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Topic: AAP Punjab

12 doctors, 7 lawyers, Oxford alum & RTI activist — AAP’s Punjab winners include 82 debutants

Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party has won 92 seats in Punjab's 117-member assembly. Of these, 10 are incumbent MLAs.

‘Pad woman of Amritsar’ becomes giant-killer, beats Sidhu, Majithia and ex-IAS officer

AAP's Amritsar East candidate, Jeevan Jyot Kaur, is a first-time contestant who defeated political heavyweights from Congress, Shiromani Akali Dal and BJP Thursday.

Comedian Bhagwant Mann set to be Punjab’s first AAP CM, faces 3 broad challenges

Image of being Kejriwal’s ‘proxy’, inter-state disputes & striking a balance between security issues and relations with NRI donors likely to be challenges, say poliical leaders.

All parties in Punjab talk ‘aam aadmi’, but field crorepatis — 93% for SAD, 91% Congress, 69% AAP

Congress candidates in Punjab fray own an average of Rs 13.3 crore in assets, followed by Rs 12.7 crore for SAD, and Rs 7.7 crore for the BJP. AAP isn’t far behind at Rs 7 crore.

Punjab CM Channi alleges AAP of giving tickets to candidates with criminal background

Addressing the media Channi also said that AAP gave tickets to 44 people who came from other political parties and accused Kejriwal of building a campaign based on lies and falsehood.

Punjab Congress leader Jagmohan Singh Kang joins Aam Aadmi Party after being denied ticket

Kang, who blamed CM Channi for allegedly opposing his candidature from Mohali's Kharar seat, joined Arvind Kejriwal-led party along with his two sons Yadwindra and Amrinder.

Hockey legends turned candidates hit streets in Jalandhar Cantonment as campaign fever starts

ThePrint follows the election campaigns of hockey legends Pargat Singh of the Congress and Surinder Singh Sodhi of AAP, and of the Congress’s Malvika Sood, sister of actor Sonu Sood.

Majha votes, Punjab follows? Not just Sidhu vs Majithia, here’s why all eyes are on this region

Battle between SAD’s Majithia & Punjab Congress chief Sidhu in Amritsar East is one of many contests involving top leaders in region that often decides elections.

Republic Day tableaux are anachronistic now. Either include all or do away with the spectacle

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

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Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.