Parkash Singh Badal, the former chief minister of Punjab, passed away on Tuesday in a Mohali private hospital.
Son and SAD leader Sukhbir Singh Badal and daughter Parneet Kaur, who is wed to former cabinet minister Adeish Partap Singh Kairon, are the only survivors of Badal. In May 2011, his wife Surinder Kaur Badal passed away from cancer.
In a media bulletin, Fortis Hospital said: “S Parkash Singh Badal, Former Chief Minister of Punjab, was admitted at Fortis Hospital Mohali on 16th April 2023 with acute exacerbation of bronchial asthma.
He was shifted to the medical ICU on 18th April as his respiratory condition worsened. He had been on NIV and HFNC support along with medical management.
He was being managed under Prof (Dr) Digambar Behera along with the Pulmonology and critical care team supported by Cardiology. Despite appropriate medical management S Parkash Singh Badal succumbed to his illness. Fortis Hospital Mohali deeply condoles the death of S Parkash Singh Badal.”
Badal’s mortal remains will be placed at SAD head office in Chandigarh from 10 am to 12 noon on Wednesday. Thereafter, the mortal remains will be taken to Badal village in Muktsar district.
Parkash Singh Badal bio
Parkash Singh Badal was an Indian politician who was Chief Minister of Punjab State from 1970 to 1971, from 1977 to 1980, from 1997 to 2002, and from 2007 to 2017.
On December 8, 1927, Parkash Singh Badal was born in Abul Khurana, a town close to Malout. He was a member of a Jat Sikh family. Badal received his diploma from Lahore’s Forman Christian College.
In 1947, Badal began his political career. Before entering Punjab politics, he served as the village satrap of Badal and later as the chairman of the Lambi Block Samiti. From the Shiromani Akali Dal political party, he first won election to the Punjab Vidhan Sabha in 1957.
As Minister for Community Development, Panchayati Raj, Animal Husbandry, Dairy, and Fisheries after being re-elected in 1969, he served.
He served as the opposition’s leader in 1972, 1980, and 2002. With the exception of the election in February 1992, when he oversaw the Akalis’ boycott of the state elections, he had been elected to the Vidhan Sabha ten times in total, in 1957 and in each election since 1969.
He won the Lambi Assembly constituency in the 1997 elections and had won four elections in a row before to that. In 1977, he was the Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation in Prime Minister Morarji Desai’s administration.
