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

CHANDIGARH:Former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today sought personal intervention of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to seek return of about 500 students from Punjab, stranded in different places in war-torn Ukraine.

CHANDIGARH:  Former Chief Minister and President Punjab Lok Congress Capt Amarinder Singh today congratulated people of Punjab for the peaceful conduct of elections in the state.

MALERKOTLA:Former Chief Minister and Punjab Lok Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh today said that he was not against people of Pakistan but against their rulers and the army who were fomenting trouble in India and killing our soldiers on the borders.

JALANDHAR: Former Chief Minister and Punjab Lok Congress leader, Capt Amarinder Singh today said that country’s security and safeguarding the future of Punjab were two top most priorities for the state right now.

JALANDHAR:Former Chief Minister and Punjab Lok Congress leader, Capt Amarinder Singh today said that country’s security and safeguarding the future of Punjab were two top most priorities for the state right now.

PATIALA:Former Chief Minister and Punjab Lok Congress President Capt Amarinder Singh today lashed out at the Congress government for stopping all the development works in Patiala which had been started by him.

CHANDIGARH: Politics may be a distant dream for the wife and daughter of Punjab's two prominent politicians, but they have already taken the path much travelled to politics while campaigning for the February 20 elections.

PATIALA:Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) chief Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said the Congress had made a big mistake by announcing a CM face, as “a chief minister should be decided on grounds of capability and not on the metric of caste, be it a SC, Jat or Hindu, which they had done.”

NEW DELHI: The IANS-CVoter Punjab Tracker is revealing some interesting new trends with the entry of Captain Amarinder Singh as a new ally of BJP, a contest which is already multi cornered.

PATIALA: Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) chief Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday expressed anger over Navjot Singh Sidhu hugging the Pakistan army chief who was ordering his soldiers every day to kill Indians.

PATIALA: Even as he dubbed as farce Rahul Gandhi’s claims of deciding the CM face with inputs from the ground, Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) chief Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday predicted an abysmal defeat for Navjot Singh Sidhu from Amritsar East, which he had won in the past only with the support of the BJP.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) chief Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday set the ball rolling for his party's electoral debut with a call to party workers to take on the mantle to save the state's future from nefarious interests, while accusing the Congress of fighting these Assembly elections on his government's achievements of four-and-a-half years.

CHANDIGARH: Even as he dubbed as farce Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's claims of deciding the chief minister face with inputs from the ground, Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) chief Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday predicted an abysmal defeat for Navjot Singh Sidhu from Amritsar East, which he had won in the past only with the support of the BJP.

CHANDIGARH: Former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday ridiculed Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu's tall claims of fighting the sand mafia when he had himself led the September rebellion of MLAs who were involved in illegal mining, thus clearly exposing his own interest in sheltering them.

NEW DELHI: Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Monday said that he received a request from Pakistan Prime Minister to take Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu in his cabinet.

CHANDIGARH: On the National Girl Child Day, former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday resolved to empower the girls by giving them education, freedom and equal space.

CHANDIGARH: Dismissing Charanjit Singh Channi’s denial of involvement in illegal sand mining as a total lie, Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday said that as chief minister, he had received specific inputs that Channi had a share in the mafia, along with several other Congress leaders and MLAs in Punjab.

NEW DELHI: Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singhs Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) party has been allotted ‘hockey stick and ball as party symbol.

CHANDIGARH:Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday hailed the announcement of polls in Punjab on February 14, saying the 'big day' will decide the future of the state, while Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal said the people would heave a big sigh of relief with the end of 'misgovernance'.

SAMANA (PATIALA): Former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today lashed out at the Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa for behaving like cowards by running away from their responsibilities.

CHANDIGARH: Holding the Charanjit Singh Channi government squarely responsible for the gross security lapse during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Punjab, that eventually led to cancellation of all his programmes, today, former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has demanded dismissal of the government and imposition of President’s rule in the state.

BATHINDA:  Former Chief Minister and Punjab Lok Congress leader Capt Amarinder Singh today said that the alliance with the Bhartiya Janata Party and the Shiromani Akali Dal-Sanyukt was in the national and state’s interest.

CHANDIGARH:Former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today expressed confidence that after coming together, the three parties including Punjab Lok Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiromani Akali Dal-Sanyukt will form the next government in Punjab getting absolute majority in the ensuing Vidhan Sabha elections.

NEW DELHI: The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), former Congress leader Amarinder Singh and Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa's Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt) will together contest Punjab assembly polls to be held next year.

CHANDIGARH: Reiterating his concerns over the challenges to the state’s peace, security and law and order, from across the border, former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today condemned the blast in Ludhiana Court complex, which left two people dead and many others injured.

