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Last Updated : Feb 16 2013 | 7:15 PM IST

Meanwhile, senior Congress leader and former Punjab Chief Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal today asked the Moga electorates to trounce the SAD in the bypoll, saying that the Badals' family was turning into "dictators". Addressing a series of public meetings in support of the party candidate Vijay Sathi, Bhattal said, "Badals had grown into dictators and had concentrated all the power in themselves only." She said a firm and strong message needed to be sent to the ruling SAD that their regime cannot last long if they continued like this.

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