The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has declared councillor Hardeep Buterla as its candidate for the Lok Sabha constituency from Chandigarh. This is the first time that the SAD will contest the Lok Sabha polls in Chandigarh.
Buterla, 41, is a three-time councillor and resident of Buterla. He will be facing BJP’s Sanjay Tandon and Congress’s Manish Tewari in the upcoming elections.
Buterla has a strong hold in the villages, especially Buterla and others. He has maintained his stand of bringing villages on a par with the urban belt in Chandigarh.
In a statement to The Indian Express, Buterla said, “People have got fed up and have seen what BJP and Congress councillors have done to the city. They get elected and then are never seen. Every local issue still remains. They have not done nothing to solve the problems.”
“This time as SAD contests the election for the first time from Chandigarh, you will see the shift. In 2021 corporation polls too, people were fed up with the BJP and Congress, and voted for anyone except them which was AAP and even AAP got into an alliance with Congress. So they need change and they will vote for us this time,” he added.
The SAD has traditionally supported the BJP candidate in Chandigarh in previous Lok Sabha elections, but this time it has decided to go solo.
