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Scuttling between locations across her constituency, having meals with party workers and lending a keen ear to the people’s issues are some things that three-time Bathinda Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal has been doing on a daily basis over the past few weeks despite not being formally announced as the party’s candidate from the seat.
“The new BJP is the old Congress in Punjab,” said a BJP insider as three-time Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu, grandson of former chief minister Beant Singh, switched on Tuesday to the BJP, which now has a host of ex-Congress leaders among its ranks. Bittu has been a close aide of Rahul Gandhi.
ONCE among the country’s longest-lasting political allies, the BJP and Akali Dal’s efforts to re-unite ahead of the Lok Sabha polls did not bear fruit eventually. The announcement that the BJP would fight the elections alone was made by its state president Sunil Jakhar, who had been among the strongest votaries of tying up with the Akali Dal.
The top Congress leadership on Friday united in its condemnation of the arrest of AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, taking to the streets of the national capital in protest. But the party is not speaking in one voice and this is most visible in Punjab where the Congress is the principal Opposition to the AAP government led by Bhagwant Mann.
Along with the Lok Sabha elections, Himachal Pradesh will vote for bypolls to six Assembly constituencies, now vacant after the sitting Congress MLAs cross-voted in favour of the BJP in the recent Rajya Sabha elections and were disqualified. However, given that theripples of that rebellion haven’t still settled in the Congress, the party led by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu is facing a tough task trying to retain the six seats, which include Sujanpur, Barsar, Gagret, Kutlehar, Dharamshala, and Lahaul-Spiti.
With a flowing grey beard and a blue turban, these days Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal is almost a spitting image of his father and five-time Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.
An hour to go for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announcing names of its Punjab candidates for the coming Lok Sabha elections, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann told noted Punjabi actor, comedian and singer Karamjit Anmol that the party wanted him to contest from the Faridkot reserved seat.
The BJP got a reprieve on the farmer front the past few days, with the protesters having called a pause. However, with no end to the agitation in sight yet as the farmers meet again Thursday, the party may find it harder to continue riding two boats, as it has been doing – in Punjab, supporting the farmers; and in Haryana, defending its government’s crackdown against them.