The sister of slain gangster-turned-politician Jaswinder Singh ‘Rocky’, Rajdeep Kaur, on Wednesday joined the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in Fazilka.
“Akali Dal is the only party in Punjab that works for people from downtrodden families,” said 43-year-old Rajdeep after joining the party at its poll khol rally.
Rajdeep, in 2017 polls, had reportedly tried to secure a Congress party ticket from Fazilka assembly segment. But the party fielded estranged Akali MP Sher Singh Ghubaya’s son Davinder Singh Ghubaya, and Rajdeep decided to contest February polls as an independent and managed to get more than 38,000 votes.
Her brother, Jaswinder Singh ‘Rocky’, a 39-year-old gangster-turned-politician was murdered in Parwanoo in Himachal Pradesh in 2016.Rocky was booked in no less than 23 cases, including murder, and had been acquitted in 18.
Later, wanting to become a politician, he hobnobbed across parties. In 2012 polls, he managed to secure over 39,000 votes as an independent candidate, but lost to BJP’s Surjit Kumar Jyani by a margin of 1,600 votes from his native town of Fazilka.