After conducting extensive election campaigning for Chandigarh BJP candidate Kirron Kher in last one month, the Chandigarh BJP leaders on Tuesday left for holy city—Amritsar—to campaign for party’s candidate Arun Jaitley.
The election on 13 parliamentary seats of Punjab will be held on April 30. A party’s spokesperson said that city BJP leaders will carry out door-to-door campaigns and public meetings in Amritsar to campaign for Arun Jaitley and ensure his victory. Chandigarh BJP president Sanjay Tandon will leave for Amritsar on Thursday along with 100 party workers to campaign for Jaitley.
This time, the poll fight has become a clash of titans, featuring leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha and BJP candidate Arun Jaitley against former Punjab Chief Minister and State Congress leader Captain Amarinder Singh in Amritsar.
After the polling in Chandigarh held on April 10, BJP’s Chandigarh candidate Kirron Kher has been campaigning in Amritsar for Jaitley.On the other hand, AAP’s Chandigarh candidate Gul Panag and Congress’ Pawan Kumar Bansal are also busy campaigning for their respective party candidates in Punjab. Panag is scheduled to campaign in Patiala constituency and to cover villages around Dera Bassi and Zirakpur in Punjab on Wednesday.