New Delhi: Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Tuesday gave indications of her eagerness to contest from her present Lok Sabha constituency of Bathinda at a time when speculations around her shifting to another constituency are at a full flow. The Shiromani Akali Dal Bhatinda MP said, “Though it is for the party to decide, if left to me, I will prefer Bathinda on account of the way I have nursed it.”
Harsimrat Kaur Badal is currently the Union Cabinet Minister of Food Processing under the BJP-led NDA regime. She is the wife of Sukhbir Singh Badal who is the former deputy chief minister of Punjab and the president of Shiromani Akali Dal.
Harsimrat began her political career with the 2009 general elections. In the elections she had defeated the Indian National Congress hope Raninder Singh by a whopping margin of over 1.2 lac votes. She was again elected from the Bhatinda constituency in the Lok Sabha polls of 2014 defeating Manpreet Singh Badal.
Her party, Shiromani Akali Dal, currently has 4 members in the Lok Sabha, while 3 are Rajya Sabha members. The party also controls Sikh religious bodies Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee, Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee and is one of the largest and most influential Punjabi political party worldwide.
Earlier, Harsimrat Kaur Badal represented India in the Kartarpur corridor groundbreaking ceremony in Pakistan. An emotional Kaur had said the corridor will bring joy and peace to both countries.
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