After winning the 2017 Assembly election from Qadian on a Congress ticket, Fateh Jung Singh Bajwa switched to the BJP in 2021 when doubts over renomination surfaced ahead of the 2022 polls. The move was widely read as political timing over party loyalty, aimed at securing space rather than waiting on uncertainty.
2017 के विधानसभा चुनाव में क़ादियां से कांग्रेस टिकट पर जीत दर्ज करने के बाद फतेह जंग सिंह बाजवा ने 2021 में दोबारा टिकट को लेकर अनिश्चितता के बीच भाजपा का दामन थाम लिया। उस समय इसे पार्टी निष्ठा से ज़्यादा राजनीतिक टाइमिंग का फैसला माना गया।
Once a lifelong Congress face who never tired of reminding Punjab of his legacy, Captain Amarinder Singh didn’t just switch parties at the fag end of his career, he moved his entire political household. His wife Preneet Kaur and daughter Jai Inder Kaur are now also in the BJP, turning what was once a personal break with Congress into a full family shift. What makes it sharper is that Congress didn’t formally push him out; he chose the exit. Yet, after joining the BJP, Captain Amarinder has publicly sulked about not being consulted and hinted at the party’s rigid style, a strange place for a man who once ran Punjab on his own terms. From commanding the Congress for decades to negotiating space in a new party, has this move added to his stature or reduced a towering career to a footnote ?
