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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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June 25, 2025, 01:43 PM - 4 min read
Senior Shiromani Akali Dal leaders Sukhbir and Harsimrat Kaur Badal strongly condemned the AAP government over Vigilance Bureau raids on Bikram Singh Majithia’s residence, calling it political vendetta.
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April 26, 2025, 08:53 PM - 2 min read
SAD leader said the party has kept the doors open to welcoming back rebels who left in recent years, provided they return with a "clear heart" and are committed to strengthening the SAD.
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April 26, 2025, 03:17 PM - 2 min read
Announcing this on the second death anniversary of his father, SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal said the centre would offer specialised training to 2,000 students every year.
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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 8, 2025, 08:02 PM - 1 min read
The decision was taken during a meeting of the SAD Working Committee, chaired by the party’s president Balwinder Singh Bhundar on Tuesday.
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March 15, 2025, 08:22 PM - 6 min read
Those who know Sukhbir, Harsimrat and Majithia closely, will find it very difficult to accept that Sukhbir and Majithia can fall apart.
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