A 'battle royale' in Punjab's Lambi

Lambi is the pocket borough of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. But the constituency is set to witness a triangular fight in the assembly polls this time with Congress' Amarinder Singh and AAP's Jarnail Singh throwing their hats into the ring. (TOI photo)

89-year-old Badal has represented the seat four times in the past. But this time around, the ruling dispensation faces the daunting task of neutralising the anti-incumbency factor. (PTI photo)

Amarinder has said he entered the fray from Lambi to "cook Badal's goose". "I will teach the Badals a lesson for all their crimes and misdeeds. I will get all cases of sacrilege investigated, and if they (Badals) are found guilty, I will throw them into jail," he said. (PTI photo)

Amarinder Singh, who turns 75 in March, has announced that this is the last election of his life. His campaign in Lambi is led by his son Raninder Singh, while Amarinder, tasked to spearhead Congress to power after 10 years, campaigns across the state. (PTI photo)

The Aam Aadmi Party, a new entrant in Punjab's electoral politics, is banking on the anti-incumbency factor. "Badal nahin badlav (not Badal but change)" is the slogan that the Aam Aadmi Party has coined for the Assembly polls. (TOI photo)

Jarnail Singh, the AAP candidate from Lambi, is a former journalist who had first shot into limelight in 2009 when he hurled a shoe at the then Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in Delhi. He was a member of the Delhi Assembly but resigned to contest from Lambi. (PTI photo)

For Badal, the campaign for Lambi started on an ugly note when a youth hurled a shoe at him, but the veteran of many electoral battles is unperturbed. Badal is confident that people will defeat his political opponents who follow the ideology of "destruction and discrimination". (TOI photo)