As per the new list, the Congress has fielded Madan Mohan Tiwari from Paschim Champaran, Ajay Nishad from Muzaffarpur, Akash Prasad Singh from Maharajganj, Sunny Hazari from Samastipur and Manoj Kumar from Sasaram, in Bihar.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress on Tuesday filed a petition in the Punjab-Haryana High Court highlighting concerns over the integrity of the recently conducted mayoral elections in Chandigarh.
The families of 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims took out a protest rally on Thursday and burned effigies of senior Congress leader Kamal Nath and Punjab Congress President Raja Warring in the Dugri area of Ludhiana.
"Be it the BJP, Akali Dal or the Congress party, they all are running away from this debate because they have ruined Punjab. For the past 70-75 years, either Akali Dal, BJP or Congress has been in power in Punjab, and these parties have looted Punjab a lot," said the leader.
Former Speaker and Congress leader Meira Kumar on Sunday said, "These are legal matters. Arrests are made under the law. This is a different path. Politics has nothing to do with this."
Terming the arrest of Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira in connection with a 2015 drugs case as a 'political vendetta', the party's Punjab unit chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Friday said that we will fight till the end.
Congress party on thursday condemned the arrest of Punjab Congress leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira and said that any such act is an abuse of power and that Congress firmly and unitedly stands against it.
Condemning the detention of Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira, Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Thursday termed the action taken by Punjab Police as a "jungle raj".
Speaking to reporters in Chandigarh, Partap Singh Bajwa said, "Parliament elections are about to come in 7-8 months. Congress will contest all 13 seats. Support us and make us win all 13 seats, I assure you that after that the Government will not continue even for two months. At least 32 MLA
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab and said that AAP who had come to end mafia in the state and to change the ‘system’ are now the manager-in-chief of the same.