PPP to contest municipal poll
Friday, 12/07/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130712/punjab.htm#20
Chandigarh : Encouraged with the outcome of the panchayat elections, the People’s Party of Punjab (PPP) has decided to contest elections to all municipal committees in the state.
Party president Manpreet Singh Badal said an announcement on elections to about 80 municipal committees was expected in the next couple of weeks.
“In the panchayat elections, 330 PPP candidates were elected to the post of sarpanch and about 1,500 were elected panches, in some villages with a big margin,” Manpreet said.
On his party’s alliance with the Congress, he said any decision in this regard would be taken collectively by the constituents of the Sanjha Morcha led by him.
Insiders, however, said that at the party’s central committee meeting today, most leaders spoke in favour of a poll pact with the Congress.
Meanwhile, Manpreet has started a mass contact programme.
