Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visits Sidhu Moosewala's family in Punjab

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited Sidhu Moosewala's family in his native village Moose. Accompanied with other congress leader including Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Partap Singh Bajwa, and former deputy chief minister O P Soni.

While on Saturday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah met the parents of Moosewala and expressed grief. Prior to that Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had also expressed grief with the family.

Gandhi who landed at the Chandigarh airport this morning, drove straight to the singer's native village. Security has been tightened outside the residence of Moosewala in the wake of Gandhi's visit.


Moosewala was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Mansa on May 29.

Gandhi was abroad when the killing took place and returned over the weekend.

Moosewala, who had joined the Congress December last year, had unsuccessfully contested from the Mansa seat in the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections.



Senior Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa had written to CM Mann, urging him to "transfer the murder case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or the National Investigation Agency (NIA) so that justice can be delivered to the family at the earliest".
Inputs from PTI