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Sukhbir Singh Badal is the president of Shiromani Akali Dal and son of five-time former Punjab CM late Parkash Singh Badal. He won from Ferozepur parliamentary constituency in 2019 by over 1.98 lakh votes defeating Congress’s Sher Singh Ghubaya. The latter was in Akali Dal earlier and had switched ...

Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) MP from Sangrur Simranjit Singh Mann on Tuesday said killings of Sikhs around the world must stop, citing recent examples of the death of Khalistani operatives.Most Read 1 After Pune teacher’s arrest: Fear and surveillance in the classroom 2 Rajesh Khanna couldn’t accept the fact ...

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president, Sukhbir Singh Badal, on Wednesday said that “the minority Sikh community of Jammu and Kashmir should not be discriminated against, and two seats should be reserved for community members in the J&K assembly along with two seats proposed for Kashmiri Pandits and one for ...

Punjab will send to the Centre an estimate of losses caused by the floods in the state, but will not beg for any financial package, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said Thursday.Mann, who took stock of the flood situation in the affected parts of Patiala and Sangrur, also accused the ...

As devotees walk through Heritage Street of Amritsar, the sound of melodious Gurbani kirtans (sacred hymns) fill the air. This is one of the oldest streets of the city and is lined with shops. Thousands throng the no-traffic zone, which leads to the Golden Temple. Gurbani kirtans are sung ...

Sardar Parkash Singh Badal, 95, is no more. The five-time Chief Minister of Punjab, the towering man who strode like a colossus across the political landscape of the state for over seven decades, gently bowed out this evening. It’s the end of an era in Punjab politics. The Shiromani ...

People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) chairman, Farooq Abdullah, will hold an all-party meet at his Jammu residence on September 10 over the proposed inclusion of around 2.5 million non-local voters in the electoral rolls of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the alliance’s spokesperson said on Monday. ...

The condition of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Parkash Singh Badal, who has been admitted to a hospital in Punjab's Mohali since Saturday, is improving, according to a health update on Sunday, 13 June evening.The five-time chief minister of Punjab was taken to the Fortis hospital in Mohali on ...

Elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Punjab and Goa will litigate some key political questions that will have resonance across the country Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Punjab and Goa will litigate some key political questions that will have resonance across the country. There are at least ...

It’s been a tumultuous 100 years for Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which was conceived in December 1920, a year after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The story of its many morchas and agitations has also been a journey of Punjab. Prof Ashutosh Kumar, a political scientist with a body work ...