Preneet Kaur: ‘In Punjab, it is farmers versus BJP… They don’t allow us to campaign… don’t confront other parties’
Former Union minister Preneet Kaur, 79, is again contesting the Lok Sabha elections from her home turf Patiala –this time on the BJP’s ticket. Preneet, the wife of former Punjab chief minister and Congress heavyweight Captain Amarinder Singh, had won the Patiala seat four times earlier as the Congress candidate. She formally joined the BJP in March this year, one-and-a-half years after Amarinder merged his fledgling outfit Punjab Lok Congress with the BJP. Amarinder quit the Congress after the party leadership replaced him with Charanjit Singh Channi ahead of the February 2022 Punjab Assembly polls.