Punjab Election 2014

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today attacked the Congress and Rahul Gandhi over a 2014 incident when he said his helicopter was held up in Punjab because "Yuvraj (prince)" was flying to Amritsar.

The Gurdaspur seat is a BJP stronghold, having been represented by actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna in 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2014

The Congress of 2019 is different from that of 2014 as the party is giving more importance to regional leaders than it was doing earlier and has also become more aggressive, says Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.

The candidature of Kirron Kher from Chandigarh has caused a rift within the BJP ranks in Punjab, sources told NDTV. Kirron Kher had wrested the Chandigarh seat in 2014 from the Congress's Pawan Bansal, who won it three consecutive times. But her nomination this time was announced at the last minute, over-riding the objections of the Chandigarh BJP ...

The Aam Aadmi Party's Lok Sabha poll performance in Punjab will be better this time compared to the 2014 elections, claimed party Lok Sabha lawmaker Bhagwant Mann, while dubbing the Punjab Democratic Alliance as ''Personal Democratic Alliance''.

BJP president Amit Shah Thursday announced that his party and its old ally the Akali Dal will fight the Lok Sabha polls together and contest on the same number of seats in Punjab as in the 2014 general elections.

Elections 2019: Despite a virtual split in the leadership of its Punjab unit, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will contest all 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab, party leader Arvind Kejriwal announced on Sunday.

As the Congress is inching towards victory in three big states that went to polls over the last few weeks, Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said "bure din jane wale hain", taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his promise "ache din aane wale hain (good days are ahead)". The slogan, designed ahead of national elections in 2014, was the ...

The wave in favour of Narendra Modi in 2014 national elections that had helped the BJP come to power with a comfortable majority has turned out to be 'poisonous' for the common man, Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said in poll- bound Madhya Pradesh.

The BJP rode a Modi super-wave to a massive victory in Uttar Pradesh today, winning 312 of the state's 403 seats; its allies have won 13 seats for a grand total of 325. It's a triumph that will strengthen Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim to a second term in 2019. As jubilant party workers celebrated an early Holi, BJP chief Amit Shah credited t...

Navjot Singh Sidhu spent months in negotiations with the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress before deciding on the latter as his next political posting. He joined in January and has since been a star campaigner for his new party, drawing mega crowds. Mr Sidhu was a BJP member of Parliament from Amritsar in Punjab for ten years before the party decide...

Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu declared himself a "born Congressman" after formally joining the party following weeks of negotiations ahead of the Punjab election next month. He is set to contest the February 4 Punjab assembly polls from Amritsar East, a part of the Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency that he represented from 2004 to 20...

Assembly elections for the 114 seats in Punjab will be held on February 4, the Election Commission has announced today. The results of the primarily three-cornered contest between the ruling Akali-BJP combine, the Aam Aadmi Party or AAP and the Congress, will be announced on March 11. In the 2012 assembly elections, in which the ruling combine had ...

Describing the central government's performance since coming to power in 2014 as "very good", union minister Arun Jaitley today said the SAD-BJP alliance will contest the 2017 Punjab Assembly polls "on the basis of performance and achievements of both the Narendra Modi and the Parkash Singh Badal-led governments".

For years, Navjot Singh Sidhu has made no secret of his distaste for the Akali leaders who head the Punjab government, accusing them of holding back funds to keep him from being an effective leader in his stronghold of Amritsar.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today attacked the Congress and Rahul Gandhi over a 2014 incident when he said his helicopter was held up in Punjab because "Yuvraj (prince)" was flying to Amritsar.

The Gurdaspur seat is a BJP stronghold, having been represented by actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna in 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2014

The Congress of 2019 is different from that of 2014 as the party is giving more importance to regional leaders than it was doing earlier and has also become more aggressive, says Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.

The candidature of Kirron Kher from Chandigarh has caused a rift within the BJP ranks in Punjab, sources told NDTV. Kirron Kher had wrested the Chandigarh seat in 2014 from the Congress's Pawan Bansal, who won it three consecutive times. But her nomination this time was announced at the last minute, over-riding the objections of the Chandigarh BJP ...

The Aam Aadmi Party's Lok Sabha poll performance in Punjab will be better this time compared to the 2014 elections, claimed party Lok Sabha lawmaker Bhagwant Mann, while dubbing the Punjab Democratic Alliance as ''Personal Democratic Alliance''.

BJP president Amit Shah Thursday announced that his party and its old ally the Akali Dal will fight the Lok Sabha polls together and contest on the same number of seats in Punjab as in the 2014 general elections.

Elections 2019: Despite a virtual split in the leadership of its Punjab unit, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will contest all 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab, party leader Arvind Kejriwal announced on Sunday.

As the Congress is inching towards victory in three big states that went to polls over the last few weeks, Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said "bure din jane wale hain", taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his promise "ache din aane wale hain (good days are ahead)". The slogan, designed ahead of national elections in 2014, was the ...

The wave in favour of Narendra Modi in 2014 national elections that had helped the BJP come to power with a comfortable majority has turned out to be 'poisonous' for the common man, Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said in poll- bound Madhya Pradesh.

The BJP rode a Modi super-wave to a massive victory in Uttar Pradesh today, winning 312 of the state's 403 seats; its allies have won 13 seats for a grand total of 325. It's a triumph that will strengthen Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim to a second term in 2019. As jubilant party workers celebrated an early Holi, BJP chief Amit Shah credited t...

Navjot Singh Sidhu spent months in negotiations with the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress before deciding on the latter as his next political posting. He joined in January and has since been a star campaigner for his new party, drawing mega crowds. Mr Sidhu was a BJP member of Parliament from Amritsar in Punjab for ten years before the party decide...

Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu declared himself a "born Congressman" after formally joining the party following weeks of negotiations ahead of the Punjab election next month. He is set to contest the February 4 Punjab assembly polls from Amritsar East, a part of the Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency that he represented from 2004 to 20...

Assembly elections for the 114 seats in Punjab will be held on February 4, the Election Commission has announced today. The results of the primarily three-cornered contest between the ruling Akali-BJP combine, the Aam Aadmi Party or AAP and the Congress, will be announced on March 11. In the 2012 assembly elections, in which the ruling combine had ...

Describing the central government's performance since coming to power in 2014 as "very good", union minister Arun Jaitley today said the SAD-BJP alliance will contest the 2017 Punjab Assembly polls "on the basis of performance and achievements of both the Narendra Modi and the Parkash Singh Badal-led governments".

For years, Navjot Singh Sidhu has made no secret of his distaste for the Akali leaders who head the Punjab government, accusing them of holding back funds to keep him from being an effective leader in his stronghold of Amritsar.