Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal has named Bhagwant Mann as the party’s chief ministerial face for the upcoming assembly elections in Punjab.
The polls to elect 117 members of the Legislative Assembly in Punjab will be held on February 20.
The Election Commission has already announced the dates and all the political parties have started flexing their muscles in the poll-bound states -- Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab.
In a statement, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said "incriminating" documents related to "illegal" sand mining and property transactions, mobile phones, gold worth more than Rs 21 lakh and a Rolex watch worth Rs 12 lakh were also seized during the searches that ended on Wednesday.
He questioned the Bhartiya Janata Party and asked what they did to free India from British rule.
On Tuesday, Congress accused the BJP and its government at the Centre of defaming Punjab and Punjabiyat by raiding a relative of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi in an old case.
The Election Commission has already announced the dates and all the political parties have started flexing their muscles in the poll-bound states -- Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab.
The amount of cash found at the residential premises of Bhupinder Singh (Channi’s nephew) at Ludhiana is around Rs 4 crores, and around Rs 2 crores were recovered at the residential premises of Sandeep Kumar in Ludhiana.
The party had received 21.59 lakh responses under its campaign to elect its CM face for the Assembly polls, party leaders said. Voting for Punjab's 117 Assembly seats is scheduled for February 20 and the counting will take place on March 10.
Channi said that ED raids are an attempt to put pressure and target him and his ministers as the polling day drew near in Punjab.
AAP on Tuesday declared its CM face for the upcoming polls in Punjab. Addressing a press conference in Mohali, Kejriwal chose Bhagwant Mann as the new CM face for AAP in Punjab. Will Mann now face Charanjit Singh Channi as the CM face for Congress?
Reportedly, he is slated to contest the upcoming polls from the Majitha constituency, with his primary opponent being Shiromani Akali Dal's (SAD) Bikram Singh Majithia.
Announcing Mann's name at an event held in Chandigarh, Delhi CM and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal said 93 per cent people voted in favour of the Sangrur MP via phone calls, SMS and WhatsApp messages during the special 'Janta Chunegi Apna CM' drive launched by the party last week.
ED on Tuesday conducted raids at multiple locations of Charanjit Singh Channi's relative for illegal sand mining.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal addressed a press conference in Punjab's Mohali, where he declared Bhagwant Mann as the CM face of AAP in Punjab.
ED officials since today morning are conducting raids in Punjab as part of a money laundering probe against the 'sand mafia' and companies linked to alleged illegal sand mining.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has received around 22 lakh responses under its campaign to elect its CM face for the Assembly polls, a party leader said.
The probing agency raided 10-12 places in Punjab including Mohali in poll-bound Punjab as part of a money-laundering investigation against companies involved in illegal sand mining in the border state, officials said.
Actor Sonu Sood in the video says that the real CM is a person who is forcibly brought to the chair. He does not need to struggle and he does not need tell that I was the chief ministerial candidate and I deserve this.
Punjab Polls: It is now being learnt that some differences have erupted among the coalition parties -- BJP, Punjab Lok Congress and SAD (Sanyukt) over a few seats.
Top News
Latest News
