Amritpal Singh, a radical Sikh preacher at the moment lodged in a jail in Assam below the National Security Act, is ready to contest the Lok Sabha elections as an Independent candidate from Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib constituency, as per his authorized counsel. However, his father, Tarsem Singh, reserved remark till after assembly his son, stating that Amritpal had not beforehand expressed any curiosity in politics.
Amritpal Singh’s counsel, Rajdev Singh Khalsa, claimed to have met him in Dibrugarh jail and inspired him to enter the electoral fray. “I met bhai sahab (Amritpal Singh) in Dibrugarh central jail today and during the meeting, I requested bhai sahab that in the interests of ‘Khalsa Panth’, he should fight elections this time from Khadoor Sahib to become a member of parliament. Bhai sahab accepted my request in the Panthic interests. He will fight as an Independent candidate,” claimed Khalsa.
Amritpal Singh was arrested final 12 months
Amritpal Singh, chief of the ‘Waris Punjab De’ outfit, was arrested in April final 12 months and the stringent NSA was invoked in opposition to him. He together with 9 of his associates is at the moment lodged in Dibrugarh jail.
Amritpal Singh, who styled himself after slain Khalistani militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, was arrested in Moga’s Rode village on April 23 final 12 months following a greater than one-month-long manhunt. The Khalistan sympathiser had escaped the police web in Jalandhar district in March final 12 months, switching autos and altering appearances.
Amritpal Singh’s involvement in Ajnala incident
The Punjab Police had launched the crackdown after the February 23 Ajnala incident final 12 months by which Amritpal Singh and his supporters, a few of them brandishing swords and weapons, broke via barricades and barged into the police station on the outskirts of Amritsar metropolis, and clashed with police for the discharge of Lovepreet Singh Toofan, one in all his aides.
He and his associates had been booked below a number of legal circumstances associated to spreading disharmony amongst lessons, makes an attempt to homicide, assaults on police personnel and creating obstructions within the lawful discharge of obligation by public servants.
(With inputs from PTI)
