Parkash Singh Badal: Grand old man of Punjab politics
Chandigarh, Apr 25 (PTI) Parkash Singh Badal was not the one to give up easily, on life or on politics. Only last year, the Shiromani Akal Dal fielded the patriarch again from home turf Lambi in Punjab’s Muktsar district for the assembly elections.
Her lost but entered the record books for being the oldest person to fight an election in the county. This was his 13th electoral battle in a long political career that began when he became the sarpanch of Badal village in Bathinda district.
The five-time Punjab chief minister died at a private hospital in Mohali near Chandigarh on Tuesday, nine day after he was admitted there with breathing problems. He was 95.
