Senior leaders push campaigns for Sangrur Lok Sabha bypoll

PATIALA: All major political parties of Punjab are giving a boost to their campaign for Sangrur Lok Sabha seat byelection by calling in senior leaders.
Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring has been campaigning for party candidate Dalvir Singh Goldy, with former deputy CM Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, former minister Gurkirat Kotli and others too canvassing for Goldy.
In all nine assembly segments falling under Sangrur seat, including Lehra, Sunam, Dhuri, Sangrur, Dirba, Barnala, Bhadaur, Mehal Kalan and Malerkotla, AAP won by impressive vote margins in the 2022 assembly elections. SAD (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann, who contested from Amargarh assembly segment in Malerkotla district in assembly elections, has also put all his energy in campaigning.
AAP’s Gurmail Singh has opened party offices and pitched his campaign on party agendas, recent cabinet decisions in farm sector, anti-encroachment drive on panchayati land, development works and crackdown on mafias in Punjab.
BJP candidate and former Barnala MLA Kewal Singh Dhillon, who joined BJP a week ago, has been campaigning aggressively.