Kulwant Singh Rauke, Bhagwant Singh ‘Bajeke’ and Daljeet Singh Kalsi plan to contest from Barnala, Gidderbaha and Dera Baba Nanak. All are lodged in an Assam jail with Amritpal.
Amritpal Singh won from Khadoor Sahib by biggest margin this election in Punjab & Beant Singh's son Khalsa won in Faridkot. But, Simranjit Singh Mann lost his Sangrur seat.
Amritpal is leading in Khadoor Sahib, while Sarabjit Khalsa is leading in the Faridkot seat in Punjab. Engineer Rashid looks set to beat former CM Omar Abdullah in Baramulla in J&K.
Radicalism is back in Punjab, especially in zones where Sikhs form a large rural majority, and three of the five prominent political forces in this election are playing with it.
Amritpal's 10-point manifesto include end of drug culture & extortions, justice in sacrilege cases, struggle for release of Bandi Singhs. His parents are campaigning on his behalf.
Akali leader adds that BJP has reached a point where it only wants to win. Punjab has no space for militancy & people are nationalists & want peace, he asserts.
Amritpal Singh, who filed his nomination papers from Dibrugarh jail in Assam last week, is set to contest the Lok Sabha polls as an Independent from Khadoor Sahib in Punjab.
From his association with Akali Dal to AAP & BJP, Khalsa has a complex political tapestry. His association with Amritpal began after the latter returned from Dubai in 2022.
Calling it a preventive arrest, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Alam Vijay Singh said that Balwinder Kaur, the mother of Amritpal has been sent to judicial custody.
One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.
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