Veteran Akali leader and Punjab minister Gurdev Singh Badal dies of illness

Author(s): City Air NewsLudhiana, March 28, 2017: Eighty-five-years-old senior Akali leader and former agriculture minister Gurdev Singh Badal breathed his last at the local DMCH (Dayanand Medical College and Hospital). He was admitted...

Veteran Akali leader and Punjab minister Gurdev Singh Badal dies of illness
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Ludhiana, March 28, 2017: Eighty-five-years-old senior Akali leader and former agriculture minister Gurdev Singh Badal breathed his last at the local DMCH (Dayanand Medical College and Hospital).
He was admitted to DMCH for treatment a few days ago.
He had been 5-time MLA from the Panjgrain assembly constituency in the Faridkot district.
Gurdev Singh Badal was a noted close confident of the former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal.He was first elected in the year 1977.
The Punjab Government today declared the second-half day holiday in all its offices, corporations, educational institutions, and boards through out the state in view of the death of Gurdv Singh Badal.

Date: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2017