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Aam Aadmi Party faces a significant internal crisis as Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha leads a mass exodus of seven MPs to the Bharatiya Janata Party. This move, following Chadha's removal as deputy leader, marks a severe blow to AAP's presence in Parliament and raises questions about its core principles.

Newly-appointed Punjab chief minister charanjit singh channi on Monday directed all the government officers, employees and those in the districts to reach at their concerned offices by 9am and remain available for the public till the office hours in the evening.

Punjab vigilance bureau has summoned former chief minister and Congress leader charanjit singh channi to its state headquarters in Mohali on Wednesday for questioning in the alleged disproportionate assets case.

After holding a meeting of the cabinet via video conferencing to recommend dissolution of 15th Punjab Vidhan Sabha, outgoing chief minister charanjit singh channi submitted his resignation to governor Banwarilal Purohit on Friday.

AAP co-in-charge of Punjab affairs Raghav Chadha took a dig at chief minister charanjit singh channi on Wednesday over recovery of crores from his relative’s house in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids.

Punjab vigilance bureau on Friday issued a look out circular (LOC) against former chief minister and Congress leader charanjit singh channi to stop him from leaving the country since the agency is probing allegations against him of amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.

Shortly into its search operation on properties of Punjab chief minister charanjit singh channi’s nephew Bhupinder Singh and his associates in an illegal sand mining case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths found cash worth more than Rs 6 crore and several property documents.

In order to promote sports in Punjab, especially in the rural hinterland, chief minister charanjit singh channi on Saturday announced to construct sports grounds on Bhaini Sahib sports model in block and district level.

The Congress move to pick charanjit singh channi as Punjab’s first dalit Sikh chief minister, replacing Capt Amarinder Singh, reminds one of the party’s similar experiment in Odisha in 1999.

charanjit singh channi has become not only first Dalit-Sikh chief minister of Punjab but also the first from Puadh region of Punjab to hold the post. The region he belongs to is often wrongly referred to as part of Malwa whereas this region has its own old, distinct identity and even has its own dialect of Punjabi – Puadhi. In fact, Chandigarh was also carved out entirely from villages of Puadh area.

charanjit singh channi taking over as the chief minister of Punjab has National Commission for Women chairperson Rekha Sharma fuming. Sharma urged Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to sack Channi with immediate effect, due to #MeToo allegations against him. She was apparently referring to charges of Channi sending inappropriate text messages to a woman IAS officer.

The political sphere in poll-bound Punjab heated up as Punjab chief minister charanjit singh channi called Aam Aadmi Party's chief ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann a "drunkard and illiterate person".

A day after Punjab advocate general Amar Preet Singh Deol denied reports of him submitting resignation from the post, the resignation addressed to chief minister charanjit singh channi surfaced on Tuesday.

After taking oath as the chief minister of Punjab on Monday, charanjit singh channi urged the Centre to withdraw the farm laws.

Congress MLA charanjit singh channi took oath as the new chief minister of Punjab on Monday. The 58-year-old is the first Dalit chief minister of the state. OP Soni and Sukhjinder Randhawa also took oath as ministers.

Underlining the state's immense investment potential, Punjab Chief Minister charanjit singh channi on Monday asked the private investors to come and invest more aggressively here to fully explore and leverage the existing opportunities in sectors including Agro processing, Pharmaceuticals, Iron & Steel, Health, Education and manufacturing.

The Purvanchal Vikas Mahasabha and representatives of people from UP and Bihar have said that CM charanjit singh channi should apologise for his “bhaiye” remark or people from other states would vote against the Congress.

Punjab chief minister charanjit singh channi on Tuesday appealed to the Centre to immediately repeal the three farm laws otherwise his government would convene a special assembly session to reject them to safeguard the interest of farmers and farm labourers.

Former chief minister charanjit singh channi reached the residence of slain singer Sidhu Moosewala at village Moosa in Mansa on late Tuesday night.

A day after making announcement to contest as independent candidate from Bassi Pathana assembly segment against Congress candidate, the brother of chief minister charanjit singh channi, Manohar Singh continued his door-to door campaign.