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  • Punjab polls: Sanyukt Samaj Morcha declares 17 more candidates

    By PTI

    LUDHIANA: The Sanyukt Samaj Morcha, a political front of farmer unions, on Wednesday evening released another list of 17 candidates for next month’s Punjab Assembly polls.

    Prem Singh Bhangu said the Sanyukt Samaj Morcha (SSM) has announced 57 candidates so far and the rest will be announced in the next two or three days.

    According to the list of candidates, Harpreet Singh will contest from Dharamkot, Meghraj Ralla from Zira, Krishan Chauhan from Budhlada, Gurditta Singh from Nihal Singh Wala, Navjot Singh Saini from from Dera Bassi , Satwant Singh from Lehragaga, Harvinder Singh from Rajpura and Principal Gurnam Kaur from Baba Bakala.

    Jasbir Singh Brar will fight from Talwandi Sabo, Amarjit Singh Aasal from Amritsar West, Davinder Singh from Roopnagar, Apar Singh Randhawa from Amritsar East, Dharmender from Patiala Rural, Mandeep Singh Sarpanch from Nakodar, Thekedar Bhagwan Dass Sidhu from Sham Chaurasi, Jagjit Singh Kalanaur from Dera Baba Nanak and Master Daljit Singh from Khemkaran.

    Bhangu said,”We will contest all 117 seats in alliance with the BKU (Chaduni).”

    The Sanyukt Samaj Morcha on Monday had announced a pre-poll alliance with the Gurnam Singh Chaduni-led political outfit for the February 20 Punjab Assembly polls.

    Various Punjab farmer bodies that had taken part in the stir against the Centre’s now withdrawn farm laws had launched their political front the Sanyukt Samaj Morcha last month and had announced to contest the Assembly polls.

    Voting for Punjab’s 117 Assembly seats is scheduled for February 20 and the counting will take place on March 10.

  • Sanyukt Samaj Morcha leader Balbir Singh Rajewal rules out alliance with AAP in Punjab

    By PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Sanyukt Samaj Morcha leader Balbir Singh Rajewal on Sunday ruled out the alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party for next month’s Punjab Assembly polls and said they will declare their candidates within a week.

    Various Punjab farmer bodies who had taken part in the stir against the Centre’s now withdrawn farm law had launched their political front last month and announced to contest the Assembly polls.

    The Sanyukt Samaj Morcha (SSM) leaders on Sunday held talks with farmer leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni, who had launched the Sanyukt Sangharsh Party to contest the polls.

    Addressing the media here, Rajewal said the Morcha will not have a tie-up with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

    He termed as “baseless” the suggestions that his political front wanted 60 seats while AAP offered only 10.

    Asked if they will tie-up with any other party, Rajewal said, “We will see when the time comes.”

    The leader said the Sanyukt Samaj Morcha has formed three committees, scrutiny committee for shortlisting of candidates, parliamentary board and a manifesto committee.

    “We will come out with our first list of candidates in two-three days and within a week, all candidates will be announced,” said Rajewal.

    Asked if only farmers will be the contestants, Rajewal said the candidates will be from every section of society, including the Scheduled Castes community and traders.

    Chaduni, who is the chief of the Haryana BKU (Chaduni), held a meeting with the SSM leaders and said he has decided not to announce candidates of his party.

    His outfit has halted the announcement of 10 candidate which it wanted to field, Chaduni told reporters here referring to his talks with the SSM.

    Asked if there were any talks with them on seat sharing, he said, “As things progress, we will let you know.”

    Asked if he could merge his outfit with the SSM, Chaduni said it is premature to comment on this.

    Asked about the meeting with Chaduni, Rajewal said the SSM has formed a committee, which will go into what is their requirement and accordingly a decision will be taken.

    “How many tickets they want, how many we can give, this will be decided by the committee,” said Rajewal.

    To a question on the PM’s security lapse in Ferozepur, Rajewal said farmers were not involved in it and demanded that security agencies should probe in this regard.