Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge appointed Channi and Agnihotri as AICC Senior Observers for J-K polls. Channi is the former chief minister of Punjab while Agnihotri is the deputy chief minister of Himachal Pradesh.
Amritpal Singh was recently elected to Lok Sabha from Khadoor Sahib. Speaking on the Union Budget in Lok Sabha, Channi alleged that there was an "undeclared emergency" in the country.
By supporting Congress, it put it in a big embarrassment… Charanjit Singh Channi said that keeping Amritpal Singh in jail… trying to ban his speech… is against the Constitution… Channi said that There is a situation like undeclared emergency in the country....
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Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu, who quit the Congress and joined the BJP ahead of Lok Sabha elections, engaged in a personal verbal spat with Congress MP Charanjeet Singh Channi which caused a brief Lok Sabha adjournment.
The Lok Sabha was adjourned for 30 minutes amid a verbal spat between the former Punjab chief minister and the Union Minister of State for Railways and Food Processing Industries Ravneet Singh Bittu over certain personal remarks.
Having fought the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as an independent, Amritpal Singh won from the Khadoor Sahib seat defeating Congress candidate Kulbir Singh Zira. He won by a margin of 1,97,120 votes.
The Lok Sabha elections witnessed the participation of several former chief ministers from the BJP and Congress. Notable contenders included Charanjit Singh Channi, Manohar Lal Khattar, Basavaraj Bommai, Bhupesh Baghel, Jagadish Shettar, Akhilesh Yadav, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Digvijaya Singh.
The border state of Punjab, which has 13 Lok Sabha seats, went to polls in the final phase on June 1. As the counting starts on June 4, lets have a look at the key candidates in the fray.
Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi's clarification over his 'stunt' remark on the Poonch terror attack comes after Union Minister Thakur strongly condemned his statement and asked Congress whether it will insult soldiers to win elections.
Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi's statement on the Poonch terror attack is set to trigger controversy in the election season as the Bharatiya Janata Party keeps attacking the grand old party alleging that Congress is an anti-national party.
Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which is a constituent of the opposition I.N.D.I.A bloc, is contesting the parliamentary polls in Punjab on its own.
Lok Sabha elections 2024: Polling for the 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab will be held in the last round of the seven-phase elections on June 1.
Lok Sabha elections 2024: Kanhaiya Kumar to contest from North East Delhi (against BJP North East Delhi candidate Manoj Tiwari), JP Agarwal to contest from Chandni Chowk (against BJP candidate from Chandni Chowk, Praveen Khandelwal).
The former Chief Minister slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and said that Bhagwant Mann government's treatment is worse than even the Mughals. He further said the Punjab government wants to use every way to humiliate and defame.
The Vigilance Bureau has summoned the ex-CM for questioning in a disproportionate assets case.
The federal agency recorded the statement of 59-yr-old Congress leader under Prevention of Money Laundering Act and he left the ED's zonal office in Jalandhar on Wednesday.
The raids were also conducted at the premises of Randeep Singh, the owner of Providers Overseas Consultants Pvt Ltd and its other Directors and shareholders including Bhupinder Singh and Sandeep Kumar.
The Congress fielded Channi from two seats -- Chamkaur Sahib in Rupnagar and Bhadaur in Barnala, a move which showed how much the Congress was banking on him.
Bhadaur is an assembly constituency in Punjab. In 2017, this constituency was won by the Aam Aadmi Party.
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