Punjabi singer and Congress leader Sidhu Moose Wala shot dead in Mansa

This comes a day after the security cover of Moose Wala was withdrawn. He was among the 424 VIPs who lost their security cover yesterday as part of the Bhagwant Mann government’s exercise to crack down on VIP culture.

Sidhu Moose Wala belonged to Moose Wala village near Mansa and was the voice of many superhit songs in the last few years. Moose Wala had contested the Assembly polls on a Congress ticket from Mansa. He was defeated by AAP’s Dr Vijay Singla with a margin of 63,323 votes.

Moose Wala had joined the Congress amid much fanfare in November last year. With Congress granting him ticket from Mansa Assembly constituency, then sitting Mansa MLA, Nazar Singh Manshahia, had revolted against the party saying that he would oppose the candidature of the controversial singer.