Chandigarh: Ending a long wait, former Minister of Punjab Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday announced his party’s name as Punjab Lok Congress, added that party registration was awaiting approval from the Indian Election Commission (ECI).
Amarinder said, because he had announced earlier that he would form his own party, his lawyer team was working on the process and had implemented the Indian Election Commission for registration.
The Election Commission did not have objections to the proposed name, Punjab Lok Congress, he said.
About party symbols, Amarinder said, the electoral commission has given three symbols from which someone will be chosen.
He said his party had also sent three different symbols and the last symbol will be selected from the set of six symbols, three suggested by the electoral commission and three proposed by the party.
The party will be launched formally later.
Policies, programs, agendas and visions will be described at the launch of the party, Amarinder added.
Not the first time it was not the first time Amarinder would launch a new political front.
In 1984, he left Congress and joined sadly to protest the operation of the army at the Golden Temple.
Then breaking away from the sad in 1992, Amarinder formed its own political group called Sed (Panthic), which did not make much impact.
He then combined his political front with Congress when he joined a party again in 1997.
Since then, Amarinder remains in Congress.