Punjab Election

INDIA bloc candidate and Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur today won the Dehra assembly bypoll in Himachal Pradesh while the alliance's AAP secured the Jalandhar West seat and Trinamool Congress took two in West Bengal.

Radical preacher Amritpal Singh, who was elected the MP from Punjab's Khadoor Sahib seat after contesting the elections from a jail in Assam, has been granted parole for four days, beginning Friday, to take the oath of office.

The detention of newly-elected Punjab MP Amritpal Singh and nine others under the National Security Act at Dibrugarh Central Jail in Assam was today extended by a year. Singh has been in jail since March last year.

Nikki Haley's parents had reportedly migrated from Punjab to Canada and then to the US in the 1960s.

Punjab BJP leader Ravneet Singh Bittu did not want to be late in reaching Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official home in central Delhi today. But the traffic in the national capital had slowed him down.

Independent candidate Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa, son of one of the assassins of late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, is on course to win Faridkot Lok Sabha seat in Punjab, showed data from the Election Commission.

Former Punjab Chief Minister and Congress candidate Charanjit Singh Channi (60), who lost both the seats he contested in the February 2022 Assembly elections, scripted victory from the Jalandhar (reserved) Lok Sabha constituency today.

Aam Aadmi Party's dry spell in parliamentary election appears to continue, with Arvind Kejriwal's party trailing in most of the seats they are contesting.

The Congress is ahead in 7 seats in Punjab, while its closest rival Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won 3 seats, according to the Election Commission's leads. The BJP has not won any seat. The Shiromani Akali Dal got 1 seat.

Radical preacher Amritpal Singh, who is contesting the Lok Sabha polls in Punjab's Khadoor Sahib from an Assam jail, is leading the fight in early trends.

The 13 Lok Sabha constituencies in Punjab are due to vote in the seventh and last phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha Polls scheduled on June 1.

57 seats across seven states - 13 in Punjab and UP, nine in Bengal, eight in Bihar, six in Odisha, four in Himachal Pradesh, and three in Jharkhand, as well as Chandigarh - will complete a mammoth exercise that began 55 days ago - on April 19.

This was one of the tougher phases for the BJP in 2019 as it could win just 44% of the seats on offer.

If the AAP succeeds in Punjab, which is a full-fledged state unlike Delhi, then the doors will open in other states too. But a failure in Punjab will have consequences.

Ex-Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has made an emotional appeal ahead of voting Saturday in the final phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha election - to make the most of a "final chance to ensure our democracy and Constitution are protected..."

INDIA bloc candidate and Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur today won the Dehra assembly bypoll in Himachal Pradesh while the alliance's AAP secured the Jalandhar West seat and Trinamool Congress took two in West Bengal.

Radical preacher Amritpal Singh, who was elected the MP from Punjab's Khadoor Sahib seat after contesting the elections from a jail in Assam, has been granted parole for four days, beginning Friday, to take the oath of office.

The detention of newly-elected Punjab MP Amritpal Singh and nine others under the National Security Act at Dibrugarh Central Jail in Assam was today extended by a year. Singh has been in jail since March last year.

Nikki Haley's parents had reportedly migrated from Punjab to Canada and then to the US in the 1960s.

Punjab BJP leader Ravneet Singh Bittu did not want to be late in reaching Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official home in central Delhi today. But the traffic in the national capital had slowed him down.

Independent candidate Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa, son of one of the assassins of late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, is on course to win Faridkot Lok Sabha seat in Punjab, showed data from the Election Commission.

Former Punjab Chief Minister and Congress candidate Charanjit Singh Channi (60), who lost both the seats he contested in the February 2022 Assembly elections, scripted victory from the Jalandhar (reserved) Lok Sabha constituency today.

Aam Aadmi Party's dry spell in parliamentary election appears to continue, with Arvind Kejriwal's party trailing in most of the seats they are contesting.

The Congress is ahead in 7 seats in Punjab, while its closest rival Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won 3 seats, according to the Election Commission's leads. The BJP has not won any seat. The Shiromani Akali Dal got 1 seat.

Radical preacher Amritpal Singh, who is contesting the Lok Sabha polls in Punjab's Khadoor Sahib from an Assam jail, is leading the fight in early trends.

The 13 Lok Sabha constituencies in Punjab are due to vote in the seventh and last phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha Polls scheduled on June 1.

57 seats across seven states - 13 in Punjab and UP, nine in Bengal, eight in Bihar, six in Odisha, four in Himachal Pradesh, and three in Jharkhand, as well as Chandigarh - will complete a mammoth exercise that began 55 days ago - on April 19.

This was one of the tougher phases for the BJP in 2019 as it could win just 44% of the seats on offer.

If the AAP succeeds in Punjab, which is a full-fledged state unlike Delhi, then the doors will open in other states too. But a failure in Punjab will have consequences.

Ex-Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has made an emotional appeal ahead of voting Saturday in the final phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha election - to make the most of a "final chance to ensure our democracy and Constitution are protected..."