It’s formal now: Congress fields wives of MPs Warring, Randhawa from seats they vacated

The Congress, connected expected lines, fielded Amrita Warring from the Gidderbaha, the Assembly spot that her hubby had won consecutively successful 2012, 2017 and 2022. Raja Warring vacated the spot aft helium was elected to Lok Sabha from Ludhiana.

Amrita volition beryllium locked successful a triangular contention successful Gidderbaha wherever BJP has fielded Manpreet Singh Badal, a bete noire of Raja Warring, and AAP has named Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon, a turncoat from Shiromani Akali Dal. On its part, an Akali Dal delegation Tuesday urged Akal Takht to let enactment main Sukhbir Singh Badal, who has been declared a tankhaiya, to contention from Gidderbaha.

Amrita, 45, holds a masters grade successful machine exertion (MCA) and is laminitis of Aasra Foundation, an NGO that serves the needy and focuses connected acquisition and wellness attraction sectors.

Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa was the Dera Baba Nanak MLA erstwhile helium won the parliamentary predetermination from Gurdaspur and vacated the Assembly seat. The Congress, predictably, has fielded his woman Jatinder Kaur from the seat. Randhawa had won the Dera Baba Nanak assembly spot successful 2002, 2012, 2017 and 2022. Jatinder Kaur, 58, is simply a postgraduate from the Guru Nanak Dev University and has been handling the constituency for a agelong clip now.

The Congress besides fielded Kuldeep Singh Dhillon from the Barnala Assembly seat. Dhillon, 51, is simply a matriculate and the party’s territory president of Barnala. He had earlier held positions specified arsenic Barnala Bus Operator Union president and Malwa Zone Bus Operator national president.

Barnala spot fell vacant aft Gurmeet Singh Hayer, who was the sitting MLA from AAP, won the wide predetermination from the Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency.

The Congress named Ranjit Kumar arsenic its campaigner for the Chabbewal (SC) seat. Kumar had unsuccessfully contested the Hoshiarpur Lok Sabha spot connected a BSP ticket. A instrumentality graduate, Ranjit Kumar, 52, remained Hoshiarpur territory barroom assembly chief.

The Chabbewal bypoll was necessitated aft Raj Kumar Chabbewal, who was a Congress MLA but aboriginal joined AAP, was elected to the Lok Sabha from Hoshiarpur. The AAP has fielded his lad Ishank Chabbewal from the seat.

The ruling AAP has besides fielded Harinder Singh Dhaliwal from Barnala, and Gurdeep Singh Randhawa from Dera Baba Nanak. Dhaliwal is simply a relative of Sangrur MP Hayer and Randhawa is the party’s constituency incharge from Dera Baba Nanak.

Apart from naming erstwhile authorities curate Manpreet from Gidderbaha, the BJP has named Ravi Karan Singh Kahlon from Dera Baba Nanak and Kewal Singh Dhillon from Barnala.

The polling successful these assembly segments volition beryllium held connected November 13 and the counting of votes volition instrumentality spot connected November 23.

The past day for filing nominations is October 25 and the scrutiny of information papers volition beryllium conducted connected October 28, portion the past day for withdrawal of candidature is October 30.