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Parkash Singh Badal Oldest Contestant at 94 years

Parkash Singh Badal Oldest Contestant at 94 years
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Bathinda: Chairman of the Five-Times Minister of Parkash Singh Badal, who is 94 years old, will be the oldest contestant in all types of elections in the country after his nomination was announced by President Shiroman Akali Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday.
Previously, the former Minister of Kerala vs.
Achuthananandan was for the election of the Assembly as the oldest candidate in 2016 at the age of 92 years.
For more than five decades, the Sad Patron Parkash Singh Badal has become an integral part of its election campaign and power source for the party.
That’s the charisma of the Patriarch Party who even when he had reached the age of 94, sadly felt the need for his presence in the election battle.
According to sources, senior bads are reluctant but agree to take part in the contest to restore party prestige.
Sad faced his worst transfer in the election of the 2017 assembly when it could barely win 15 seats and lose the main opposition party tag, which was won by a new party aadmi by winning 20 seats.
Shiroman Akali Dal does not want to risk anytime and banking on behalf of Parkash Singh Badal to get its core vote in the Punjab countryside back with the party.
People in claiming that although senior badals can be limited to campaigning in the Lambi constituency, its presence in the election scene will be a big boost and source of power for the party.
Since the election of the 1969 assembly, Badal senior is always at the top of the leadership in parliamentary elections and assembly.
In front of the person, he never lost elections, sequentially won 10 elections.
The first five from 1969 to 1985 from the constituency of Gidderbaha and the next five assemblies from 1997 to 2017 of the Lambi Assembly constituency.
However, Badal Senior has won its first election from the Malout assembly segment in 1957 and then lost narrowly to Harcharan Singh Brar from Gidderbaha in 1967.
Among them, he also won the 1977 parliamentary election after an emergency appointment and was appointed Minister of Agriculture Union in The Morarji Desai government but the senior Badal is preferred to return to state politics and fight for the election after that.
In this 12 elections, he continued to become the main minister on five occasions in 1970, 1977, 1997, 2007.
From 20 years from 1997 to 2017, he remained a minister of major for 15 years.
So many Senior Badal in the campaign command that when he was injured in the bathroom in Amritsar on November 19, 2001, and ended with a fracture in the left thigh bone before the 2002 assembly selection, he continued the hydraulic campaign and bus was ready for him.
He used to sit in a chair and overcome any meeting.
Badal seniors have campaigned in Lambi by visiting village by village and holding a small meeting.

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