CHANDIGARH: The SAD President S Sukhbir Singh Badal has announced youth leader Parminder Singh Sohana as party candidate from Mohali. He has remained Vice Chairman & MD of Labourfed Punjab. SAD has so far announced 94 candidates.

RUPNAGAR: Congress has announced its candidates for all the three assembly constituency of Rupnagar district. The party has fielded Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi from Chamkaur Sahib(reserve) constituency ,Punjab assembly speaker Rana KP Singh from Anandpur Sahib constituency while it has fielded Punjab youth congress president Barinder Singh Dhillon from Rupnagar conhstituency.

AMRITSAR: To get nominations for 11 Vidhan Sabha constituencies in the district for the Punjab Assembly elections, the District Electoral Officer cum Deputy Commissioner Mr Gurpreet Singh Khaira has announced the venues.

RUPNAGAR: Rupnagar Senior Superintendent of Police(SSP) Vivek Sheel Soni said that Rupnagar district Police were fully committed to conduct the Punjab assembly elections in a free and fair and transparent manner in the district.

RUPNAGAR: Rupnagar constituency returning officer Gurwinder Singh Johal has issued show cause notice to Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) candidate from the constituency Dinesh Chadha for allegedly violating the model code of conduct and guidelines of the election commission of India regarding conduct of general elections during Covid.

CHANDIGARH: Actor Sonu Sood's youngest sister Malvika Sachar on Monday joined the Congress and would be the party's candidate from her hometown Moga in the February Punjab Assembly polls.

NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress are projected to poll 40 per cent and 36 per cent votes in Punjab, respectively, as per the ABP-CVOTER Battle for the States survey.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Electoral Officer Dr. S Karuna Raju, while briefing the media on Saturday said that ECI has announced seven phased Assembly Elections schedule for five states of India. He said that in Punjab elections to 117 Legislative constituencies would be held in second phase at one go.

AMRITSAR:The election bell has rung in Punjab. Elections for the next Vidhan Sabha will be held on February 14 in Punjab. The results of the elections will be released on March 10. The day for filing nominations will start from January 21 and will be open till January 28. The scrutiny of nominations will take place on January 29. Names can be withdrawn till January 31.

CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today hailed the announcement of Vidhan Sabha polls in Punjab on february 14 and said that the people of the state will immediately heave a big sigh of relief. "This signals the end of anarchy,, chaos, confusion and misgovernance in Punjab.

CHANDIGARH: Election Commission of India (ECI) has withdrawn the appointment of Actor Sonu Sood as a state icon for Punjab.

AMRITSAR: District Election Officer cum Deputy Commissioner Mr. Gurpreet Singh Khaira has issued instructions to the printing press owners as per the guidelines of Election Commission of India that they should follow the instructions of Election Commission while publishing campaign materials for any candidate or party during the forthcoming Assembly elections.

CHANDIGARH: Chief Electoral Officer Punjab Dr S Karuna Raju on Wednesday handed over the final published Electoral Rolls for the Assembly Elections-2022 to the representatives of recognised Political Parties here in the form of DVDs.

AMRITSAR: Aam Aadmi Party has released its seventh list for the forthcoming Punjab Assembly elections of 2022. Sukhjinder Raj Singh Lali Majithia from District Amritsar Assembly constituency Majithia and Dr. Ajay Gupta has been declared the candidate.

CHANDIGARH: Calling Transgenders an important part of the society, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Punjab Dr S Karuna Raju on Thursday solicited their support and participation in upcoming Punjab Assembly Elections 2022 for shaping democracy.

KOLKATA:The early trends of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) election results on Tuesday showed that the Trinamool Congress was heading towards a landslide victory.

CHANDIGARH: Taking the lead, farmer leader of Haryana Gurnam Singh Chaduni on Saturday floated his political outfit and announced to contest the forthcoming Assembly polls in Punjab.

AMRITSAR: Guidelines of District Election Officer-cum-Deputy Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Khaira and District Nodal Officer (Sweep) -cum-District Education Officer (Sec) Jugraj Singh Randhawa A Voter Awareness Program was organized in the local Haripura area under the leadership of Child Development Project Officer Mrs. Meena Devi to make the transgender voters aware of their right to vote and their fair use.

