Shiromani Akali Dal president and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday lashed at Congress-led UPA for creating artificial crises of shortage of sand and gravel by issuing wrong EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) notification 2006.
He said that UPA amended this policy partially only when SAD-BJP Government forced it to do so by passing a resolution in the Punjab Assembly. He promised that NDA would amend all the policies Congress led UPA framed policies aimed at the loot of natural resources of the nation as soon as it voted to power.
Interacting with media persons while campaigning for Akali Dal candidate Prem Singh Chandumajra from Fatehgarh Sahib, he said that whole nation was facing scarcity of sand and gravel as Congress led UPA intentionally put the sand mining in legal complications. He said that wrong EIA notification made it difficult for a common person to build his home besides causing collapse of the construction industry in the country.
The SAD president said the single point agenda of Congress was to loot the country and its resources. Earlier addressing a rally, Badal appealed to the voters of the Anandpur Sahib constituency to vote for Chandumajra saying he would effectively raise the issues of the area in the parliament besides getting required grants and projects for the area from the NDA government He said casting a vote for Congress candidate would not make any difference as party was already on the verge of extinction.