Day after,poll-weary leaders unwind, rewind

Archit Watts

Tribune News Service

Badal (Lambi), February 5

A day after polling, the top leaders of various parties held informal meetings with their supporters and spent time with their families.

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal (89), who has been down with fever for the past about three days, met party workers at his residence at Badal village before leaving for Chandigarh in a helicopter. “CM saab will stay there for the next two days and take rest,” said a family member of the Badals.

There are reports that the CM is scheduled to visit the US for a medical check-up soon.

SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, who reportedly went to sleep around 3 am today, came out of his residence at 2 pm. After meeting party activists who were waiting for him at his residence, he went to Bathinda for lunch with his aides and party candidates Hardeep Singh ‘Dimpy’ Dhillon (Gidderbaha) and Kanwarjit Singh ‘Rozy Barkandi’ (Muktsar).

PPCC vice-president Manpreet Singh Badal, Congress candidate from Bathinda Urban Assembly constituency, met party workers at his farmhouse in Badal village and then moved to Bathinda.

Raninder Singh, who was the election agent of his father, PPCC chief Capt Amarinder Singh, in Lambi, held a luncheon meeting with Congress activists and thanked them at the residence of Maheshinder Singh Badal. He told them that he, along with Amarinder, would return to Lambi on March 9-10, prior to the counting of votes on March 11.

AAP’s Lambi nominee Jarnail Singh organised bhog of ‘Akhand Paath’ at Malout and met party workers. “I am going to Delhi for two days. We have a Political Affairs Committee meeting there,” he said.