Punjab Assembly polls: Setback for Congress as MP’s brother joins SAD(B)
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Harpinder Singh Rajan Gill, brother of Congress MP from Khadoor Sahib Jasbir Singh Dimpa, joined SAD(B) in presence of party president Sukhbir Singh Badal and Bikram Singh Majithia.
Amritsar: Politics makes strange bedfellows and this happened in the Punjab polity after the brother of a Congress Member of Parliament not only joined hands with Shiromani Akali Dal - Badal SAD(B) but also publicly announced to motivate the MP to join Akalis.
On Wednesday, Harpinder Singh Rajan Gill, a staunch Congress activist and brother of Congress MP from Khadoor Sahib Jasbir Singh Dimpa joined SAD(B) in presence of party president Sukhbir Singh Badal and Bikram Singh Majithia, an all-powerful former minister and brother in law of Sukhbir Singh Badal.
Rajan Gill was an aspirant of Congress party’s ticket from Khadoor Sahib assembly constituency but the party chose to nominate the sitting MLA Ramanjit Singh Sikki. In a show of protest and hope of replacing Sikki with him by party high command, Rajan Gill filed his nomination papers as a Congress candidate from Khadoor Sahib on his own but his papers were rejected during the scrutiny.
