Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Jailed Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh will contest the Lok Sabha Elections from Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib seat as an Independent candidate, his mother Balwinder Kaur confirmed on Friday (April 26). She stated that her son has agreed to enter the fray. All 13 Lok Sabha constituencies in Punjab will go to polls within the final section of the seven-phased common elections on June 1. The votes shall be counted on June 4.
Earlier on Wednesday, Amritpal Singh’s authorized counsel Rajdev Singh Khalsa had claimed that the ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief would contest the elections.
Mother confirms Amritpal’s candidature
Speaking to the media on Friday, Balwinder Kaur stated Amritpal has agreed to contest the election.
Amritpal Sing, who has been slapped with stringent National Security Act (NSA), was arrested in April final 12 months in Moga. He, together with 9 of his associates, is presently lodged within the Dibrugarh jail in Assam.
He was arrested in Moga’s Rode village on April 23 final 12 months following an over one-month-long manhunt.
The Khalistan sympathiser had escaped the police internet in Jalandhar district in March 2023, switching automobiles and altering appearances.
The Punjab Police had launched a crackdown after the February 23 Ajnala incident final 12 months wherein Amritpal Singh and his supporters, a few of them brandishing swords and weapons, broke by means of barricades and barged into the police station on the outskirts of Amritsar metropolis, and clashed with police for the discharge of considered one of his aides Lovepreet Singh Toofan.
I don’t think about myself citizen of India: Amritpal Singh
In an interview with information company ANI in February final 12 months, Amritpal had stated that he does “not” think about himself a citizen of India and had known as the passport merely a “travel document” stating that it doesn’t make him an Indian.
“Militancy is not something that I am able to start. Nobody can start or end militancy. Militancy is a very natural phenomenon. It happens after a long period of suppression anywhere. Is militancy a constructive thing to start? I can order someone to start militancy, it does not happen like that. There is a peaceful protest. When Amit Shah said that he will suppress things, I said there will be consequences. It’s not just about Indira Gandhi’s murder as consequence. It’s not a threat to Home Minister. I would say is a threat to us. What options do we have when there are legal binaries in India? I don’t consider myself a citizen of India. I just have a passport, which does not make me Indian. It’s a travel document,” he had stated.
Amritpal Singh, who is taken into account to be a radical preacher and sympathiser of Khalistan separatist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, had stated that calling him a “terrorist is terrorism” itself and added that he works for the folks of Punjab and has an affect on the youth “not for wrong, but for right reasons”.
(With inputs from businesses)
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