The current Punjab government should be grateful that the issue now is not between them and those who want the canal — the Centre, Haryana or the SC. Badal effectively removed forever the government from the scene and put the real masters – the people, or more specifically the farmers – in charge of the narrative of their destiny
In the tumultuous terrain of a front-line Sikh majority state, Parkash Singh Badal was the quintessential moderate, a secular man, and a fighter for Punjab.
Parkash Singh Badal, a five-time chief minister of Punjab and the last surviving member of a political generation that saw independence, has died at 95. He was a pragmatic practitioner of communal harmony, a liberal and secular man, and an avowed protagonist of and a fierce fighter for Punjab?s interests.