'Feeling suffocated' in Congress, ex-MLA Mohinder Rinwa to join SAD today
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 13
Congress ex-MLA Mohinder Rinwa from Fazilka will on Thursday join the Shiromani Akali Dal.
Rinwa confirmed he will join the party on Thursday at 2.30 pm in Chandigarh.
SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal will induct him into the party, he said. Rinwa told The Tribune that he was “feeling suffocated” in the Congress.
Rinwa successfully contested Assembly elections from Fazilka in 1992 and 2002. He contested as an Independent candidate in 1992 against his cousin Sneh Lata, daughter of late Cabinet minister Ch Kanshi Ram, and won the election.
He also unsuccessfully contested as the Congress candidate in 1997, 2007 and 2012 and lost to BJP’s Surjit Kumar Jyani.
He was denied the Congress ticket in 2017. He remained as Chief Parliamentary Secretary and Chairman Punjab State Tubewell Corporation.
His son Sidharath Rinwa is presently a member of Zila Parishad from the Congress.
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