New Delhi: Punjab former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh announced that his party is going to contest in the Punjab forthcoming elections with the alliance of BJP. He made the announcement after meeting with the BJP leadership in Delhi on Thursday.

He posted photos hugging Union Minister and BJP’s Punjab in charge Gajendra Singh Shekhawat in twitter. Speaking to the media persons Amarinder Singh said to the reporters that our alliance with BJP is confirmed. Only seat sharing talks are going on. We will see who will contest where our criteria for seat selection is purely win ability. The alliance will definitely, 101 percent win the elections. You can take that in writing, he hoped.

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat revealed in a separate post that it took seven rounds of talks to seal the deal. Former Akali Dal leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa is likely to join the alliance. Amarinder Singh had started talks with the BJP for a partnership in Punjab even before quitting his party of 40 years. He had reportedly named one condition the scrapping of the three farm laws at the core of a yearlong protest by farmers in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and other states.

As the BJP gets into a brand new alliance with Amarinder Singh, it plans to negotiate a senior partner status with a bigger share of seats than the debutant Punjab Lok Congress.