Punjab Deputy Chief Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Badal on Sunday said that the SAD, in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), would contest upcoming lok Sabha polls on development plank.
“The SAD-BJP alliance’s sole agenda is development and it will contest the lok Sabha polls on development plank alone,” he said. He claimed that the Congress was trying to woo voters with “false propaganda” regarding the State’s fiscal health and development works, “but the people know the reality and would vote for NDA in the upcoming parliamentary elections”.
Punjab is set for massive progress in the next two years with infusion of infrastructure projects worth Rs 3,600 crore in both rural and urban areas, he said. “Punjab would become the No. 1 State in the country on all fronts soon with the SAD-BJP Government going in for complete transformation of all basic amenities in the entire State,” he said. Sukhbir said that in the first phase, 52 towns would witness an improvement in civic amenities with Rs 3,600 crore being earmarked for potable water, sewage, sewerage treatment plants, concrete roads and street lights.
Having made country self-reliant in food production, Sukhbir said: “Punjab has now achieved the unique distinction of being self-reliant in power besides the best road and air-connectivity, world-class infrastructure in all sectors and online citizen centric services.” He said that the recently-held investment and agriculture summits in Mohali had attracted big industrialists to the state, and set the state on the path to emerge as an ultimate industrial and IT destination.
Expediting the pace of development in Punjab, the Deputy Chief Minister laid a number of foundation stones of various development projects across the State last month, including 23 Sewerage Treatment Plants (STPs) and water supply schemes in various cities and towns, installation of RO plants to ensure safe drinking water to the rural areas, an exclusive Neo Natal Hospital equipped with all high tech machinery at Kotkapura, among others