Parkash Singh Badal Family
A flood of leaders paying tribute to the political veteran Baba Bohar in India
Chandigarh/ New Delhi : The mortal remains of former Chief Minister of Punjab, Prakash Singh Badal, were kept at the office of the Akali Dal in Chandigarh for the last rites. Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid his respects to him there. After the final viewing, his body is being taken to his ancestral village of Badal, where his last rites will be performed tomorrow at 1 pm.
The mortal remains of Badal will travel from Chandigarh to Rajpura, Patiala, Sangrur, and Bathinda before reaching Badal village by late evening. Due to a shortage of space at the village cremation ground, the final rites of the former CM will be performed in his family’s fields, where a platform is being constructed by uprooting a kinnow orchard on two acres of land.
Sardar Badal passed away yesterday evening
Badal passed away on Tuesday night at the age of 95 after experiencing breathing difficulties. He was admitted to Fortis Hospital in Mohali on April 16, where he breathed his last on the evening of April 25 at 7:42 pm. Prakash Singh Badal served as the Chief Minister of Punjab five times.
Apart from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, several other leaders including Haryana Assembly Speaker Gian Chand Gupta, former Punjab CM Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, former Haryana CM Om Prakash Chautala, MP and wife of former Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh, Preneet Kaur, and BJP leader Sunil Jakhar paid their respects to Badal. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed his condolences in a letter.
Parkash Singh Badal was the most senior leader of the country’s politics. The central government has declared two days of national mourning upon his demise. During this time, the national flag will be flown at half-mast throughout the country. All official entertainment programs have been canceled. A government holiday has been declared in Punjab tomorrow, Thursday.
The height of Prakash Singh Badal’s stature in Indian politics can be gauged from the fact that even Prime Minister Narendra Modi had touched his feet. During his 75 years of political life, Badal became the Chief Minister of Punjab 5 times and won 11 consecutive elections. In 2022, Badal lost his traditional Lambi seat in the elections. After that, he was not very active in politics. When his party, the Shiromani Akali Dal, opposed the agricultural reform laws of the central government, they broke their alliance with the BJP. After this, Prakash Singh Badal returned his Padma Vibhushan award.
Badal became the village headman(Sarpanch) at the age of 20-PM Modi expressed his condolences on the demise of Prakash Singh Badal
After becoming a village headman(Sarpanch) at the age of 20, Prakash Singh Badal remained at the center of politics throughout his nearly 75-year political career. He was known as the Baba Bohar of Punjab’s politics, and his roar was always high in the center’s politics as well. He was counted among the leading faces of the RSS and BJP’s bowed politics, and the BJP never ignored him.
Despite this, Badal did not spend much time in national politics. In March 1977, when Morarji Desai’s Janata Party formed the government at the center, Prakash Singh Badal was made the Minister of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare. He was later elected to the Lok Sabha, but he did not like national politics. He resigned from his position as a central minister a few months later. After that, he never went outside of Punjab’s politics. PM Modi expressed his condolences on the demise of Prakash Singh Badal
Prakash Singh, like Badal, also attached himself to Long for life. From 1957 to 2017, he represented the Lambi constituency 10 times in the Punjab Legislative Assembly. At the age of 94, during his last election, he had to face defeat from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) wave on this very seat.
