Adesh Pratap Singh Kairon (born 1959) is a politician from Punjab. He is the great-grandson of Nihal Singh Kairon, grandson of Partap Singh Kairon, son of Surinder Singh Kairon, son-in-law of Parkash Singh Badal and nephew of Harcharan Singh Brar and the current head of the Kairon family. Kayron is a very strong attacker and comes at the expense of low health. However, he has immortality buff when his health gets reduced to 0, which allows him to be built full attack and not worry about dying on the first turn. Kairon - Kairon, is a small Indian village in the district of Tarn-Taran, located in the north-west of Punjab. The village is home to a majority of Sikhs who take up the name of the village as their l. Partap Singh Kairon (1 October 1901 – 6 February 1965) was the Chief Minister of the Punjab province (then comprising Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh), and is widely acknowledged as the architect of post-Independence Punjab Province (or Punjab, Haryana and Himachal as of today).

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A rift in the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has come to the fore with former minister Adesh Partap Singh Kairon announcing his support for a family member in Khemkaran constituency, the turf of SAD leader Virsa Singh Valtoha, in the 2022 assembly elections in Punjab.

Though the elections are scheduled early next year, Kairon has started holding village meetings in Khemkaran. He addressed public meetings at Punian, Margindpura, Khara Ram Singh and Amarkot villages of the constituency on Tuesday and a gathering at Sursingh village on Wednesday.

During his address at one of the meetings, Kairon said that voters of Khemkaran have been asking him to serve in the area and he couldn’t ignore their request. “After discussing with my family, I’ve accepted the people’s decision. A member of our family will serve you. Though we will all serve you, but the candidate will be from our family,” Kairon said.

He said at the time of his grandfather and former chief minister Partap Singh Kairon, many villages of Khemkaran were a part of Patti constituency. He said his family was emotionally attached to the people of the area and promised that he would be available whenever the need arises.

Kairon lost the Patti seat in 2017 to Harminder Singh Gill of the Congress.

Kairon’s political adviser Gurmukh Singh Ghulla of Balehar village in Khemkaran has been at the forefront of organising the recent public meetings.

Akali rally at Amarkot on March 15

Former Khemkaran MLA Valtoha termed Kairon’s actions as an attempt to join the Congress. Valtoha said Kairon and his family members can fight the election from Khemkaran, but not on the Akali ticket.

“The SAD is not the party of Kairon’s father. He has already lost ground in Patti, where he has not shown up. I will urge the party high command not to give him the ticket from Patti as he has been betraying us for years. If the party allows, I’ll field one of my family members to contest from there,” Valtoha said.

There are reports that the Kairon family wants to put up its loyalists in Tarn Taran, Khadoor Sahib and Jandiala constituencies also.

This comes days before the Akali Dal rally at Amarkot in Khemkaran on March 15 against the working of the Congress government in the state. SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal will be at the rally.

Valtoha confident of getting SAD ticket

Valtoha said, “I’ll fight the election from Khemkaran on the SAD ticket. The party chief will announce this from Khemkaran.”

An aide of former minister Bikram Singh Majithia, Valtoha is also the party’s Tarn Taran district president. Kairon and he have been at loggerheads, though not publicly, for the last one decade.

Valtoha won the 2007 and 2013 assembly elections on the party’s ticket from Khemkaran. He lost to Sukhpal Singh Bhullar of the Congress.

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