Battleground Chandigarh: Congress bigwigs lock horns for Lok Sabha ticket
Tuesday, 29/01/2019
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Chandigarh : Much before any formal declaration of the Lok Sabha elections, Chandigarh has become a battleground of senior Congress leaders aspiring to get the party ticket from the city beautiful. Normally the seat has been a pocket burrow of four-time MP Pawan Bansal who has been a natural choice of the Congress for the seat. But this time around, Bansal, who turned 70 last year, has found a surprise challenge not only from the Congress bigwig Manish Tiwari, who represented the Ludhiana Lok Sabha seat earlier, but also from a political new entrant Navjot Kaur Sidhu, wife of Punjab Cabinet minister Navjot Sidhu. While the Congress’s contest with the rival political parties in Chandigarh yet to shape up, it is intense wrangling within the party for the Lok Sabha ticket that has caught the public eye. There are all indications that the rival Congress aspirants would become a bigger challenge for the party than the threat coming from the rival political parties. Apparently upset Pawan Bansal has been trying to hold his nerves and project himself as the only claimant to the party ticket. Talking to Daily Post, Pawan Bansal who is expected to formally give his application in a day or two said, “People and the party high command know who is Pawan Bansal, I do not need any introduction. So I am quite hopeful that party will pick me.”
