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EC accepts parties' demand, defers Punjab Assembly polls by 6 days

Earlier date of February 14 clashed with Guru Ravidas Jayanti celebrations

AAP's CM candidate for Punjab polls to be announced on Tuesday: Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal said that his party's chief ministerial candidate for Punjab assembly polls will be announced on Tuesday

UP poll: Doctors, engineers find place in AAP's 1st list of 150 candidates

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday released a list of 150 candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. Doctors and engineers were among the candidates.The AAP will contest on all 403 seats in the Assembly elections. Party's Uttar Pradesh in-charge and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh announced the names of candidates contesting on 150 seats out of 403 seats.Announcing the candidates after holding a press conference with State President Sabhajit Singh, he said that to sweep the dirt of politics in Uttar Pradesh, education, health, employment and agriculture should be brought to the centre of politics.Singh said that AAP, in its first list, has fielded good and deserving candidates. These include 8 MBAs, 38 postgraduates, 4 doctors, 8 PhD candidates, 7 engineers, 8 BEd degree holders, 39 graduates, 6 diploma holders and 8 women candidates.He also added that equal share was given to different communities. 55 candidates from Other Backward Class (OBC), 31 from Scheduled ..

Goa Polls: AAP lists 13 point agenda; to provide free power, water

Ahead of the Goa Assembly polls, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party National Convener Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday listed a 13-point agenda for the State.In the 13-point agenda, the party will bring reforms in the areas of education, health, trade and industry, livelihood, Mining and infrastructure."Goa public is looking forward to the upcoming elections on February 14. AAP is fresh hope. They didn't have any choice except BJP or Congress earlier, they want a change and are frustrated," he said in a press conference.Under the 13 point agenda, the AAP has proposed employment to the people or an 'unemployment allowance' of Rs 3000 per month. The party has also promised to provide land rights to the families who are deprived of it."Employment will be provided to youth; those who do not get, they will get the aid of Rs 3000 per month. Mining has huge vested interest, we will start mining within six months of coming into power," he added while stating that, "we will provide a ...

Each Goa family to benefit by Rs 10 lac through AAP schemes: Kejriwal

Each family in Goa would benefit by Rs 10 lakh over five years through state government's schemes, if AAP comes to power in the state in assembly polls, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said

Assembly Polls: AAP will give honest govt to Goa, says Arvind Kejriwal

Ahead of the Goa Assembly elections, AAP national convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal promised an honest government in the state as he launched a door-to-door campaign

Arvind Kejriwal joins door-to-door campaign for AAP candidates in Goa

AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday joined his party's candidates in their door-to-door campaign and claimed to have received a good response from people.

Delhi Deputy CM accuses BJP of sabotaging 'Desh Ke Mentor' programme

Launched in October 2021, the programme aims to provide voluntary mentors to students from Class 9 to 12.

EC changing rules to register new party at BJP's behest, claims AAP

There was no immediate reaction either from the EC or the BJP on the AAP's accusation

Goa Assembly polls: Congress, BJP main contestants, says P Chidambaram

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday said that if the AAP and TMC fielded candidates and secured some votes in the upcoming assembly polls

Kejriwal a political tourist, his 'Punjab Model' a copycat one: Sidhu

Hours after AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal unveiled his party's "Punjab Model" of governance after the Feb 14 polls, state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu attacked him dubbing him a "political tourist" and his model a Copy-Cat Model". "Political Tourist @Arvind Kejriwal who was absent in Punjab for the last 4.5 years claims to have a Punjab Model. AAP's campaign & agenda is a joke on the people of Punjab. A list of 10 pointers written by people sitting in Delhi with zero knowledge of Punjab can never be Punjab Model!, Sidhu tweeted. Besides dubbing Kejriwal's post-poll governance template for Punjab as a "Copy-Cat Model", Sidhu went on to describe it also as I am very insecure Model, Liquor Mafia Model, Ticket for Money Model, I am very sorry Majithia Ji: the Cowardice Model, Writing free cheques model, Electricity to Ambani's Model and 450 jobs in five years Model. Sidhu, who had earlier shared his roadmap for ruling the state after polls, said the resurrection of Punjab is a ...

