Badals do not vote in local elections; They now ask people to vote for LS poll

Badals do not vote in local elections They now ask people to vote for LS poll

Archit Watts
Tribune News Service

Muktsar, March 30
The Badals did not cast their vote during the last two zila parishad, panchayat samiti and gram panchayat elections. But with CM's daughter-in-law Harsimrat Kaur Badal and his estranged nephew Manpreet Badal taking on each other from the Bathinda parliamentary constituency, they are now asking the people to exercise franchise.

During the zila parishad and panchayat samiti elections in 2008, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, Sukhbir Badal and Manpreet Badal did not exercise franchise. During the gram panchayat elections too the three did not cast their vote.

Nobody from the CM's family or from PPP chief Manpreet's family cast their vote during the gram panchayat elections in 2013. Last year, the Badals did not cast their ballot for the zila parishad and panchayat samiti elections. Sukhbir was reported to be out of the country.