In 2019, he was the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate (file photo)

Amritsar:

A relative of one of the assassins of late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is contesting the Assembly elections in Punjab as an independent from Faridkot (reserved) constituency.

Sarabjit Singh Khalsa (45), a Class XII dropout, is the son of Beant Singh, one of the two killers of the late prime minister.

Sarabjit Singh Khalsa won the Lok Sabha polls from Fatehgarh Sahib (reserved) and Bathinda seats in 2014 and 2009 respectively. Campaign failed under investigation.

In 2019, he was the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate.

On October 31, 1984, Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, bodyguards of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, shot her at her residence.

In 2014, Sarabjit Singh Khalsa declared assets of Rs 35 crore in his election affidavit.

His mother Bimal Kaur and grandfather Sucha Singh became Ropar and Bathinda MPs respectively in 1989.

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