File picture of Gaganjot Sandhu.
Gaganjot Sandhu, son of the late former Haryana Agriculture Minister Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, died by suicide on Friday. He shot himself at a farmhouse in Chandigarh.
Gaganjot had gone to Chandigarh earlier this morning. Subsequently, an incident involving gunfire happened on the farmhouse. After receiving the knowledge, the police reached the spot and commenced investigating the matter. The explanations behind the incident will not be but identified.
Gaganjot had served twice because the sarpanch of Gumthala Garhu village in Kurukshetra. His father, Jaswinder Sandhu, was elected MLA from Pehowa 4 instances. He was made Agriculture Minister in Om Prakash Chautala’s authorities. He handed away on 19 January, 2019, on account of liver most cancers.
Jaswinder Sandhu was elected MLA from Pehowa 4 instances
Gaganjot’s father, Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, remained lively in Haryana politics for a very long time. He started his political profession on the grassroots degree. In 1987, throughout Chaudhary Devi Lal’s authorities, he was elected sarpanch of his village, Gumthala Garhu.
He later entered mainstream politics and, in 1991, contested his first election from the Pehowa Meeting constituency on a Lok Dal ticket and received. He was re-elected MLA for a second consecutive time period in 1996.
Essentially the most vital part of Jaswinder Singh Sandhu’s political profession got here in 2000, when he was elected MLA for the third time and was given a key accountability as Agriculture Minister within the Om Prakash Chautala authorities. Nonetheless, he misplaced the 2005 Meeting election to Congress candidate Harmohinder Singh Chatha.
He made a powerful comeback within the 2014 Meeting election, profitable the Pehowa seat for the fourth time. Throughout this era, he was identified with liver most cancers. He died on 19, January, 2019.
