Amritsar, March 22 -- From a commission agent and agriculturist, Laljit Singh Bhullar has risen steadily since defeating four-time Patti MLA Adesh Partap Singh Kairon by a comfortable margin in the 2022 assembly polls that brought AAP to power in Punjab with a brute majority. Bhullar, whose family owns 60 acres of agricultural land and runs a commission shop at Patti grain market, started as a SAD worker and was associated with Kairon. In 2015, after a series of sacrilege incidents rocked the state, Bhullar shifted his allegiance to Congress leader Harminder Singh Gill. Gill eventually went on to win the 2017 state polls. In 2019, Bhullar joined AAP and was made the halqa incharge of the party. Riding the AAP wave, Bhullar was elected as Patti MLA in 2022. Elevated to cabinet minister, Bhullar, before his exit, was incharge of two portfolios-transport and prison. Earlier, his portfolios also included rural and panchayati raj as well as animal husbandry. In the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, AAP fielded him from Khadoor Sahib. Independent candidate Amritpal Singh, who is lodged in Assam's Dibrugarh jail under the National Security Act (NSA), beat Congress' Kulbir Singh Zira. Bhullar stood third. Bhullar is not new to controversy. In 2024, Bhullar stirred a row with his remark against the Ramgarhia and Swarankar communities while addressing an election rally in Patti. The purported video clip went viral over social media, and he had to tender an apology at the Golden Temple. On June 10, 2022, Bhullar's video surfaced in which he was sitting atop his SUV with two Punjab Police personnel dangling from windows. The video invited sharp criticism from the opposition....