Punjab Election 2022: Popular singer Sidhu Moosewala joins Congress, will contest polls

Popular Punjabi singer and rapper Sidhu Moosewala joined the Congress on Friday ahead of the Assembly polls early next year.
Moosewala joined the party in the presence of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.

Sidhu said that Moosewala will contest the upcoming polls. The Congress is likely to field Moosewala from Mansa or Bathinda.

Also watch: Watch: Kejriwal and Channi war of words as Punjab campaign heats up

After joining the Congress, Moosewala said he had started his music career four years ago, but was now ready to take a new step in his life.

“I still Iive in the same house in my village. My father is an ex-serviceman and my mother is a sarpanch. Residents of my area, Bathinda and Mansa, are associated with me. They have expectations from me,” he said.

Sidhu Moosewala has attracted controversy due to his music on more than one occasion.

The singer was booked by the Punjab police last year under the Arms Act on charges of promoting violence and gun culture in one of his songs. Before that, he was booked in another case after photographs of him firing an AK47 rifle at a firing range during the Covid-19 pandemic went viral on social media.