Before D-day, CM takes rest, Capt feels pulse of people
Saturday, 04/02/2017
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Lambi : On poll eve, three main stakeholders in Punjab — Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, state Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh and Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal — spent the day in varying styles. All three were confident of forming the next government with an “overwhelming majority”.
Capt Amarinder, accompanied by his son Raninder Singh and Congress activists, toured a few villages of the Lambi segment and allowed the public to have pictures with him.
The Congress leader went door to door, interacting with people. In every house, he repeated his message to voters, “Don’t forgive them (Akalis) and don’t fall for false promises. Refrain from allurements offered by selfish political outfits, who have looted Punjab.”
He claimed the Congress would win 70 to 75 seats. He was confident of winning both Lambi and Patiala Assembly seats. “Time has come to revive the golden days of Punjab and Punjabiyat.”
During his door-to-door interaction with people who gathered in large numbers, he listened to their problems. “Don’t be afraid of Sukhbir’s ‘goons’. There’s nothing to worry about. I will teach Baba Badal a lesson,” he assured.
Unlike Capt Amarinder, Badal spent the day resting at his palatial house in Badal village. “The Chief Minister has taken ill because of exertion,” said a SAD leader. Badal met a few party activists at his home in the morning.
Apart from some media persons and security personnel, hardly anyone was present outside the Badals’ mansion.
The Chief Minister predicted 75 to 80 seats for the SAD-BJP alliance. “Our Panthic vote is intact. If the Congress or AAP comes to power, it will be a setback for the poor and farmers,” said ‘Paash’, as Badal is known in his native village.
His son Sukhbir was in Amritsar today with his wife Harsimrat Kaur Badal to pay obeisance at the Golden Temple. The Deputy Chief Minister flew in from Delhi, where he had gone to meet his children after the campaign got over on Thursday evening.
The couple returned to Badal village late in the evening.
