Our Correspondent

Sangrur, November 19

The ex-servicemen wing of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) yesterday demanded two tickets for the ex-servicemen from SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal for the current Assembly elections.State president of the wing Gurjinder Singh Sidhu said the ex-servicemen and serving Army personnel were in great strength in the state and they had about 25 lakh votes. Besides, there were also 55,000 widows of ex-servicemen in the state. Therefore, the party president should give them representation in the Assembly elections by allotting the party ticket, he added.Sidhu regretted that during the previous Assembly elections not even a single ticket was allotted to the ex-servicemen by the party due to which they had been feeling ignored.