Summary:
A BJP leader said winning the seat was only criteria for the alliance partners in 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Sirsa, a close confident of SAD (B) president Sukhbir Badal, has been active in taking up various religious and political issues in Punjab of late. AMRITSAR: The appointment of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) general secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa as SAD (B) observer for Amritsar district has triggered speculation of the party giving the BJP MLA from New Delhi’s Rajouri Garden assembly seat a major role in Punjab polity. In case, the party swaps seat with SAD (B), it will meet the same fate by bringing an outsider.”However, SAD (B) district urban president Gurpartap Singh Tikka claimed Sirsa’s appointment as observer for Amritsar was a routine job. Sirsa has his political future in Delhi, not in Amritsar, he added.Meanwhile, rumours abound of a young Akali leader planning to launch his wife in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections..