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The bypoll was necessitated because of the demise of sitting Congress MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary, who suffered a fatal cardiac arrest while walking along with former Congress president Rahul Gandhi during the Punjab leg of the latter's Bharat Jodo Yatra in January this year.

A curtain raiser to 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Jalandhar by-polls would not only decide the fate of AAP, Congress, BJP and the SAD-BSP alliance, but also the tone of campaigns that lie ahead.

PNS/   Days after pro-Khalistan Sikh preacher and ‘Waris Punjab De’ head Amritpal Singh was arrested from Moga in Punjab and sent to Dibrugarh jail in Assam, his parents met him on Thursday. Amritpal’s parents were part of the delegation of family members of eight other detainees of

Amritpal Singh and nine of his associates from Punjab, who were booked under the National Security Act (NSA), are lodged in Dibrugarh Central Jail after their arrest.

With Amritpal Singh’s arrest, another chapter on Punjab’s unsettled socio-political milieu has written itself. The people of Punjab were quicker to see through Amritpal than the media and the politicians who sought to make the pretender bigger than his actual abilities and fanned his rapid rise

The 29-year-old Khalistan sympathiser was detained under the stringent NSA and flown to Assam on a special flight to be lodged at the Dibrugarh Central Jail

The pro-Khalistan preacher was arrested by the Punjab Police in the Moga district on Sunday and sent to a jail in Assam after being on the run for more than a month.

AAP lost the first big parliamentary election in Bhagwant Mann's seat almost immediately after sweeping to power in the assembly polls last year. It is keen to not lose out again in Jalandhar. It has been struggling to just get into the conversation around the byp-oll due soon.

In the absence of direct evidence linking him to Pakistan or foreign funding, Amritpal Singh’s speeches on social media and otherwise have become the main grounds on which the National Security Act has been invoked against him.

Along with the SAD (Amritsar) president, Kattu too had spent an entire day at Talwandi Sabo on Friday to cash in on the mass gathering on account of Baisakhi mela.