India, May 27 -- What makes Amritsar difficult for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)? The city that's home to the Golden Temple has made it a habit of rejecting some of the best talent the party has had on offer since 2014.
The late Arun Jaitley, arguably, the BJP's most gifted parliamentarian, legal mind and political strategist in Narendra Modi's first term as Prime Minister failed to pass muster in Amritsar even in the wave election that swept his party to power. He rose to be the finance minister in the new government at the Centre.
The winner then was Capt. Amarinder Singh, who became the Congress's deputy leader in Parliament's Lower House Jaitley couldn't enter. More interested in his party's captaincy in Punjab, the scion of the Pa...