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By Ritika Jain Amritpal Singh Sandhu is more than 2,700 kms away from home, in a jail in Dibrugarh, Assam. However, in this Lok Sabha elections, he is a candidate fighting independently from Punjab. On June 1, people across 57 parliamentary constituencies across eight states and Union Territories will choose among 904 candidates in the seventh and final phase of the general elections. The jailed pro-Khalistan leader is one among those candidates. The Representation of People’s Act, 1950 allows undertrials to stand for elections. Only convicts are barred. Last year, the Punjab police invoked th…