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Police on Thursday removed a ‘morcha’ from Bargari village in Faridkot district hours after it was started by the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) over the Punjab government’s alleged failure to arrest those responsible for the 2015 sacrilege and subsequent police firing incidents. Police removing a protester from the protest site at Bargari in Faridkot district on Thursday. SAD (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann, who started the morcha at 1pm, was arrested along with 40 of his supporters three hours later. A case was registered against Mann and others under section 188 (disobeying orders promulgated by a public servant) and 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of a dangerous disease) of the Indian Penal Code, section 51 of the Disaster Management Act and section 3 of the Epidemic Disease Act at the Bajakhana police station. Later, they were released on bail. Earlier, Mann was stopped by the police in Faridkot city when he started a march to Bargari. Faridkot deputy commissioner Vimal Kumar Setia tried to persuade Mann, appealing him not to start the morcha but he refused. On June 1, marking the sixth anniversary of the sacrilege incident at Burj Jawahar Singh Wala village, Mann and Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (ad hoc) president Baljit Singh Daduwal had announced to start a morcha from July 1 if the Punjab government failed to arrest those responsible for the sacrilege and police firing incidents. “The state government has failed arrest people ...

Premium Newsmaker | Sangrur victor Simranjit Mann: SAD(A) chief who had last laugh on Bhagwant Mann turf Pushed to the margins of Punjab’s mainstream politics for over two-and-half decades, the 77-year-old pro-Khalistan leader and ex-IPS officer Simranjit Singh Mann’s stunning win is likely to boost the Panthic politics in the border state. Dealing a severe blow to the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab, the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president, Simranjit Singh Mann, emerged as the victor Sunday in the crucial bypoll in the Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency, the bastion of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, defeating AAP candidate Gurmail Singh in a neck-and-neck fight. The bypoll was necessitated when the incumbent Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann resigned from the seat after becoming the CM in March following the AAP’s landslide victory in the state Assembly elections. It was considered to be the first test of the fledgling Mann-led AAP government’s popularity. Pushed to the margins of Punjab’s mainstream politics for over two-and-half decades, the 77-year-old pro-Khalistan leader and ex-IPS officer Simranjit Singh Mann’s stunning win is likely to boost the Panthic politics in the border state. In its campaign for the Sangrur bypoll, the Sukhbir Badal-led Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) had also played the Panthic card and fielded Kamaldeep Kaur, sister of Balwant Singh Rajoana, the ex-CM Beant Singh’s assassination convict lodged in jail, while making the release of the Sikh prison...

Simranjit Singh Mann is an Indian politician and member of the political party Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar). Mann is a three-time MP; he was elected as MP from Taran Tarn in 1989 and as MP from Sangrur in 1999 and 2022. He is a former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the 1967 batch of Punjab Cadre. He is known to be a prominent Khalistan advocate who made headlines in 2015 for calling Sarbat Khalsa, a controversial assembly that endorsed the creation of a separate Sikh country called Khalistan. His party, SAD (A), is well known for promoting the ideologue of Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Wiki/Biography Simranjit Singh Mann was born on Sunday, 20 May 1945 ( age 78 years; as of 2023) in Simla, Punjab, British India (now Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India). His native village is Talanian in Punjab. He was residing with his family in Simla during the Partition of India in 1947. He completed his schooling at Bishop Cotton School, Simla in 1962. Studying at the convent school, he acquired a fondness for romantic poets like Homer, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth. However, his westernised upbringing was tempered by his religious mother, Gurbachan Kaur, who had a penchant for listening to parables of the Sikh gurus at home. He earned a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in History from a government college in Chandigarh, affiliated with Panjab University; he was a gold medalist. [1] Physical Appearance Height (approx.): 6′ Ha...

The 77-year-old said he would raise the issues of "Indian Army's atrocities in Kashmir" in Parliament. Mann also said he would also flag the "killing of tribal people in Bihar and Chhattisgarh calling them Naxalites". Expressing concern over his win, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala tweeted, "Punjab can't be pushed back in the blind alley of violence and terrorism. If what is reported is true, Democracy lost today in Sangrur.” “The Sikh community is very upset with the death of Deep Singh Sidhu and Sidhu Moose Wala and now the Indian government will not behave in the same way that it is behaving with the Muslims, like their localities are being questioned, like the Indian Army is committing atrocities in Kashmir and killing Muslims on a daily basis," he was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

• Simranjit Singh Mann is the president of the political party Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar). • He cracked the Central Civil Services Examination in 1966. • He resigned from Indian Police Service on June 18, 1984. New Delhi: Simranjit Singh Mann of Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) defeated Aam Admi Party’s (APP) Gurmail Singh in Punjab’s Sangrur bypoll by 5,822 votes on Sunday. This comes as a major setback for the ruling party in the state as Sangrur is considered to be the home turf of Chief Minister and AAP leader Bhagwant Singh Mann. Simranjit Mann, a soft-separatist, was first elected to the Lok Sabha from Tarn Taran in 1989. Here in this article, we will share with you the career and other details of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Simranjit Singh Mann who comes from a military-political background and also served as a police officer in Punjab. Early Life and education Simranjit Singh Mann was born to Lt Col Joginder Singh Mann (who was also a speaker of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha in 1967) and Gurbachan Kaur in Shimla on May 20, 1945. He studied at the Bishop Cotton School, Shimla and Government College Chandigarh. It is interesting to note that he was a gold medalist in the subjects of History, Punjabi, Religion and Political Science. Career Simranjit Singh Mann cracked the Central Civil Services Examination in 1966 and joined the Indian Police Service in 1967. He was in the Punjab Cadre and served as ASP Ludhiana, SSP Ferozepur, SSP Faridkot, AIG GRP Punjab-Patiala di...

• • • • Who Is Simranjit Singh Mann, The Khalistan Advocate Who Won Sangrur Lok Sabha By-Poll Who Is Simranjit Singh Mann, The Khalistan Advocate Who Won Sangrur Lok Sabha By-Poll Dubbed 'Budda Jarnail' by some of his critics, 77-year-old former IPS officer Mann had recently insisted that he may have grown old but couldn't be written off just yet, and his assertion proved prophetic on Sunday. Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president and Khalistan ideologue Simranjit Singh Mann Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has lost Punjab’s Sangrur parliamentary constituency, vacated by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, to Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president and Khalistan ideologue Simranjit Singh Mann, marking his first electoral victory in 23 years. Dubbed ‘Budda Jarnail’ by some of his critics, 77-year-old former IPS officer Mann had recently insisted that he may have grown old but couldn’t be written off just yet, and his assertion proved prophetic on Sunday. Mann defeated his nearest rival, AAP’s Gurmail Singh, by a margin of 5,822 votes, dealing a big blow to the ruling party of Punjab which had registered a landslide win in the state polls three months ago and was hoping to retain the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat for the third time. Incidentally, Mann’s last election win in 1999 was also from the Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency. Mann also thanked the voters for his victory, and said, “I am grateful to the voters of Sangrur for having elected me as their representative in Parliamen...