Amritsar: Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today dared the Congress leaders to list out any single contribution of their party towards the development of the state ever since independence.
Addressing the mammoth gathering during the Shiromani Akali Dal’s (SAD) conference here on Rakhar Punia, the Chief Minister said that it was on record that the Congress has always done grave injustice to the state by adopting anti-Punjab stance. He said that due to the wrong policies of the successive Congress governments at the centre the industry and agriculture of the state has been ruined. Mr. Badal said that not only this but the Congress has inflicted deep wound on Sikh psyche by unnecessarily meddling in our social, political, economic and religious matters. “We have been wrongfully deprived of our capital, legitimate share in river waters and Punjabi speaking areas by the Congress” he added.
The Chief Minister said that hard working and resilient farmers of Punjab had exploited their natural resources to make the country self reliant in food production. Likewise he said that the brave Punjabis have made immense contribution in the national freedom struggle besides safeguarding the borders of the nation. However Mr. Badal said that instead of recognizing the contribution of Punjabis, the Congress has always derailed the development process in the state.
Coming down heavily on the Congress led UPA government, the Chief Minister said that the Food security Act of the union government was nothing more than a political gimmick adding that the Congress was not at all serious for passing it. He said that if the Congress was really worried about poor then there was hardly any need for bringing this act in Parliament as the SAD-BJP government had already initiated Atta-Dal scheme by a single executive order. Mr. Badal said that it was unfortunate that due to wrong policies of Congress even more than six decades of our independence people were not able to get two square of meal for them.
Comparing the Congress with a parasite plant ‘Amarvel’, the Chief Minister said that the wrong policies of the Congress have ruined the country. He said that the Congress has remained at the helms of the affairs of country for around six decades but it had miserably failed to solve the problems of the countrymen. Mr. Badal said that rather than ensuring progress of the country every step of the Congress has ruined the country.
The Chief Minister said that it was writing on the wall that the NDA would form the next government at the centre adding that in the next Rakhar Punia conference the Prime Minister of NDA would attend the conference. He said that in that conference all the pending issues of the state would be resolved from the Union government. “All of us must pledge from this sacred land to oust the Congress from power at the centre” Mr. Badal added.
The Chief Minister, while greeting the people on Rakhar Punia, said that land of Baba Bakala was a pious land for the Sikhism and humanity. He said that this land of Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib was highly revered not only by the Sikhs but by all the strata of society. Mr. Badal said that Guru Sahib had taught us to fight against tyraany, injustice and oppression due to which the Punjabis had played a pivotal role in freedom struggle and later preserving the borders of country besides ensuring food security to the country. He said that not only this we had upheld of the ethos of democracy by protesting against the Emergency imposed by the then Congress government 1975.
In his address President of Youth Akali Dal and Information & Public Relations Minister Mr. Bikram Singh Majithia said that the history would remember the Congress led UPA government as the most corrupt government of the Indian polity. He said that the corrupt Congress leaders have amassed huge wealth by ruthlessly plundering the public money adding that in just nine years of their regime the Congress leaders have surpassed the figures of loot done by Britishers in 250 years of their rule in India.
Prominent amongst those present on the occasion included Cabinet Ministers Mr. Gulzar Singh Ranike and Mr. Anil Joshi, Lok Sabha MP Dr. Rattan Singh Ajnala, state President of BJP Mr. Kamal Sharma, Chief Parliamentary Secretaries Mr. Inderbir Singh Bularia and Mr. Harmeet Singh Sandhu, MLAs Bibi Jagir Kaur, Mr. Manjeet Singh Manna and Mr. Baljeet Singh Jalal Usma besides several members of SGPC and leaders of SAD-BJP.