:dateline:Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab and President of Shiromani Akali Dal, Sukhbir Singh Badal, is traversing�the�Majha region�these days, in preparation for the upcoming assembly elections of 2017. The leadership of the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) is making every possible effort to be�victorious in the upcoming assembly elections. The staunch stand of Shiromani Akali Dal on the contentious SYL-Canal issue and on abolishing Sehajdhari votes in SGPC elections, along with other such other stances may�improve�the party�s image.
As part of this effort, Badal�visited�the memorial installed in memory of the martyrs of Operation Blue Star, which is named after�Sant Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale. The memorial was installed on the left side of Sri Akal Takhat Sahib in 2013 amidst controversy.
After visiting the memorial, Sukhbir Badal took on AAP Chief and Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, for his inconsistency�on the matter of the�SYL-Canal construction. Badal said that during his visit to Punjab, Kejriwal tried to deceive�the people of Punjab by saying that AAP was against the construction of the SYL-Canal. However, in court, the counsel of Delhi’s government had backed Haryana�s arguments against Punjab, and thus indirectly supported the canal�s construction.
