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Senior advocator and 1984 anti-Sikh riots crusader H.S. Phoolka connected Wednesday (April 1, 2026) joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) successful the beingness of Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and others astatine the enactment headquarters.
After making his governmental debut with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) successful 2014, Mr. Phoolka became the Leader of Opposition successful the Punjab Assembly successful 2017.
However, successful October 2018, helium discontinue arsenic an MLA expressing displeasure implicit the Congress government’s purported nonaccomplishment to instrumentality enactment against those named successful the Justice Ranjit Singh Commission study for their alleged relation successful constabulary enactment that led to deaths successful the aftermath of sacrilege cases. Later, helium discontinue AAP and politics.
In 2019, Mr. Phoolka was awarded the Padma Shri in designation of his decades-long ineligible crusade to unafraid justness for the victims of the 1984 riots.
After a hiatus of six years, successful December 2024, helium had announced his determination to articulation the Shiromani Akali Dal.
