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June 13, 2026, 04:28 PM - 3 min read
Amit Shah asked BJP leaders to prepare for all 117 Punjab Assembly seats, saying the state must be restored to its former glory.
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June 13, 2026, 04:13 PM - 2 min read
Speaking during his visit to Ludhiana, Puri said if the Akali Dal wishes to renew ties with the BJP, it must acknowledge the party's stronger position. He pointed out that the BJP has become the world's largest political outfit and said any future arrangement would have to take present-day political realities into account.
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June 12, 2026, 06:11 PM - 6 min read
Till now, Punjab has never thrown a hung verdict. However, given the situation prevailing right now, the outcome is going to be quite uncertain.
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June 9, 2026, 03:24 PM - 6 min read
The BJP, by trying to cosy up to Taksal through its head Dhumma, appears to be conveying a message to the ‘conservative’ class among the Sikhs, who it thinks can be won over by reaching out to the seminary known now for holding radical views.
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June 5, 2026, 07:00 PM - 5 min read
The discussion around Amarinder Singh's reported displeasure intensified after he said he had not been consulted on the appointment of Kewal Singh Dhillon as Punjab BJP president.
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May 28, 2026, 05:19 PM - 6 min read
The BJP does not necessarily pick up strong and powerful as its leaders. Take the example of Nitin Nabin, who was elevated as party president when nobody outside Bihar knew about him. Dhillon is exactly the repeat of the Nabin experiment. However, unlike Nabin who is relatively younger, Dhillon is already 75, an age at which the BJP normally retires everyone, barring a few exceptions.
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May 28, 2026, 11:32 AM - 2 min read
Dhillon, who was earlier with the Congress, joined the BJP in 2022. He is considered close to former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh and is seen as an influential Jat Sikh leader in the Malwa region.
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May 26, 2026, 01:07 PM - 2 min read
AAP MLA Gurdit Singh Sekhon from Faridkot cornered BJP leader Sunny Brar, accusing him of violating the Model Code of Conduct.
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May 23, 2026, 02:35 PM - 2 min read
The statement came after the party highlighted rising debt, delayed welfare payments, and growing employee unrest, claiming that the state’s economy is slipping into a dangerous cycle of borrowing to repay older debts.
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April 24, 2026, 05:30 PM - 5 min read
At the national level, yes it will be a grave setback for the AAP. However, except for ‘optics’, it will not make any difference to the fortunes of neither the AAP nor the BJP in Punjab. None of these MPs carries any political weight to alter any equations on the ground.
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April 19, 2026, 03:43 PM - 6 min read
The ED raids on Ashok Mittal and Sanjeev Arora have created a complex political situation in Punjab. The Congress, the principal opposition party in the state, that has been very vocal about the “ED being misused”, has chosen not to react.
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April 14, 2026, 06:30 PM - 7 min read
The AAP has again touched a raw nerve of the Punjabis, which can have consequences. AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal is on record having said it before 2022 assembly elections that once the AAP forms government in Punjab, those guilty of sacrilege would be punished within 24 hours. What people expected was punishment to the guilty, not another law.
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