Swaraj India to contest poll

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, June 27

Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav has announced that his party would contest all 90 seats in the upcoming Assembly elections. “The Election Commission has allotted us whistle as a symbol,” he told the media here on Thursday.

On the selection of candidates, he said youth would be fielded on one-third of seats and women on other one-third. “All candidates will have a clean image. None would have taint of casteism, communalism, corruption or any other crime. They will have a record of serving society,” he said.

Yadav accused the BJP government of trying to release Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh on parole. “The state’s politics is either run from jail or those on the verge of being imprisoned. Under these circumstances, the Swaraj India will play the role of a true opposition and enter the electoral arena with people’s issues,” he added.

The Swaraj India’s manifesto would focus on farmers, unemployed youth, women and daily-wage agricultural labourers.