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Congress announces 114 names for Punjab poll
Friday January 06, 2012 03:31:16 PM,
IANS
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Chandigarh: After the
uncertainty of the last few days, the Congress has finally
released its list of 114 candidates for the 117-member Punjab
assembly elections to be held Jan 30.
State Congress president and former chief minister Amarinder Singh
will contest from his traditional Patiala assembly seat while
another former chief minister and now Congress Legislature Party (CLP)
leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal will contest again from the Lehra
seat in Sangrur district.
The list containing 114 names was finally released at the Congress
headquarters in New Delhi just before midnight Thursday.
Former legislator Jagbir Singh Brar, who switched from the
Shiromani Akali Dal to the newly-floated Peoples Party of Punjab
(PPP) led by former finance minister Manpreet Badal to the
Congress in the last over one year, has been fielded from the
Jalandhar Cantt seat.
Mahesh Inder Singh Badal has been fielded from the crucial Lambi
seat where he will take on his cousin brothers - Chief Minister
Parkash Singh Badal of the Akali Dal and his younger brother
Gurdas Badal, who is the father of Manpreet Badal and the PPP
candidate.
Amarinder Singh's son Raninder Singh has been fielded from the
Samana assembly seat in Patiala district. Raninder's mother
Preneet Kaur is the Lok Sabha MP from Patiala and the union
minister of state for external affairs.
The main contest in the state is between the ruling Akali
Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) combine and the Congress. With
the PPP and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) also in the fray, the
contest on many seats will be triangular or multi-cornered.
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