The Congress party has announced its candidates for the Faridkot and Hoshiarpur Lok Sabha seats in Punjab.
Former Moga Zila Parishad chairperson Amarjit Kaur Sahoke, who turned 46 on Monday, will contest from Faridkot. She served as a government school teacher before entering politics and joined the Congress in 2021.
Sahoke had contested the 2017 Punjab Assembly elections on a Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) ticket from Jagraon and had finished third with a 24.72 per cent vote share. Her husband Bhupinder Singh Sahoke had contested the 2022 Punjab elections from the Nihal Singh Wala constituency on a Congress ticket and lost to AAP’s Manjit Singh Bilaspur.
In Hoshiarpur, Yamini Gomar, a former private school teacher, will be the Congress candidate. She had unsuccessfully contested from Hoshiarpur in the 2014 parliamentary elections on an AAP ticket and finished third with 14.37 per cent votes.
Gomar resigned from the AAP in December 2016 and later joined the Congress.
With this announcement, the Congress has so far announced candidates for eight of the 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab — Jalandhar, Amritsar, Fatehgarh Sahib, Patiala, Bathinda, Sangrur, Hoshiarpur and Faridkot.
It is yet to announce candidates for Khadoor Sahib, Gurdaspur, Anandpur Sahib, Ludhiana and Ferozepur.
Meanwhile, senior party leader Partap Singh Bajwa said, “It is only the Congress that has the potential to win all 13 seats in Punjab”. He slammed the ruling AAP, alleging that it has “failed” miserably since assuming power in 2022.
