Jalandhar Cantt MLA Pargat Singh (Congress), who played hockey defence, is up against centre-forward attacker Surinder Singh Sodhi (AAP). ‘Loha hi lohe ko kaat ta hai,' Sodhi says.
ThePrint's National Photo Editor Praveen Jain brings you snapshots of leaders meeting people, clicking selfies with party workers and covering maximum ground less than 3 weeks before polls.
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.
In its 3rd list of candidates for the Punjab polls, Congress also fielded ex-Patiala mayor Vishnu Sharma from the Patiala assembly seats against its former leader Amarinder Singh.
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.
Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who is accused in a drugs case, has also filed his nomination papers from Punjab's Majitha constituency, where he is the sitting MLA
Suman Toor, who claims to be Navjot Sidhu's sister and is based in the US, called the politician a 'cruel person' and said their mother died at the Delhi railway station in 1989.
With Election Commission putting a ban on physical rallies & roadshows till 31 January, political parties in Punjab are doing their best to use the virtual medium to reach voters.
The former Congress chief will be accompanied by all 117 party candidates of the state assembly polls when he pays obeisance at the Golden Temple Thursday.
Years are quietly being stripped off my lifespan, and somehow that doesn’t ruin my day. But getting scolded for one careless word in an email? That can send me spiralling.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
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