When BJP candidate Ravneet Singh Bittu goes to register his nomination papers from the Ludhiana Lok Sabha headquarters on Friday, he will do so in an old ambassador’s car that belonged to his late grandfather and former Punjab chief minister, Beant Singh.
Beant Singh was killed in a bomb blast in front of the Punjab and Haryana secretariat in Chandigarh in August 1995.
Bittu said on Thursday he would register his candidacy papers with senior BJP leader and former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani as his grandfather’s ambassador.
Bittu said he and his circle of relatives had an emotional connection to the car in which his grandfather, the Punjab Congress Speaker, drove thousands of miles across the state during the days of activism.
“I am the legacy of the wonderful political personality of his time,” he added proudly.
He said they needed his grandfather Beant Singh’s blessing, they used this car.
“I will have my grandfather present when the candidacies are presented,” he said.
Bittu will also pay Gurdwara Dukhniwaran Sahib and Durga Mata Mandir before becoming deputy commissioner of Ludhiana.
Bittu, a three-time MP, left Congress and joined the BJP in March.
The constituency of Ludhiana is the stronghold of Congress. In 2009, Manish Tewari, a candidate for Congress, won this seat.
In the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Bittu was the constituency consecutively.
Bittu was also a member of Congress for the Anandpur Sahib seat in 2009.
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