Raja Warring’s wife on contesting Gidderbaha Assembly bypoll: ‘It is for Congress to decide… I was even ready to fight from Bathinda Lok Sabha seat’

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.

Despite being dubbed an “outsider” in the prestige battle for Ludhiana, Warring succeeded in defeating the BJP’s Ravneet Singh Bittu, a three-time MP from the seat who defected from the Congress just ahead of the polls.

Amrita, who was at the forefront of Warring’s campaign, speaks to The Indian Express on a range of issues. Excerpts:

We did our best. The BJP had all the agencies working against us — the Election Commission, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his entire Cabinet, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. I would not like to say this but our own people were also working against us.

We had not imagined in our wildest dreams that Raja would be fielded from Ludhiana, a constituency away from our turf. But if I look at the past also, we have been fielded in difficult battles.

People told us that it was an end to our political career. We had never asked for Gidderbaha, we wanted Muktsar. Similarly, we never wanted Ludhiana. We did not know that circumstances would force us to come all the way here. We had never imagined that our own man (Ravneet Singh Bittu) would leave at the last minute. It was a huge challenge but we fought well.

The party is also like a family unit. Something always keeps going on in a family. There are disagreements even in families …

In Ludhiana, some people wanted the ticket. But they were denied it. Such disappointments give birth to negative emotions. Everywhere, when four people are working together,