Parties pull out all the stops to win hot seat Gidderbaha

In the high-octane campaign for Gidderbaha bypoll, the Congress has presented a united face as all main leaders, including former CM Charanjit Singh Channi, Leader of the Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa and senior leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira have campaigned for Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring’s wife Amrita Warring.

Now, the Congress plans to hold a massive road show in the segment on the last day of campaigning on Monday.

Similarly, AAP exerted all its might for party nominee Hardeep Singh Dimpy Dhillon. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann himself held 13 rallies in favour of Dimpy. Besides, both AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal and Mann held a joint rally in Gidderbaha on Saturday. Further, Bhagwant Mann’s OSD Rajbir Singh Ghuman has been camping here for the past few days.

Further, Cabinet Ministers Aman Arora, Gurmeet Singh Khuddian, Dr Baljit Kaur and Barinder Kumar Goyal, MP Malwinder Singh Kang and several MLAs canvassed for Dimpy. AAP leaders claim to have started development works worth Rs 100 crore before the enforcement of poll code. Dimpy’s nephew Abhay Dhillon said, “We don’t have any special plan for the last day of the campaigning.”

Union Minister of State Ravneet Singh Bittu held the reins of BJP candidate Manpreet Singh Badal’s election campaign and remained here for almost a week. Besides, several saffron party leaders, including its state in-charge and former Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani, Avinash Rai Khanna and Ashwani Sharma, too, campaigned for Manpreet. BJP’s national general secretary Tarun Chugh, too, once visited the segment.

However, none from Delhi came here for campaigning. The state BJP chief Sunil Jakhar didn’t visited the segment once. Even Manpreet had skipped his campaign for a day and met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi for development works of the constituency. Former Union Minister of State Vijay Sampla would visit Gidderbaha on Monday.

‘All vs Warring’

• Ravneet Bittu is trying to settle a score with PCC chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring as the latter had defeated him in the Lok Sabha poll from Ludhiana
• Further, Bittu is attempting to build his image to emerge as the CM face for the 2027 Assembly elections. He even gave a statement in this regard
• Manpreet Badal also wants to settle score with Warring as the latter had defeated him in 2012 from Gidderbaha. Later, he switched to the Bathinda (Urban) segment
• Dimpy Dhillon is also trying to take revenge from

  Warring as he lost two Assembly elections from this segment as a SAD nominee in the past