PATIALA: Senior Akali leader, five-time legislator of Chamkaur Sahib, and twice Punjab cabinet minister, Satwant Kaur Sandhu, died at a private hospital in Mohali on Friday night after a fortnight of fighting Covid-19. She was 80.
She had first served as a minister for social welfare and public health, while from 2000 to 2002, held the charge of grievances and pensions, youth services, and printing and stationery. She would have turned 81 on February 22. Her son, Harmohan Singh Sandhu, who quit as AIG to join the Shiromani Akali Dal in 2019, said: “My mother was in public life since 1975. She was now chairperson of the party’s women’s and Scheduled Caste wings. In 1987, she was chairperson of Punjab Leather Corporation.”