Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday said that the Congress party would taste crushing defeat in the 2017 Assembly polls would be wiped out from the political scene.
He also said that Congress did nothing for the welfare of Punjab and didn’t bring even a single project to the state which should be worth remembering.
Attacking Congress further, the Deputy Chief Minister said that people of Punjab would not come in the sugar coated talk of Captain Amarinder Singh owing to the anti-people policies of the Congress. Taking on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Sukhbir said that the leaders of this party are deliberately tarnishing the image of Punjabis and the people should give a befitting reply to the malicious campaign mounted by this party.
Addressing public rallies after laying the foundation stone of irrigation projects for Malwa region worth Rs 225.29 crore, the Deputy Chief Minister said that the SAD-BJP Government has put Punjab on the road to development which today stands counted amongst the top notch states in terms of success on developmental and progress parameters. He stated that all the welfare oriented schemes such as shagan scheme, pension scheme, atta-dal scheme, free bicycles to school girls, free health insurance scheme, free power to farmers, free power worth 200 units to SC-BC households, distribution of sewing machines to women, sports kits to youth, commencement of sewa kendars among others are the crowning glories of the SAD-BJP government.
Earlier, the Union Food Processing Industries Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Sukhbir Singh Badal laid the foundation stones of lining of canal watercourses of ghaggar branch at a cost of Rs 209.09 crore at village Bakshiwala and reconstruction of 13 KM of bhikhi distributary at a cost of Rs 16.20 crore.
The Union Minister while addressing the gathering said that with the initiation of these projects 147 villages of Budhlada and Sardulgarh constituencies would be immensely benefitted and the farmers of Malwa belt would also undergo a sea change.
She said that it was the long pending demand of the farming community of these constituencies for the lining of watercourses which was fulfilled in two years span as per the promise made during lok Sabha elections. Strongly castigating PPCC president Captain Amarinder Singh for sharing through social media the photographs of border villages near barbed wire fence during his visit and making public the video of parliament house by an AAP MP, she said that the Congress and AAP should desist from jeopardizing the security of the country for political gains.
Harsimrat said that these leaders are letting out secrets of national security through videos and photographs which is condemnable. She appealed to the people to hand out a crushing defeat to anti-national parties in the coming assembly polls in the state and give another chance to the SAD-BJP alliance so as to write new success stories for Punjab everyday.