Capt Amarinder meets Amit Shah, Nadda in Delhi; BJP likely to contest urban Assembly seats in Punjab
The BJP has announced that it will contest the Punjab assembly polls in alliance with Singh’s party
Former Punjab chief minister and leader of the newly floated Punjab Lok Congress Amarinder Singh on Monday met with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president J P Nadda here.
The BJP has announced that it will contest the Punjab assembly polls in alliance with Singh’s party.
The meeting is underway at Shah’s residence where all three are present. Singh has been meeting various BJP leaders to chalk out a strategy for the Punjab elections.
The BJP is expected to contest the urban Assembly seats in Punjab in alliance with former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh’s Punjab Lok Congress (PCL).
Both the parties, however, announced to contest the Assembly polls together, but they have yet to announce formula for seat sharing.
In an attempt to become a political force to be reckoned with in Punjab, the BJP is likely to get all the urban Assembly constituencies in the upcoming polls in alliance. The saffron party is putting extra efforts to win these urban Assembly constituencies.
Sources claimed that the BJP will get a major share and expect to contest from more than half of the seat. “We will have a majority share and most of the Assembly seats are urban and semi urban areas. There are over three dozen urban seats and we are likely to get all the seats. We also get some semi-urban seats,” a BJP leader said.
“Our alliance is confirmed. Only seat-sharing talks are going on. We will see who will contest which seats and winnability is the sole criteria for deciding seats. Where the BJP will contest we will support and they will support us on the seats we will be contesting. We are prepared and will win the election. 101 per cent sure of winning the election. We are no in contest with anyone,” former chief minister had said.
Punjab election will be held in February – March next year along with Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa. Earlier, after its alliance broke up with its oldest partner Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), the BJP has announced to contest all the 117 Assembly seats in Punjab. In 2017, the BJP had won three seats out of the 23 it contested. With Inputs from PTI/ IANS
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