Chandigarh: Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday announced the Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) candidates from 22 constituencies for the February 20 polls to the state Assembly, with clear focus on winnability while ensuring due representation across regions and various sections of the society.
PLC has currently got 37 of the 117 seats in the state as part of its alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and SAD (Sanyukt), with discussions still in progress on possibly another five seats for the party.
Of the 37 seats in the PLC kitty, the maximum of 26 are from Malwa region, which Captain Amarinder had single-handedly transformed into a game-changer for the Congress in the 2007 polls with his ground-breaking Water Termination Act of 2004 as well as the introduction of BT cotton. More recently, it was Captain Amarinder’s strong and unequivocal support to the agitating farmers in the region, which was the epicenter of their protest before it shifted to the Delhi borders, that played a decisive role in the final outcome to the issue.