While the Jalandhar MC Elections 2024 is done and dusted, the political drama is far from over. After not getting a majority in the Municipal Corporation elections in Jalandhar, Aam Aadmi Party inducted 2 Congress councilors into the party. Angry over this, Congress leaders and workers protested outside the house of Manmeet Kaur, who was elected councilor from Ward-47. Manmeet Kaur joined AAP after winning the election on a Congress ticket.
During the protest, police officials took many Congress leaders including former MLA Rajinder Beri into custody during a protest outside elected councilor from Ward-47. Manmeet Kaur. On Tuesday, a protest was held outside the residence of Praveen Wasan, who defeated former Mayor Jagdish Raj Raja's wife Anita Raja on a Congress ticket, in Vijay Nagar.
During this, a ruckus took place between the police and Congress leaders. After the detention of former MLA Rajinder Beri, Congress leaders took out a march from outside the house of councilor Manmeet Kaur and reached outside Bhargava Camp police station.
Congress's Jalandhar West constituency in-charge Surinder Kaur said, "People of the West constituency expressed faith in the Congress. But Manmeet Kaur joined AAP. We had come only to talk to her about the pressure under which she left the party.."
Jalandhar West constituency's ACP Harshpreet Singh reached the spot with his team and asked former MLA Rajinder Beri whether he had any permission to hold a dharna. Beri replied, have you come to arrest us? Meanwhile, the police started lifting the Congress leaders from the dharna and started taking Beri along by holding his hand.