Parachute trouble for BJP in Punjab

The fact that the BJP has chosen to field two candidates from outside for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections has only reinforced the fact that the central command has no faith in the Punjab leadership. The third candidate, too, had served as a civil servant before joining the state politics.
The party has three seats — Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur and Amritsar — out of 13 in its alliance with SAD.
The state unit continues to be a divided house. Party presidents continue to work with their trusted team members. In fact, the party has failed to have a consensual leader ever since Balram Das Tandon finished his tenure as a Cabinet minister in 2002. His tenure as the state president had a strong voice of the party in state politics, which has sadly gone missing.

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