{"id":348346,"date":"2024-04-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=348346"},"modified":"2024-04-11T07:44:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T13:14:38","slug":"son-of-beant-singh-who-assassinated-indira-gandhi-contesting-from-punjabs-faridkot-lok-sabha-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/son-of-beant-singh-who-assassinated-indira-gandhi-contesting-from-punjabs-faridkot-lok-sabha-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of Beant Singh who assassinated Indira Gandhi, contesting from Punjab\u2019s Faridkot Lok Sabha seat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/04\/Beant-singh-son.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-348347\" width=\"350\" height=\"286\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chandigarh: \u00a0A relative of one of the assassins of late Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, is contesting the parliamentary elections in Punjab from the Faridkot (Reserved) constituency as an Independent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Class XII dropout, Sarabjit Singh Khalsa (45) is the son of Beant Singh, one of the two killers of the late Prime Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2014 and 2009, Sarabjit Singh Khalsa unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha polls from the Fatehgarh Sahib (Reserved) and Bathinda seats, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, he was the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, bodyguards of then PM Indira Gandhi, had riddled her with bullets on October 31, 1984 at her residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2014, Sarabjit Singh Khalsa had declared assets to the tune of Rs 3.5 crore in the election affidavit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His mother, Bimal Kaur, and his grandfather, Sucha Singh, became MPs from Ropar and Bathinda, respectively, in 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh: \u00a0A relative of one of the assassins of late Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, is contesting the parliamentary elections in Punjab from the Faridkot (Reserved) constituency as an Independent. A Class XII dropout, Sarabjit Singh Khalsa (45) is the son of Beant Singh, one of the two killers of the late Prime Minister. In 2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":348347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[18092,18093,17378],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348348,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348346\/revisions\/348348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/348347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}