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April 19th, 2009 Party chiefs throw weight behind nominees Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president and Punjab Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal and Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) acting president Lal Singh today addressed meetings in the city to garner support for their respective candidates. While attending rallies and meetings of SAD-BJP workers, Sukhbir Badal claimed that SAD-BJP would win all the 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab. He was here in the city to promote the election campaign of Gurcharan Singh Galib, the SAD-BJP candidate from Ludhiana constituency. He attended large number of rallies in different areas and meetings of different groups of citizens. He added that the people's verdict in UP and Bihar has shown that the Gandhi family will not ruled this country anymore. He said that Congress ruled this country for half century, but has done nothing to remove the poverty from the country. While giving details of the progress made by the Punjab under the present Government, he declared that the government had fulfiled all the promises made by it during the last Assembly election. He was accompanied by Tourism and Jail Minister Hira Singh Gabaria, Deputy Speaker Punjab Vidhan Sabha Satpal Gosain, M P Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, Chief Parliamentary Secretary Harish Rai Dhanda, MLA Darshan Singh Shivalik, SGPC member Balwinder Singh Bains and many others.