One of the biggest upsets this election is state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu’s loss in Amritsar East, where he was locked in a high-profile contest with Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia. | Read more|
The world’s opinion about him seemed evenly divided. Lawyer, actor, activist Deep Sidhu attracted admirers and critics in almost equal measure. It was the farmers’ tractor march and the Red Fort violence on Republic Day last year that put Sidhu in the limelight and brought him widespread criticism in its wake. Lead | Read more|
The Congress may have kept any decision on a Chief Minister candidate in Punjab at bay ahead of elections but its two top faces, Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu are not having it. | Read more|
The question of who frightens whom into soiling their pants - police or criminals - is now the subject of a surreal back-and-forth between Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Channi and state Congress chief Navjot Sidhu, whose spat rumbles on even with an Assembly election due in two months. | Read more|
With Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders flocking to Punjab as the Assembly poll campaign heats up, the ruling Congress has now decided to bring the fight to its rival's home turf, Delhi. | Read more|
Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu was at the centre of a new row Saturday after he called Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan his “bada bhai” (elder brother) who had showered him “a lot of love”. | Read more|
Punjab Advocate General APS Deol has hit back at Congress leader Navjot Sidhu - who has demanded he resign from his appointed post for representing two accused cops in the 2015 sacrilege and police firing case. Mr Deol slammed the former cricketer for "repeated utterances (that) seek to derail the earnest efforts of th | Read more|
Amid a slugfest in Punjab Congress over Aroosa Alam, PPCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday indicated that the Punjab government had forgotten the real issues concerning the state even as senior Congress leader Manish Tewari stated “chaos and anarchy was openly playing out in state unit of party”. | Read more|
Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, days after reaching a truce of sorts with Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, has drawn up a 13-point agenda on governance - "priority areas" and promises made before 2017 polls he said "the state government must deliver upon". Mr Sidhu's suggestions, sent in a letter to Co | Read more|
A day after Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned as Punjab Congress chief, Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi Wednesday said he has spoken to Sidhu and invited him for dialogue. | Read more|
Navjot Singh Sidhu is likely to be appointed as chief of the Congress' Punjab unit shortly, sources said Thursday afternoon, as the party closes in on a formula to quell the intense infighting that has endangered its campaign for next year's Assembly election. | Read more|
Several farmers’ bodies have blamed actor Deep Sidhu and gangster-turned-activist Lakha Sidhana for the violence at Red Fort, reported ThePrint. Deviating from the official route for the tractor rally in Delhi, a section of the protesting farmers gathered at the Red Fort and hoisted flags on the monument on Tuesday a | Read more|