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Punjab Congress president and party’s Ludhiana candidate Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Sunday claimed that the BJP was considering to replace its Ludhiana candidate Ravneet Singh Bittu, owing to “high personal anti-incumbency against him revealed in the paty’s latest survey”.
Warring said that during a fresh survey by the party, after the appointment of observers from outside, the BJP had found that Bittu faced a lot of personal anti-incumbency for ten years.
The PCC president claimed that the BJP’s internal survey had found him completely out of the fight in Ludhiana that he may end up well behind everyone else in the contest.
He predicted that the BJP in a next couple of days may end up announcing a different candidate as the party’s own observers feel that there still was time to make some amends.
However, the PCC president expressed confidence that no matter whom the BJP fields, he will not only end up on the fourth or fifth position, he will also lose his security deposit. “Even if the Prime Minister comes to fight here personally, he also can’t save his security deposit”, he claimed.
Expressing his sympathies with his “friend” Bittu, Warring regretted that even the Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann’s support and help by fielding a dummy candidate against him, had not helped Bittu and he had to bite the dust much before the contest had begun.