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CHANDIGARH: An enormous battle is on the playing cards in Punjab for the Amritsar (East) meeting seat as Bikram Singh Majithia of Shiromani Akali Dal is to contest in opposition to Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu within the constituency. Former chief minister and SAD patron Parkash Singh Badal will contest the Punjab meeting election from his conventional constituency Lambi.
In a sudden transfer, the Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal at present introduced the candidature of Bikram Singh Majithia, who’s his brother-in-law, from Amritsar (East) along with his personal constituency, Majithia.
Badal mentioned,”Navjot Sidhu’s vanity shall be his undoing. He has been harping on his help among the many lots. Now his help shall be examined by ‘Majha Da Sher’ taking him on in his house constituency. He ought to get able to battle the courageous SAD staff. We’ll break his vanity by making certain he loses his safety deposit.”
Badal mentioned, “We’ve got referred to as out Navjot Sidhu’s bluster. We all know he has not finished something in his constituency for the final 5 years.”
He didn’t do something in his constituency at the same time as native our bodies’ minister. The constituency of Amritsar (East) has consuming water and even sewerage points which haven’t been addressed by Sidhu. “Now the folks of his constituency will maintain him accountable,” he mentioned.
In December final yr, the Punjab Police registered a case underneath NDPS Act in opposition to Majithia and he has been lately given bail for 3 days by the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket.
Badal mentioned {that a} false case in opposition to Majithia was registered as he all the time raised the problems of the folks. “Majithia is thought to battle for the folks. This was to not the liking of the Congress authorities. They’ve registered a false case in opposition to a Gursikh who is thought to do ‘Nitnem’ for 2 and a half hours daily. Our staff additionally realized that one of the simplest ways to hunt justice for Majithia was within the folks’s courtroom and it’s they who pressured the occasion to make him the occasion candidate from Amritsar (East),” he mentioned.
Badal additionally introduced that his father and former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal would contest the meeting election from Lambi seat.
“All the occasion pleaded with Parkash Singh Badal to not retire from politics and he has acceded to our request to contest the forthcoming elections from Lambi. Badal has all the time been within the forefront to supply his providers for the welfare of Punjab and Punjabis and he’s doing so once more,” he mentioned.
Badal made these bulletins in Amritsar as he re-inducted Chajjalwadi household into the SAD together with a lot of Congress sarpanches and block samiti members. He additionally introduced that Satinder Singh Chajjwalwadi, son of three-time legislator Ranjit Singh Chajjalwadi, can be the occasion nominee from Baba Bakala.
Within the final meeting polls Sidhu had received Amritsar (East) by a margin of 42,661 votes as he had then obtained 60,477 votes, adopted by then SAD-BKP candidate Rakesh Kumar Honey who polled in 17,668 and Sarabjot Singh Dhanjal from AAP who obtained 14,715 votes.
Majithia appealed to the Election Fee of India to carry the Congress authorities accountable for violating excessive courtroom directives and conducting raids on his residence and harassing his relations even earlier than the courtroom handed its last verdict on his anticipatory bail plea. He additionally demanded a Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) inquiry into the audio-tape expose of DGP S Chatttopadhay saying the safety breach throughout Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to Punjab may have even resulted in an assassination bid on the PM.
