"Clean Sweep" For Team Akali-BSP, Will Win 80-Plus Seats: Sukhbir Badal

Sunday, 20 February 2022Newsdesk

Shiromani Akali Dal leader chief Sukhbir Singh Badal has claimed that the Akali-BSP alliance will make a clean sweep in Punjab, winning more than 80 seats. Amid a multi-cornered contest, polling is in progress today for all 117 constituencies of Punjab. The Congress, which ended the decade-long rule of the Akali-BJP alliance in 2017, is hoping for a second term in power.

New Delhi, 20 February 2022

As per news report of NDTV, The Akali Dal, which split from longtime alliance partner BJP last year amid the farmers' anger over the contentious farm laws, has tied up with Mayawati's party in hope of having the backing of the Dalits. It was a counter to the Congress's choice of a Dalit Chief Minister, Charanjit SIngh Channi, in the state for the first time. Sukhbir Badal -- who is contesting from Jalalabad in Punjab Assembly elections -- cast his vote at the Badal village in Muktsar district along with his wife and former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Parkash Singh Badal, Shiromani Akali Dal patron and five-time Chief Minister of the state.

Source - NDTV