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Kanchanpreet Kaur, daughter of SAD leader Sukhwinder Kaur Randhawa who unsuccessfully contested the Nov 11 bypoll

Gangster links, fake identity trail: How an Akali Dal leader found herself at the centre of Punjab row

December 02, 2025 10:13 am

While Akali Dal projects Kanchanpreet Kaur for coming Zila Parishad polls, her legal troubles and alleged link to gangster Amritpal Singh Bath kick up a storm

Newsmaker | Who is Harmeet Pathanmajra, AAP MLA on the run from own government's police in Punjab

September 02, 2025 6:10 pm

Belonging to a political family, with several controversies to his name, Pathanmajra was arrested soon after his criticism of Mann govt over flood efforts

Operation Blue Star: Reading between the lines of a deleted social media post by Punjab BJP

June 04, 2025 5:44 am

Tribute by party to “all martyrs” of the operation at Golden Temple, before it took down the past, could indicate a break from the party’s measured stance in the past. Rivals believe the reason more mundane: a bypoll

Rewind 2024: Punjab’s year of political defections and high-stakes elections

December 31, 2024 7:04 pm

From last-minute switches to accusations of coercion, 2024 reflected the churn in Punjab’s political landscape. As leaders hopscotched between parties, voters were left questioning the integrity of their representatives.

Shiromani Akali Dal, SAD woes, MLA Sukhwinder Kumar Sukhi, Aam Aadmi Party, AAP,

Fresh blow to Sukhbir Badal, left with 2 MLAs as senior leader moves to AAP

August 14, 2024 10:22 pm

Sukhvinder Sukhi is a two-time MLA from Doaba region, where AAP is weak; another Akali MLA stays away from party meetings

Sidhu Moosewala's father Balkaur Singh Sidhu with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (File Photo)

Congress at number 3: Moosa humbles Moosewala’s father

June 11, 2024 10:53 am

While Moosa village humbled Balkaur Singh and Congress, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s native Satoj village gave AAP candidate Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer an overwhelming majority.

The radical preacher, who styled himself after slain Khalistani militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, was arrested from Moga on April 23 last year. (Photo: Kamaldeep Singh Brar)

Political dynamics, panthic considerations to come in play as Amritpal seeks release

June 10, 2024 10:08 am

MP-elect from Khadoor Sahib to write to Punjab govt ‘to seek temporary release under Section 15 of the NSA’

Why an AAP-Congress alliance in Punjab made sense: 2022 Assembly poll numbers

February 13, 2024 9:05 am

If the Assembly results are projected to LS, the two parties could have swept all the 13 seats in the state. But 2024 is a whole new ballgame, with AAP and Congress no longer as strong, BJP no more that weak

Straddling panthic and political tags, Akali Dal finds itself ‘trapped at crossroads of region and religion’

October 08, 2022 7:51 am

As ethnic party, Akali Dal has sought and received considerable political support from the Sikhs in India and even among the diaspora, while taking up the community’s religious, social and political cause as central to the party agenda.