Captain Amarinder Singh to contest from Patiala in upcoming Punjab Assembly elections

Punjab’s former Chief Minister and ex-Congress leader Amarinder Singh took to Facebook to announce that he will be contesting the upcoming state assembly elections from his family bastion of Patiala constituency.

Captain Singh reportedly stated on his official Facebook page, “I will contest from Patiala. Patiala is with us for 400 years and I am not going to leave it due to Sidhu.”

A stronghold for Captain Singh's erstwhile royal family, the former CM has won from the Patiala constituency on four occasions with his wife Preneet Kaur also having been the MLA from Patiala for three years from 2014 to 2017. Captain Singh’s father, Maharaja Sir Yadavinder Singh, was the princely state of Patiala’s the last king.