BJP leader Ravneet Singh Bittu expressed happiness after he is likely to be part of Prime Minister- designated Narendra Modi's cabinet despite losing the Lok Sabha elections and also affirmed that he would like to take responsibility for Punjab's CM if assigned with it.
In Punjab, voting for its 13 seats will take place in a single phase, with the seventh and final phase on June 1 seeing voting in Gurudaspur, Amritsar, Khadoor Sahib, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Nandpur Sahib, Ludhiana, Fatehgarh Sahib, Faridkot, Firozpur, Bathinda, Sangrur, and Patiala consti
In Punjab, voting for its 13 seats will take place in a single phase, with the seventh and final phase on June 1 seeing voting in Gurudaspur, Amritsar, Khadoor Sahib, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Nandpur Sahib, Ludhiana, Fatehgarh Sahib, Faridkot, Firozpur, Bathinda, Sangrur, and Patiala constitue
Taking to social media handle X, the Ludhiana MP posted, "Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, please tell the people of Punjab why 85,000 employees of Punjab police have not been paid a salary for March and the April salary is almost due. Elections are on, safety and security is very important
"I think Ravneet Bittu is against the politics of Rahul Gandhi. I am happy that he has gone to the side whose line he took. Congress will not weaken, instead, new faces will get a chance. Such people only love themselves, not Punjab," Singh told ANI on Tuesday.
In a major setback to Congress, Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the party headquarters in Delhi on Tuesday ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
A CISF (Central Industrial Security Force) guard deployed for the security of Congress MP from Ludhiana, Ravneet Singh Bittu died after a bullet hit him on Saturday, said police. The guard was deployed at the house of the MP near Rose Garden here at the time of the incident.