Rinku is from a family that has been active in the Congress for more than four decades and started his career in the party. He joined the AAP last year.
Amidst rumours of former Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Punjab Congress leaders, led by state party affairs in-charge Harish Chaudhary, and state president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, met the senior Dalit leader Channi a day before, asking him to
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann and AAP National Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had inducted Rinku into APP at a brief function in Phagwara on Wednesday