With this in mind, the CM is visiting every street corner in Bathinda and attending every sangat darshan meetings held here, causing heartburns for SAD leaders in other districts which don't get much attention of the CM. From ward to ward and even street to street the CM is seen doling out sops, listening and addressing grievances of people. Harsimrat Kaur represents Bathinda constituency in the Parliament. With parliamentary elections approaching, Badal seemed to have taken the command of the area to make Harsimrat's victory easy. Harsimrat had won the 2009 parliamentary elections by a margin of over one lakh votes against former chief minister Amarinder Singh' son Raninder Singh but she had fared badly in Bathinda assembly segment where she was 15,000 votes behind.
Apart from the CM, his son and deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal and Harsimrat are also busy attending the sangat darshan meetings. The CM himself is holding sangat darshan since Saturday and meeting people at streets and wards even though the presence of voters are less in the area.
Be it shortage of doctors at primary health centres, lack of schools, problem of cleanliness or even smaller issues, the chief minister is calling upon officers concerned and directing them to solve the issues and report it to him. A senior SAD leader of Mawa region said, "We pray that Badal should spare such time for other constituencies also and make matching efforts for other MPs before the parliamentary elections".
Badal said, "Sangat darshan is the noble way to reach out to people and I always prefer to reach out to people in addressing their genuine grievances at their own place." He said no chief minister in India must be taking such pains in reaching out to people. Sukhbir too is not lagging behind and only a couple of days ago at a meeting with the cotton factory owners in the city in a single stroke waived off Rs 244 crore of arrears of taxes.
Officials feel the heat
The officials had to bear the burnt of the regular sangat darshans, especially in Bathinda parliamentary constituency. The officers had to face many awkward recommendations and had to address such grievances, which don't fall in their preview. An officer on condition of anonymity said they could not skip the regular sangat darshans and on several occasions they come across such issues which are not in their domain but when the CM or the MP asks to do the needful to please the electorates, they have no choice but to fall in line.
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