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Gurugram:Sunil Sangwan, a former jail superintendent and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Dadri in Haryanas Charkhi Dadri district, wonagainst his nearest rival, Manisha Sangwan of the Congress, by 1,957 votes...
A former superintendent of jails in the Haryana Prisons Department, Sangwan resigned from his post of superintendent of Bhondsi (Gurugram) prison and joined the BJP last month, ahead of the announcement of tickets by the party for the assembly polls...
A mail communication by the Director General of Prisons, Haryana, to all state superintendents of jails instructed them to send no-dues certificates in favour of Sangwan the same day..
The son of former Dadri MLA and ex-minister Satpal Sangwan, Sunil Sangwan was given the ticket in place of wrestler Babita Phogat, who had contested as BJP candidate from the seat in 2019...
During his tenure, Sangwan was superintendent of several jails, including the Sunaria jail in Rohtak for five years, where Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is serving a sentence for the rape of two women disciples and the murder of a journalist, Ram Chander Chhatrapati...
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