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This is an archive article published on April 2, 2023

AAP MLA Amritpal Singh Sukhanand marries granddaughter of Sikh religious leader

Rajvir Kaur is the granddaughter of Sikh religious leader Sant Baba Resham Singh Chak Pakhi Wale. The wedding ceremony was held at a gurdwara in the hill town Chail of Himachal Pradesh Sunday.

The couple after Anand Karaj ceremony at a gurdwara in Chail.

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Aam Aadmi Party’s Baghapurana MLA Amritpal Singh Sukhanand (33) married Rajvir Kaur, the granddaughter of Sikh religious leader Sant Baba Resham Singh Chak Pakhi Wale, in an intimate wedding ceremony held at a gurdwara in the hill town Chail of Himachal Pradesh, Sunday (April 2). Sant Baba Resham Singh Chak Pakhi Wale has a substantial follower base in Punjab’s Fazilka, Muktsar and Ferozepur districts.

A law graduate, Kaur holds permanent residency in Canada. An engineering graduate, Sukhanand is a first-time MLA from Baghapurana. He also owns a gas agency and is an agriculturist.

One of the MLAs who attended the wedding told The Indian Express that celebrations started Saturday with an engagement ceremony at a high-end hotel in the hill town Kufri, some 40 km from Shimla. However, the Anand Karaj ceremony was held Sunday at a gurdwara in Chail.

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The couple will host a reception in Sukhanand’s constituency Baghapurana of Moga district on April 4 evening.

Among those who attended the engagement ceremony at Kufri Saturday evening were Dr Gurpreet Kaur Mann, wife of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann; Assembly speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan; and cabinet minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, who has been Sukhanand’s close friend, even before both were elected as AAP MLAs.

The couple will host a reception in Sukhanand’s constituency Baghapurana of Moga district on April 4 evening. Another reception will be held for all AAP MLAs, politicians and bureaucrats on April 5 in Chandigarh.

AAP sources said the couple wanted an intimate destination wedding. However, a reception was planned in Baghapurana on CM Mann’s suggestion to Sukhanand to make the common people of his constituency a part of the celebrations. Mann is expected to attend the reception in Chandigarh.

Divya Goyal

Divya Goyal is a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Punjab. Her interest lies in exploring both news and feature stories, with an effort to reflect human interest at the heart of each piece. She writes on gender issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among other subjects. She has also extensively covered issues of minority communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also explores the legacy of India's partition and distinct stories from both West and East Punjab. She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the most revered government institute for media studies in India, from where she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her research work on “Role of micro-blogging platform Twitter in content generation in newspapers” had won accolades at IIMC. She had started her career in print journalism with Hindustan Times before switching to The Indian Express in 2012. Her investigative report in 2019 on gender disparity while treating women drug addicts in Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2020. She won another Laadli for her ground report on the struggle of two girls who ride a boat to reach their school in the border village of Punjab. ... Read More

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