Former Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal passes away

April 27, 2023

Parkash Singh Badal, a former Chief Minister of Punjab and leader of the Akali Dal, has passed away at the age of 95 in Mohali.
Badal was born in Abul Khurana, a village in Punjab near the Rajasthan border, and received his education at Lahore’s Forman Christian College.
He started his political career as a village sarpanch and went on to contest assembly elections for the first time in 1957 as a member of the Congress party.
He became the youngest Chief Minister of Punjab at the age of 43.
CM terms 1970-1971, 1977-1980, 1997-2002, 2007-2012, 2012-2017.
Badal received the Padma Vibhushan award, the second-highest civilian honour in the country from the government in 2015.
- He had returned the same in 2020 in protest against the treatment of protesting farmers by the Central government.