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December 12, 2025, 07:06 PM - 5 min read
While the senior Badal was the Chief Minister, his son, Sukhbir Singh Badal, nephew Manpreet Singh Badal, son-in-law Adesh Partap Singh Badal and Sukhbir’s brother in law (his wife’s brother) Bikram Singh Majithia were all in the Badal cabinet.
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December 5, 2025, 12:59 PM - 6 min read
Interestingly, this time it is the Akali workersand leaders who are keener to align with the BJP than other way round. While seniorBJP leader and former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh has been stronglybatting for the alliance, the traditional BJP leadership in Punjab has beenfavouring going alone.
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November 30, 2025, 12:19 PM - 7 min read
While BJP appears to be mulling whether it should wait and allow the party to grow and expand on its own or align with some partner that brightens prospects of victory in the coming elections, its senior ‘immigrant’ leadership remains confused.
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November 18, 2025, 05:40 PM - 6 min read
Tarn Taran ‘verdict’ in terms of Akali politics is also important because people in that predominantly panthic constituency have shown unambiguous, clear and categorical preference for the moderate leadership over the radical one.
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November 2, 2025, 06:19 PM - 4 min read
Chandigarh Press Club also strongly condemned this, saying, “the police action of stopping vehicles carrying newspapers in various districts of Punjab. In several instances, newspaper delivery vehicles were reportedly taken to police stations, leading to undue harassment of the delivery staff and delays in newspaper distribution.”
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November 2, 2025, 04:07 PM - 12 min read
In Capt Amarinder Singh, the BJP has an ace of trumps up its sleeve. That is why the political parties in Punjab have already grown curious, as he has resumed his political innings.
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August 28, 2025, 07:57 PM - 7 min read
The Congress in Punjab today lacks a towering leader. And taking for granted that it will “certainly replace” the AAP means exaggerated optimism.
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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 24, 2025, 07:35 PM - 7 min read
The situation in Punjab is not what it was 15 years ago. While the BJP has consolidated its hold among the urban Hindu voters, the Akali Dal has lost most of its base in the countryside, which used to be its stronghold.
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July 11, 2025, 08:07 PM - 7 min read
The senior Badal, like Bal Thackeray, had invested too much, politically, on his nephew, as compared to his own son.
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July 6, 2025, 07:34 PM - 8 min read
The AAP government, apparently wanting to be seen as stricter and firmer against sacrilege than its predecessors, is proposing to add death penalty as punishment while the previous legislations had sought life imprisonment.
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July 2, 2025, 01:05 PM - 3 min read
The SAD chief and party workers had planned to march to the district court complex to show support for senior SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who has been arrested in a disproportionate assets case.
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