CM Bhagwant Mann hands over report to eminent Sikh leaders It was Dera Sacha Sauda that hatched a conspiracy to cause unrest in Punjab. The provocation was ban on screening of a feature film of the Dera Chief Ram Rahim Singh. This is the major finding of a Special Investigation Team headed by Inspector-General of […]
Disappointed are those who have been pinning hopes on the new Punjab Vidhan Sabha expecting it to be different from the previous Houses. Since the House has an overwhelming majority of first timers, hopes of the debates becoming more qualitative and focused on issues facing the State have been belied. Discourses witnessed during the ongoing […]
Putting behind the Sangrur Lok Sabha bye-election debacle, three-month-old AAP Government has tried to salvage some of its prestige by presenting the State’s first ever “paperless”. Tax free and please all Budget in Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Monday. While the ruling party claimed “it is a historic Budget” – drafted in consultation with the people […]
Pall of gloom cast by Russia-Ukraine war has enveloped the entire world. Cold war foes Russia and the US are showing no sign of let up, the former is fighting a direct war on ground and the latter a proxy war by supplying weapons to Ukraine. Elsewhere, away from the shadow of sanctions, Indian Prime […]
Mann (Simranjit Singh) replaces Mann (Bhagwant) in Lok Sabha The Shiromani Akali Dal chief Simranjit Singh Mann has done it again. He has single-handedly upset the applecart of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party in its citadel. He has emerged a clear winner in a five-corner contest. The traditional parties like Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party and […]
When a leader or a political party says that they will wipe out the drug menace from their territory in six weeks or three months, it sounds like a joke. Before their loaded utterances, they probably failed to look at the United States, one of the most powerful nations, that continues to fight the drug […]
Interesting are the ways in which politics works. Things have not changed much since India elected its 14th President in Ram Nath Kovind. Now when the election of the 15th President is due next month, the only apparent change is the reversal of roles. In 2017, the ruling NDA had put up Ram Nath Kovind, a Dalit […]
It is not Sangrur alone. The outcome of the Sangrur bye-election will impact Punjab politics at least for next couple of years or till the time the State gets back into election mode for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. While the ruling Aam Aadmi Party is confident of retaining the seat vacated by the incumbent […]
Sombre mood in which the presser started, and somewhat patronising air in which Minister of Defence Rajnath Singh announced the scheme Agnipath, it seemed as if Government has given the youth of this country a gift of life time – four year service contract in armed forces. A clutch of reporters sitting there hardly put […]
In less than two months, India will decide on its new President. Who will succeed the incumbent Ram Nath Kovind?, is a question that may not be very difficult to answer. The reason: the electoral college as it stands is structured on the basis of strengths of different political parties, both in Parliament and State […]
Rocked by the gruesome assassination of folk singer-turned politician Sidhu Moose Wala on May 29, the ruling Aam Aadmi faces a litmus test in the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat bye-election scheduled for June 23. The seat had fallen vacant after the incumbent Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann quit his Lok Sabha seat on his election […]
India’s grand old political party – Congress – is at crossroads as it is passing through its worst existential crisis. Going through its “reformational” phase after a series of defeats in the last two general elections where it just managed to get 44 and 52 seats in Lok Sabha, it has been losing leaders left […]
In less than five months after Serbian tennis superstar Novak Djokovic was prevented not only from participating in the Australian Open but also from entering Australia for three years for not adhering to the Covid-19 vaccine mandate, Florida administration threatened to fine the organisers of Special Olympics $27.5 million for violating
Punjab and Punjabis love hawking media headlines for doing things differently. It may be the reason that even after more than a hundred books written on the State’s turmoil have hit the stands in the past 38 years, many knowledgeable students of Punjab or Sikh politics still await the “truth” to come out. Their impression […]
Challenges on various fronts, including maintenance of law and order, notwithstanding, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) continues its ascendancy, both in the State and national politics. After its landslide victory in the last Assembly elections in February this year, it has created history by claiming all seven Rajya Sabha seats that fall under its […]