For the Akali Dal, out of power for 7 years now, these elections will also set the tone for 2027 assembly polls. According to party leaders, there's more enthusiasm this time.
Akali leader adds that BJP has reached a point where it only wants to win. Punjab has no space for militancy & people are nationalists & want peace, he asserts.
The last round of farmer protests ended a decades-long alliance between SAD & BJP. With another agitation gathering steam, SAD is learnt to be ‘unwilling’ to suffer political damage.
Sirsa was considered close to Badal family that heads SAD, and move is seen as blow to panthic party ahead of assembly elections in Punjab early next year.
Punjab and Haryana High Court Monday ordered CBI to hand over case, in which Akali leaders are the accused, to the Punjab Police, a long-standing demand of ruling Congress.
Amarinder Singh sends Mein Kampf to Sukhbir Badal, so that the Akali MP can “understand dangerous implications” of CAA. Sukhbir responds with play on a failed ruler.
India’s civil services were once called the ‘steel frame’. But steel is forged in fire, not moulded in a coaching class. While dilution has made the exam easier, it has also made it harder to find the game-changers we need.
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.
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.
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