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May 22, 2026, 06:03 PM - 5 min read
The buzz around the CJP is understandable. But to equate it with the IAC movement of 2012 would be an exaggeration. The IAC movement was an organic and grassroots movement with recognised and identified faces, while the CJP remains faceless with just an image of the cockroach.
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May 13, 2026, 05:25 PM - 6 min read
Like the Punjab Congress adopted an aggressive posture during the Delhi assembly elections and resisted all attempts of an alliance with the AAP, it will have to devise an independent policy towards the AAP in Punjab irrespective of how it is viewed outside.
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May 10, 2026, 06:57 PM - 6 min read
The lawyer for Arora, a senior leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab, alleged that a "false and frivolous" case was "cooked up" against the minister and that "no prima facie evidence" was collected by the investigating officer before his arrest.
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May 10, 2026, 12:44 PM - 6 min read
It is not only an aggressive opposition, though divided, that has found a common cause against the AAP. The party will have to be concerned about its own leaders and cadres who have felt ignored, overlooked and marginalised for a long time.
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April 28, 2026, 06:45 PM - 8 min read
Apparently, realising that he could not build up a credible case against Justice Swarana Kanta, Kejriwal resorted to his characteristic way of subjecting his target to a media trial by writing a 2400-word letter to the judge, which is insinuatingly malicious and casts aspersions on her integrity without any concrete evidence and purely on the basis of fanciful assumption.
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April 28, 2026, 06:17 PM - 2 min read
Party leaders said the decision to bring in observers serves two purposes. It is seen as a show of strength at a time when the party is dealing with the defection of seven of its 10 Rajya Sabha MPs to the BJP. At the same time, observers will act as messengers to take the government’s development initiatives to people ahead of the upcoming Vidhan Sabha polls.
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April 28, 2026, 11:58 AM - 3 min read
The row follows the failure of the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to pass through the Lok Sabha.
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April 24, 2026, 08:03 PM - 2 min read
In a statement issued here, Cheema said the large-scale exit of MPs — six from Punjab and one from Delhi — was not an isolated incident but reflected deeper problems related to trust, internal democracy and ideological clarity within the party.
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April 14, 2026, 06:30 PM - 7 min read
The AAP has again touched a raw nerve of the Punjabis, which can have consequences. AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal is on record having said it before 2022 assembly elections that once the AAP forms government in Punjab, those guilty of sacrilege would be punished within 24 hours. What people expected was punishment to the guilty, not another law.
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April 12, 2026, 05:54 PM - 4 min read
The Bhagwant Mann government has convened a special session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha to amend the Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Act, 2008, and introduce stricter punishment against the sacrilege of Sikh holy book Guru Granth Sahib.
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April 9, 2026, 05:23 PM - 2 min read
Pathanmajra, who had recently been lodged in Patiala jail after completing a 12-day police remand with the Patiala police, spent only two nights there before being transferred to the Bathinda jail on the directions of jail authorities.
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April 4, 2026, 03:22 PM - 3 min read
The beleaguered MP minced no words when he accused himself of being the victim of a meticulously planned internal assassination attempt.
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