Angad Singh, 31, is a harm man. He was the massive hope and the youngest MLA to enter the Punjab meeting in 2017 for the Congress from Nawanshahr. His dad and mom have additionally been Congress legislators from the identical seat in Punjab.
But this time, in a surprising determination for him, Angad was denied a ticket by the Congress final week. He says it was as a result of he refused to bask in “mudslinging” as demanded by the social gathering in opposition to his spouse, Aditi Singh, who’s now a BJP contestant from Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh. Aditi, a Congress MLA, on January 23 in an interview to News18 had challenged Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to contest in opposition to her. Every week later, Angad’s identify was lacking from the Congress listing for Punjab.
“They (Congress) had asked me to do something which was completely unethical, which was against my moral values, which was against my character, and I told them straightforwardly that this is something I can’t do because I have to look into my own eyes in the mirror. It was basically mudslinging. What kind of relationship I share with my family members is totally personal, it has nothing to do with the party. But even if I don’t share a very good relationship with any of my family members, that does not mean I am going to stoop down to mudslinging—that is not Angad Singh,” he tells News18 in an interview in Nawanshahr amidst hectic campaigning. He is now contesting as an independent candidate right here.
Angad says the Congress acted hypocritically, making a private moderately than an expert determination. “I feel Congress has always been a secular and liberal party as well which empowers the women to speak their mind; that is what they have been talking about forever. So if an individual is making her own decisions, it should be respected. It is very painful; unfortunately, the work I’ve done in the last five years including development and how I catered to the people of my constituency was totally ignored and my personal issues became a base for them to make a decision. I had also brought the facts to their knowledge so as to tell them what was happening in my life, and asked them not to do this,” he says.
The Nawanshahr seat has been intently related to Angad’s household. “My parents and I have been staunch Congress workers and part of the Congress family. It is very unfortunate what happened and not the choice that I made. UP is a different state which has nothing to do with Punjab. Why in one household different members cannot have different ideologies?” he asks News18. To a crowd in his native Sanoh village the place he inaugurated his ballot workplace, Angad says: “They humiliated me by dragging my family matter into it. This matter should not have gone outside my home.” He additionally now phrases it a “fight between Delhi and Nawanshahr” and a “fight between right and wrong”.
This was the only seat that the Congress was confident of winning in the district but now it has lost this too, he claims.
“By not giving me a ticket, they weakened themselves, not me. They weakened Charanjit Singh Channi. From my heart, I wanted to see Channi as CM as he did some good work. All local leaders in Nawanshahr resigned from the Congress after I was denied a ticket,” Angad tells News18.
The constituency continues to be plastered with posters of Angad with the hand image of the Congress however in any respect public conferences, he reminds voters to not vote for the hand however his auto-rickshaw image. “I didn’t leave the Congress but the Congress left me. But there must be some good in this too,” he says.
The Congress right here has given a ticket to Satvir Palli Jhikki who was a Captain Amarinder Singh supporter and received a ticket from the previous CM’s social gathering earlier than choosing one from the Congress. “He is an outsider. For four years, Jhikki was in charge of Banga where the Congress lost every local election. He backed Captain when the latter formed a separate party,” Angad tells voters. He provides that he was by no means on good phrases with Captain however did his finest to deliver growth to Nawanshahr. “Punjab will probably be a hung meeting. I believe all events would require 3-4 or extra MLAs and Nawanshahr will get its due as soon as it makes its alternative in me,” Angad says. “It’ll be a khichdi sarkar and tadka will be added to it from Nawanshahr.”
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