Jalandhar: The Congress, which has received 375 applications from ticket aspirants to contest the Jalandhar municipal corporation elections in 80 wards, has decided to field all sitting councillors. Meanwhile, four couples have also applied for tickets while spouses of two sitting MLAs are also among ticket aspirants.
Congress observer Aruna Chaudhary, who visited the District Congress Committee office and held a meeting with local leaders on Saturday, said that they would announce the candidates on December 5, a day before the last day of filing nominations.
Party's Jalandhar (central) MLA Rajinder Beri said that it had been decided by the Congress leadership that those who were councillors in the previous house would be given tickets while for rest of the wards the Congress high command would screen and select candidates. Four couples who have applied for Congress tickets from different wards include Jagdish Raj Raja (who was leader of opposition in the previous house) and his wife, sitting councillor Aruna Arora and her husband Manoj Arora, and sitting councillor Neerja Jain and her husband Amrik Bagri, who recently left the BSP to join the Congress.
Meanwhile, Beri's wife Uma Beri, who was councillor in the previous house, and wife of Jalandhar (West) MLA Sushil Rinku, who herself is a councillor, have also applied for Congress ticket.
Box: BJP wanted 52 seats, got one less
It was after a three-hour-long meeting that the SAD-BJP finally managed to decide distribution of wards between them. The major contention between both parties was that BJP leaders argued that their seat distribution would be according to the formula of 65% and 35% between the BJP and SAD while the latter argued that they would go by the previous percentage, according to which the BJP had 63% seats. As the computations made difference of one seat, a lot of arguments took place between both sides but SAD leaders stuck to the point that as SAD president Sukhbir Badal and state BJP president Vijay Sampla had already agreed that there would be no change in the seat share now. The BJP leaders wanted 52 seats and wanted SAD to have 28 seats but finally they settled for 51 and 29 seats.
Congress observer Aruna Chaudhary, who visited the District Congress Committee office and held a meeting with local leaders on Saturday, said that they would announce the candidates on December 5, a day before the last day of filing nominations.
Party's Jalandhar (central) MLA Rajinder Beri said that it had been decided by the Congress leadership that those who were councillors in the previous house would be given tickets while for rest of the wards the Congress high command would screen and select candidates. Four couples who have applied for Congress tickets from different wards include Jagdish Raj Raja (who was leader of opposition in the previous house) and his wife, sitting councillor Aruna Arora and her husband Manoj Arora, and sitting councillor Neerja Jain and her husband Amrik Bagri, who recently left the BSP to join the Congress.
Meanwhile, Beri's wife Uma Beri, who was councillor in the previous house, and wife of Jalandhar (West) MLA Sushil Rinku, who herself is a councillor, have also applied for Congress ticket.
Box: BJP wanted 52 seats, got one less
It was after a three-hour-long meeting that the SAD-BJP finally managed to decide distribution of wards between them. The major contention between both parties was that BJP leaders argued that their seat distribution would be according to the formula of 65% and 35% between the BJP and SAD while the latter argued that they would go by the previous percentage, according to which the BJP had 63% seats. As the computations made difference of one seat, a lot of arguments took place between both sides but SAD leaders stuck to the point that as SAD president Sukhbir Badal and state BJP president Vijay Sampla had already agreed that there would be no change in the seat share now. The BJP leaders wanted 52 seats and wanted SAD to have 28 seats but finally they settled for 51 and 29 seats.
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