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SAD fields Bibi Jagir Kaur’s son-in-law from Bholath

JALANDHAR: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today named Yuvraj Bhupinder Singh (41), son-in-law of sitting MLA and former SGPC chief Bibi Jagir Kaur, as the party candidate from Bholath.

SAD fields Bibi Jagir Kaur’s son-in-law from Bholath

Yuvraj Bhupinder Singh



Deepkamal Kaur

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, January 2

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today named Yuvraj Bhupinder Singh (41), son-in-law of sitting MLA and former SGPC chief Bibi Jagir Kaur, as the party candidate from Bholath.

The party had withheld the candidature due to an appeal filed by Jagir Kaur in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, seeking stay on her conviction in the case of her daughter Harpreet Kaur’s death.

Holding her guilty of forcible abortion, kidnapping and criminal conspiracy, the CBI special court had sentenced her to five years’ rigorous imprisonment in 2012, soon after she had taken oath as a minister following her victory in the Assembly elections. After her conviction and sentence, she was removed from the ministry and lodged in Kapurthala jail.

The hearing of her appeal was being put off for the past few months, the next date being January 10.

Son of a retired Army Subedar from Raipur Peer Baksh Wala village in Bholath constituency, Yuvraj was a nonentity till he got married to Jagir Kaur’s younger daughter Rajneet Kaur. He is a member of the core committee of the Youth Akali Dal leader and the chairman of the Kapurthala Zila Parishad. He also works as the manager of the dera of Jagir Kaur’s father-in-law Sant Prem Singh Murarewale at Begowal.

Earlier called Bhinda, it was Bibi who reportedly named him Yuvraj Bhupinder. “Having faced problems by opposing the marriage of her elder daughter, Bibi readily agreed to accept her younger daughter Rajneet Kaur’s lover as her son-in-law. Yuvraj has been staying at the dera since their marriage in 2003,” said residents of Begowal town.

Jagir Kaur had contested the past four elections from Bholath, all against Sukhpal Khaira, who was then in the Congress. She lost to him only in 2007. While Khaira is now the AAP candidate, the Congress ticket has gone to ex-MLA Gurbinder Atwal.

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Chandigarh: The SAD named industrialist Hari Singh of Preet Tractors as the candidate from Dhuri. The party has now announced 88 nominees. It is yet to name candidates for six seats: Lambi, Jalalabad, Patiala Urban, Mohali, Kharar, and Amritsar South. — TNS

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