SAD to kickstart election campaign for Lok Sabha polls from Aug 19

Chandigarh, July 19

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) will start campaigning for the 2019 general elections from August 19.

The party would hold its first election rally at Pipli in Haryana, an official statement said on Thursday.

SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal said, “The party will sound the poll bugle for Lok Sabha elections with its first election rally at Pipli on August 19.”

This was decided at a meeting held with the district party observers from Haryana, he said.

He said Sharanjit Singh Sotha, the party president of the Haryana unit, as well as the party’s women wing president in the state, Ravinder Kaur Ajrana, presented a report in the meeting which was approved by all the observers.

SAD leader Sikandar Singh Maluka had already been appointed as the observer for Rajasthan to accelerate the party activities in the poll-bound state, Badal said. PTI