Punjab Assembly Elections 2022

Right Word | Assembly poll results 2022: BJP has mastered the art of winning elections and retaining states

First as BJS and then as BJP, the party has worked hard on its ‘cadre’ base and continues to do so. This is what has helped the party to make a major comeback even after being out of power from Centre and in many states during 2004 to 2014

Assembly poll results 2022: BJP wins a famous victory, but AAP’s rise is alarming

The fact that AAP has now won the restive border state of Punjab is disturbing. An AAP-run Punjab will be, I fear, a prime target for subnational diplomacy as promised by Joe Biden’s ambassador-designate to India, Eric Garcetti

'Congress will never learn', Amarinder Singh hits back after party blames him for Punjab rout

Singh, who was unseated from the post of chief minister last year, asked the Congress 'who is responsible for its poor performance in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur'

Day after historic Punjab poll win, AAP CM face Bhagwant Mann meets Kejriwal in Delhi

This is Mann's first meeting with Kejriwal after AAP won the Punjab Assembly election with three-fourths majority on Thursday. Mann will take oath as the chief minister on 16 March

Assembly Elections 2022: Battle for India will be decided in 2024, not in any state poll, says Prashant Kishor

Kishor's comment comes a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said political pundits must note that the BJP's win in four states has also made clear the verdict for the next general elections, slated to be held in 2024

Assembly election results 2022: Arvind Kejriwal hopes to extend ‘AAPrising’ to Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh

The stupendous victory in Punjab, breaking the stranglehold of the Shiromani Akali Dal and the Congress, has buoyed the AAP's aspirations of going national

Assembly election results 2022: Lessons to learn from Congress's loss in Punjab

The AAP came as a big beacon of hope with its ‘Rangla Punjab’ model, which Punjabis are now looking forward to from Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann

Assembly election results 2022: A look at how chief ministers, past and present, performed in the polls

On Thursday, Yogi Adityanath grabbed headlines with a historic win. But not all chief ministers had a reason to celebrate. Pushkar Singh Dhami in Uttarakhand and Charanjit Singh Channi in Punjab had to taste defeat; they even lost their seats

2022 Assembly elections mandate shows Yogi is king in North and AAP is harbinger of hope

Yogi Adityanath has emerged as the new hero figure of the right, and Arvind Kejriwal willy-nilly of the centre-left, with significant implications for national politics.

2022 Assembly poll results: Rewriting India’s political roadmap where performance overrides caste factors

Political parties will now be forced to realise that caste factor notwithstanding, they have to devise ways of delivering performance.