Gidderbaha bypoll candidates speakout: Don’t see any challenge for myself, says Amrita
“If a teacher’s wife starts teaching children after seeing her husband for 20 years and she qualifies herself for that then that’s not nepotism. Why is nepotism just limited to the political field, not any other profession? I am sure I would be standing somewhere on the capability scale,” said Amrita Warring, Congress candidate from Gidderbaha and wife of PCC chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, recently in the ‘The Tribune Interview’ show.
To another query, she said, “I had no idea about contesting this election, though I was more prepared for the MP election from Bathinda.”
Asked if BJP candidate Manpreet Singh Badal was a challenge whom her husband defeated in 2012, she said: “I don’t really see any challenge. This election is different because I am campaigning for myself, but I have been campaigning for Raja ji since 2012. This is going to be our family’s sixth election.”
On the allegations of transport scam against Warring, she said: “No matter what one says, it was never proven.”
She further said when Warring contested the first election in 2012, the only demand that people had at that time was of gas cylinders. “Gidderbaha never had any gas agency. Can you imagine that the Badal family represented Gidderbaha for 35-40 years? Raja ji brought two gas agencies. Then the trains going to Delhi and Nanded sahib were started halting at Gidderbaha,” she said. Amrita further claimed that she was the first-ever woman candidate of any political party in Gidderbaha.
