While city Congress chief Pardeep Chhabra is trying to get an invitation for the swearing-in, other members are approaching people close to Captain Amarinder Singh.
Under AAP's Chalo Punjab movement, around 35,000 NRIs had come to work as volunteers ahead of the election.
Of 13 seats for which tickets were announced at last hour, party has lost in eight
He said Punjab was an answer to BJP’s “Congress-free India” slogan.
No deputy CM, Sidhu to be ‘seniormost minister’; young faces to be inducted into the Cabinet later.
BJP’s Kalia was defeated by Congress’s Rajinder Beri, an undergraduate, by a margin of over 24,000 votes.
Chhotepur, who has 61,500 followers on Facebook, got mere 1,740 votes; Mann whose live videos ticked more than 7 lakh views on FB also lost.
Amarinder Singh, who is from the old guard and was initially critical of Rahul's leadership, said after the meeting that he will be happy if the Congress Vice President is elevated.
Sources in AAP said the party would organise an introspection meeting after March 15 and a change in guard may not be ruled out.
Only about 100 volunteers and three unsuccessful candidates from Mohali, Chamkaur Sahib and Anandpur Sahib went into a huddle at a party worker’s house in Nukiwal village.
In Lambi, the total votes polled were 1,33,987 and Jarnail could not get one-sixth of this number, which is a must for saving security deposit.
Amarinder earlier held an official meeting with Governor V P Singh Badnore for staking claims to form the new government in the state.
Congress ended the SAD-BJP combine's 10-year regime by registering a thumping win by bagging 77 seats, one short of two-third majority.
His announcement came after the meeting with the Punjab Governor following which he addressed media persons.
The Congress' chief ministerial candidate said he was committed to fulfil all the promises made by the party in its election manifesto.
Congress by bagging 77 seats, one short of two-thirds majority swept Punjab and ended the ten year regime of the Badals.
The Congress won 77 seats in the 117-member Assembly followed by AAP which managed to bag 20 seats.
In the 2012 assembly polls, 14 out of the 93 nominees had made it to the House.
The Congress wrested all four Jalandhar urban seats from SAD-BJP combine. In the region’s other three districts, Congress and BJP won in urban areas.
The three seats that the BJP managed to secure include Sujanpur in Pathankot district, Abohar and Phagwara.
Several alumni of Panjab University as well as one student pursuing Economics Honours at the varsity emerged victorious.
With the results of the Punjab Assembly elections declared on Saturday, leaders of political parties contemplated on the reasons for the results. The SAD, Congress and AAP emerged victorious on one seat each in the three constituencies in Mohali district. In Mohali, where SAD claimed to have spent more than Rs 3,500 crore on the […]
Throughout the campaign, the senior AAP leadership, including Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, repeatedly said Majithia would be put behind bars if AAP came to power.
Two other BJP ministers — Anil Joshi and Surjit Kumar Jyani — lost from Amritsar North and Fazilka, respectively.
'We want our new MLA to take up our issues and get the work done.'