BJP district head writes to ex-FM Manpreet, supporters absence from party nominee Parampal’s campaign
Hindustan TimesWith BJP leader Manpreet Badal and his camp conspicuous by their absence from the poll campaign of the party’s Bathinda nominee Parampal Kaur Sidhu, saffron party’s Bathinda district head Sarup Chand Singla has written a letter to former finance minister seeking his support. Manpreet Badal Singla, an old bête noire of Manpreet, in a letter to the five-time MLA, said that several city leaders, including the former Bathinda mayor Raman Goyal, and six other municipal councillors among several others, who have an allegiance with the former FM are missing from the campaigning. Singla’s letter to Manpreet was sent on the day the former Gujarat CM and Punjab BJP affairs in-charge Vijay Rupani was in Bathinda for a meeting with the party leaders on election preparedness. Meanwhile, in a joint statement posted on Facebook on Friday, ex-mayor Goyal and other councillors considered close to Manpreet, denied that they were contacted by the BJP district Singla for support in the LS elections.