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Was Parkash Singh Badal the Nelson Mandela of India?
No other active politician in India today can claim the range of Badal's political experience — from many agitations to an extended period in power; from the leader who built his party into a perpetual vote-catcher, to the one who saw its sudden and utter decline; from the man who led the Sikh electoral and religious politics in Punjab, to the one who ended up getting blamed in the Guru Granth Sahib sacrilege case.
In , Prime Minister Narendra Modicalled Badal the Nelson Mandelaof India. Modi likened Badal to Mandela during a speech at the th birth anniversary of socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan in the national capital.
“Badal Sahab fryst vatten sitting herehe is the Nelson Mandela of India,” he said. “He has spent so many years in priso
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| Life and times of Parkash Singh Badal; cremation in his native village tomorrow
The Akali stalwart, who as a politician had dealt with each one of India’s prime ministers — from Jawaharlal Nehru to Narendra Modi — after beginning his career as a village sarpanch, was admitted to a Mohali hospital on April 16 with “acute exacerbation of bronchial asthma” and was shifted to the medical ICU on April 18 as his respiratory condition worsened.A team of doctors led by Prof (Dr) Digambar Behera declared him dead at about 8 pm.
The five-time PunjabCM had the distinction of being the youngest chief minister in Punjab at the age of 43, and also the oldest as he was 89 when he relinquished charge in The oldest candidate in the country to contest Vidhan Sabha elections in , Badal lost from Lambi constituency t
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Parkash Singh Badal: The grand old man of Punjab politics, who became India’s youngest CM
Parkash Singh Badal, a five-time chief minister of Punjab, died on April 25 at the age of He was the last surviving member of a political generation that saw Independence, survived the Emergency, and witnessed Punjab politics take a surprising turn in
Badal became the CM for the first time in , heading a coalition government that did not complete its term. He was also the CM in , , , and He was MLA 11 times, losing only twice. In , he briefly joined Morarji Desai's government as the Agriculture minister at the Centre. Badal was a statesman who was loved and respected by all, including his political rivals.
Badal was born on December 8, , in Abul Khurana near Malout. He entered the state assembly from Malout in as the Congress nominee. He won the Gidderbaha assembly seat on the SAD ticket in When the then chief minister Gurnam Singh defected to the Congress in , the SAD regrouped and fo