Radical Sikh preacher and Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh is about to battle the Lok Sabha elections from Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib seat as an unbiased candidate, his counsel claimed on Wednesday, as reported by information company PTI. Singh is at present lodged in a jail in Assam underneath the Nationwide Safety Act. Nevertheless, his father, Tarsem Singh, mentioned that he would touch upon the matter solely after assembly his son on Thursday.
Singh’s father asserted that Amritpal had earlier not proven any curiosity in becoming a member of politics. In keeping with PTI, Amritpal Singh’s authorized counsel, Rajdev Singh Khalsa, claimed that he met the preacher in Dibrugarh jail on Wednesday and requested him to contest the polls. “I met bhai sahab (Amritpal Singh) in Dibrugarh central jail in the present day, and in the course of the assembly, I requested bhai sahab that, within the pursuits of ‘Khalsa Panth’, he ought to battle elections this time from Khadoor Sahib to change into a member of parliament,” Rajdev Singh Khalsa mentioned, as quoted by PTI. “Bhai sahab accepted my request within the Panthic pursuits… He’ll battle as an Impartial candidate,” Khalsa mentioned.
Amritpal Singh was arrested in April final yr and the stringent NSA was invoked in opposition to him. He together with 9 of his associates is at present lodged in Dibrugarh jail. Singh was arrested in Moga’s Rode village on April 23 final yr following a greater than one-month-long manhunt. The Khalistan sympathiser had escaped the police web in Jalandhar district in March final yr, switching automobiles and altering appearances.
Final yr, the Punjab Police launched the crackdown after the February 23 Ajnala incident 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 Lovepreet Singh Toofan, one among his aides. He and his associates had been booked underneath a number of prison instances 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, as reported by PTI.