Congress Leader and Popular Punjabi singer and rapper Sidhu Moose Wala, has been shot dead.

Two other people were injured in the firing. The incident happened just a day after Punjab withdrew the security of 424 people, including Mr Moose Wala.

Moose Wala had contested the Assembly polls on Congress ticket from Mansa. He was defeated by AAP’s Dr Vijay Singla with a margin of 63,323 votes.

Hailing from Moosa, a village in Mansa district, Moose Wala had joined the Congress amid much fanfare in November last year. With Congress granting him ticket from Mansa Assembly constituency, then sitting Mansa MLA, Nazar Singh Manshahia, had revolted against the party saying that he would oppose the candidature of the controversial singer.