Politics

In her one-day visit to the state, she will address election rallies at Phagwara and Mehil Kalan in Barnala area.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched an offensive against AAP, calling it an "outsider" that is "dreaming of creating its own world" at the cost of Punjab and asked voters to send it back from where it had come.

The Election Commission on Sunday ordered an FIR against Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal for violating the Model Code of Conduct.

If he (Modi) decides to take on someone, he doesn’t stop. He is vindictive, very vindictive.

For 75-year-old Charanjit Singh Channi, who is pitted against his nephew Angad Singh in this assembly constituency, contesting against someone from the politically-inclined family is not new as he had once fought polls against his own mother.

Telugu actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan, who has been raising the issue of Special Category Status (SCS) for Andhra Pradesh, on Friday found fault with the state government after it denied permission for a proposed protest on the issue.

The AAP is "comfortable" with Delhi's new Lt Governor Anil Baijal and is also confident of winning assembly elections in both Punjab and Goa, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia says.

Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar on Thursday sought to play down speculations of his emerging as a presidential candidate, saying "a person with 12 MPs should not expect such an important position".

Former youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma, who is undergoing life term in the sensational murder case of his wife Naina Sahni, was on Wednesday granted three weeks parole by the Delhi High Court.

BJP MP Vinay Katiyar on Wednesday courted controversy saying there were "prettier star campaigners" in his party than Congress Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

Kejriwal who once talked about Janta Darbar has 'no time to listen to the grievances' of the Aam Admi in Delhi, Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari said in a statement.

Rebel RSS Goa Pranth Pramukh Subhash Velingkar, once Manohar Parrikar's political and ideological guru, has formed his own political party, Goa Suraksha Manch.

Former BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu's cross over to the Congress could be the fallout of the "hurt" he might have felt in his parent party, former Union minister Shatrughan Sinha said on Sunday.

Amarinder said the interests of Punjab and its people were supreme and could not be allowed to be compromised for personal gains.

Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday criticised Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal for offering sops to farmers and BPL families seeing "imminent and humiliating defeat" of SAD-BJP government which "ruthlessly looted" people of Punjab for 10 years.

After days of hard bargaining, the Congress sealed a pre-poll alliance with the ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, pitchforking the combo as a hot favourite in the state assembly elections slated to begin next month.