Hailing the approval of eastern freight corridor between Amritsar and Kolkata, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leaders representing Majha region said that it would complement the SAD-BJP Government’s endeavour for rapid industrialisation and boosting trade activities in the border region of the State.
In a joint statement, the Cabinet Ministers Bikram Majithia and Gulzar Singh Ranike, Chief Parliamentary Secretaries Inderbir Singh Bolaria, Harmit Singh Sandhu and Virsa Singh Valtoha, MlAs Manjit Singh Mianwind and Baljit Singh Jalal Usman, expressed their gratitude to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal for their concerted efforts for getting this project implemented.
“Besides repeated written requests by the State Government, Chief Minister and his deputy made number of visits to Prime Minister and various Union Ministries for early implementation of this prestigious project,” they added.
lambasting the Congress-led UPA for its unnecessary and long delay for more than nine years in approving this major project, they pointed out that SAD-BJP Government was relentlessly pursuing it but the Union Government continued its bias against Punjab especially the Majha region.
They equally blamed the State Congress leadership for its criminal silence on the grave injustice being done to Punjab by Congress-led UPA for the last nine years before giving paper approval just at the fag end of its second tenure.
They said that it had now tried to balance the things on the eve of ensuing lok Sabha election through this paper approval but the intelligent electorates of the country have already made their mind to bundle out this most corrupt and in-efficient government of the country since independence.