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Acid test for Punjab Speaker Kahlon Before delimitation, all the 11 seats in the district were won by either the SAD or the BJP but analysts say this time it will be difficult for the alliance to repeat its performance. A SAD minister said he expected a tight contest on at least six of the 10 Vidhan Sabha seats- Batala, Dinanagar, Sri-Hargobindpur, Fatehgarh Churian, Qadian and the newly carved out constituency of Dera Baba Nanak. “The Congress may make a comeback in at least five segments,” he claimed. The fate of Speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon, Agriculture Minister SS Langah and Education Minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan is locked in the EVMs kept at Beant College of Engineering and Technology and Sukhjindra College of Engineering. |
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Kahlon is facing a stiff competition from former Parliamentary Secretary Tripit Rajinder Singh Bajwa of the Congress. “The Speaker would have had it easy but for the poor image of his son Ravi Kiran. False cases registered against Congress workers in the past five years will go against the Speaker,” said a senior Akali leader. In Qadian, Education Minister SS Sekhwan is pitted against Charanjit Kaur Bajwa of the Congress. A greenhorn, her husband, Member of Parliament Partap Singh Bajwa, astutely managed her campaign, putting in 16 hours everyday in the runup to the poll. In the newly carved out Dera Baba Nanak segment, Agriculture Minister SS Langah is locked in a tough battle with Gurdaspur DCC chief and former Parliamentary Secretary Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa. Deputy Commissioner Mohinder Singh Kainth has asked all employees on counting duty to report to his office at 5 am.
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Gurdaspur, March 5
