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Punjab Cong stalwarts should fight LS poll: Brar Chandigarh, July 19 Addressing a press conference here, Brar said this was the only way to save Punjab from going the Bihar and Uttar Pradesh way. The SAD-BJP combine would otherwise bulldoze democracy and capture the elections, he added. Claiming that he would make this suggestion to party president Sonia Gandhi also, the Congress leader said Amarinder Singh would be the best candidate to take on sitting SAD MP Harsimrat Badal from Bathinda. He said Pradesh Congress president Partap Bajwa should re-contest from Gurdaspur, while Rajinder Kaur Bhattal was the best bet from Sangrur. "If we do not have stalwarts in the fray, it is like feeding fodder to the SAD," Jagmeet said. The SAD-BJP combine had chalked out a plan to win all 13 seats and that they had already identified and were browbeating Congress poll booth managers into submission, he added. Speaking about himself, he said he was ready to contest against Harsimrat Badal, if Sonia Gandhi so wished. He said Harsimrat had become a symbol of the SAD and it was important to take her on aggressively.
But, he said, if allowed to have his wish, he would like to contest the next Vidhan Sabha elections from
Muktsar. Brar, however, made it clear that he was in favour of an alliance with the People's Party of Punjab (PPP) for the Lok Sabha poll. He said if the PCC president felt PPP head Manpreet Badal was the best bet from Bathinda, he would go with it. Speaking about his future course of action, he said he would go to Mann village tomorrow and hold a meeting with Congress families whose men folk had been arrested en masse at the instance of SAD leadership. He said Mann residents burnt vehicles after extreme provocation at the hands of Akalis and that now they were paying the price for the same. The Congress leader said he would chalk out the next line of protest after holding discussions with villagers in case the government continued to ignore their plight. While both Amarinder Singh and Partap Bajwa were unavailable for comments, senior leader Bhattal said she would not like to comment on the issue without ascertaining the complete facts.
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