Both SAD general secretaries said they understood Khaira’s plight and also why he had challenged Mr Bikram Majithia to a public debate. “Khaira lost the last election miserably to Bibi Jagir Kaur from Bholath. After having been rejected by the people of Bholath he has migrated to Chandigarh and is now trying to become politically relevant again by throwing challenges to senior SAD leaders”, they said. Advising Khaira not to over reach himself, saying he was already paying for his unbridled ambition with even the Pradesh Congress having started ignoring him, the leaders said if all the former leader wanted was a debate the same could be arranged but with a leader of the same league as his. Both senior akali leaders also advised Khaira to learn to recognize and digest the truth. “Is it not a truth that you yourself as well as your party were rejected by the people of the State who delivered a historic verdict reaffirming their faith in the SAD-BJP government led by chief minister Parkash Singh Badal in 2012?”, they asked.

Calling Congress the enemy of the state, the leaders said that frustrated politicians from the Congress were hell bent upon stopping investors from investing in Punjab and were creating figures to suit their fiction. Mr Grewal said the truth was that annual percentage growth of GDP which was recorded at 7.9 during NDA rule in 2003 had gone down to 3.2 in 2012 during the Congress led UPA regime. He said similarly Punjab on its part had exceeded the targets set by the Planning Commission. He said against a target of 5.9 per cent Punjab had achieved 6.73 per cent. He said that the revenue receipts had also gone up during SAD-BJP rule as compared to the Congress government of 2002-2007. He said during five years of Congress rule (2002-2007) a total of 27339.66 crore revenue receipt were collected whereas during the five year of SAD-BJP rule (2007-2012) a total of 55148.89 crore were collected, which was 27809.23 crore more than the previous government.