Manpreet wants at least 2 PPP MPs in Lok Sabha
Saturday, 05/10/2013
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Amritsar : People's Party of Punjab (PPP) president Manpreet Singh Badal has hinted that his party was interested in having a seat-sharing arrangement with the Congress in the next Lok Sabha elections.
Manpreet said the Left parties that were into an alliance with the PPP too supported his decision. Addressing mediapersons here today, Manpreet said his objective was to send at least two MPs to Parliament in the next General Election. The PPP chief, however, refused to divulge any details of the arrangement with the Congress.
On the "silence" of the SAD-BJP coalition government over Raghuram Rajan Committee report, he said Punjab's interests would be hit if the government failed to raise its voice against certain contents of the report. He said many northern states would lose out on allocation of funds from the Centre under Raghuram Rajan formula. He said as per the new formula, Punjab would get 1.07 of the total fund allocated by the Centre to the states as against its current share of 1.26 per cent.
The committee was set up by the Union Government to identify backward states so as to accord these a special-category status to facilitate easy grants. The PPP chief also appointed Sandy Randhawa as the senior vice-president of the party's youth wing and Majha zone in charge.
