by Administrator
2. May 2009 08:03
In Lok Sabha election The political war and the election campaign will get more attention with the participation of BJP big shots and the film stars here. BJP big shots will visit the Holy city Amritsar this Month for the election campaigning of party candidate Sidhu. BJP prime ministerial candidate LK Advani, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and party's general secretary Arun Jaitley, who is also said to be the mentor of Sidhu, will be in the city to address big rallies to seek votes for Sidhu.From a long list of film stars in the party, BJP will bring in Hema Malini and Shatrughan Sinha to campaign for the party's candidate here. Hema Malini, who is actively participating in the election campaigning of the BJP, will visit the city on May 3 while party's general secretary is coming on May 4.It is certain that BJP senior leaders will be in the city and their schedule will be planned accordingly to the campaigning schedules in the nearing States and LK Advani, Narendra Modi, Shatrugan Sinha, all of them will address public rallies here on different days," city BJP Media Coordinator Somdev Sharma told reporters. While the last election had shown the stronghold of Sidhu here but this time he is likely to get a tough competition from Congress candidate OP Soni, a three-time MLA and former mayor.In the last election, Sidhu won with a huge margin against veteran Congress leader RL Bhatia but later he had to resign when convicted in culpable homicide case for the period of three years. However, the Supreme Court provided him relief by suspending his sentence till the final verdict of case, which paved the way for Sidhu's re-election and he won the by-election after defeating then sitting Congress finance Minister Surinder Singla with a margin of 70,000 votes.