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Sukhbir Badal to resign as Deputy CM
WSN Network

Chandigarh: Punajb Deputy Chief Minister and heir apparent of CM Prakash Singh Badal, Sukhbir Singh Badal is most likely to resign from his post in the government less than five months after he was sworn in because of his failure to contest and win a seat in the Punjab legislature.

Sukhbir, 46, was sworn on Jan 21 and had until July 21 to get elected to the Punjab assembly under electoral law but since there has to be a mandatory 45 day notice for any election, he does not seem to be a position to fight and win. The one byepoll where votin is to take place on June 12, Nurmahal assembly seat in Jalandhar district, does not have him as a candidate.

Under the Representation of the People Act, any person holding a public office has to get elected within six months of being sworn in if he is not already a legislator. If that does not happen, he has to resign. Neither the Akali Dal nor and the government are worried over Sukhbir Badal's fate and he is clearly someone who will keep calling the shots.

Constitutional proprieties had never really come in the way of Sukhbir who was widely known for calling for official files and presiding over meetings of police and administrative officials even without being a part of the government. There is little sensitisation among the Akalis and the Punjabis as a whole about the party-government lines of distinction.

Bye-elections in Punjab are due now in, aprt from Nurmahal, Banur (because of death of minister Kanwaljit Singh), Jalalabad (after election of legislator Sher Singh Ghubaiya to the Lok Sabha), and Kahnuwan (after Pratap Singh Bajwa's election to Lok Sabha).

10 June  2009
 

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