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Updated March 27th, 2019 at 22:06 IST

"Party will decide whether I should contest Lok Sabha polls or not": SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal

SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday said his party will take a call on whether he will be contesting the general elections or not, amid speculation that he can be the party candidate for the Firozpur Lok Sabha seat.

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SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday said his party will take a call on whether he will be contesting the general elections or not, amid speculation that he can be the party candidate for the Firozpur Lok Sabha seat.

Asked about possibility that he could contest from Ferozepur seat, Sukhbir Badal smiled and told reporters, "The party has yet not decided such things but whatever the decision the party takes will be final".

In a lighter vein, Badal, the MLA from Jalalabad, quipped "I am already fighting from the front being the party president."

Badal's wife and Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal is likely to seek re-election from Bathinda parliamentary constituency. The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MP from Ferozepur, Sher Singh Ghubaya, had recently switched over to the Congress.

READ: IMPACT: Shiromani Akali Dal Wants Congress MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary Arrested, EC To Take Cognisance Of The Matter

Badal, along with his wife Harsimrat Kaur, paid obeisance at the Golden temple here Wednesday.

On SAD (Taksali), he said the breakaway outfit from the SAD introduced all new faces for the Lok Sabha polls, which was "absolutely opposite to its character and basic principles of being Taksali (old guard)".

Sukhbir Badal also alleged that in order to gain power, the AAP and the Congress "were working together clandestinely to defeat the SAD-BJP alliance but would never succeed."

On Punjab Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, Sukhbir Badal said, "The Sidhu couple always claim they were committed to serve the people of Amritsar whereas Mrs Sidhu (Navjot Kaur) had applied for a Congress ticket from Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat which exposed their reality".

Meanwhile, taking to Twitter, Sukhbir Singh Badal took to Twitter to congratulate PM Modi, scientists and entire nation on the success of Mission Shakti and calling it a proud moment for the nation as India becomes the 4th global Super Power in space.

READ: Big Blow To Congress: Senior Punjab Leader Joginder Singh Panjgrain Joins Akali Dal In Presence Of Sukhbir Badal

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Published March 27th, 2019 at 21:35 IST

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