chandigarhUpdated: Jan 27, 2020 15:20 ISTBATALA: Jasbir Singh, 35, a supporter of Shri Hargobindpur Sahib Congress MLA Balwinder Singh Laddi, was shot dead at Harpura village in Batala tehsil on Monday. Batala senior superintendent of police Opinderjeet Singh Ghuman said that Jasbir had an old rivalry with Raja, the son of Mukhtiar Singh of the village. On November 19, 2019, a two-time former Akali sarpanch and vice-president of the district Shiromani Akali Dal committee, Dalbir Singh Dhilwan, was shot dead at Dhilwan village in Gurdaspur district. On January 2, the husband of a SAD sarpanch from Umarpura village in Majithia constituency of Amritsar district was shot dead by three motorcycle-borne youngsters. Gurdeep Singh, a former sarpanch, whose wife Gurjit Kaur is Umarpura’s present sarpanch, was shot dead when he was returning home after paying obeisance at the village gurdwara.

Source: Hindustan Times January 27, 2020 09:25 UTC