PDA Nominates Bibi Paramjit Kaur Khalra from Khadoor Sahib, Manwinder Singh Giaspura from Fatehgarh Sahib

CHANDIGARH, Punjab—Bibi Paramjit Kaur Khalra, the wife of martyred human rights activist Shaheed Jaswant Singh Khalra, has been nominated from the Khadoor Sahib parliamentary seat by the Punjab Democratic Alliance. Her name was officially announced by the PDA leaders while announcing the candidates for the upcoming parliamentary polls.

Currently, six political parties, including Punjabi Ekta Party (PEP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Lok Insaaf Party (LIP), Punjab Manch, Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Revolutionary Marxist Party of India (RMPI), are contesting the elections under the banner of the Punjab Democratic Alliance. The SAD (Taksali) couldn’t become a part of this alliance due to differences over the parliamentary seat of Sri Anandpur Sahib.

It is learnt that the parliamentary seats of Bathinda, Faridkot and Khadoor Sahib have been allotted to the Punjab Ekta Party by the PDA while the parliamentary seats of Ludhiana, Amritsar and Fatehgarh Sahib have been given to the Lok Insaaf Party. Similarly, the parliamentary seats of Anandpur Sahib, Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur have been allotted to the Bahujan Samaj Party while the parliamentary seats of Patiala, Ferozepur and Gurdaspur have been assigned to the Punjab Manch, CPI and RMPI respectively.

The PDA is still to decide upon the parliamentary seat of Sangrur where the sitting AAP parliamentarian Bhagwant Mann and SAD (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann are in the fray.

The PDA has also fielded AAP MP Gandhi from Patiala, Manwinder Singh Giaspura from Fatehgarh Sahib (SC), AAP MLA Master Baldev Singh from Faridkot (SC), Vikram Singh Sodhi from Anandpur Sahib, former IAS officer Chaudhary Khushi Ram from Hoshiarpur (SC) and Balwinder Kumar from Jalandhar (SC).