BARNALA: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today said Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Convener Arvind Kejriwal was deceiving Punjabis in the same manner as done by the Congress party by forcing them to fill forms to register themselves to avail of the Rs 1,000 per month scheme it had announced for women.

PHAGWARA: Keeping in view of the coming assembly elections in Punjab, a Certification Programme for Training of Returning Officers and Assistant Returning Officers of District Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr, Gurdasspur, Amritsar and Pathankot would be organized from November 15 to November 18 at HMV College Jalandhar.

CHANDIGARH: In view of ensuing assembly elections in Punjab in early 2022, a meeting with senior representatives of Govt.and private technical universities and other higher education institutions was held by Dr Karuna Raju , IAS, the Chief Electoral officer (CEO), Punjab.

PATIALA: Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab, Dr S Karuna Raju said that the Election Commission of India would introduce a postal ballot facility for the senior citizens above 80 years, in forthcoming Assembly Elections of Punjab. He was interacting with the media, here, on Wednesday evening before taking a meeting of district officials to review poll preparedness.

CHANDIGARH: Deputy Election Commissioner,  Nitesh Kumar Vyas, IAS reviewed the poll preparedness for forthcoming Punjab Assembly Elections – 2022 at the office of Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab on October 20, 2021.

CHANDIGARH: In view of ensuing Assembly Elections in the state of Punjab, the Election Commission of India (ECI) today held a meeting through video conference with Deputy Commissioners –cum- District Election Officers (DEO) of all 23 to apprise them in detail about the protocol and instructions related to First Level Checking (FLC) of EVM-VVPAT.

 BENGALURU:  The process of counting of votes began for Belagavi, Kalburgi and Hubballi-Dharwad urban local bodies in Karnataka on Monday for which the polls were held on September 3.

CHANDIGARH: Chief Electoral Officer Punjab Dr. S Karuna held a meeting with the representatives of political parties to apprise them about Special Summary Revision -2022.Representatives of all the recognized state and national political parties attended the meeting.

NEW DELHI: The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved extension in the term of re-employment of Umesh Sinha as Deputy Election Commissioner on contract basis for a period of one year.

LUCKNOW: The newly appointed BJP state vice-president Arvind Kumar Sharma, has sent a letter to party state president Swatantra Dev Singh, saying that the name and patronage of Prime Minister Narendra Modi were enough for the BJP to win the coming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

CHANDIGARH: The Election Commission of India led by Chief Election Commissioner Shri Sushil Chandra, Election Commissioner Shri Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioner Shri Anup Chandra Pandey held a virtual conference with Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) of all the States and UTs. It was held to ascertain the experiences of poll gone states and to galvanize the poll bound states.

LUCKNOW: The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has finally started doling out sops to party workers.

NEW DELHI: After the panel set up by the Congress on Punjab submitted its report on the factionalism in its state unit, a change of guard looks imminent with the All India Congress Committee (AICC) looking for a suitable replacement for current Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) President Sunil Jakhar.

KAPURTHALA: In view of Punjab Assembly Elections 2022, the Election Commission of India has launched a special drive for continuous registration of maximum number of young voters. Voter can fill up Form No. 6 to cast his/ her vote. He should be a resident of Kapurthala district.

CHANDIGARH: The victory of Sunil Jakhar Congress party candidate in Gurdaspur bye-elelction is for sure a big gain for Congress party and a setback for SAD-BJP alliance and AAP but it is not an absolute decision of electorate in favour of Congress which is struggling to meet the expectations of people of state.

Punjab News Express/Satinder Bains
CHANDIGARH: In a move which could pose serious threat to peace in Punjab, the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal(SAD) has got support of controversial dera Sacha Sauda on the promise to allow the dera head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh to hold his congregations in Punjab. The SAD was earlier opposed to dera meetings due to pressure from radical Sikh organisations.

By M.R. Narayan Swamy 
NEW DELHI: Only a miracle can prevent the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) from finishing on top in the Punjab assembly election, irrespective of how many seats it ultimately bags. But miracles do happen.