Sukhpal Singh Khaira

ED attaches Chandigarh house of Cong MLA Sukhpal Khaira

March 12, 2025 7:57 am

Punjab Congress leaders rallied behind Khaira, calling the ED’s action politically motivated.

Sukhpal Singh Khaira is a three-time MLA from Bholath constituency in Kapurthala district. (Express Photo)

3 terms as MLA, never an MP: Will Sukhpal Singh Khaira's tryst with Lok Sabha polls give him a second chance

April 16, 2024 7:59 am

Arrested twice — once by the Fazilka police in connection with a 2015 NDPS case in September 2023 and again by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case linked to a drug and fake passport racket in November 2021, the 59-year-old veteran politician has always been vocal on social media platforms.

2015 drugs case: Won’t proceed with trial of Congress MLA Sukhpal Khaira, Punjab govt to SC

April 11, 2024 8:00 am

Nine people, including Gurdev Singh, allegedly a close aide of Sukhpal Singh Khaira, were booked and convicted.

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SC to hear Punjab plea against bail to Cong MLA today

January 18, 2024 2:17 am

Patwalia said he had not been supplied a copy and added that he needed time to prepare. The senior counsel claimed the state had personal malice against his client.

Khaira was arrested on September 28, 2023.

Punjab HC grants bail to Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira in drugs and Arms Act case

January 04, 2024 5:37 pm

The court directs the former AAP leader to surrender all weapons, firearms and ammunition, if any, along with his arms licence.

Political potboiler in Malwa region as Sukhbir Badal, Amrinder Warring, Bhagwant Mann take the stage

September 30, 2023 8:24 am

Sukhbir was addressing a protest rally outside the Fazilka deputy commissioner's office over delay in disbursal of compensation for crop loss due to floods.

Congress conveys ‘strong displeasure’ to AAP: ‘Don’t use BJP vendetta tool’

September 29, 2023 9:16 am

Arrest of Sukhpal Khaira on a 2015 charge set to strengthen calls by Congress state unit to drop plans of alliance with INDIA partner AAP in Punjab

From ‘farzi inqlaabi’ to ‘image promotion’: Sukhpal Khaira has been persistent in his criticism of Mann, Kejriwal

September 28, 2023 4:45 pm

Sukhpal Singh Khaira, the Congress MLA from Bholath who was arrested Thursday by the Punjab police in connection with a 2015 drugs case, has been a strong critic of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party in the state

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A turn for the verse: Punjab politicians take to poetry, only to be more offensive and personal

May 03, 2023 5:05 pm

The trigger for the poetry war in the run-up to the Jalandhar bypoll was CM Bhagwant Mann’s couplets praising his government and criticising a newspaper.

Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypoll: Cops book Khaira after Bholath SDM says he threatened, defamed him

April 28, 2023 10:18 am

Khaira, who represents Bholath in the Punjab Assembly, however, denied the charges and alleged that it was "the result of extreme hatred and grudge that Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann bears in his heart against me".

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