Kejriwal comes out with 'Punjab Model', promises justice in sacrilege cases

'If voted to power, we will wipe out the drug syndicate from Punjab, ensure justice in all cases of sacrilege, and end corruption,' says AAP chief

Will announce AAP's Punjab CM candidate next week: Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi CM and AAP National Convener Arvind Kejriwal said on Wednesday that the party would announce its chief ministerial candidate for Punjab next week

Assembly polls: February 14 historically been lucky for AAP, says Sisodia

Delhi Deputy CM and AAP leader Manish Sisodia claimed that the party will emerge victorious in the upcoming assembly elections

Incumbent BJP to face challenge from newcomers TMC, AAP in Goa polls

Countdown began for Assembly elections on Saturday in Goa where new entrant TMC and AAP among others will be taking on the ruling BJP. The Election Commission of India (ECI) earlier in the day announced that election to all 40 Assembly constituencies in the coastal state would be held on February 14. With the announcement, the model code of conduct came into force. The state has 11 lakh-odd eligible voters. The BJP, Congress, Goa Forward Party (GFP), Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), AAP, Trinamool Congress Party (TMC), and NCP are the main political parties in the fray. Local outfit Revolutionary Goans is also expected to make impact with its sizable following. But it is the entry of the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC which has roiled politics in the BJP-ruled state for the past one year. Another challenger to the BJP is the Aam Aadmi Party. Political strategist Prashant Kishor pushed the TMC to focus on Goa after its resounding victory in West Bengal last year. The party has ...

AAP is ready: Arvind Kejriwal after poll schedule announcement

The AAP national convenor made the remark soon after the Election Commission announced the poll schedules for five states, including Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa, besides UP and Punjab assemblies

Congress, Akali-BJP govts 'plunged' Punjab into debt: AAP's Raghav Chadha

AAP leader Raghav Chadha on Monday accused the previous Akali-BJP and the current Congress government in Punjab of pushing the state into debt. Every child born in Punjab has a debt of Rs 1 lakh on their head right after being born, Chadha claimed in a statement here. "The Congress and the Badal governments have made Punjab a debtor of Rs 3 lakh crore in the last 50 years. With a population of three crore, today every individual in Punjab has a debt of Rs 1 lakh," he said. "It is very surprising that 20 per cent of the annual budget of Punjab is being spent only to pay the interest of loans. If the state government did not have so much debt, then this money would have been used for good hospitals, schools, roads, overbridges and other facilities for the people. But the public's tax money is being spent on repaying the debt of Rs 3 lakh crore," Chadha alleged. Accusing the Akali and Congress leaders of indulging in corruption, he said, "Every year Punjab's treasury is getting empty,

Aam Aadmi Party announces 5 more candidates for Punjab Assembly polls

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday announced five more candidates for the Punjab assembly polls. According to the party's seventh list of candidates, Lalli Majithia has been given a ticket from the Majitha assembly seat. Majithia had quit the Congress party and joined the AAP on January 1. At present, the Majitha seat is represented by Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia. Ajay Gupta will contest from Amritsar Central seat, Kashmir Singh Sohal from Tarn Taran, Surinder Singh Sodhi from Jalandhar Cantt and Baljit Kaur from Malout, the AAP said. The total number of candidates announced by Punjab's main opposition party has now reached 101. Punjab has 117 assembly seats.

Delhi BJP stages 'chakka jam' against AAP govt's new excise policy

Delhi BJP workers staged a "chakka jam" protest against the city government's new excise policy and blocked roads at different locations in the national capital

AAP chief, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to visit poll-bound Uttarakhand today

Aam Aadmi Party's National Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will go for a one-day visit to Uttarakhand today