Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal on Monday asked the Punjab Congress leadership to stop “openly urging leading national and international business and industrial houses not to invest in Punjab”.
“Instead of joining hands with us in promoting the state and bringing more investments for development and economic prosperity of our people, the Congress leaders, including State party chief Partap Singh Bajwa, have actually gone into an overdrive to campaign against the interests of their home State, going to the extent of telling even the Tatas not to be misled into investing in Punjab,” said Badal, in an official statement.
He added, “I am shocked to see Congress leaders getting so panicky on seeing the economic resurgence of Punjab. The Congress is crestfallen that even the Reserve Bank of India has now rated Punjab as one of the three best investment destinations in the country.”
They could not believe what they are seeing and neither do they like it, and that is why they have launched a massive propaganda campaign to dissuade investors from coming to Punjab, said Badal while appealing them to stop betraying the land that gave them birth and fed them. “It is sad to see them so upset over good news about Punjab,” the Chief Minister added.