Biography of sarwan singh phillaur resigns
Biography of sarwan singh phillaur resigns
Son in drug trade row, Punjab jails minister resigns | India ......
Ex-minister Phillaur quits SAD, likely to join Congress
In a jolt to the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), six-time MLA and former minister Sarwan Singh Phillaur has resigned from the party and also as legislator after he was denied ticket from his Kartarpur constituency in the first list of party candidates released on Wednesday.
Sources in the Congress told HT that Phillaur is likely to join the party on Friday in the presence of its state chief Captain Amarinder Singh in Chandigarh.
He has been in touch with the Congress for the past few days.
Phillaur, who had to resign as tourism and jails minister in April 2014 after his son Damanvir Singh’s name cropped up in the Bhola drug case, has been sidelined in SAD for the past two years.
He was also summoned and quizzed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the drug case twice because of his alleged “business association” with Goraya-based businessman Chunni Lal Gaba, whose properties worth more than `100 crore were attache