Balkaur Singh will be visited at his home in Moose Wala father village, Mansa, by Congress candidate Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu and opposition leader Pratap Singh Bajwa of Punjab.
The Congress has started actively reaching out in response to rumors that the late singer Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu Moosewala’s father, Balkaur Singh, may run as an independent from Bathinda in the Lok Sabha elections.
On Monday, Balkaur Singh will receive a direct visit from Congress candidate Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu and Leader of the Opposition Pratap Singh Bajwa at his home in Moosa village, Mansa. Another possibility is that the party will give him the Bathinda party ticket.
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In an interview with locals at his home, the late singer’s father—who recently delivered a second son via IVF—made vague mention of entering politics and running for the Lok Sabha.
A close ally of the Moose Wala family, Dr. Manjit Singh Randhawa, had earlier declared that they had managed to convince Balkaur Singh to run as an independent in the Lok Sabha elections.
He said that following the party’s outreach through MLA Pargat Singh before the party’s Central Election Committee meeting on Saturday, the family had notified the Congress high command of his intention to run as an independent.
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Moose Wala had taken the plunge into politics by joining the Congress in December 2021. He unsuccessfully contested the 2022 Punjab assembly elections from Mansa, losing to AAP’s Dr Vijay Singla by a margin of 63,323 votes. The singer was shot dead by six assailants at Jawahar Ke village in Punjab’s Mansa on May 29 last year. Also, Read Kejriwal says ‘My Arrest classic case of how…’ in affidavit to the Supreme Court.
