Times of India
15 Mar 2004, CHANDIGARH: The BJP on Sunday decided on former MP Satya Pal Jain, an advocate, as its candidate for the prestigious Chandigarh Lok Sabha constituency. With Jain's name figuring in the list of candidates cleared by the BJP Central leadership, the suspense over the party's choice for the seat is over now. This sets up an interesting contest between Jain and traditional Congress rival Pawan Kumar Bansal, an advocate himself, for the seat from the Union Territory.
Jain shares the distinction of having won the Chandigarh seat twice in the previous Lok Sabha elections. Bansal was Congress MP from the UT seat in 1991 and 1999, while the former got elected on the BJP ticket in 1996 and 1998. ...
...Jain had lost the polls to Bansal when he contested the seat for the first time in 1991. However, he took revenge for the defeat on Bansal when he won the seat for the BJP in 1996 and 1998. In 1999, the BJP overlooked the several local claimants to the seat including that of Satya Pal Jain and brought in its veteran leader B L Sharma, relatively an outsider, to contest the polls, which he eventually lost to Bansal.
Jain has a two-one score over Bansal in electoral contests and the coming Lok Sabha polls would witness a clash of the titans over issues ranging from development to their individual performance as peoples' representatives.
15 Mar 2004, CHANDIGARH: The BJP on Sunday decided on former MP Satya Pal Jain, an advocate, as its candidate for the prestigious Chandigarh Lok Sabha constituency. With Jain's name figuring in the list of candidates cleared by the BJP Central leadership, the suspense over the party's choice for the seat is over now. This sets up an interesting contest between Jain and traditional Congress rival Pawan Kumar Bansal, an advocate himself, for the seat from the Union Territory.
Jain shares the distinction of having won the Chandigarh seat twice in the previous Lok Sabha elections. Bansal was Congress MP from the UT seat in 1991 and 1999, while the former got elected on the BJP ticket in 1996 and 1998. ...
...Jain had lost the polls to Bansal when he contested the seat for the first time in 1991. However, he took revenge for the defeat on Bansal when he won the seat for the BJP in 1996 and 1998. In 1999, the BJP overlooked the several local claimants to the seat including that of Satya Pal Jain and brought in its veteran leader B L Sharma, relatively an outsider, to contest the polls, which he eventually lost to Bansal.
Jain has a two-one score over Bansal in electoral contests and the coming Lok Sabha polls would witness a clash of the titans over issues ranging from development to their individual performance as peoples' representatives.
