SBS NAGAR:Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Candidate from Balachaur constituency Santosh Kumari Katariaa today won the assembly election by defeating nearest rival candidate Sunita Rani of Shiromani Akali Dal-BSP by 4541 votes.

CHANDIGARH: Former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today said that he accepted the verdict of the people with all humility as democracy triumphed.

NEW DELHI: The first regional party that has won outside its state of origin, Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is set to foray into national politics.

CHANDIGARH: All the Badals, led by five-time Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, the eldest candidate at 94 in fray for the 117-member Punjab Assembly, as well as their kin, on Thursday lost to AAP's greenhorns.

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday thanked the people of Punjab after trends indicated a landslide win for his party.

CHANDIGARH: The strong wave of Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) has wiped out all political big guns of major political parties. This is first time that such a landslide victory is made by any political party in Punjab.

CHANDIGARH: PPCC president Navjot Singh Sidhu and former Akali minister Bikram Singh Majithia have lost election from Amritsar East seat. They were defeated by AAP candidate Dr.Jivanjot Kaur.

CHANDIGARH: Five time Chief Minister of Punjab Parkash Singh Badal has lost election from Lambi constituency. He was defeated by AAP candidate.

CHANDIGARH: Bhagwant Singh Mann CM in waiting has won election from Dhuri assembly constituency. He has defeated Dalbir Goldi of Congress party with huge margin.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has lost election from Bhadaur seat and he is trailing from second seat Chamkaur Sahib. His brother Dr. Manohar Singh has also lost from Bassi Pathana seat.

CHANDIGARH: Former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh was defeated by AAP candidate Ajitpal Singh Kohli with a margin of 13037 votes.

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party's Charanjit Singh is leading from Chamkaur Sahib seat in Punjab by 1,980 votes against state Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi in a nerve-racking contest.

NEW DELHI: The BJP is showing an upper hand in Uttar Pradesh with around 38.9 per cent of total vote share as it leads in 48 seats and Samajwadi Party trails in 24 seats, as per the Election Commission website.

NEW DELHI: Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi is leading from Chamkaur Sahib seat in early trends of counting that began at 8 a.m. on Thursday. However, he is trailing from another seat, Bhadaur.

NEW DELHI: Even as the Aam Aadmi Party is showing a dismal performance in the early trends in two of the three states where it was contesting the Assembly elections, the party leaders in the national capital are rejoicing over the trends in Punjab where it is heading for a comfortable victory.

CHANDIGARH: Amidst the multi-cornered contest in Punjab, early leads on Thursday indicated the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is heading to a landslide maiden victory in the state, trailing the traditional parties -- Congress and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). AAP is leading in 88 out of toral 117 seats.

CHANDIGARH: While AAP is now touching 80 seats in the initial leads, Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi is running behind in both the seats of Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur. Former Chief Ministers Parkash Singh Badal from Lambi and Capt Amarinder Singh from Patiala city are also trailing behind. Sukhbir Singh Badal is also trailing.

CHANDIGARH: The counting of votes started in Punjab with AAP becoming largest party with lead in 70 seats while Congress and SAD are struggling for the second place. BJP plus Punjab Lok Party of Capt Amarinder Singh are leading in only four seats.

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Wednesday said that elaborate arrangements for counting of votes on March 10 in 690 Assembly constituencies of Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh and bypoll to Assam's Majuli have been made.

NEW DELHI: Ahead of the announcement of results of the assembly elections in five states, the bookies who run the satta bazar have put the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the driver's seat in three states -- Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Goa, while they have considered only the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as a formidable contender in Punjab, with no party coming close to it.

AMRITSAR: Regarding the counting of votes on March 10, District Election Officer Mr. Gurpreet Singh Khaira and Commissioner of Police Dr. Sukhchain Singh Gill visited the counting centers of 11 assembly constituencies in the district and inspected the security arrangements.

NAWANSHARHR: The Shaheed Bhagat Singh (SBS) Nagar police have deployed 681 police and CAPF personnel to provide tight security for the counting of votes on Thursday.

CHANDIGARH: Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Punjab Dr S Karuna Raju on Wednesday informed that all the necessary arrangements have been made for the counting of votes for the Punjab Assembly Elections 2022.

AMRITSAR: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today said the SAD- BSP alliance would form the next government in Punjab on its own steam even as he asserted the Congress party would meet a crushing defeat and would not cross the 20 seat figure mark.

NEW DELHI: As exit polls rolled out on Monday at the end of the seventh and final phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh, the NDTV Poll of Polls has predicted BJP to retain power in three states, besides giving the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) a clear majority in Punjab.

NEW DELHI: The Punjab experiment of the Congress seemed to have failed, as per the ABP/C-Voter exit poll, with the last minute change in the leadership bringing its citadel down, while the AAP has gained more than 15 per cent votes over the last elections and is likely to form the government in the state.

CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) is set to form a government in Punjab with landslide victory. AAP may sweep the elections with seats between 80 to 100, according to exit polls shown by various news channels.

SHIMLA: In an election year, the BJP government in Himachal Pradesh led by Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Friday presented a budget of Rs 51,365 crore for 2022-23 with the focus on the agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry sectors, the state's mainstay, with a promise to create 30,000 jobs and no new taxes.

PATIALA:District Election Officer-cum-Deputy Commissioner Patiala, Sandeep Hans today assured that all arrangements for free, fair and transparent counting of votes on March 10, 2022, have been completed at all 6 counting centers in district Patiala. He said that the counting would start at 8 am at all 6 counting centers.

LUCKNOW: Polling has begun for the fifth phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh with the stakes running higher for all major parties. The fifth phase will cover 61 Assembly constituencies from 12 districts.

CHANDIGARH: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has demanded the Election Commission to strengthen and upgrade the security system of EVMs. On Wednesday, AAP Punjab affairs co-in-charge Raghav Chadha has written a letter to the Chief Election Officer Punjab, demanding that EVMs should be monitored under a three-layer security system to remove the possibility of EVM tampering.

PHAGWARA: BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh today lashed out at Punjab PCC president Navjot Sidhu and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal for cheating the people of Punjab with false promises.

CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab President and chief ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann thanked the voters of Punjab for voting peacefully across the state. Bhagwant Mann claimed that the people of Punjab have voted in large numbers for change this time and to bring an honest government in the state.

CHANDIGARH: Polling for Punjab Assembly Elections on Sunday ended peacefully with 71.95 % of the total 2.14 crores voters in the state turned out to exercise their franchise. He said of total 15469618 persons who have casted votes, there were 8133930 Males and 7335406 Females, while 282 were Transgenders/Others.

CHANDIGARH: The overall voter turnout in Punjab on Sunday in a single-phase, multi-cornered contest for the 117-member Assembly seats was approximately 70 per cent, election officials said.