Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday termed the chaiwala remark of Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar as unfortunate and unwarranted.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of Sangat Darshan here, he said, in the mad race to target Modi for scoring brownie points before their bosses, the Congress leaders have forgotten the entire morality in the political arena and this derogatory remark reflects their myopic mindset. Badal said that the former US President Abraham lincoln had also risen from the slums to become the President of the United States. “Rather than making such remarks we must respect the great people,” he added.
Making a scathing attack on the Congress, the Chief Minister said that due to its ‘misrule’ for several decades, the nation was confronting a large number of social maladies like unemployment, corruption, inflation, poverty, illiteracy, starvation and others. Exhorting the people to give a crushing defeat to the Congress, he said that this was the only way to eradicate the social maladies faced by the country. Badal said that this was the right opportunity to wipe out the Congress as it was not having any powerful leader to lead them.
Badal said that in dearth of powerful leadership, an inexperienced person like Rahul Gandhi was at the helms of the affairs in the party due to which the fall of this party was inevitable. “The pitiable condition of the Congress was in the favor of the country and its people because they can easily get rid of it” he added.
He said that it was writing on wall that Narendra Modi would become the Prime Minister of the country. “When Modi will become the Prime Minister of the country then an era of unprecedented development will be ushered in the State,” he added. Earlier Badal honored Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) workers who were either martyred or had undergone confinement in struggle to upheld democracy in various agitations in public interest. He said they were the pride of party and the State.
Honoring such party workers or their kin during the Sangat Darshan program of Gidderbaha Assembly segment, the Chief Minister said that he was highly indebted to these workers, who had made countless sacrifices for the cause of the party. The Chief Minister was accompanied by lok Sabha MP Paramjeet Kaur Gulshan, former Union Minister Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, Akali leader Veerpal Kaur Tarmala and his Special Principal Secretary KJS Cheema.