Senior Congress leader Jagmeet Singh Sahota today raised the banner of revolt after his party alloted sitting MLA Randeep Singh Nabha the ticket to contest the Punjab Assembly polls from Amloh constituency.
Sahota, along with his supporters, assembled near his office at Mandi Gobindgarh here this evening and announced that he would contest elections as an Independent candidate if the Congress high command did not reconsider its decision.
His supporters claimed that he was a deserving candidate from the seat.
Even in the last Assembly elections Nabha was chosen over Sahota by the Congress for the seat.
After he was expelled from Congress, Sahota had contested Assembly elections as People Party of Punjab (PPP) candidate from Amloh.
He was reinstated in the party after after PPP merged with Congress.
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