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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