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AS THE Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) battles rebellion within, one of the names that has seen constant mention is of Barjinder Singh Hamdard, 79, the owner and editor-in-chief of the prominent Jalandhar-based Punjabi daily newspaper Ajit — a part of the Ajit Group of Publications.
There are speculations in the political circles that Amrita Warring, the wife of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, may contest the Assembly byoll from Gidderbaha, the constituency vacated by Warring after he won from Ludhiana in the recent Lok Sabha elections.
The induction of ex-Congress MP from Ludhiana, Ravneet Singh Bittu, grandson of slain former Punjab chief minister and Congress stalwart Beant Singh, into the new Narendra Modi-led Union ministry as the Minister of State (MoS) within three months of switching to the BJP – and despite losing the Lok Sabha polls – has signalled a new approach of the ruling party towards Punjab politics.
Setting an ambitious target in the Lok Sabha elections of bagging 13 seats out of 13 in Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann had called the polls a “reality check” for his two-year-old government.
Punjab emerged as one of the bright spots for the Congress on Saturday, with the party looking all set to win seven of the 13 seats in the state as of 6 pm and the BJP failing to open its account.
AT RALLIES held by Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal this election, one prominent poster is omnipresent. It displays a photo of the damaged Akal Takht at Golden Temple after Operation Blue Star, with Badal appealing to voters to keep in mind what “the Congress did in 1984” when they cast their ballot on June 1.
While INDIA constituents Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have pitted candidates against each other in Punjab, and their local leaderships are at daggers drawn, their respective star campaigners from Delhi have been careful not to attack each other.
As its 13 Lok Sabha seats go to polls on June 1, a look at the previous six general elections in Punjab reveals that in almost all, barring the 1998 and 2009 elections, the state has preferred the the party or alliance which has ended up in the Opposition benches in Parliament.