RAJMEET SINGH
Congress mole, party-hopper or shrewd political leader — Punjab simply cannot stop talking about the meteoric rise and rise of party-hopper and three-time MP Ravneet Singh Bittu.
Every Punjabi wants to know how — and why — Bittu, within three months of jumping onto the saffron party’s bandwagon and losing the Ludhiana parliamentary poll to Congress’ Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, has still been inducted as Minister of State in PM Modi’s third NDA government.
The lightning success of the grandson of former Congress Chief Minister Beant Singh has left many in the Congress and even the BJP flabbergasted.
Bittu is not just a recent convert to the BJP, his induction into Modi’s Council of Ministers supersedes other party-hoppers who have been around for longer but like him failed to win — from Preneet Kaur, wife of former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, to former state Finance Minister Manpreet Badal as well as the unmissable former diplomat Taranjit…




























