Badal, Harsimrat on Lambi tour, train guns at Manpreet

Badal, Harsimrat on Lambi tour, train guns at Manpreet 

Archit Watts
Tribune News Service

Lambi, March 12
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur today started a four-day tour of the Lambi segment. They will cover at least 12 villages everyday, say sources.

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal campaigns for his daughter-in-law Harsimrat Kaur at a Muktsar village on Wednesday. A Tribune photograph

With Manpreet Badal, Congress-PPP candidate, in the fray, local Akali leaders have been assigned duties in specific areas.They have been told to ensure there is no decline in the number of votes for the SAD from any area this time.

Team Sukhbir, comprising the Deputy CM's confidantes, who have been

accommodated as chairmen/members of various boards, is supervising Harsimrat's campaign.

At the poll meetings today, both Badal and Harsimrat criticised Manpreet for having joined hands with the Congress. They spoke little about development works. A senior Akali leader said that the Badal family had also chalked out an election plan for Holi.

At Mohlan village, the CM described his younger brother Gurdas as Laxman. He said the latter had no other option but to back his son Manpreet.

"Dekh lo kitey votan naa ghata deyo eis vaari te mainu sanyas laina pae jaave (Don't let the margin of votes decline this time or else I will have to quit politics)," he pleaded with the voters.

Harsimrat said: "Two zeroes (PPP and Congress) can only make a big zero, nothing else. Manpreet failed to make any impact in the assembly elections and will definitely meet the same this election too".