Separatist Amritpal Singh is set to contest as Independent candidate from Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha seat

Waris Punjab De head & Separatist Amritpal Singh is set to contest Lok Sabha elections as independent candidate from Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha seat.

Amritpal Singh is locked up at Dibrugarh jail in Assam under the National Security Act. His lawyer said “I requested bhai sahab that in the interest of ‘Khalsa Panth’ he should contest elections. He has confirmed to me he’ll contest elections”

Amritpal Singh, chief of the ‘Waris Punjab De’ outfit, was arrested in April last year and the stringent NSA was invoked against him. He along with nine of his associates is currently lodged in Dibrugarh jail.

Amritpal Singh, who styled himself after slain Khalistani militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, was arrested in Moga’s Rode village on April 23 last year following a more than one-month-long manhunt.

The Khalistan sympathiser had escaped the police net in Jalandhar district in March last year, switching vehicles and changing appearances.

The Punjab Police had launched the crackdown after the

February 23 Ajnala incident last year in which Amritpal Singh and his supporters, some of them brandishing swords and guns, broke through barricades and barged into the police station on the outskirts of Amritsar city, and clashed with police for the release of Lovepreet Singh Toofan, one of his aides.

He and his associates had been booked under several criminal cases related to spreading disharmony among classes, attempts to murder, attacks on police personnel and creating obstructions in the lawful discharge of duty by public servants.