Key Points
Sushil Rinku (48) the lone AAP Member of Parliament who joined the BJP last week, is the partys candidate from Jalandhar, a seat he won in a by-poll held last year...
From Patiala, the BJP has fielded Preneet Kaur (79) a sitting Congress MP and wife of former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh, a former Congressman who bitterly parted ways with the party in 2021 and floated his own outfit, Punjab Lok Congress, which he eventually merged with the BJP...
Preneet Kaur, a four-time MP and a former union minister, was suspended from the Congress for anti-party activities last year after she started openly supporting her husband during BJPs programmes and finally joined the BJP earlier this month...
Among other candidates, the BJP has fielded Punjabi Sufi singer Hans Raj Hans (61), who joined the party in 2016 and won the 2019 parliamentary elections from the reserved seat of North West Delhi...
In that time, the BJP lost the seat only twice in 2009, when Congresss Partap Singh Bajwa beat BJP MP and veteran actor Vinod Khanna to win it, and in the 2017 parliamentary bypoll, when the current BJP chief Sunil Jakhar, then in the Congress, won it after Khannas death...
