Lok Sabha Elections: Lacking Popular Faces In Punjab, BJP Looking For Candidate Options Within Opposition Bloc

The Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiromani Akali Dal have as soon as once more failed to achieve a consensus for an alliance for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. The BJP had received two out of the 13 seats through the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. This time, the BJP is trying to improve its seat tally given the celebration desires to attain a historic mark of 370 for itself and 400 for the National Democratic Alliance. The two BJP MPs from Punjab are Sunny Deol and Som Prakash whereas Chandigarh is represented by Kirron Kher. 

The BJP has received a big increase in the previous few years in Punjab with a number of key leaders becoming a member of the celebration. Most of the entrants are from Congress, proper from Punjab BJP chief Sunil Jakhar who was earlier heading Congress within the state. Other Congress leaders who’ve joined the BJP within the state embrace former MLAs Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi, Kewal Singh Dhillon, and Arvind Khanna. All of those names are being thought of for the Lok Sabha elections.

Now, in a recent increase for the celebration, former Congress chief and now Aam Aadmi Party’s lone Lok Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Rinku joined the BJP. He is an MP from the Jalandhar seat. Along with him, Jalandhar West MLA Sheetal Angural additionally joined the saffron brigade. Both the leaders stated that the working model of PM Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Welcoming the 2 legislators to the BJP, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri stated the BJP is the biggest political celebration on the earth and folks from totally different walks of life are becoming a member of it. 

On Tuesday, the Congress MP from Ludhiana, Ravneet Bittu, joined the BJP. Bittu is the grandson of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, who was assassinated in 1995 in Chandigarh in a suicide bombing. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Bittu defeated Simarjeet Singh Bains from the Lok Insaaf Party by 76,372 votes. In 2014, he defeated the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Harvinder Singh Phoolka with a margin of 19,709 votes.

With these leaders, the BJP is hoping to extend its seat tally within the state which has been unfavourable for the celebration. Even if the BJP wins 4-5 seats, it will likely be a lift for the celebration within the polls.