launching a scathing attack on his cousin and Punjab’s former Finance Minister Manpreet Badal, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal on Thursday said that he had betrayed not only the people of Punjab by aligning with “anti-Punjab party” Congress, but has also stabbed Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in the back who put so much of trust in him.
The one who can’t prove loyal to Badal sahib, how can he prove loyal to anybody else, asked Sukhbir while addressing people during his Sangat Darshan at Gidderbaha assembly constituency.
Striking an emotional chord, Sukhbir said that his family has deep and age old bond with Gidderbaha whose electorate has catapulted Badal family to the heights of political glory. “On one side, the people have reposed so much trust in the Badal family, while on the other hand, Manpreet Badal has cheated the people of this constituency by allowing himself to be a Congress ‘sycophant’,” said Sukhbir.
Talking about the developmental works undertaken by the SAD-BJP government during previous nine years, Sukhbir said that the state has gone up on the index of progress only at the time of SAD-BJP government under the leadership of Parkash Singh Badal.
SAD-BJP Government has tried in right earnest to rid the Muktsar area of the water logging menace and the farming sector in the region has seen remarkable prosperity due to the persistent efforts of Parkash Singh Badal, he claimed.
Regarding announcement if candidates for 2017 polls, Sukhbir said that the list of candidates regarding next year’s assembly polls would be announced soon as the first list is almost ready and is being given finishing touches.
On gang war in Tarn Taran, he said that nobody would be allowed to disturb the hard earned peace in the state and the rowdy elements would soon be behind bars.