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Punjab Assembly Elections 2022

Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh joined the BJP on Monday

Former Punjab CM Amarinder Singh Joins BJP, Read All About His Journey From Congress Leader To Embracing BJP

Former Punjab CM Amarinder Singh was key to the Congress rapprochement with the Sikhs in Punjab after 1984, taking the party to power twice.

19 September 2022

Seen But Not Heard

Punjab’s Dalits: Seen But Not Heard

By paying lip-service to Dalits without addressing their real concerns, all political parties have invisibilised Punjab’s largest oppressed community

27 May 2022

Ex-Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar joins BJP

Ex-Punjab Congress Chief Sunil Jakhar Joins BJP

Jakhar, who had quit the Congress party last month, joined BJP in the presence of national president JP Nadda on Thursday.

19 May 2022

How Farmers' Protest Also Gave Birth To An Alternative Media In Punjab

Regional media have emerged as a bulwark against a centralising and hyper-nationalist polity and mediascape

27 May 2022

Dreams Die First

Punjab Haunted By The Past It Wants To Forget

This election season in Punjab, longstanding regional demands have taken a backseat

26 May 2022

A place in Punjab (2011) by Orijit Sen, permanent mural at Virasat-e-Khalsa Museum, Anandpur Sahib

Comic Relief: Why Punjab Stood Behind Bhagwant Mann

The assembly poll outcome in Punjab signifies a catharsis that the state has been desperately waiting for since early 1980s

25 March 2022

Harvest Of Farm Suicides

Punjab Election 2022: For All Parties, It’s A Harvest Of Farm Suicides

The once economically prosperous state is now in the grip of unending farm distress. What ails the state and why has no government been able to do anything?

27 May 2022

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Tower of Babel

Punjab’s New Media: A Story Of Avoiding The Mundane

Much of the Punjab assembly polls were fought on new media outlets. It was another matter that these proliferating outlets rarely added value to the discourse

25 March 2022

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20 March 2022
Bhagwant Mann Warns AAP MLAs Against 'Recommending' Anyone, Says Target Is Vibrant Punjab

Bhagwant Mann Warns AAP MLAs Against 'Recommending' Anyone, Says Target Is Vibrant Punjab

Bhagwant Mann said their target should be to turn Punjab prosperous once again, to make it 'Rangla' (vibrant) Punjab.


20 March 2022
CM Arvind Kejriwal Holds Virtual Meeting With Punjab AAP MLAs

CM Arvind Kejriwal Holds Virtual Meeting With Punjab AAP MLAs

Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal held a meeting with his party MLAs from Punjab via videoconference on Sunday.


20 March 2022
Eye On Raj Polls, AAP To Hold 2-Day Convention In Jaipur To ‘Strengthen’ Organisation

Eye On Raj Polls, AAP To Hold 2-Day Convention In Jaipur To ‘Strengthen’ Organisation

AAP is now focusing on Rajasthan with the party holding a two-day convention in Jaipur to strengthen the organisation in the state.


17 March 2022
Literary Lens

Literary Lens

Writers, poets and artists weigh in on the socio-political changes in five states that went to the polls.


11 March 2022
Meet Labh Singh Ugoke, The 'Aam Aadmi' Who Defeated Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi

Meet Labh Singh Ugoke, The 'Aam Aadmi' Who Defeated Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi

"Channi was bound to lose from Bhadaur, but we never imagined that people of Bhadaur would give us such a big lead," Labh Singh Ugoke told Outlook.


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11 March 2022
Mamata Banerjee Alleges BJP Of Resorting To Vote Loot To Win Elections

Mamata Banerjee Alleges BJP Of Resorting To Vote Loot To Win Elections

West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee alleged BJP of resorting to vote loot to win the elections.


11 March 2022
Punjab Election Results: CM Channi Submits Resignation To Governor

Punjab Election Results: CM Channi Submits Resignation To Governor

The Channi-led cabinet in a virtual meeting here recommended dissolution of the Assembly, paving the way for the constitution of a new cabinet by the Aam Aadmi...


11 March 2022
Congress Leadership Will Never Learn: Amarinder Singh On Election Results

Congress Leadership Will Never Learn: Amarinder Singh On Election Results

Punjab Lok Congress chief Amarinder Singh, who was unseated from the post of chief minister last year, asked the grand old party who is responsible for its...


11 March 2022
Assembly Poll Results Put BJP On Firm Wicket For Presidential Elections

Assembly Poll Results Put BJP On Firm Wicket For Presidential Elections

The big victory for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh has given Prime Minister Narendra Modi a free hand to decide on the successor to President Ram Nath Kovind, who...


11 March 2022
Punjab Polls: From Comedian To CM, 'Jugnu' Bhagwant Mann Is Having The Last Laugh

Punjab Polls: From Comedian To CM, 'Jugnu' Bhagwant Mann Is Having The Last Laugh

Decades after he began a career as a comic, Bhagwant Mann, 48, is having the last laugh—poised to be crowned as the next chief minister of Punjab on the back...


11 March 2022
Election Results 2022: 'Jeet Ka Chauka': PM Modi After BJP Wins Four States; AAP Sweeps Punjab

Election Results 2022: 'Jeet Ka Chauka': PM Modi After BJP Wins Four States; AAP Sweeps Punjab

BJP retains Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur while AAP wins Punjab in major setback for Congress.


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11 March 2022
AAP In Punjab: Bhagwant Mann To Take Oath At Bhagat Singh’s Ancestral Village

AAP In Punjab: Bhagwant Mann To Take Oath At Bhagat Singh’s Ancestral Village

Punjab Polls Result: AAP’s CM candidate Bhagwant Mann said the oath-taking ceremony of the new Punjab cabinet will be held at Khatkarkalan in Nawanshahr...


10 March 2022
Elections 2022: How Political Bigwigs Fared Across 5 States

Elections 2022: How Political Bigwigs Fared Across 5 States

While UP's CM Adityanath is leading and Goa's CM Sawant and Manipur's CM N Biren Singh won, Punjab's chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi, former CM Amarinder...


10 March 2022
Election Results People's Stamp For BJP’s Pro-poor And Pro-active Governance: PM Modi

Election Results People's Stamp For BJP’s Pro-poor And Pro-active Governance: PM Modi

Elections 2022: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Uttar Pradesh has given many prime ministers but for the first time it has re-elected a chief minister after...


10 March 2022
Punjab Election Result Is A Revolution That Will Spread All Over The Country: Arvind Kejriwal

Punjab Election Result Is A Revolution That Will Spread All Over The Country: Arvind Kejriwal

Hailing his party's decisive win in the Punjab assembly polls, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal said revolution first happened in Delhi, then in Punjab and will now...


10 March 2022
Punjab Gives ‘Ek Mauka Kejriwal Nu’ As Broom Decimates Congress

Punjab Gives ‘Ek Mauka Kejriwal Nu’ As Broom Decimates Congress

AAP, which is comparatively a new entrant in the Punjab politics, was being seen as a surging political force in the run up to the elections. But until the...


10 March 2022
Election Results In Five States Contrary To Expectations: Congress

Election Results In Five States Contrary To Expectations: Congress

Elections 2022: Congress also said it failed to overcome anti-incumbency of Amarinder Singh government in Punjab.


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