Punjab Local Body Polls

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...

The Congress party has won all the seven municipal corporations in Punjab for which the results were declared today. The party has won Abohar, Bathinda, Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur, Pathankot, Moga and Batla.

Buoyed by its massive victory in the Delhi assembly polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has decided to contest local body elections across the country as part of an ambitious plan to expand its presence beyond the national capital.

Polling to the zila parishads and panchayat samitis took place across Punjab on Thursday amid stray reports of clashes between Congress and SAD workers. The voting began at 8 am and went on till 4. The counting of votes will take place on September 22.

Punjab Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said today that the BJP-led NDA government at the centre is likely to go for an early Lok Sabha election.

Violent clashes between workers of Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal and the opposition Congress were reported from at least two places as the polling for local self-government bodies ended on Sunday evening, officials said.

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...

The Congress party has won all the seven municipal corporations in Punjab for which the results were declared today. The party has won Abohar, Bathinda, Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur, Pathankot, Moga and Batla.

Buoyed by its massive victory in the Delhi assembly polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has decided to contest local body elections across the country as part of an ambitious plan to expand its presence beyond the national capital.

Polling to the zila parishads and panchayat samitis took place across Punjab on Thursday amid stray reports of clashes between Congress and SAD workers. The voting began at 8 am and went on till 4. The counting of votes will take place on September 22.

Punjab Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said today that the BJP-led NDA government at the centre is likely to go for an early Lok Sabha election.

Violent clashes between workers of Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal and the opposition Congress were reported from at least two places as the polling for local self-government bodies ended on Sunday evening, officials said.