jalandhar punjab deputy chief minister sukhbir singh badal has a positive bias towards bathinda represented by his wife harsimrat badal in the parliament for doling out grants from the deputy cms discretionary fund the other two districts which received worth mentioning grants are his home district mukatsar and his brother in law bikram majithias district amritsar information procured under rti act by human empowerment league punjab help general secretary parvinder singh kitna sukhbir badal had given around 80 percent of his discretionary fund in bathinda in 201011 as out of the total fund of rs five crores various parts of bathinda received over rs 402 crores for various development works in the same year amritsar district got grants of worth around rs 45 lakhs from dycms discretions while ludhiana was the only nonvvip district in which sports kits worth rs 30 lakhs were distributed in 165 villages in year 201112 bathinda again got lions share as it bagged rs 365 crores from dy cms discretionary fund out of total rs five crores and muktsar got grants of rs around 84 lakhs according to the information provided by the planning department in year 201213 out of total rs three crores placed at dy cms disposal sukhbir had distributed rs 52 lakhs all in bathinda till march 14 the date by which the information was provided it may be recalled here that chief minister parkash singh badal had showered 98 percent of the grants from his discretionary fund to his home district mukatsar in 201213 in the earlier years also badals home district had been getting lions share from cms discretionary fund in 201112 mukatsar got around 90 percent of the total funds of rs 20 crores before that from 2007 to 2010 mukatsar has been getting around two third of cms discretionary funds