BJP still indecisive over selection of candidate for Ferozepur Urban Constituency

Ferozepur, December 18, 2016: For Ferozepur Urban Constituency, the Bhartiya Janata Party – in sworn alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab – is still indecisive over the selection of its candidate for the coming Assembly elections in early 2017.

The coming contest is likely to be triangular at all the four seats in Ferozepur district.  The BSP candidates nominated at Ferozepur City and Guruahrsahai will not have much impact to disturb the vote bank of other three major political parties – SAD, Congress and AAP contesting at all the seats in Punjab.

In Ferozepur, there are four Assembly constituencies, out of which three seats are for Akali Dal while one seat of Ferozepur Urban is in the account of Bhartiay Janata Party (BJP) for which no candidate has so far been declared.  However, the candidates by Congress and AAP have already been announced for all the four segments in Ferozepur district.

With the entry of Aam Aadmi Party in the coming Assembly elections, the triangular contest between Congress, SAD and AAP, has become interesting and tough as well.

In all, 6,66,700 voters will decide the future of 13 candidates so far fielded by the political parties.  Due to intensive campaigning under SVEEP scheme, this time 12,211 voters of 18-19 years will use the right to franchise for the first time while less than 39 years are 3,70,663 in the district.   All the political parties are up in their arms and making all out efforts to involve 53 per cent voters of less than 39 years for which Hi-tech Cells have been created by each party, putting wiser about the policies of the parties to the youths from time to time on social media.  For example, under the Captain Smart Contact Scheme, more than one lac youths have been enrolled in Ferozepur itself.

In Zira-75  segment, Hari Singh Zira of SAD, Kulbir Singh Zira of youth Congress and Gurpreet Singh Gora of AAP have been nominated to try their luch from 1,70,072 voters – 90,212 male and 79,800 female while 94,022 voters will cast their vote for the first time.

In Ferozepur City, Parminder Singh Pinki, sitting Congress MLA and Narinder Singh Sandha of AAP have been nominated when BJP is still to announce the name of the candidate.  It is pertinent to mention that Kamal Sharma, former BJP President Punjab who belongs to this constituency is also interested to contest the elections from his home town but has not openly come forward, nor uttered a word on this issue. The other candidate for this seat is Sukhpal Singh Nannu, former BJP MLA who has been extensively working for the party during the last five years despite defeat from the Congress candidate.

In this segment, there are in all 1,66,729 voters – 93,119 male, 73,609 female and 98,479 voters are those who will franchise for the first time.

In Ferozepur Rural, Joginder Singh Jindu, sitting MLA of SAD, Satkar Kaur Gehri of Congress and Mohan Singh Phalianwala from AAP have been announced for Assembly election from 1,77,090 voters – 93253 male, 77837 female.  During the last elections, Satkar Kaur of Congress has given a tough fight to Joginder Singh Jindu, SAD candidate with a margin of only 268 votes.  However, Puran Bhatti is also another nomine for Ferozepur Rural from BSP which has no standing in the area so far even in the state during the last elections.

So far as Guruharsahi segment, Vardev Singh Nony Mann of SAD, Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi, sitting MLA of Congress for the last three terms, Malkit Singh Thind of AAP and Bashir Chand of BSP for 1,50,616 voters – 78,491 male and 72,123 female with 85,721 youths who will try over EVMs for the first time.