Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, better known as Sidhu Moosewala, was killed by unidentified shooters in Punjab's Mansa region on Sunday, barely a day after his protection was reduced. According to authorities, the musician, who ran for election in Punjab on a Congress ticket earlier this year, was shot 30 times with an automatic assault weapon.
Moosewala's family, including his parents, sat alongside the dead at their house, inconsolable. His mother was seen attempting to soothe her husband as people flocked from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Chandigarh, among other locations, to have a final look of the artist.
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Moosewala dressed up as a groom. When a young unmarried man dies in the state, a ceremony is performed. Moosewala's mother groomed his hair as his father wrapped a scarlet turban and a'sehra' on his head. The singer's favourite tractor, which had appeared in several of his music videos, was decorated with flowers for his final voyage to a family-owned field for cremation.