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Brand new from the clan of
Badals: Harsimrat Kaur
Badal clan members are thrust without any discussion within party,
veterans remain sidelined and kaka-kaki variety climbs the steps
fast
WSN Network
 BATHINDA:
A new face has
started emerging in the media from within the Badal clan: Sukhbir
Singh Badal's wife Harsimrat Kaur. Talk is in the air about her
possibility of contesting Lok Sabha election either from Bathinda or
Khadoor Sahib. Harsimrat was talked about much during the last
Assembly poll campaign whne the grapevine had it that her's was a
key brain behind the campaign.
A campaign that
was dirty, no holds barred, issueless, but successful. Among Akali
circles, it was hailed a success (such is the condition of the Sikh
quom today, but that is a subject for another day).
Now, photographs
of Harsimrat Kaur have started surfacing with a disturbing
regularity. Disturbing because the Badals bring in clan members
without any discussion within the party, and with total disregard
for the veterans. People remember well how Hira Singh Gabria was the
last one to be sworn in as a minister, much after first timer Bikram
Singh Majithia and that accused of much knowledge Manpreet Badal.
Harsimrat has
recently figured in newspaper advertisements, her face peeping out
from an ad of the Punjab School Education Department which had
invited her as a special guest at a state-level Teachers’ Day
function. Her contributions to the vocation of teaching are a
closely guarded secret in the state. Earlier, she was the prima
donna at the launch of the Nanhi-Chhaan programme held at
Golden
Temple
in Amritsar last month to distribute saplings as prasad, a straight
lift of an initiative of then jathedar, Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib,
Bhai Manjit Singh in 1999.
The only time
Harsimrat and her mom-in-law are seen in public is when they have to
address crowds of women during electioneering. With chances of
Manpreet contesting the Lok Sabha election from Bathinda ruled out,
Harsimrat could be the one being nurtured for the Bathinda seat
which also has the Lambi Assembly segment as its part.
10 September 2008
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