CHANDIGARH: Taking strong notice of ex Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and AAP leader Raghav Chaddha giving open statements in favour of the Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia, the Congress MLAs have launched a scathing attack on both and averred that the two seemed to be more eager than even akalis to give clean chit which clearly establishes the truck Captain Amarinder Singh has with the akalis and AAP is the ‘B’ team of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).

CHANDIGARH:Former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today said that terror and trade cannot go together and there was no point in starting business and trade with Pakistan as long as it did not stop funding terror and killing our soldiers along the borders.

RAJPURA (PATIALA):Former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today said that national security and the welfare of Punjab was on top of his agenda and hoped that next PLC-BJP goverment will successfully work on that.

NEW DELHI: Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) chief Amarinder Singh on Friday announced his party's alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the 2022 Assembly polls in Punjab.

CHANDIGARH: Lashing out at the misplaced priorities of the Congress government in the state, former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today asked the Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi why he had not ordered a probe into the allegations of corruption in posting of the Senior Superintendents and Deputy Superintendents of Police in Punjab, as alleged by one of his cabinet colleagues, the same way he had ordered a probe into the leaking of the contents of a letter by a police officer to the DGP.

CHANDIGARH:Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) chief Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday warned Punjab Police officials against intimidating his party workers at the behest of some local Congress leaders, saying he would take all necessary measures to come down heavily on such hooligans in uniforms.

CHANDIGARH: Former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday said he felt sad and bad about Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi over the way he was being treated by the Congress party.

CHANDIGARH: Former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today said that he felt sad and bad about the Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi over the way he was being treated by the Congress party.

CHANDIGARH:Former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today hailed the successful completion of the farmers’ agitation along the Delhi borders as they headed back home after 380 days of, what he called, “tapp, tyaag and tapasya”.

CHANDIGARH:It is unfortunate that Capt. Amarinder Singh is now engineering organized fermentation of brazen communalism to achieve his narrow parochial gains with intent to out-maneuver his potential Sikh challengers in the Congress Party. It is exceedingly disparaging to see the disgraceful assemblage of ‘Hindu Leaders’ only at the luncheon meeting, hosted by the Congress Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh, yesterday at Chandigarh. The meeting of urban based ‘Hindu Leaders’ was actually the demonstration of Captain’s new brand of communalism and political opportunism to camouflage his colossal failures and rampant corruption in his ‘Mafia regime’.

CHANDIGARH: The Captain Amarinder Singh led Punjab Government has set up a state-level committee to regularly track, monitor and ensure speedy investigation in all sexual offences against women and children, with clearly defined SOPs to guide the investigation process.

CHANDIGARH: Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today said that senior party leader and former minister Ashwani Sekhri will stay in Congress and there was no question of his leaving the party.

NEW DELHI: Amid ongoing infighting in the Congress' Punjab unit, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has arrived in Delhi and is scheduled to meet the party panel set up resolve the factionalism issue again on Tuesday.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday announced a Milkha Singh Chair at Sports University Patiala, in memory of the great athlete who died late last night due to Covid complications.

CHANDIGARH: Describing the death of legendary athlete Milkha Singh with post-Covid complications, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said it was the end of an era and India and Punjab "are poorer".

AMRITSAR: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has sought the intervention of chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh in getting vacated the illegal occupation from General Shivdev Singh Diwan Gurbachan Singh Khalsa College in Patiala, being run by the Sikh body.

NEW DELHI: The Congress panel constituted to resolve factionalism in the party in Punjab, submitted its report to party interim President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday.

CHANDIGARH: Underscoring full faith in Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh's leadership and vision for state, Punjab MPs today reiterated that Congress would comfortably sweep 2022 assembly polls to carry forward party's ongoing developmental agenda for people of the state.

NEW DELHI: With the party panel for Punjab set to submit its reports on the political turmoil in the state, sources say that it may not recommend removal of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and he is likely to the party in the state to the next elections.

NEW DELHI: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh appeared before a three-member Congress panel here on Friday, reportedly formed by the party high command to sort out the problems in its state unit. The meeting lasted for more than three hours.

CHANDIGARH: Even as he castigated those stabbing the Congress ideology for misplaced political ambitions, youth state leader Ankit Bansal underlined that for every party soldier Captain Amarinder Singh is the soul of party without whom it is not possible to imagine any future.

CHANDIGARH: Sukhpal Singh Khaira and two other MLAs of Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) today joined Congress party here in presence of Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh and his wife Preneet Kaur MP. All of them were suspended by AAP for anti-party activities.

CHANDIGARH: BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh today slammed the Amarinder Singh government for not implementing the PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojna in right earnestness under which Punjab is allocated 70,757 metric tonnes of foodgrains every month.

