In Mohali, AAP’s Shergill blows the trumpet of change

Akash Ghai

Tribune News Service

Mohali, February 1

Change is the buzz word that motivates the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidates during the election campaigning and 48-year-old Narinder Singh Shergill, AAP candidate from Mohali, is no exception.

“Punjab wants change, which is also the law of nature. We (AAP) are here for that,” said first-timer Shergill with aplomb. “The Akalis and the Congressmen have been plundering Punjab turn by turn for the past six decades. Now, people can get rid of them by choosing us,” said Shergill.

Shergill, who belongs to Jhingarahan village at Kharar, is an agriculturist and businessman by profession. As the rival candidates are terming him ‘outsider’, Shergill said he was a localite as he belonged to the area.

“Mohali was part of the Kharar constituency just a few years ago,” said Shergill, whose political career had started with his becoming the president of the Students Federation of India during studies at Punjabi University, Patiala, from where he did MA in economics in 1994.

Shergill joined AAP in 2012. “Arvind Kejriwalji gave the country a new direction by launching AAP and I could not stop myself from joining the party,” said Shergill. Shergill’s luck favoured him when party’s senior leader Himmat Singh Shergill (who was earlier given the ticket to contest the Assembly election from Mohali) was asked by the party high command to contest from Majitha.