Tribune News Service
Rajmeet Singh
Chandigarh, May 13
As the Congress was pushed to the second position in its Dalit-dominated Doaba stronghold in Jalandhar parliamentary bypoll, the grand outdated celebration has a troublesome activity forward with the overall election due subsequent 12 months.
The Aam Aadmi Party had fielded former Congress MLA Sushil Kumar Rinku and the Congress fielded Santokh Chaudhary’s widow Karamjit Kaur.
Though the celebration seemingly made each effort to put up a united entrance, celebration strategists admit that a number of components like division of SC votes between SAD-BSP, BJP and Congress primarily spelled the doom for the Congress.
Aggressive campaigns by the BJP and AAP contributed to the Congress’s defeat.
“Neither the Charanjit Channi issue nor sympathy votes for the Congress candidate labored. The celebration was adequately in need of funds required to contest the election,” admitted a senior celebration chief, including that the celebration had been pushed to the second or third position in the meeting segments the place the celebration has sitting MLAs.
PPCC chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring mentioned the AAP took benefit of the executive energy.
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