Father vs son, brother vs brother
After the Congress selected Sukhpal, however, Anoop aforesaid neither he nor his father would support Sukhpal.
Sukhpal Singh Bhullar is rejoicing — he has bagged the Congress price tag to contest the Punjab Assembly elections from Khem Karan. And in Sukhpal’s moment of joy, among the unhappiest area unit in all
probability his father and brother. in a very political culture wherever fathers typically lobby for price tags for his or her sons — or vacate their seats for them — the battle for the Khem Karan ticket was uncommon. Congress veteran Gurchet Singh Bhullar visited the extent of writing to his party president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi urging them to convey the price tag to him, and to not either of his 2 sons, Sukhpal and Anoop.
Gurchet, a 75-year-old wander MLA World Health Organization was a minister within the government of Chief Minister Beant Singh back in 1995, complained to the Congress leadership a few “personal dispute between my 2 sons”, Sukhpal Singh Bhullar and Anoop Singh Bhullar.
“Each one is attempting to induce Congress price tag in my furthermore as different constituencies,” the senior Bhullar wrote in his letter last week. “My humble submission is that giving tickets to anyone of them can divide the general public support and positively the party are missing a golden probability to win Khem Karan body. As a fruitful resolution to the current dispute, the party price tag could kindly incline to Maine. on behalf of me the party interest is that the foremost priority instead of personal aspirations of my sons.”
Gurchet Bhullar lost the Assembly elections in 2007 and 2012. Sukhpal is president of the lake Taran district Congress committee.
On his half, Anoop too wrote a letter — telling Sonia and Rahul that his brother Sukhpal had a “tainted past”.
“He (Sukhpal) had been served a show notice by ex-Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa for allegedly promising authorized flower husk and narcotic vends and permitting unauthorised liquor distillation for private consumption throughout a public rally. this can be in contradiction to Congress party’s ideology that is usually committed to destruction of medicine scourge. If such persons area unit created face of the party then there's no distinction between U.S.A. and therefore the incumbent party in Punjab (SAD),” Anoop wrote.
He additionally claimed that Sukhpal had attended a public operate to pay tributes to the assassins of Indira Nehru Gandhi, and hooked up newspaper clippings to back his allegation.
Before Sukhpal got the price tag, Anoop had told The Sunday Express: “My father has been contesting elections since 1992. he's absolutely mentally and physically match. there's a dispute between Maine and my brother. He neither goes to the body nor has done any work there. we've met all Congress leaders and told them that there's a dispute within the family and therefore the price tag ought to incline to my father. If he's given the price tag, the family dispute would be settled. we have a tendency to each can work for him.”
After the Congress selected Sukhpal, however, Anoop same neither he nor his father would support Sukhpal. He additionally failed to rule out the likelihood of Gurchet Bhullar contesting as associate degree freelance candidate. “It will happen… Let the individuals of the body decide,” he said.
Sukhpal, on the opposite hand, same he had been in politics since 1998, been a national officebearer and state vice-president of the Youth Congress, and was carrying forward his family’s political inheritance. The family had determined as early as in 2012 that his father would contest the Assembly elections “that time”, and “I would be the candidate in 2017,” Sukhpal claimed.
Anoop,Sukhpal same, had “suddenly started showing interest in politics within the last two-three years”.
“My father cannot differentiate between his sons. due to that I started that specialize in the lake Taran seat. however some months past, my family determined that it'd contest from Khem Karan, and it absolutely was up to the Congress supreme headquarters to settle on one person from the family… currently the supreme headquarters has determined, and therefore the call ought to be accepted graciously,” he said.
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