New Delhi: The Congress on Friday named Gurjit Singh Aujla as its candidate for the by-election from the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat in Punjab. The election is due on February 4.

Captain Amarinder Singh, who won the seat in 2014, vacated it last year to contest the assembly elections.


Aujla, President of the Amritsar District Congress Committee (Rural), had worked for Captain Amarinder in 2014.-Agency