Buoyed by the victory in the Khadoor Sahib bypoll, Shiromani Akali Dal president and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday said the victory of party candidate Ravinder Singh Brahmpura with a huge margin was an endorsement of the policies of the SAD as well as governance model of the SAD- BJP Government.
Terming it as a "historic" victory, Badal, in a statement said this completely rejected the left out main players who had boycotted the poll. "The real reason for the boycott is that both the Congress and AAP realised they would face a humiliating defeat", he added.
Coming down on Congress and AAP, SAD president said AAP had tried its luck earlier in Talwandi Sabo and Patiala by-election. He said the Congress could not find a suitable candidate in Dhuri by-election but was forced to adopt the grandson of ex-CM Surjit Singh Barnala who also could not face the SAD wave," he said.
The Deputy CM said Congress and AAP were indulging in leveling false and baseless allegations on the state government and even asked the electorates to boycott the voting but the people of the state had given a befitting reply to them by rejecting their sham propaganda.