CHANDIGARH: With the Congress high command taking cognizance of the purported 'anger' of some of its senior leaders against the party-led Punjab governments stand on the 2015 sacrilege case, its 'vocal' legislator Navjot Singh Sidhu on Saturday dared Chief Minister Amarinder Singh to prove that the cricketer-turned-politician had met the leader of any other party to switch loyalty.

CHANDIGARH: BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh today slammed the Amarinder Singh government for completely failing to contain Covid-19 in Punjab and said that with the highest mortality rate in Punjab the chief minister has lost his moral right to govern the state.

CHANDIGARH: Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday slammed Yogi Adityanath over his inflammatory tweet on the declaration of Malerkotla as the 23rd district of Punjab, terming it an attempt to incite communal hatred in the peaceful state as part of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s divisive policies.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Cabinet led by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday gave its nod to Punjab Prison Rules, 2021, under the Prison Act 1894, thus superseding the archaic and outdated jails manual.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh seems to have make up his mind to permanently close doors for his former cabinet colleague Navjot Sidhu Sidhu who is time and again targeting the Chief Minister over various issues. The situation as reached a stage that Chief minister is preparing to rejig his cabint and fill the vacancy created by Sidhu after his resignation on June 10, 2019.

CHANDIGARH: Taking strong exception to the no-holds-barred attack unleashed by Navjot Sidhu against Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, several Punjab cabinet ministers on Monday urged the Congress high command to take strict disciplinary action against the dissident MLA.

CHANDIGARH: BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh today blasted the Amarinder Singh government for taking recourse to evasive methods to shield and protect the culprits in incidents of Guru Granth Sahib sacrilege that took place six years ago.

CHANDIGARH: BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh today squarely blamed the Amarinder Singh government in Punjab to have squandered entire assistance provided by the Centre to fight Covid-19 and making Punjab one of the worst-affected states in the country.

CHANDIGARH: Taking a tough stance, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh categorically said on Tuesday that if his former Cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu "wants to contest against him, then he is free to do so but that would only lead to Sidhu meeting the fate of General J.J. Singh who had lost his security deposit".

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today told former minister Navjot Sindh Sidhu to choose the political party he wanted to join but speaking against party is gross indecipline.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today said that he disagree with the judgement delivered by Punjab and Haryana High Court in a petition related to police firing in Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura on Sikhs protesting sacrilege of holy Guru Granth Sahib.

CHANDIGARH: In a first veiled attack directly aimed at Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, his former Cabinet colleague and Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday questioned him for 'evading' responsibility as the Home Minister during the 2015 sacrilege case.

CHANDIGARH: BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh today squarely blamed Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh for failing to bring to book culprits responsible for a series of incidents of Guru Granth Sahib desecration in the state.

CHANDIGARH: BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh today squarely blamed Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh for failing to bring to book culprits responsible for a series of incidents of Guru Granth Sahib desecration in the state.

CHANDIGARH: With a view to ensure unhindered procurement process during the ongoing Rabi Marketing Season (RMS) 2021-22, the Punjab Government has approved the packaging of wheat in good quality used gunny bags provided by Arhtiyas. This would ensure that there is no shortage of gunny bags in any Mandi of Punjab. Herein it may be noted that the arrival of wheat in Mandis has increased to 8 LMT per day and there is a nationwide shortage of new gunny bags and new PP bags for storage of the procured wheat.

CHANDIGARH: On the directions of Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, the Finance Department on Friday released the pending arrears amounting to Rs. 151.45 Crore to the arthiyas.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab on Thursday took a major leap towards becoming a national and global lighthouse for ‘Ease of Doing Business for MSME’, with Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh unleashing a fresh wave of reforms to further reduce the regulatory burden on MSMEs through rationalisation, digitalisation and decriminalisation of the regulatory landscape, thus enabling entrepreneurs to focus on expanding their operations in an predictable business environment during this COVID-19 pandemic.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government will spend at least 30% of funds under all government schemes for the welfare of the state’s SC population.

CHANDIGARH: Expressing shock at Harsimrat Kaur Badal’s pathetic and insensitive attempts to make political hay from the current Covid crisis in the state, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said the Akali leader’s habit of lying, even on the most sensitive of subjects, was shameful, especially at a time when the unrelenting efforts of the state’s healthcare workers were showing some positive results

CHANDIGARH: BJP National General Secretary Tarun Chugh has said that the Punjab government has failed to discharge its duty of giving a push to the vaccination drive.

CHANDIGARH: Putting to rest all baseless media speculation in this regard, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday ruled out any role of Prashant Kishor in finalisation of Congress tickets in the 2022 Assembly elections.