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AAP’s Jassi found guilty of dual votes
Megha Mann
Tribune News Service

Bathinda, April 23
The Mohali District Election Office has indicted Aam Aadmi Party candidate from the Bathinda seat and Punjabi singer Jasraj Singh Longia, also known as Jassi Jasraj, for having enrolled himself as voter at two places under different names. Jasraj faces a criminal case for dual votes. In his complaint to Returning Officer Kamal Kishore Yadav, Pradeep Singh Sidhu from Rampura had alleged that Longia had enrolled himself as voter at two places in his home district of Mohali. Jassi’s confidant Ram Singh Azad has announced support for the Congress-PPP-CPI candidate from Bathinda, Manpreet Badal. He alleged that a TV channel, known to be owned by the Akalis, had been giving Jassi a lot of air time to ensure that the anti-incumbency votes went to AAP and not Manpreet. The AAP candidate is enrolled as voter serial number 995, part 221, Mohali, under the name of Jasraj Singh Longia, resident of Sector 71 Mohali. He is also registered as voter serial number 736, part 212, Mohali, as Karan Jasvir of Sector 70, Mohali.

Yadav said it was being ascertained if, while changing his name from Karan Jasbir to Jasraj Singh Longia, the candidate had undertaken the necessary legal steps.”