BJP forms alliance with Amarinder

New Delhi, Dec 27: The BJP will contest the assembly polls in Punjab in alliance with Amarinder Singh’s Punjab Lok Congress and Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa’s SAD (Sanyukt), and the parties will issue a joint manifesto, Union minister Gajendra Shekhawat said on Monday.
Both Singh and Dhindsa, met with the BJP top brass, including president JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, at Shah’s residence here to chalk out a strategy for the polls. Shekhawat, the BJP’s poll in-charge for Punjab, said a joint committee will be formed comprising two leaders from each party to finalise a seat sharing agreement.
Sources in the BJP said they see the elections in Punjab becoming a five-cornered fight as various farmer outfits may enter the fray, besides the Congress, SAD and the AAP. (PTI)