a change in Navjot Singh Sidhu's portfolio. Mr Singh is attending tomorrow's meeting of the...

A tweet by a BJP legislator from Gujarat that made fun of the Congress losing territory after territory to the BJP received thousands of 'likes' and was re-tweeted as many times for painting a picture of what India's map looks like for the Congress.

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday claimed that cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu's remarks on Pakistan and the ongoing investigation into the Guru Granth Sahib desecration may have affected the party's performance in urban areas of the state, especially Bathinda. He said he will raise the issue with the Congress high comm...

Election Result 2019: Veteran Bollywood actor Dharmendra today congratulated his son, Sunny Deol, after he emerged as the frontrunner from Punjab's Gurdaspur contesting on a BJP ticket.

The Narendra Modi-led BJP looked set to return to power with an overwhelming mandate as the results of the Lok Sabha elections trickled in on Thursday. Riding on a wave of nationalism spurred by the February 26 Balakot air strikes, the party made deep inroads into West Bengal and put to rest speculations that its influence was on the wane in northe...

The Gurdaspur seat is a BJP stronghold, having been represented by actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna in 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2014

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP has crossed the halfway mark on its own steam and leads showed a NDA sweep in the national elections within two hours of counting of votes. The BJP is doing well in most states, including the three heartland states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, wrested by the Congress in December. It is also ahead...

Punjab Election Results: According to leads at 5 pm, Congress was leading on eight seats and AAP on 1 seat. BJP and Shiromani Akali Dal were leading on the four seats.

Amid concerns about voting machines just ahead of the counting of votes in the national election, allegations have surfaced of voting machines being moved out of their strongrooms in parts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

The two-year-old government of Amarinder Singh in Punjab, which the BJP hoped was facing some amount of anti-incumbency, could fare the best among the Congress-ruled states, exit polls predicted on Sunday. An aggregate of 11 exit pollson Sunday indicated that the Congress could win nine of Punjab's 13 seats.

A man was brutally murdered in full public view allegedly by his neighbours following a heated argument over some issue, even as polling for the last phase of Lok Sabha elections took place in Punjab's Tarn Taran district on Sunday.

Polling for the bypolls to four assembly seats in Punjab began on Monday morning.

A week after Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh accused cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu of shirking his responsibilities and making controversial remarks ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the cricketer-turned politician today struck back by claiming that he was being unfairly "singled out" for the party's poor performance in the sta...

The Shiromani Akali Dal on Tuesday seemed to pass the buck to the BJP for the alliance's poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections, with the party concluding at a core committee meeting in Chandigarh that Punjab's Dalit voters gravitated towards other parties for fear that the Narendra Modi government may scrap the reservation system if it return...

Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar, who lost the Gurdaspur seat to actor-politician Sunny Deol, has stepped down from his post - the latest in a string of several state unit chiefs to resign over the Congress's crushing defeat in the Lok Sabha polls.

A day after its traumatic defeat to the BJP, the Congress has been called upon to firefight in Punjab. Chief Minister Amarinder Singh -- who delivered the party's only decisive victory in a state -- has contacted the senior leadership of the party, demanding a change in Navjot Singh Sidhu's portfolio. Mr Singh is attending tomorrow's meeting of the...

A tweet by a BJP legislator from Gujarat that made fun of the Congress losing territory after territory to the BJP received thousands of 'likes' and was re-tweeted as many times for painting a picture of what India's map looks like for the Congress.

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday claimed that cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu's remarks on Pakistan and the ongoing investigation into the Guru Granth Sahib desecration may have affected the party's performance in urban areas of the state, especially Bathinda. He said he will raise the issue with the Congress high comm...

Election Result 2019: Veteran Bollywood actor Dharmendra today congratulated his son, Sunny Deol, after he emerged as the frontrunner from Punjab's Gurdaspur contesting on a BJP ticket.

The Narendra Modi-led BJP looked set to return to power with an overwhelming mandate as the results of the Lok Sabha elections trickled in on Thursday. Riding on a wave of nationalism spurred by the February 26 Balakot air strikes, the party made deep inroads into West Bengal and put to rest speculations that its influence was on the wane in northe...

The Gurdaspur seat is a BJP stronghold, having been represented by actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna in 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2014

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP has crossed the halfway mark on its own steam and leads showed a NDA sweep in the national elections within two hours of counting of votes. The BJP is doing well in most states, including the three heartland states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, wrested by the Congress in December. It is also ahead...

Punjab Election Results: According to leads at 5 pm, Congress was leading on eight seats and AAP on 1 seat. BJP and Shiromani Akali Dal were leading on the four seats.

Amid concerns about voting machines just ahead of the counting of votes in the national election, allegations have surfaced of voting machines being moved out of their strongrooms in parts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

The two-year-old government of Amarinder Singh in Punjab, which the BJP hoped was facing some amount of anti-incumbency, could fare the best among the Congress-ruled states, exit polls predicted on Sunday. An aggregate of 11 exit pollson Sunday indicated that the Congress could win nine of Punjab's 13 seats.

A man was brutally murdered in full public view allegedly by his neighbours following a heated argument over some issue, even as polling for the last phase of Lok Sabha elections took place in Punjab's Tarn Taran district on Sunday.