Punjab Assembly elections 2022: SAD swaps two seats with alliance partner BSP
Ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections 2021, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday said that the party had taken back Amritsar North and Sujanpur seats from the BSP and given Sham Chaurasi and Kapurthala Assembly seats to it.
The Shiromani Akali Dal had last month declared its two candidates from Amritsar North and Sujanpur constituencies. At that time, Sukhbir Singh Badal had said the decision was taken with the consent of the BSP.
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Both Amritsar North and Sujanpur were among the 20 seats given to the BSP as part of the seat-sharing arrangement between both alliance partners.
“SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal announced that the SAD had taken back Amritsar North and Sujanpur seats from the BSP. In their place, the BSP has been given Sham Chaurasi and Kapurthala Assembly seats,” senior SAD leader Daljit Singh Cheema said on Wednesday.
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According to the alliance between both parties for the Assembly elections in Punjab in 2022, the Mayawati-led BSP will fight 20 of the 117 Assembly seats in Punjab, while the rest will be contested by the SAD.
On September 3, SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal had put on hold for six days his party's poll outreach campaign ''Gal Punjab Di'' and formed a committee to hold talks with farmers to reiterate Akalis' "unflinching support" to their agitation against the Centre's three farm laws.
-PTC News with inputs from agencies
