Jammu- Days after rejoining the Congress, former MP Choudhary Lal Singh was given the social gathering’s mandate on Saturday to tackle Union minister Jitendra Singh from the Udhampur constituency of Jammu and Kashmir within the upcoming parliamentary polls.
The Congress has additionally fielded the working president of its Jammu and Kashmir unit and former minister Raman Bhalla from Jammu.
The 2 leaders had been named within the social gathering’s fourth listing of 45 candidates for the Lok Sabha election.
Lal Singh (65), who hails from Kathua district, rejoined the Congress at its headquarters in Delhi on March 20 amid the hypothesis that he can be fielded towards Jitendra Singh from Udhampur, which fits to polls on April 19.
Lal Singh, who gained the Udhampur seat twice on Congress tickets in 2004 and 2009, apart from being a three-time former MLA, switched from the grand previous social gathering to the BJP in 2014 and was additionally a minister within the earlier PDP-BJP authorities in Jammu and Kashmir that collapsed in June 2018 after the nationwide social gathering pulled out of the alliance.
A number of months earlier than the federal government’s fall, Lal Singh resigned from the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) and floated his personal outfit following an uproar over his participation in a rally in assist of the accused in a rape-and-murder case of an eight-year-old lady in Kathua in January 2018. Nevertheless, he defended his participation within the rally, stating that he was there to “defuse the scenario”.
On November 7 final 12 months, Lal Singh was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in reference to a money-laundering case towards an academic belief run by his spouse and former legislator Kanta Andotra. Nevertheless, he was launched on bail three weeks later.
Jitendra Singh retained the Udhampur Lok Sabha seat in 2019, defeating the Congress’s Vikramaditya Singh, the grandson of erstwhile Maharaja Hari Singh, by a margin of three,53,272 votes. Lal Singh had secured solely 19,049 votes in 2019.
In 2014, Jitendra Singh defeated former Union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad from the seat by a margin of 60,976 votes. He was inducted within the Narendra Modi authorities because the minister of state within the Prime Minister’s Workplace.
For Bhalla, this can be his second try and defeat incumbent BJP MP Jugal Kishore Sharma from the Jammu parliamentary seat, which fits to polls on April 26.
In 2019, Sharma defeated Bhalla by a margin of three,02,875 votes after securing 8,58,066 votes from the constituency. He additionally gained the seat for the BJP in 2014, when he defeated Congress candidate Madan Lal Sharma by a margin of greater than 2.57 lakh votes.
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