Punjab News Barnala may quit as Tamil Nadu governor

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B.R
Staff member
Ludhiana April 7:

Tamil Nadu Governor Surjit Singh Barnala, also a former Punjab Chief Minister, may put in his papers around May to make yet another entry into active politics in Punjab before the Assembly poll. His gubernatorial term is due to expire in November this year.

This has also been confirmed by his wife Surjit Kaur Barnala and son Jasjit Singh Barnala, who, along with some of their supporters, were in the city to mobilise old loyalists as well as disgruntled supporters of CM Parkash Singh Badal for the second political innings of Surjit Singh Barnala.

Talking to mediapersons at the Circuit House, Surjit Kaur made it clear that a massive rally would be organised at Barnala under the banner of the SAD (Longowal) sometime in May this year, which would also be attended by the incumbent Tamil Nadu Governor. While she refused to elaborate further, one of the close supporters of Barnala, Baldev Singh Mann, a former minister, indicated that their leader (Barnala) would not wait for his term to expire in November and resign.

The former CM’s wife left nobody in doubt about their party raising a banner of revolt against Badal and his son Sukhbir Badal both in the state politics and the gurdwara affairs. “We have got our party, the SAD (Longowal), registered with the Gurdwara Election Commission and parleys are on with Ravi Inder Singh of the Akali Dal (1920) and Paramjit Singh Sarna of the DSGMC to contest the next SGPC poll on a joint platform,” she said.

Keeping the option of joining hands with Manpreet Badal open, she said their party would not hesitate to work with all those groups and parties that were committed to ridding Panthic politics and gurdwara affairs of the Badal family. In the wake of members of Barnala’s family taking a clear “anti-Badal” stand, their visit to the residence of former SAD president Jagdev Singh Talwandi and a meeting with him for over half an hour, assumes greater political significance.

Although what transpired at the meeting was not known, Talwandi, at present the senior Vice-President of the SAD, had recently launched a verbal attack against Badal at a state-level function held to observe the death anniversary of Gurcharan Singh Tohra.

 
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