Bathinda, Dec. 20 -- Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday said the results of the zila parishad and panchayat samiti elections indicate that the party has regained electoral ground in the state. Addressing party workers at Badal village in Muktsar, the former deputy chief minister said the SAD had a better strike rate than the Congress. Sukhbir, who felicitated the Muktsar district leadership, said that most of the rejections of SAD candidates' nominations were due to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government. "SAD contested 673 fewer seats than the Congress due to the large-scale rejection of nomination papers of our candidates. AAP was able to get its 351 candidates elected unopposed out of a total of 2,838 block samiti seats by using unfair means. It also succeeded in getting 1,024 nomination papers of SAD candidates rejected on flimsy grounds or simply tore them," said Badal. Badal said that the party candidates scored high in Bathinda, Muktsar and Faridkot, and the SAD would be able to get its candidates elected as zila parishad chairpersons in these south Malwa districts. HTC...