Garhshankar, August 3

Gurnam Singh Charuni, leader of the United Kisan Morcha, on Tuesday announced to contest all 117 seats in the 2022 Assembly elections during a meeting with farmer leaders at Garhshankar. Naming the initiative as ‘Mission Punjab’, Charuni said till now all political parties have used farmers as vote bank but never did any work in their interest. He said after Punjab, they plan to contest General Election under ‘India Mission’.

Talking to reporters after the meeting, he said elections would be contested on all 117 seats of the state not under the banner of Kisan Union but under the banner of ‘Mission Punjab’. He said he has put this proposal before the people and hoped that everyone would accept it. Responding to a question, he said it was not yet decided whether he would contest the elections himself or not.

He said ‘Mission Punjab’ would be formed soon. — OC