Overview
- Four men in a car chased a motorcycle in Mamdot and opened fire on Saturday evening, killing Aam Aadmi Party leader Gurpreet Singh Gopi and wounding his associate Harpreet.
- Punjab Police say the attackers have been identified and multiple teams are carrying out raids, examining CCTV and reconstructing the sequence of events to make arrests.
- Investigators are treating both a long-standing personal enmity and a recent municipal-election rivalry linked to Gopi’s family as possible motives.
- An AAP office-bearer, Mamdot Nagar Panchayat president Vicky Maini, was following the victims in a separate vehicle and escaped after his car was reportedly fired at, increasing local political tensions.
- Authorities expect arrests soon, and the outcome of the probe could lead to tighter security for local political figures and sharper scrutiny of election-related clashes in Ferozepur.