Amritsar, May 16: Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley, tipped to be a finance minister during a Modi government, was trailing former Punjab chief minister and Congress candidate Amarinder Singh by nearly 44,000 votes within the Amritsar seat Friday.
Jaitley, the BJP and Shiromani Akali dal alliance candidate who is contesting his initial common election, continued to path Amarinder from the terribly initial spherical when tally began Friday.
The BJP had replaced sitting Amritsar MP, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, with Jaitley. Sidhu was electoral MP from Amritsar in 2004, 2007 (by-election) and 2009.
Sidhu had variations with senior Akali leaders, particularly chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son and deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal. Sidhu was also hostile with Punjab BJP leaders who worked for his ouster from the seat.
The BJP ne’er gave any reason for not fielding Sidhu from the seat this time.
Jaitley could be a sitting Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat. he’s the leader of opposition within the Rajya Sabha however has ne’er oppose a preferred election until currently despite being one among the leading lights of the party and one among the nighest to Modi.
