Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch Parkash Singh Badal can be forgiven for skipping rallies and not going door to door for votes. His people are there to handle the electioneering in his Lambi constituency. “It had been the practice earlier too that the party’s local leadership takes care of the electioneering in Lambi while Badal Sahib remained busy in campaigning in the state,” his close aide and party leader Tejinder Singh Middukhera said.
“Badal Sahib is in regular touch with us,” he said.
In the run-up to the February 20 assembly polls in Punjab, there has been help from others as well in Lambi, which falls in Punjab’s Muktsar district.
SAD leader and daughter-in-law Harsimrat Kaur Badal campaigned for him in the constituency. So did Indian National Lok Dal president Om Prakash Chautala, asking voters to return the SAD veteran to the assembly yet again.
Seeking votes for his long-time friend, the 87-year-old leader said his and Badal Senior’s politics always revolved around…
