AAP fields eye surgeon against Captain Amarinder

CHANDIGARH: A few days after bidding MP Bhagwant Mann for the constituency of Jalalabad, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal has announced the candidature of an eye surgeon and activist Dr Balbir Singh against Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh for Patiala Assembly constituency. A super specialist in retina surgery, Dr Singh is a political greenhorn. He is known in the district for his contribution in free eye care for the poor, and has worked closely with slum-dwellers in Patiala, training them as home nursing care help. The party plans to project him as "messiah of the underprivileged" against the royal family scion of Patiala.