The BJP is contesting the elections in alliance with former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s Punjab Lok Congress and Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa’s SAD (United). (Image: PTI/FILE)
Punjab Assembly elections will be held in the state on February 20.
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The BJP on Friday released its first list of 34 candidates, including 13 Sikhs, for the elections to the 117-member Punjab Assembly. Releasing the list, BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh said the party has given representation to all sections of the society, and the first list includes 12 persons from farmer families, eight from scheduled castes and professionals.
The names include former minister Manoranjan Kalia, Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi, a sitting MLA who recently left the Congress to join the party, Arvind Khanna and Kanwarvir Singh Tohra, grandson of late Akali leader Gurcharan Singh Tohra. Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri slammed the Congress government in the state and said that Punjab is the pride of the country, but things have turned worse there.
Assembly elections will be held in the state on February 20. The BJP is contesting the elections in alliance with former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s Punjab Lok Congress and Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa’s SAD (United).
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