{"id":348558,"date":"2024-04-26T08:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T13:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=348558"},"modified":"2024-04-26T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T03:06:00","slug":"amritpal-singh-to-contest-lok-sabha-elections-from-khadoor-sahiab-as-a-independent-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/amritpal-singh-to-contest-lok-sabha-elections-from-khadoor-sahiab-as-a-independent-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Amritpal Singh to contest Lok Sabha elections from Khadoor Sahiab as a independent candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/04\/Amritpal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-348559\" width=\"415\" height=\"232\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amritsar:  Balwinder Kaur mother of Waris Punjab De (outfit) Head, &nbsp;Amritpal Singh here today confirmed that her son would contest Parliament elections from the Khadoor Sahib Constituency.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Talking to the media here today, Kaur&nbsp; said that her son has agreed to contest election as an independent candidate from the Kahdoor Sahib Lok Sabha seat.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>However, Amritpal Singh presently lodged in Dibrugarh jail in Assam under the (NSA) National Security Act, after his arrest by the Punjab police last year.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Earlier, Amritpal\u2019s counsel Rajdev Singh Khalsa had said &nbsp;that he would contest as an Independent from the Khadoor Sahib seat but family members were reluctant to confirm it.&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amritsar: Balwinder Kaur mother of Waris Punjab De (outfit) Head, &nbsp;Amritpal Singh here today confirmed that her son would contest Parliament elections from the Khadoor Sahib Constituency. Talking to the media here today, Kaur&nbsp; said that her son has agreed to contest election as an independent candidate from the Kahdoor Sahib Lok Sabha seat. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":348559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[16641,18151,17378,16551,16552],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348558"}],"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=348558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348563,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348558\/revisions\/348563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/348559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}