An individual was injured within the firing on the Congress Lok Sabha candidate Gurjeet Singh Aujla’s rally at Ajnala city close to Amritsar on Saturday, mentioned police. The incident comes a day after Congress candidate Kanhaiya Kumar was assaulted in Delhi.

Gurjeet Singh Aujla, the sitting MP who has been fielded once more from Amritsar, pointed fingers at INDIA bloc companion AAP.

The 51-year-old Congress chief has alleged that AAP candidate Kuldeep Dhaliwal’s relative was behind the firing and has questioned the Election Fee as to why weapons weren’t seized earlier than polls started.

AAP Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal has dismissed the allegations levelled by Congress chief.

“I haven’t got any relative in that space. I learnt that MP Gurjeet Ajula levelled allegations in opposition to me saying that my relative was concerned within the firing incident,” he mentioned.

“I haven’t got any relative in that particular space, I’ve one occasion employee Jarnail Singh who has been working for occasion…I instantly requested the officer to behave in opposition to the youth who was concerned within the firing incident as I learnt that some youth entered right into a brawl, he mentioned additional.

The AAP chief additional mentioned that the occasion does not consider in such “petty politics”.

“I request them to attraction for votes however do not put such blames if they’ve performed any work, present folks and get votes. We being AAP staff do not consider in such petty politics,” he added additional.

Although allies on the nationwide stage, the Congress and AAP are contesting individually for the 13 seats in Punjab. Nevertheless, the 2 companions have a 4:3 (AAP-Congress) seat-sharing pact in Delhi.

“An individual was injured within the firing. It seems to be a case of outdated enmity. The injured are being handled,” mentioned police, including that investigation is underway.

On Friday night, Kanhaiya Kumar, candidate from North East Delhi, was assaulted by seven to eight folks and had black ink thrown at him whereas campaigning within the nationwide capital.

Former Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu, 61, is the BJP candidate from Amritsar.

Voting in Punjab will probably be held on June 1, the seventh part of the marathon six-week Lok Sabha polls.

The Congress bagged eight of the 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab in 2019, bucking the pro-BJP pattern in neighbouring states. The SAD and the BJP, then combating as allies, gained two seats every. The Aam Aadmi Social gathering acquired simply the Sangrur seat then.

The AAP scored a good-looking win within the 2022 meeting polls, successful 92 of the 117 seats. The nationwide occasion is now eyeing a a lot larger chunk of the Lok Sabha pie as effectively.