Indian Updates 18 Mar 2026 - Bengal Poll & Haryana RS

Wednesday 18 March 2026 — Amrinder Gidda and senior journalist Pritam Singh Rupal bring you deep analysis of four major stories shaping India and Punjab today on Radio Haanji Indian Updates. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann declared at a Dhuri rally yesterday that AAP’s return to power in the 2027 Punjab elections is ”writing on the wall,” claiming the government has fulfilled all pre-poll guarantees in four years. The Punjab Rajya Sahkari Kheti Vikas Bank has identified 109 defaulter farmers for land auction — a politically sensitive development in a state where agricultural debt has long been a crisis. In West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee personally released TMC’s full candidate list of 291 seats, with the biggest headline being that she will directly face BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari in Bhawanipur — a rematch after Adhikari defeated her in Nandigram in 2021. And in Haryana, the Rajya Sabha election for two seats ended 1-1 in a dramatic all-night count that exposed five Congress MLAs who cross-voted, four invalidated ballots, bribery allegations, and INLD abstentions. Indian Updates is Radio Haanji 1674 AM’s daily programme for deep analysis of India and Punjab news — not just headlines, but the context that matters to the Punjabi community in Australia, Canada, Singapore and worldwide. #IndianUpdates #RadioHaanji #PunjabiNews #WestBengalElections2026 #MamataBanerjee #BhawanipurContest #SuvenduAdhikari #TMCCandidateList #HaryanaRajyaSabha #CrossVoting #BhagwantMann #DhuriRally #PunjabNews #AmrinderGidda #PritamSinghRupal #PunjabiPodcast #RadioHaanji1674AM #IndiaElections2026 #MelbournePunjabi #SingaporePunjabi