Major General Suresh Khajuria files nomination papers for Gurdaspur Lok Sabha bypoll

  • | Friday | 22nd September, 2017

"Taking a dig at the BJP and the Congress, Khaira alleged that the candidates para-dropped from Mumbai and Abohar, would never be able to commit full time to the service of Gurdaspur voters. The AAP has always tried hard to cleanse the political system and that's why we have nominated a clean and transparent candidate like Maj. Gen. AMRITSAR: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Major General Suresh Khajuria (retd) on Thursday filed his nomination papers for the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat, the byelection for which is scheduled for October 11.Khajuria was accompanied by Punjab AAP president and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann , leader of the opposition Sukhpal Singh Khaira , secretary Gulshan Chhabra, party's district president Gurpartap Singh Khushhalpur and alliance partner and president of Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) Simarjit Singh Bains. He went to file the nomination papers in the office of Gurdaspur district election officer Gurloveleen Singh Sidhu.Earlier, talking to media persons, Mann said the Gurdaspur assembly constituency was a border district of Punjab and it was the most neglected constituency by all political parties.He alleged that the BJP government at the Centre and the Congress government led by Capt Amarinder Singh in the state, neither waived off the agricultural debt of the farmers nor paid them the dues of the sugarcane crop as promised by both political parties before the assembly elections.He alleged that industry in Gurdaspur , Dhariwal and Batala had totally collapsed under the earlier governments.Meanwhile, Khaira said, "The people of Gurdaspur should reject the political parties which have been luring the voters with money or liquor.

AMRITSAR: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Major General Suresh Khajuria (retd) on Thursday filed his nomination papers for the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat, the byelection for which is scheduled for October 11.Khajuria was accompanied by Punjab AAP president and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann , leader of the opposition Sukhpal Singh Khaira , secretary Gulshan Chhabra, party's district president Gurpartap Singh Khushhalpur and alliance partner and president of Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) Simarjit Singh Bains. He went to file the nomination papers in the office of Gurdaspur district election officer Gurloveleen Singh Sidhu.Earlier, talking to media persons, Mann said the Gurdaspur assembly constituency was a border district of Punjab and it was the most neglected constituency by all political parties.He alleged that the BJP government at the Centre and the Congress government led by Capt Amarinder Singh in the state, neither waived off the agricultural debt of the farmers nor paid them the dues of the sugarcane crop as promised by both political parties before the assembly elections.He alleged that industry in Gurdaspur , Dhariwal and Batala had totally collapsed under the earlier governments.Meanwhile, Khaira said, "The people of Gurdaspur should reject the political parties which have been luring the voters with money or liquor. The AAP has always tried hard to cleanse the political system and that's why we have nominated a clean and transparent candidate like Maj. Gen. Khajuria."Taking a dig at the BJP and the Congress, Khaira alleged that the candidates para-dropped from Mumbai and Abohar, would never be able to commit full time to the service of Gurdaspur voters.

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