In a major setback to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), former Punjab Chief Minister and Congress candidate Charanjit Singh Channi won from the Jalandhar constituency of Punjab by a comfortable margin of 1,75,993, as per the data from the Election Commission of India (ECI).
As the last phase of Lok Sabha elections will be held on June 1, former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday wrote a letter to the people of Punjab, urging them to vote in large numbers for BJP candidates in Punjab.
The decision was taken in a Punjab cabinet meeting chaired by Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, according to the statement released by the provincial government.
Former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Thursday took a jibe at the AAP government saying that drug trafficking was widespread and the law and order situation had worsened.
Punjab Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Bhagwant Mann, on Sunday, took a swipe at the Bharatiya Janata Party's target to win more than 400 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and said that there is no '400 paar' this time.
Sources also added that Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has already left for Delhi from Chandigarh and will be meeting with his Delhi counterpart on Friday.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday slammed former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi over his 'election stunt' remarks on the terrorist attack on the Indian Air Force (IAF) convoy at Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir.
This move follows the Islamabad High Court's directive to the interior secretary to determine whether the former Punjab chief minister's residence could be declared a sub-jail and if he could be shifted there.
Days after former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi's controversial "stuntbaazi" remark on the terrorist attack on an Indian Air Force convoy in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch, Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring made a similar statement on Tuesday, saying that "
Congress leader and former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Sunday said that the Poonch militant attack, in which an IAF corporal was killed and four soldiers were injured, was an "election stunt" to benefit the BJP.
On Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi's alleged remarks on the Poonch terror attack, Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Prem Chand Bairwa said that his statement is not in "favour of nationalism" and the country, adding that one should refrain from making such statements.
Former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi issued a clarification on Monday over his alleged remarks on the recent terror attack incident in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch and said that his statement was "distorted."