Gone and back again: Caught in Akali faction war, bypoll candidate who switched parties twice in a day | Political Pulse News

An Akali Dal candidate in the morning, an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader soon afterwards, and back in the Akali Dal by evening. For Surjit Kaur, Tuesday was one whirlwind of a back-and-forth journey across the aisle as she attempted to negotiate the tricky political terrain ahead of the Jalandhar West Assembly bypoll scheduled on July 10. As an internal struggle continued in the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Kaur, a two-time councillor, filed nomination papers as the party’s candidate, getting its symbol “takdi (scale)” even as the party officially said…