The wreckage of the car in which Punjab Minister and senior SAD leader Kanwaljit Singh(inset) was travelling
Punjab Minister and senior Akali leader Kanwaljit Singh
was on Sunday killed when two trucks crashed into the car in which he
was travelling in Kharar near here. The 67-year-old general secretary of
the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal, who was critically injured in the
mishap, died at PGIMER here, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s Media
Adviser Harcharan Singh Bains said.
The Punjab Government has ordered an inquiry into the tragic mishap,
Mr. Bains told reporters, adding that the State Government had announced
a three-day State mourning. All the State Government offices would
remain closed on Monday as a mark of respect to the departed Minister
and the National Flag would fly at half-mast, he added.
Mr. Kanwaljit Singh, Akali MLA from Banur and Minister for
Cooperation in the Badal Ministry, was returning here from Ludhiana when
his private car was first hit by a truck near a T-point on Kharar on
Ropar road in Khanpur village. “The impact of the first hit by the
dumper-truck was so severe that the car turned in the opposite direction
and collided head-on with another truck after which the car turned
turtle,” Kharar city’s Station House Officer Dalbir Singh told PTI.
After the accident, the Minister was first taken to civil hospital at
Kharar from where he was rushed to PGIMER here in a critical condition.
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