Biography of sarwan singh phillaur

  • Sarwan Singh Phillaur is an Indian politician who born in Ravidassia family.
  • Sarwan Singh Phillaur is an Indian politician who born in Ravidassia family.
  • Sarwan Singh Phillaur.

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    Tribune News Service

    Chandigarh, November 18

    Sarwan Singh Phillaur joined the Congress on Friday, a day after he resigned from the Shiromani Akali Dal for having been denied a ticket to fight next year’s Assembly elections.

    The leader claimed he felt victimised in SAD for being a Dalit leader and that his former party had been taken over bygd “dacoits and cheats” and “lost its principles”.  

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    Phillaur, a Member of Legislative Assembly from Kartarpur, . He was former jail minister but was removed from his position after he and his son Damanvir Singh’s name cropped up in the drug racket. His close proximity to Goraya-based businessman Chunni lal Gaba also proved to be a costly affair.

    Phillaur was instrumental in winning the Congress-dominated Kartarpur seat for SAD in 2012. He had earlier contested from Phillaur and remained its MLA for four times.

    Punjab is scheduled to vote for Assembly elections

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    Punjab: Ex-minister Sarwan Phillaur and son join SAD (Sanyukt)

    Punjab former minister Sarwan Singh Phillaur and his son Damanvir Phillaur join Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt), in Mohali on Monday.
    CHANDIGARH: In another jolt to the incumbent Congressin Punjab, former jails minister Sarwan Singh Phillaur and his son Damanvir Singh quit the party on Monday and joined the Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt).
    A six-time MLA, Phillaur, who is a prominent face in the Doaba region, joined the SAD(Sanyukt) in the presence of party president and Rajya Sabha member Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa in Mohali.He was earlier with the Shiromani Akali Dal and had left it to join the Congress in 2016. Phillaur had resigned as cabinet minister in the SAD-BJP government on ‘moral grounds’ in May 2014 after his son’s name had cropped up in the multi-crore Bhola drug racket on the allegations of money laundering.
    The Mohali CBI court had in October 2018 framed charges against Phillaur, his son Damanvir and other

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    Assets of ex-minister Sarwan Singh Phillaur attached

    JALANDHAR: Enforcement Directorate(ED) has ordered provisional attachment of properties of former Shiromani Akali Dalminister Sarwan Singh Phillaur, his son Damanvir Singh Phillaur and former SAD chief parliamentary secretary (CPS) Avinash Chander and seven others beneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in connection with the multi-crore synthetic drug racket case.
    The biggest provisional attachment is of the Rs 55.54 crore worth properties of Amritsar-based businessman Jagjit Singh Chahal and his kin.Phillaur attached property is worth Rs 14.37 lakh, while those owned by his son amount to over Rs 4.72 crore and Avinash Chander's immovable properties are worth Rs 55.45 lakh.
    An ED statement said investigations revealed that proceeds of the crime derived from the cash-rich drug business had been laundered in movable and immovable properties consequent to which ED issued order for provisional attachment on March 31.