Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota (Retd IPS: 1988: PB), former director general of police (DGP), may take the political plunge in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. The BJP is considering him for the Hoshiarpur reserved seat.
Sahota had retired in September 2022 and hails from a village near Dasuya of Hoshiarpur district. He belongs to the Majhabi Sikh Valmiki community, which has a sizeable presence across Doaba. He is known to have kept a low profile throughout his police career. Sahota relinquished post of officiating DGP after he expressed his inability to “follow some orders which the government wanted him to execute under pressure from the certain political quarters.
