Former Punjab CM Amarinder Singh to contest state assembly polls from Patiala
The Patiala assembly seat has been the family bastion of the former chief minister.
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Patiala, November 22: Ahead of the Punjab state assembly election 2022, former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh, who named his political party the Punjab Lok Congress, has now announced that he will fight from the Patiala seat in the 2022 assembly elections.
"I will fight elections from Patiala only," he posted on his 'Punjab Da Captain' Facebook page on Saturday. "Patiala has been with us for the last 400 years and I will not leave it for the sake of (Navjot) Sidhu," he added.
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The Patiala assembly seat has been the family bastion of the former chief minister. He had represented the seat four times -- 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017. Amarinder had resigned as MLA in 2014 after being elected from the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat. His wife Preneet Kaur then contested Patiala and represented the seat for three years.
It is worth to be noted that Amarinder had also in April dared Punjab Congress chief Navjot Sidhu to contest from Patiala, saying that the latter would lose his security deposit. Amarinder resigned as the Punjab chief minister in September amid a bitter power tussle with Sidhu.
