Senior Punjab Congress leader and former MP Mohinder Singh Kaypee on Sunday expressed his displeasure over denial of ticket from Adampur assembly seat saying his family is targeted by the party every election.
In its first list of 86 candidates, the Congress had on Saturday gave ticket to Sukhwinder Singh Kotli from Adampur seat in Jalandhar. Kotli, who was in the Bahujan Samaj Party, had last month joined the Congress.
Kaypee, a former Punjab Congress chief, said he had been working in the Admapur assembly constituency for the last five years. But the party gave the ticket to a person who joined the Congress just 20 days back. Whenever election comes, the Kaypee family is targeted in some way or another, be it shifting (of seat), or denying ticket … ,” he said while talking to the mediapersons.
Kaypee said that earlier he was denied the ticket for contesting the Lok Sabha polls.
Another Congress leader Balwinder Singh Laddi, who was denied ticket from Sri Hargobindpur seat, said that he was sad that the promise of a ticket made to him was not fulfilled. Laddi had joined the BJP along with MLA Fatehjang Bajwa on December 28 but a few days later he left the saffron party and returned to the Congress fold.
The Congress gave ticket to Mandeep Singh from Sri Hargobindpur assembly seat.
Laddi said, “When I returned our senior leaders including Harish Chaudhary (AICC Punjab affairs in-charge), Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and some other leaders told me that you will fight (elections),” he said.