The Punjab President of the Congress thanked his party too, for giving him a chance to take the initiative in the state. NEW DELHI: A jubilant Captain Amarinder Singh of the Congress found occasion to have a double celebration today after he won the Patiala seat by a margin of over 51, 000 votes, even as his party successfully fended off a challenge from main contender, the Aam Aadmi Party.
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‘Kejriwal was summer storm, came, then went’
The Punjab President of the Congress thanked his party too, for giving him a chance to take the initiative in the state. NEW DELHI: A jubilant Captain Amarinder Singh of the Congress found occasion to have a double celebration today after he won the Patiala seat by a margin of over 51, 000 votes, even as his party successfully fended off a challenge from main contender, the Aam Aadmi Party.
Amarinder Singh to turn 75 on poll result day6 min ago
Chandigarh, Mar 10 Congress leader and former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh will turn 75 tomorrow, the day when the results of Punjab Assembly elections, which witnessed an intense triangular contest, will be declared. It remains to be seen what gift is in store for the state Congress chief tomorrow, who has already announced that this was his last election.
SBI, associate banks merger: Share swap record date Mar 174 min ago
New Delhi, Mar 3 State Bank of India today fixed March 17 as the record date of share swap for the merger of its 5 associate banks with itself. The merger process of the associates banks – State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur , State Bank of Mysore , State Bank of Travancore , State Bank of Patiala and State Bank of Hyderabad – will take effect from April 1. The executive committee of the central board of SBI fixed March 17 as the record date for determining the eligible minority shareholder of SBBJ, SBM and SBT entitled to receive equity shares of face value of Re 1 each, of SBI at the agreed swap ratio, the bank said in a regulatory filing on stock exchanges.
Punjab Polls: Voting begins across 22, 615 polling stations for 117 constituencies5 min ago
Patiala [India], Feb. 4 : Polling began in Punjab amid heavy security on Saturday morning, with 1,145 candidates contesting across 117 seats, and will conclude at 5 p.m. Key contests today feature a direct fight between chief ministerial aspirants Parkash Singh Badal, 89, and Captain Amarinder Singh, 75, of the Congress in Lambi and a mega battle in Jalalabad between Sukhbir Badal and Bhagwant Singh Mann, seen as AAP’s leading contender for chief minister if the party wins. It will be a three-cornered contest this time around.
Ex-Army chief first to cast vote in Patiala
Chandigarh, Feb 4 – Former Army Chief and ex-governor, General J.J. Singh, was among the first to cast his vote on Saturday morning at a polling station in Patiala city in Punjab, 60 km from here. Accompanied by his wife, Gen Singh, who is a candidate of the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal, said that he was confident of victory from the Patiala-urban assembly where he is challenging Punjab Congress President and former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.
Arvind Kejriwal storms Captain Amarinder Singh bastion of Patiala with huge road show
On a day when Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi announced Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh as the chief ministerial candidate of the party in Punjab, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief stormed Amarinder’s bastion of Patiala by putting up an impressive road show despite the rain. Starting from the bus station, the road show with Kejriwal atop an open vehicle, accompanied by party MP Bhagwant Mann and Patiala candidate Dr Balbir Singh, painted the town in party’s colour as countless flags, buntings and AAP’s signature caps and bunches of brooms were seen on the road.