Navjot Sidhu's Pick To Fight Amarinder Singh In His Stronghold
NDTV
Amarinder Singh, who recently stitched an alliance with the BJP for the Punjab election, exited the Congress after being abruptly replaced as Chief Minister in September.
The Congress has fielded a former mayor of Patiala - who was welcomed by Navjot Sidhu in the party recently- against Captain Amarinder Singh in the upcoming Punjab assembly election. Vishnu Sharma, a former mayor during the Congress government in 2003, rejoined the party earlier this month.
He had quit reportedly due to a fallout with former Punjab Chief Minister Singh.
Amarinder Singh had announced in November last year that he will contest from Patiala, a pocket borough of the Singh family. He has won the seat four times and his wife, Preneet Kaur, represented it for three years from 2014 to 2017. His announcement came days after he announced his own political party - Punjab Lok Congress.
Mr Singh, who recently stitched an alliance with the BJP for the Punjab election - a huge political reorientation in the state - exited the Congress after being abruptly replaced as Chief Minister in September. His feud with party's Punjab unit chief Sidhu precipitated the crisis.
