Suspended AAP MLA Kunwar Vijay Pratap resigns from Punjab assembly
Amritsar North MLA Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh has resigned from the membership of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. He has sent his resignation to Punjab assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan.
Amritsar North MLA and former IPS officer Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh has announced his resignation from the membership of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. On Monday, he made his resignation letter public via social media.
In the letter sent to Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan, Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh has written that he is resigning from his seat in the assembly effective November 1, 2026.
Just a day prior on Sunday, Samana MLA Chetan Singh Jouramajra and Sanaur MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra had also resigned from the primary membership of the Aam Aadmi Party.
Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh was suspended from the Aam Aadmi Party for five years in June last year on charges of anti-party activities. This action was taken after he raised questions over the Vigilance Bureau's action against Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who was arrested in a disproportionate assets case.
He has continuously raised questions on the actions of his own government over the past period. He had objected in the assembly several times regarding the investigation into the 2015 sacrilege and Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan police firing cases in Faridkot district. He has also been a part of the Punjab Police special investigation team probing these cases.
Additionally, last year in the case of the deaths of over 20 persons due to consumption of spurious liquor in Amritsar, he had raised questions on the functioning of the Bhagwant Mann government.
Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh had joined the Aam Aadmi Party in 2021 after taking pre-retirement from police service and was elected MLA from the Amritsar North constituency in the 2022 assembly elections.
Key developments
- Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh sends resignation to Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan
- Letter states resignation to be effective from November 1, 2026
- Suspended for 5 years in June last year due to anti-party activities
- Earlier on Sunday, MLAs Chetan Singh Jouramajra and Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra had left the party
