Badal (Muktsar), March 8 (DNS)- SAD patron Parkash Singh Badal who defeated his nearest rival and cousin Maheshinder Singh of the Congress from Lambi constituency by a margin of 24,739 votes emerged as the favourite in his native Badal village. Gurdas Badal, the SAD patron's estranged younger brother and People's Party of Punjab chief Manpreet Badal's father, couldn't even save his security deposit.
The Chief Minister polled 58 per cent votes in Badal village. Maheshinder got 32 per cent share while the score of Gurdas was 7 per cent. The village had three polling booths (104, 105 and 106) and 2,769 registered voters. Of them, 2,181 cast their franchise on January 30, the polling day.
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal got 1,268 votes while Gurdas Badal secured a mere 151. Maheshinder Singh polled 693 votes.
At polling booth number 104, Badal got 408 votes, Maheshinder 222 and Gurdas 36. At booth number 105, Badal got 380 votes, Maheshinder 145 and Gurdas 48. At booth number 106, where the trio too cast their votes, Badal got 480 votes, Maheshinder 326 and Gurdas 67.
Badal got a total of 67,999 votes while Maheshinder got 43,260. The score of Gurdas Badal was 5,352 votes. The total polling in Lambi assembly constituency was 1,22,064 ... Read Full Story
Badal, January 31 (DNS)- In Badal village in Lambi, Parkash Singh Badal, Sukhbir Singh Badal, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Gurdas Singh Badal, Manpreet Singh Badal and Maheshinder Singh Badal cast their vote at Government Primary School. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal is pitted against his younger brother, Gurdas Singh Badal (PPP) and cousin Maheshinder Singh Badal (Congress).
Manpreet Singh Badal, PPP chief, was the first from the Badal clan to cast his vote at 8.30 am.He came to the polling station driving his favourite open jeep (PB-03-U-0786).
Flashing the victory sign, he said: “The PPP will win not only this seat, but a number of other seats too. It will be a sad moment to see my uncle (Parkash Singh Badal) face defeat at this stage of his life.”
After Manpreet came Congress candidate Maheshinder Singh. “I have contested the elections to win. Had the Badals done something to develop the area, they could have hoped for victory.They did not even find a solution to the problem of water-logging, which is a bane of the farmers.”
The trio of Parkash Singh Badal, his son Sukhbir Singh Badal and daughter-in-law Harsimrat Kaur Badal were the next to cast their vote.
Exhibiting no signs of fear or anxiety, Badal said: “The parties are contesting the elections, not the brothers.” Asked as if he would congratulate his brother Gurdas if he was to turn victorious, he said: “There is no question of anyone else winning the seat but me.”
Sukhbir said the SAD would win 65 seats and along with the BJP, ... Read Full Story
Lambi, January 28 (PTI)- They share the common wall of their ancestral house, the family name and even the village name. But in the cut and thrust of politics, a common inheritance seems to matter little when it comes to electoral politics. Punjab's three Badal brothers are locked in a triangular contest in Lambi which goes to polls on Monday.
Fighting from here is Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, also the grand patriarch of Shiromani Akali Dal and the Badal family which hails from Lambi in Badal village. Challenging the CM are his brother Gurdas Badal and cousin Mahesh Inder Singh Badal. While the former is fighting to open the political account of his son Manpreet's newly-formed People's Party of Punjab, the latter is contesting on a Congress ticket, having fought as an independent in the last assembly elections.
The fight here is essentially in the family with Parkash Singh Badal running for the fifth time in a row. And though one would enter Lambi hoping mudslinging matches to be on, the brothers are refraining from running each other down in the public. For the outgoing CM, it is his brother Gurdas who is posing the biggest challenge.
Asked how he felt about taking on his own brother whom he had served for years, Gurdas Badal told PTI, "I have always dreamt of seeing my brother in the CM's chair. But things have now slipped out of his hands. He is only a face. It is his son Sukhbir Badal, the Deputy CM, and his family who are running the show. Nothing is in my brother's control nor does he assert ... Read Full Story
