Sukhdeep Kaur is an assistant editor with the Punjab bureau. She covers politics, social issues and special projects, including on-the-ground reporting during critical situations.
Articles by Sukhdeep Kaur
Badals’ Bathinda, Muktsar lead tally of ‘true-blue’ poor
It is politics over hunger at its most blatant. After hijacking the Congress-led central government’s Food Security Act (FSA) by merging it with state’s own atta-dal scheme, Punjab’s SAD-BJP regime has diverted the subsidy meant for families with low annual income — up to 60,000 as per the criteria.
Updated on Mar 28, 2014 12:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Ambika hits poll trail with counter to rival's 'old woman' barb
The Congress poll punch of fielding its big guns from Punjab has sparked a fresh war of words among poll rivals.
Updated on Mar 26, 2014 11:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur and Hillary Victor, Chandigarh
History repeats itself for Jakhars under Badal rule
One generation has made way for the other in the Jakhar family under Punjab’s grand old man Parkash Singh Badal. With the Congress on Monday announcing the name of Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab assembly Sunil Jakhar from the Ferozepur Lok Sabha seat, history seems to be repeating itself for the family, with the political graph of father and son taking the same course.
Updated on Mar 25, 2014 12:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
A soldier... I will put up a hell of a fight
From a reluctant soldier pushed into the war scene, former Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh is now posturing as a war veteran who has fought and won many battles.
Updated on Mar 23, 2014 11:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
'Unlike Jaitley, I haven’t shied away from polls'
Former Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Saturday warmed up for the big fight against BJP heavyweight Arun Jaitley by making a no-holds-barred attack on his political rival and Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal.
Updated on Mar 23, 2014 06:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Capt takes on Jaitley in Amritsar, Ambika replaces Bittu, Tewari out
As part of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s strategy, the party on Friday dramatically changed the electoral landscape of Punjab by fielding two of its stalwarts, Capt Amarinder Singh and Ambika Soni. Captain in Amritsar: It's disadvantage for Preneet
Updated on Mar 22, 2014 09:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Capt agrees to bat against Jaitley, ‘if Sonia commands’
Amritsar may witness a clash of political heavyweights — former Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh of the Congress and Arun Jaitley of the BJP — as a reluctant Amarinder on Thursday gave indications of a climbdown from his Wednesday’s stand of “unwilling and unable” to contest the elections.
Updated on Mar 21, 2014 06:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur and Prabhjit Singh, Chandigarh
Capt Amarinder Singh may take on Jaitley
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley, making his poll debut from Amritsar, is likely to be pitted against Congress heavyweight but a reluctant contestant in former Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh.
Updated on Mar 21, 2014 10:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur & Prabhjit Singh, Chandigarh
Bitter Twitter: Chandigarh’s celebrity rivals in virtual war
After some initial bonhomie and welcome messages, a virtual war has begun between the two celebrity challengers to sitting Congress MP Pawan Kumar Bansal in Chandigarh — Gul Panag of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Kirron Kher of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Updated on Mar 20, 2014 10:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur and Monica Sharma, Chandigarh
Bollywood stars tone down glamour to claim Chandigarh’s daughter tag
From the glitz and glamour of Bollywood to the heat and dust of elections. Actors Gul Panag and Kirron Kher are trying to shun their celebrity tag to claim another -- of being “Chandigarh’s daughter”.
Updated on Mar 20, 2014 08:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
War of tweets breaks out between Gul Panag and Kirron Kher
A high-decibel virtual war has begun in Chandigarh with its two celebrity contestants attacking each other on social networking site Twitter. Bollywood actors Kirron Kher of BJP and Gul Panag of Aam Aadmi Party arrived on Chandigarh’s electoral stage wishing each other well.
Updated on Mar 20, 2014 02:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur & Monica Sharma, Chandigarh
Bansal ‘resurrected’, but no escaping Ludhiana for Tewari
With the Congress “resurrecting” former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal by allotting him the Chandigarh seat, union minister of state for information and broadcasting Manish Tewari has no option but to contest from Ludhiana.
Updated on Mar 14, 2014 12:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Loyalty to the royalty
A hot seat for blue-blooded royals, a Congress pocket borough and the chief minister’s own backyard — Pratibha Singh, wife of Himachal Pradesh CM Virbhadra Singh, has all the aces in her armour as she seeks re-election from Mandi.
Updated on Mar 11, 2014 11:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur and Gaurav Bisht, Shimla
Joshi was elected on bogus vote
Facing the Election Commission heat over dual votes, Punjab local bodies minister Anil Joshi has a more serious scandal in his voter enrollment, one that makes his very election as an MLA in 2012 a nullity.
Updated on Mar 08, 2014 12:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Sop for Jats may win their support for UPA in states where they count
The UPA government’s pre-poll bonanaza of a quota for Jats in central services and higher education before the Lok Sabha polls can be a potential game-changer in three states where they count.
Updated on Mar 04, 2014 02:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
UPA's pre-poll sop for Jats: Badal preferred missing the bus
The pre-poll bonanza for Jats has eluded Punjab owing to the Centre-state credit war. Soon after the union ministry of social justice and empowerment brought the proposal before the cabinet on December 19, 2013, former Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh, as president of the All-India Jat Mahasabha, wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi demanding inclusion of Jats of other states too, including Punjab, in the central OBC list.
