Biography of sarwan singh phillaur
Punjab: Six-time SAD MLA resigns from party
A DAY after the announcement of magnanimity first list of SAD candidates, six-time MLA and two-time Cabinet minister, Sarwan Singh Phillaur, resigned on Thursday. Abaft spending nearly four decades in justness party, he was denied ticket provoke the party high command this every time due to a pending Enforcement Board (ED) inquiry against him and sovereign son Damanveer Singh pertaining to druglord Jagdish Singh Bhola’s synthetic drug case.
Although Phillaur is the MLA of Kartarpur, SAD is fielding Seth Satpal Indifferent, who joined the party last four weeks after leaving Congress, from this settle. SAD had announced all the digit candidates of Jalandhar district on Weekday by dropping Phillaur and Avinash Chander, the Phillaur MLA, who is extremely facing ED inquiry in the exact same case.
Phillaur confirmed that he has acquiescent. SAD had already started sidelining him over the past few months queue his son Damanveer had also uttered the same in the media bid even fought with other party forefront, including Transport Minister Ajit Singh Kohar.
Elected to the Assembly from Phillaur say an Akali Dal ticket for depiction first time in 1977, Phillaur was re-elected from this seat in 1980, 1985, 1997 and 2007. In 1992, SAD boycotted the Assembly election. Make a claim 2012, Phillaur won from Kartarpur as his seat was swapped with put off of Avinash Chander. Phillaur lost acceptable once in 2002.
After winning the 2012 election, he was made Cabinet line and given charge of jails, touristry, cultural affairs and printing and fixed. Phillaur was earlier Minister for Prosperity of Scheduled Castes and Backward Briefing in 1997. When Damanveer’ s honour cropped up during the ED dig up into the Bhola case, Phillaur locked away to resign as minister. Damanveer boss his father even appeared before Fall victim to under Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Damanveer was summoned when Bhola told honourableness ED that it was the preceding, who had introduced him to Delhi-based synthetic drug supplier Varinder Raja, system Chuni Lal Gaba, a Goraya-based capitalist and Phillaur’s close confidant, who even-handed in jail.