Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal on Sunday claimed that during previous nine years, the SAD-BJP has carried out record development in the State.
He exhorted the people to again vote for SAD-BJP in 2017 assembly elections in order to ensure that the rapid pace of progress initiated in urban, rural, industrial and social sectors continues un-hindered.
“This is a golden period for Punjab as alliance partner of SAD, the BJP is ruling at the Centre as the SAD-BJP government of the state would be able to take Punjab to further heights of glory owing to better co-ordination with the NDA government,” said Sukhbir while addressing ‘Vikas Parv’ rally in the Malwa region organised to mark the completion of NDA government’s two years in office.
Presenting Punjab’s success story, Sukhbir said that the State Government under the leadership of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal is scripting story after story of Punjab's development but the opposition parties are out to foment trouble by unleashing a misinformation campaign to malign the name of Punjab.
Sukhbir, making the picture clear about Punjab’s development scenario, said that the state government adopted revolutionary measures during previous nine years to keep the economy in a robust condition which resulted in increased tax receipts and debt rate registering a decline.
He further said that opposition parties are spreading white lies about the debt situation in Punjab whereas the states of Haryana, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat have debt rate much higher than that of Punjab.
“The state government has increased the revenues of the state by sound economic planning and according to that ratio, the incurred debt is very less,” he added.
Sukhbir profusely thanked Arun Jaitley for giving prestigious AIIIMS-Bathinda, IIM-Amritsar and other projects to Punjab.
Taking on the previous UPA government, the Union Food Processing Industries Minister and Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal said that it never paid any heed to the development of Punjab in general and Bathinda in particular.
“NDA government, on the other hand, selected Bathinda amongst 200 cities chosen where the achievements of previous two years of NDA would be showcased,” she said.
Terming UPA as a government of scandals, she dared the Congress to list a single achievement during its decade long rule at the Centre.