Rupinder Kaur Ruby reaches out to voters in Malout

Bathinda (Rural) MLA Rupinder Kaur Ruby, who recently switched from the AAP to the Congress, has started moving around the Malout (reserved) Assembly segment, meeting councilors and sarpanches.

On Friday, the 33-year-old legislator attended the District Grievance Redressal Committee’s meeting chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa here. She is even planning to shift her residence from Bathinda to Malout.

“Councillors and sarpanches have assured me their support. Not even a single Congressman has objected to my political activity in the segment,” Ruby said. Asked whether or not Congress’ Malout MLA Ajaib Singh Bhatti had objected to her activities in the segment, she said: “I have met him and he does not have any problem. Moreover, it is the party’s decision to send me to Malout.”

The SAD has already announced former MLA Harpreet Singh Kotbhai, son of late minister Sujan Singh, as its Malout candidate. He has represented the constituency twice in the Vidhan Sabha. The AAP is yet to decide its Malout candidate. Baldev Singh Azad, who had unsuccessfully contested the elections from Malout in 2017 on the AAP ticket, passed away in April 2020. Malout is located near Badal’s home turf Lambi.

Ministers’ effigies burnt in Muktsar, Bathinda

A day after Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and Transport Minister Amrinder Singh Raja Warring was confronted by protesting contractual employees in Muktsar, and both were involved in a heated exchange, the Theka Mulazam Sangharsh Morcha on Saturday burnt their effigies in Muktsar and Bathinda