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August 13, 2025, 07:25 PM - 7 min read
The appointment of Giani Harpreet Singh as party president may attract the Dalit community as well. Otherwise, the community has mostly gone along with the Congress, before it switched over to the AAP though not in its entirety.
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August 7, 2025, 09:52 PM - 3 min read
The Opposition in Punjab has strongly criticised the state government for its alleged failure to tackle rising drug-related crimes, accusing it of inaction and demanding urgent intervention to restore law and order across affected regions.
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July 28, 2025, 06:45 PM - 7 min read
While the Akali Dal did stage an impressive comeback in the 1990s and pushed the radicals like Simranjit Singh Mann to margins, it now risks meeting the same fate as it met during the 1980s.
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July 14, 2025, 01:52 PM - 7 min read
The dominance of family-run political parties across India is dwindling as the BJP capitalises on the shift, posing existential challenges to many regional dynastic parties.
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July 7, 2025, 07:56 PM - 3 min read
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MP and former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has written to External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, seeking immediate diplomatic intervention to secure the release of a young farmer from Punjab who inadvertently crossed into Pakistani territory on 21 June.
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July 3, 2025, 04:29 PM - 6 min read
the entire opposition comprising the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiromani Akali Dal seemed to act in unison against the arrest of Bikram Singh Majithia.
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June 16, 2025, 01:32 PM - 3 min read
According to the committee, approximately 26 lakh membership slips have been distributed across Punjab and other states. Of these, around 6 lakh slips have been received back so far, and the verification process is currently underway.
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May 27, 2025, 06:53 PM - 6 min read
By the time Ludhiana West result will be declared, there will be about one-and-a-half years left for the next assembly elections in Punjab. The result will definitely set the tone for the 2027 assembly polls. That is why both the Congress as well as the AAP are taking it very seriously.
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May 4, 2025, 06:53 PM - 3 min read
In a letter to the prime minister, Shiromani Akali Dal president Badal said his party will not remain a mute witness to an "discrimination" against Punjab on this or any other issue.
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April 12, 2025, 07:50 PM - 7 min read
Sukhbir was forced to resign under an Akal Takhat directive after he accepted certain mistakes committed during the Akali-BJP rule between 2007 and 2017.
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April 12, 2025, 05:25 PM - 4 min read
His re-election at the outfit's general delegate session in Amritsar comes barely four months after he quit after he was declared 'tankhaiya' (guilty of religious misconduct) by the Akal Takht for "mistakes" committed by the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and its government from 2007 to 2017.
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April 10, 2025, 10:24 PM - 4 min read
In a letter dated April 9, Randhawa raised objections regarding the SAD’s recent membership drive, claiming that the party had failed to disclose key details such as the number of members enrolled, fees collected, and the process through which delegates were elected.
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