The Latest Breaking News from Punjab Congress

Navjot Singh Sidhu road rage case: Impact on political career not clear yet

AMRITSAR: Opinions are divided on what impact the sentencing of Navjot Sidhu to one-year rigorous imprisonment in a road rage case will have on his political career. Even as the cricketer-turned-comedian-turned-politician has already been sulking publicly after being removed from the post of Punjab Congress chief, some believe that road…

The Times of India · May 19, 2022

'Goodbye, good luck Congress': Ex-Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar quits party

Former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar on Saturday announced his decision to quit the party on Facebook. Full story on Dynamite news:

Dynamite News · May 14, 2022

Former Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar quits party; Sidhu backs him

Former Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar had criticised former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi

The Hindu · May 14, 2022

Congress holds protest in Amritsar against rising cost of petrol, diesel

AMRITSAR: The party will emerge much stronger after the exit of opportunists, who are hopping from one party to another, former Punjab Congress president said here on Thursday. Sidhu, former deputy chief minister O P Soni, along with other party leaders and activists, held a protest demonstration against the rising…

The Times of India · Apr 1, 2022

Manish Tewari slams Punjab Congress leaders for ‘not hearing cries of students in Ukraine’

Govt. must disclose how many students have been evacuated, how many still stranded: Rahul

The Hindu · Mar 2, 2022

Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls | Irani accuses Congress of colluding with those who killed innocent people

Union Minister Smriti Irani accused the Congress on Sunday of colluding with those who had killed innocent people. Addressing an election meeting in Kushinagar, Ms. Irani hit out at Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, saying she made Navjot Singh Sidhu, who had embraced Pakistan’s Army chief and said that Pakistani…

The Hindu · Feb 28, 2022

Navjot Singh Sidhu remarks: Chandigarh police DSP files criminal defamation suit

CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh police DSP Dilsher Singh Chandel on Friday filed a criminal defamation petition in the court of UT chief judicial magistrate against Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, saying that the latter had failed to tender an unconditional apology over his derogatory remarks about police during a 2021 rally.

The Times of India · Feb 19, 2022

‘Jakhar mistreated for being a Hindu’

ABOHAR: BJP is raising the issue of “discrimination” that Punjab Congress’s former president Sunil Jakhar had to face allegedly for being a Hindu. Claiming to raise concerns of the Hindus, BJP is promising that everybody “will get their due and not be discriminated against for belonging to any religion”.

The Times of India · Feb 18, 2022

Punjab polls: Why Congress dithers over declaring CM face

NEW DELHI: Punjab Congress leaders and workers are waiting with bated breath for party leader Rahul Gandhi to announce a chief ministerial candidate for the assembly election in the state to be held on February 20. On the other hand, declaring a CM face has become a Hobson’s choice for…

The Times of India · Feb 5, 2022

Rahul Gandhi in Jalandhar: How Congress in Punjab sees a repeat of 2017 assembly election

NEW DELHI: During his one-day visit to Punjab on Thursday, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi declared that the state party unit will get a chief ministerial candidate for the February 20 assembly election. With Punjab Congress getting a CM candidate, the situation appears similar to the one that had arisen…

The Times of India · Jan 28, 2022