CHANDIGARH: Senior Punjab Congress chief Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Sunday slammed the BJP, accusing it of not having been capable of finding its personal get together males for fielding them from the state within the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. His remarks got here a day after the BJP introduced its first record of six candidates for Punjab, fielding three turncoats’ Preneet Kaur, Sushil Kumar Rinku and Ravneet Singh Bittu, and former diplomat Taranjit Singh Sandhu.
Besides, the saffron get together additionally fielded singer and MP from North West Delhi Hans Raj Hans and former MLA Dinesh Singh Babbu. “On one hand, the BJP has given a slogan of ‘ab ki baar 400 paar’ and on the other hand, it has not been able to find its own party members who can be fielded for fighting from Punjab,” Randhawa stated reacting to the BJP record.
Escalating his assault on the BJP, the previous Punjab deputy chief minister lashed out on the saffron get together for fielding candidates who joined it after leaving different political events. The Congress chief stated not solely in Punjab, the BJP fielded candidates from different events in Haryana as properly. The BJP discovered it troublesome to search out its leaders to subject them, he stated as he spoke concerning the saffron get together’s first record of candidates for Punjab.
Randhawa was pointing in direction of BJP’s Patiala candidate Kaur, Jalandhar nominee Rinku and Ludhiana candidate Bittu. Four-time MP and former Union minister Kaur joined the BJP this month. She was suspended by the Congress in February final 12 months quickly after her husband, former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh, joined the BJP.
Rinku was fielded from the Jalandhar seat, 4 days after he joined the BJP in Delhi. Former Congress MLA Rinku had been named the candidate by the AAP however he stop the Arvind Kejriwal-led outfit in lower than a 12 months after becoming a member of it. Rinku had joined the AAP on April 5 final 12 months within the presence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann in Jalandhar.
Rinku was fielded from the Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat within the by-election and gained it after defeating Congress candidate Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary by a margin of 58,691 votes. The BJP additionally fielded three-time MP Bittu from the Ludhiana seat. Bittu was the third Congress chief, who jumped ship after former MLAs Gurpreet Singh GP and Raj Kumar Chabbewal left the Congress to modify sides in lower than three weeks.
He had remained an MP twice from Ludhiana and as soon as from Anandpur Sahib. Bittu is the grandson of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, who was assassinated in a terror assault in 1995.
