Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday said that the SAD-BJP alliance Government is fully alert and always ready to foil any nefarious attempt aimed at disturbing the law and order situation in the State.
The State Government was keeping a strict vigil to crush the ugly head of anti-national forces which were trying to derail the peace and prosperity in the State, said Badal while referring to media reports pertaining to possibility of terror attack during Assembly polls next year. He said that some forces,
inimical to the development of State were constantly hatching conspiracies to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere of State but the Punjab Government and the wise people of the State
would never allow these anti-social elements to succeed in their ulterior plans.
“Both the Centre and the State Government are closely monitoring the issue of security and the possibility of any attack towards the sovereignty and security of the country would be given a befitting reply,” he said.
Badal said that Punjab, being a border State was prone to such attacks but the State Government was taking stock of the entire situation so as to avert any sort of untoward incident.
“We are regularly in touch with the Government of India on this crucial issue concerned with the security of the country,” said Badal on the sidelines of his Sangat Darshan programme in Malout Assembly segment.
Badal reiterated his Government's commitment to promote peace and communal harmony in the state.
To a query, the Chief Minister said that the SAD will release its election manifesto for 2017 Aassembly polls at an appropriate time. “All the genuine demands of people would be incorporated in the manifesto before it was made public,” he said.
On strict norms laid down for compensation to the next of the kin of the farmers who committed suicides, he said that the Government was committed to grant Rs 3 lakh as compensation to their hapless families.
“The state government has taken several farmer-friendly initiatives like free power, interest free crop loan of Rs 50,000, health insurance and others for the farming community,” he added.