With the Congress announcing the names of six candidates for Punjab, the party has decided to step up its campaign across the State in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
State unit president Sunil Jakhar said on Thursday that the party has already launched its ‘Mission 13’ campaign, aimed at winning all the 13 Lok Sabha seats. “The names of candidates for the remaining seven seats will be announced within a week,” he told The Hindu .
Mr. Jakhar said leaders and party workers would be going to the voters with the State government’s achievements of the past two years and the party’s manifesto, which promises to launch a unique scheme to eradicate poverty from the country.
“I along with senior party leaders will hold rallies across the State to convey the message to the people that the Congress believes in overall development of society and that is why it announced a minimum income for the poor,” he said.
“The Ministers have been assigned duties in their constituencies to ensure that canvassing in support of the party candidate is undertaken aggressively. We will expose the real face of the BJP. Its promises such as depositing ₹15 lakh in the bank accounts of people, bringing back black money, more than two crore jobs every year and increase in the income of farmers have proved false,” he said.
The Congress had earlier this week announced the names of six candidates for Punjab.
Four renominated
It renominated four of its sitting MPs — Sunil Jakhar from Gurdaspur, Gurjeet Singh Aujla from Amritsar, Ravneet Singh Bittu from Ludhiana and Santosh Singh Chaudhary from Jalandhar. Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s wife and former Union Minister Preneet Kaur will be the party’s candidate from Patiala while MLA Raj Kumar Chabbewal will contest from Hoshiarpur.
