BREAKING: Famous Punjabi Singer Sardool Sikander Passes Away; 'Huge Loss To Music Industry', Say Capt. Amarinder, Daler Mehndi

<p>Famous Punjabi singer Sardool Sikander died at Fortis Hospital in Mohali on Wednesday. The 66-year-old singer was keeping ill for a long time and was admitted to a private hospital. According to the media reports, Sardool even tested positive for the novel COVID-19 recently.&nbsp;</p> <p>Taking note of the development, Punjab Congress condoled the death of the singer saying that his contribution to Punjabi music industry was immesnse. "May his soul rest in peace."</p> <p>&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Paying condolences to the family members of Sardool Sikander Ji whose contribution towards Punjabi music induatey is immense. May his soul rest in peace. &lt;a href="https://t.co/tCnn2hqFnk"&gt;pic.twitter.com/tCnn2hqFnk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Punjab Congress (@INCPunjab) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/INCPunjab/status/1364472425115607042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 24, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> <p>Popular Punjabi singer Daler Mehndi also took to Twitter to pay tributes and said it is a huge loss to the music industry.</p> <p>&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p lang="tl" dir="ltr"&gt;Bade dukh Di khabar Sardool Sikandar saheb nahi rahe big loss our family and music Industry &lt;a href="https://t.co/px1AHOkJwG"&gt;pic.twitter.com/px1AHOkJwG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Daler Mehndi (@dalermehndi) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/dalermehndi/status/1364469954741870597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;February 24, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> <p>Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh too mourned the death of Sardool. Taking to his official Twiiter handle, the chief minister said: "Extremely saddened to learn of the demise of legendary Punjabi singer Sardool Sikander. He was recently diagnosed with #Covid19 and was undergoing treatment for the same. The world of Punjabi music is poorer today. My heartfelt condolences to his family and fans."</p> <p>Sukhbir Singh Badal, former Dy CM of Punjab, said he was "saddened to learn about the demise of legendary Punjabi playback singer Sardool Sikander. A huge loss to Punjabi movie &amp; music Industry. Prayers for his family, friends &amp; fans. May his soul rest in peace!"</p>

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