Cong to use Amarinder’s star appeal to woo voters in UP

The high command is also learnt to have asked party’s star campaigner in Punjab,state president Captain Amarinder Singh,to campaign in UP. Sources told The Indian Express that Amarinder was likely to head to Uttar Pradesh soon. Congress,it is learnt,wants to use Amarinder’s “star appeal” to win over the Punjabi population in UP and the migrant population.

“I have been instructed by the party high command to campaign in UP. I will campaign till the polling day,while occasionally going to New Delhi to look after my job as the vice-Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes. I am going to organise rallies and nukkad meetings in the constituencies where the party has fielded SC candidates,” Verka told The Indian Express.

He added that majority of the 13 districts of Western UP,where polls will be held in the sixth phase,had “a sizable SC population”. “Besides,there are scores of Punjabis who are settled in a number of these districts,” he added.

While Amarinder could not be contacted for comment,Punjab Congress affairs in-charge Gulchain Singh Charak confirmed that Amarinder had been asked by the party high command to campaign in Uttar Pradesh.