Captain raises doubt on Badal contesting polls
Sataurday, 17/12/2011
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Punjab Pardesh Congress Committee president Amarinder Singh on Friday expressed doubt on Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal contesting the 2012 Assembly elections as “he has not been able to identify any safe constituency for himself so far. I believe Badal will beat a safe and graceful retreat without contesting the elections as he will not like to call it quits after getting defeated at the end of his political career spanning over seven decades,” Amarinder said in a statement issued here.
The PPCC president maintained that no matter how much hype Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal might create about mobilizing people for his Moga rally, but the fact remained that neither of the two, Badal or Sukhbir, had been able to make up their mind on the issue of contesting from a safe seat.
He remarked that it was an irony that the Akalis had identified and almost finalised the candidates for almost all Assembly seats except for Badal and Sukhbir, who were finding the going getting tough in their respective segments of Lambi and Jalalabad. Captain further said media reports had already vindicated his charges against the Akalis that they were misusing the official machinery to mobilise crowds for their Moga rally.
