State Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said might have not contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections but Ravneet Singh Bittu’s ‘betrayal’ forced him to enter the poll fray.
The three-time MP Bittu, the grandson of slain Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, had jumped ship and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on March 26 and was named saffron party’s candidate from Ludhiana on March 30.
Apart from Bittu, AAP’s Ashok Prashar Pappi and SAD’s Ranjit Singh Dhillon are in the fray from Ludhiana.
Warring, who started his campaign with a roadshow, targeted Bittu and said: “Such people have been in society for a long time. Even during the pre-Independence era, such traitors were touts of Britishers. We are here for an IPL contest, where ‘I’ stands for Indian Constitution and ‘P’ stands for political system and ‘L’ stands for Ludhiana.”
Warring, a three-time MLA from Gidderbaha, was accompanied by his wife Amrita and former minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu.
Anti-Sikh riots victims association showed black flags to Warring near Aarti Chowk with heavy police presence preventing them from reaching the Warring cavalcade.
“Ludhiana has a maximum number of riot victims and we will make sure that Warring will lose the election from Ludhiana,” said Gurdeep Kaur, who is a member of the association protesting against the PPCC chief.