In PLC’s list of 22, Captain Amarinder Singh gets the Patiala peg

CHANDIGARH/AMRITSAR: Capt Amarinder Singh’s Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) on Sunday declared its first list of 22 candidates for the February 20 assembly polls, packing it with several ex-Congress MLAs and office bearers who followed him out of the party last year. Two ex- SAD legislators, Farzana Alam and Prem Mittal, are part of the mix as the party makes its electoral debut within months of being formed.
The party’s first list has nine Jat Sikh candidates, three Brahmins, two from the Aggarwal community, four SCs and three OBCs, and one from the Muslim community. Amarinder will be seeking re-election from Patiala Urban. It has fielded former Indian hockey captain Ajitpal Singh in Nakodar.
PLC will contest 37 of the 117 seats in Punjab as part of an alliance with BJP and Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt). Amarinder said talks were on for PLC to get another five seats.