The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday, 21 April, announced that Union Ministers Dr Harsh Vardhan and Hardeep Puri will contest from Delhi’s Chandni Chowk and Punjab’s Amritsar respectively.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Captain Amarinder Singh of the Congress defeated the now Union Minister Arun Jaitley from the Amritsar seat.