New Delhi:
Months ahead of the Assembly election in Punjab, former chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh will meet Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Nadda on Saturday and may hold discussions over an alliance with the party, according to reports.
Assembly elections are slated to be held in Punjab early next year.
Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday said that he along with his allies will form the government in Punjab after securing victory in the Assembly polls. His comment came after he met Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar at his residence in Chandigarh.
“It was a courtesy meeting with Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar. Our membership drive is going great, wait for the time. We (with our allies) will form the government in Punjab,” he said.
Singh had floated his new party Punjab Lok Congress soon after leaving the Congress after stepping down as chief minister of Punjab.
In the 2017 Punjab Assembly polls, Congress won an absolute majority in the state by winning 77 seats and ousted the SAD-BJP government after 10 years. Aam Aadmi Party emerged as the second-largest party winning 20 seats in 117-member Punjab Legislative Assembly. The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) could only manage to win 15 seats while the BJP secured 3 seats.
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