Manpreet Badal's maternal uncle Gurraj Fattanwala passes away

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Updated At : 05:17 PM May 18, 2021 IST

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Muktsar, May 18

Gurraj Singh Fattanwala, maternal uncle of Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal, passed away on Tuesday.

Sources said Gurraj Singh had not been keeping well since a long time. He was admitted to a hospital in Bathinda a few days ago where he breathed his last this morning.

A resident of Muktsar town, Gurraj Singh had unsuccessfully contested the Assembly election as the SAD candidate from Muktsar in 1985. He had lost the election by a narrow margin to former Punjab CM Harcharan Singh Brar’s wife Gurbrinder Kaur.

Gurraj Singh’s father Harchand Singh Fattanwala had remained an MLA from Muktsar in 1980.

His younger son Jagjit Singh Honey Fattanwala had unsuccessfully contested the Assembly election from Muktsar in 2012 as a People’s Party of Punjab (PPP) candidate.

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