Jailed Khalistan leader Ampritpal Singh to contest polls from Khadoor Sahib Seat
Amritsar: Incarcerated Khalistan leader Amritpal Singh, head of the “Waris Punjab De” group, will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib Constituency. Amritpal will contest as an independent candidate.
Khalistan leader Amritpal’s lawyer, Rajdev Singh Khalsa, announced that the “Waris Punjab De” chief has given his consent to contest the election.
The announcement came after Rajdev met Amritpal in Dibrugarh jail, where Amritpal is in jail under notorious UAPA and National Security Act.
However, Amritpal’s father, Tarsen Singh, has said that he will only confirm the reports of him contesting the election after meeting him on Thursday. He also said that earlier, Amritpal had never expressed his intentions to join politics.
Amritpal, who is a self-proclaimed preacher, was arrested in April last year following a more than month-long manhunt.
