Politics is heating up in Punjab. At the same time, the phase of defection in parties regarding the Lok Sabha elections is not stopping. Bharatiya Janata Party is contesting elections on 13 seats in the state. Many senior leaders of Congress and Akali Dal have joined BJP. BJP has declared its candidates on 10 seats including Chandigarh.Let us tell you that candidates are yet to be announced for Sangrur, Sri Anandpur Sahib, Firozpur and Sri Fatehgarh Sahib. Punjab BJP in-charge Vijay Rupani said in Bathinda that the party has decided that we will contest alone on all the 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab. The remaining 4 candidates will also be announced in a day or two. At the same time, Aam Aadmi Party, which is in power in the state, is also contesting elections on 13 seats. Despite joining the INDIA alliance, AAP had refused to share the sheet with Congress or any other party.
Sushil Kumar Rinku, who switched from AAP to BJP, is the candidate from Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat. Let us tell you that AAP had declared Rinku as its candidate. But at the last moment Rinku resigned from the party. Whereas from Congress Late. Santokh Singh Chaudhary's wife Karmjeet Kaur Chaudhary had also joined BJP. The Chaudhary family was angry over giving ticket to Charanjit Singh Channi from Jalandhar. Congress has also suspended Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary from the party.
Karmjeet Chaudhary's son Vikramjeet had resigned from the primary membership of the party due to not getting the ticket. Please note that Vikram was MLA from Phillaur.
Former minister Vijay Sampla can also be given ticket
If we talk about Vijay Sampla, former chairman of National Scheduled Commission from Hoshiarpur, he was angry with the party. There was speculation about his joining another party. It was being said that he could join Congress and the party could declare him as its candidate.
It was also expected that he might join Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), but to convince him, BJP in-charge Vijay Rupani and state president Sunil Jakhar had reached his residence.
Declared candidates of BJP
Sushil Kumar Rinku from Jalandhar
Ravneet Singh Bittu from Ludhiana
Preneet Kaur from Patiala
Sanjay Tandon from Chandigarh
Taranjit Singh Sandhu from Amritsar
Sri Khadoor Sahib to Manjeet Singh Manna Miyawind
Parampal Kaur Sidhu from Bathinda
Faridkot to Hansraj Hans
Dinesh Singh Babbu from Gurdasarpur
Anita Om Prakash from Hoshiarpur