Updated on Mar 04, 2014 10:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Manpreet to take on Harsimrat Badal
During the forthcoming parliamentary polls, Punjab will see a clash of the Badals. Family rebel, People's Party of Punjab president Manpreet Badal, has tied up with the Congress to take on Harsimrat Badal, daughter-in-law of chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, in Bathinda.
Updated on Feb 28, 2014 05:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
The ‘rainmaker’ Badal
A policeman deployed every few kilometres; a cavalcade of cars and SUVs with the entire district administration in tow. The sangat darshans of Bathinda MP Harsimrat Badal rival that of her father-in-law, chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, both in terms of VIP movement and doles.
Updated on Feb 23, 2014 01:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Bathinda
AAP matters? SAD-BJP wary, Cong hunts for allies
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has set the ball rolling in Punjab by announcing its first candidate, noted Supreme Court lawyer HS Phooka from Ludhiana. Though the popularity of Arvind Kejriwal's fledgling party has taken a hit after his 49-day stint in power at Delhi, the AAP's decision to contest all 13 parliamentary seats in Punjab is giving its main political parties the jitters.
Updated on Feb 18, 2014 02:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Badal blows 'pro-farmer' poll bugle
On the eve of the high-decibel parliamentary elections, five-time Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday sounded the poll bugle by bringing his counterparts in the opposition-ruled states together for "protecting interests of farmers" through the first-ever Punjab Agriculture Summit.
Updated on Feb 17, 2014 02:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Sas Nagar
Know Your MP
Manish TewariKnow your MPAge: 47 yearsElectoral record: First-time MP from Ludhiana in 2009Position held: Union minister for information and broadcasting
Updated on Feb 10, 2014 10:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Facetoface with your MP
It is an industrial city but did not have a functional airport. The airport has been upgraded and an Air India flight has been started from Ludhiana to New Delhi. The district now boasts of its own passport office and is connected to the national capital with a new Shatabadi Express.
Updated on Feb 10, 2014 10:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Graph down, but Akalis can't match it still
As a first-time MP, he had a mercurial rise in Delhi's corridors of power. But the graph of high-flying union minister and Congress national spokesman Manish Tewari is down five years after Ludhiana elected him with an impressive margin of over 1.13 lakh votes in 2009. KNOW YOUR MP | Senior resident editor's note
Updated on Feb 11, 2014 12:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Sukhbir sets deadline for new food scheme rollout, Kairon awaits poll code
A political tug-of-war is now playing out within the ruling Badal family before the parliamentary elections over the "poll-winning" food scheme. While the Punjab government has almost hijacked the UPA's National Food Security Act by merging it with its own atta-dal scheme, within the ruling family, the scheme has been hijacked by deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal from brother-in-law, state food and civil supplies minister Adaish Partap Singh Kairon.
Updated on Feb 07, 2014 12:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Human chain of 10 cr: Cong target for Martyr's Day
In the election season, the Congress will try to steal the Aam Aadmi Party's thunder by going for the world record of a human chain of 10 crore on Martyr's Day.
Updated on Jan 28, 2014 03:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Minister takes 'sting' out of Dr Sidhu's campaign
Her "under-cover" operations had stung former Punjab health minister Madan Mohan Mittal. But the reshuffle of cabinet berths among BJP ministers in September last year has health minister Surjit Kumar Jyani taking the "sting" out of chief parliamentary secretary (CPS) Navjot Kaur Sidhu's campaign.
Updated on Jan 24, 2014 12:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
In Capt versus Bajwa on CBI probe, SAD has the last laugh
What was a huge embarrassment for the ruling Akali Dal after arrested druglord Jagdish Bhola named revenue and public relations minister Bikram Singh Majithia as the mastermind behind the flourishing drug racket in Punjab is turning into a full-blown war between Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa and his predecessor Capt Amarinder Singh over handing over the investigations to the CBI.
Updated on Jan 13, 2014 12:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Bajwa smuggled drugs, traded in fake currency
Captain Amarinder Singh, as president of the Punjab Congress, had cautioned party chief Sonia Gandhi against appointment of Partap Singh Bajwa as his successor on the grounds of the Gurdaspur MP's alleged "involvement" in gold and drug smuggling and "terror links".
Updated on Jan 12, 2014 01:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Slug fests of the year
From bickering leaders to defiant bureaucrats, from misogyny in Punjabi songs to murky land deals of politicians, from Akali Dal jathedars frolicking on beaches of Goa to a former militant fasting for parole of fellow jailbirds, the year 2013 saw people making news in all seasons, for all reasons. HT brings you 13 sparring pairs, who traded a no-holds-barred war of words, as barbs and brickbats became the flavour of the year. Also, a flashback on 13 top newsmakers of 2013 from the four states — Punjab, Haryana, Himachal and J&K.
Updated on Dec 30, 2013 06:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
Losing MLAs are vice-presidents, greenhorn general secy in new PCC list
If it is "social engineering", it is at best curious. The names in the jumbo state executive of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee before the Lok Sabha polls are likely to appease less and annoy more leaders of the party as seniority and merit lines have been blurred to "accommodate" loyalists and kin of various factions and how.
Updated on Dec 28, 2013 11:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sukhdeep Kaur, Chandigarh
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