AAP's ophthalmologist candidate eyes niche support base

If I can tap the under-current properly, then we can win.” “I had no intention of getting into politics. Then one day I listened to Arvind Kejriwal on TV.

I thought if I don't jump into politics, my life will be wasted,” he says.  

“I may be able to perform another 50,000-1,00,000 surgeries in the coming years, but that won't change society,” he added.

He says he has a close rapport with the locals.

“All I have to do is just go and meet them.” While his popularity as a surgeon may not give sleepless nights to Jaitley or Amarinder, there is another facet to Dr Singh which they can ignore at their own peril: his father Sahib Singh was a well-known translator of the Guru Granth Sahib whose commentaries on the Sikh scripture are so popular that his books can be found in almost every Sikh home.