Chandigarh, May 14 -- They are former bureaucrats, good friends and now pitted against each other in the political arena. While 1981batch Madhya Pradesh-cadre retired IAS officer Amar Singh is the Congress candidate for Fatehgarh Sahib (reserved) Lok Sabha seat, 1980-batch Punjab-cadre former civil servant Darbara Singh Guru is the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) nominee.
Guru has lost two assembly elections in 2012 and 2017, while it is Amar Singh's first ever electoral foray. Guru is representing a party that is facing public disenchantment over the sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib in 2015 when the SAD-BJP government, and he is hoping that the 'third time lucky' phrase holds true for him.
His opponent doctor-turnedbureaucrat-turned-politician ...