Punjab Lok Congress announces names of seven candidates for Punjab Assembly polls
Jan 29, 2022
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], January 29 : The Punjab Lok Congress announced the names of seven candidates for the forthcoming Assembly elections on Saturday.
Former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh's newly-formed Punjab Lok Congress will contest on 37 seats along with BJP and Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt).
The PLC has fielded Jaskaran Singh Sandhu from Patti, Shammi Kumar Kalyan from Nakodar, Jagdish Kumar Jassal from Adampur, Karanveer Singh Indora from Malout, Dargesh Kumar Sharma from Kotkapura, Maya Devi from Bathinda Rural and Jiwan Dass Bawa from Mansa.
Punjab will go to the poll on February 20. The counting of votes will take place on March 10.
In the 2017 Punjab Assembly polls, Congress won an absolute majority in the state by winning 77 seats and ousted the SAD-BJP government after 10 years.
Aam Aadmi Party had emerged as the second-largest party winning 20 seats in 117-member Punjab Legislative Assembly. The SAD could manage to win only 15 seats while the BJP secured 3 seats.
