I will win the seat with a huge margin and the Kairon family’s plan to support the Congress will be exposed,” he added. “The Akali Dal decided to field me from Khemkaran after consultations with party patron Parkash Singh Badal. The SAD workers in Patti are feeling dejected,” he said. They should focus on the Patti segment which they have abandoned for the last 4 years. “The Kairons have no right to stake claim for the ticket. Valtoha, who has been contesting on party ticket from the constituency since 2007, said the Kairon family was trying to benefit the Congress. Without naming Kairon, Sukhbir said Akali leaders should stay away from “factionalism” and work for strengthening the party. But at a party rally at Amarkot village on March 15, Sukhbir snubbed Kairon by announcing Valtoha as party candidate from seat for the 2022 assembly elections. Last month, Kairon, a former MLA from the Patti constituency, held public meetings in Khemkaran villages for two days, saying one of his family members will contest from the segment. Come what may, Parneet Kaur will fight the election on party symbol from the seat,” Ghulla told HT over phone. Whatever Kairon has said is his final decision. “Adesh Partap Singh Kairon will resume holding public meetings in the constituency in the days to come. On Saturday and Sunday, Ghulla visited the constituency’s Valtoha, Bhaini Massa Singh and Rasulpur villages. Kairon’s close aide Gurmukh Singh Ghulla, who has been holding meetings in villages, claims that the SAD leader’s wife and former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal’s daughter Parneet Kaur Kairon will contest on party ticket from the segment which is the home turf of Valtoha. SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal had announced Virsa Singh Valtoha as party candidate from seat for the 2022 assembly elections during a rally in Tarn Taran district on March 15. “Besides giving facilities to people, law and order is the most important thing, which has unfortunately been ignored in the border district,” alleged Bahriwal.Former cabinet minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Adesh Partap Singh Kairon’s supporters continue to hold meetings in the Khemkaran constituency even as party president Sukhbir Singh Badal had announced the candidature of ex-legislator Virsa Singh Valtoha from the seat last month. Expressing concern over the law and order situation, he said there had been several incidents of gun violence since 2017, in which nearly two dozen people had died. Anyone can check the truth behind our claims and the same will be replicated in Punjab,” said AAP district president Gurwinder Singh Bahriwal. “We have the Delhi model to show to the voters. Harminder Singh Gill of INC has defeated SAD's Adesh Partap Singh Kairon to win the seat in Patti. Leaders of AAP, which came third in the 2017 elections, claimed they would top the charts this time. Last Updated: March 11, 2017, 16:16 IST Harminder Singh Gill of INC has defeated SAD's Adesh Partap Singh Kairon to win the seat in Patti. Hans also ridiculed the claims of ‘freebies’, saying rival parties were giving false hopes to the electorate. “Let other opposition parties make any claims but what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done is not hidden from anyone,” he said. Badal had allegedly purchased it in 1999 and gifted it to his daughter Parneet Kaur. BJP district president Ram Lal Hans said they had a large number of candidates aspiring to contest the elections. Adesh is grandson of former Punjab chief minister Partap Singh Kairon. He added that the ruling party was likely to announce names of candidates soon. Agnihotri, who defeated SAD’s Harmit Singh Sandhu in the last elections, claimed history was created with a Hindu candidate winning this known panthic seat. The Congress was not just making announcements, but also implementing them, he claimed. However, Tarn Taran MLA Dr Dharambir Agnihotri (Cong) mocked the Akalis’ claims, saying, “They have not been able to give facilities to voters and can see their defeat written on the wall so they are misleading voters,” he said. They have seen the Congress regime and the veracity of promises made by it ahead of the elections. SAD president in Tarn Taran district and candidate from Patti assembly seat, Virsa Singh Valtoha said people wanted Akali representatives as they had had enough of the Congress regime. Singh Kairon, son-in-law of former chief minister and SAD patron Parkash Singh Badal, in the last assembly elections in 2017.
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