Undeterred by the criticism mounted by Congress, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday announced that he would hold Sangat Darshan across the State in four days of a week.
He said this was to give further impetus to the development of the State besides ensuring prompt redressal of grievances of people. Talking to reporters at the headquarters of Jamaat-e-Ahmediyya here, the Chief Minister said that Sangat Darshan program was a very fruitful exercise as it brought the Government virtually at the doorsteps of the people. He said that people were able to get their pending issues resolved immediately. Brushing aside the criticism from the Congress, Badal said the sole aim of this entire exercise was to give boost to the ongoing development in the State.
“People of the State were the masters of the Government and nobody including the Congress leaders could deter him for holding Sangat Darshans to ensure the well being of people,” he said. Badal said that on one day each he would hold Sangat Darshan in the Assembly segments of Doaba and Majha region, whereas another two days of week would be dedicated for Sangat Darshan in Assembly segments of Malwa region. The Congress leaders were making hue and cry over the Sangat Darshan just to score brownie points in media whereas it was on record that the State was largely being benefitted from it, he added.
lashing out at the Congress leaders from the State, the Chief Minister said that being afraid of their high command, the State Congress leadership had never bothered to raise any issue to safeguard the interests of the State. He further said that the Congress leaders had merely remained mute spectators to the step motherly treatment meted out by the Congress-led Union Governments with the State. Badal dared the Congress leaders to question their leadership at the Centre about the poor economic scenario of the country.
Making a scathing attack on the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre, the Chief Minister said that the Union Government has miserably failed on all the fronts and added that neither the Union Government had been able to protect the sovereignty of the country nor it has made any attempt to check the dwindling position of Rupee in the international market.
Badal said that the grim fiscal situation of the country could be well judged from the fact that even the Prime Minister and Finance Minister had admitted that the Indian economy has failed. The Chief Minister also said that the Union Government had failed to rein in mounting inflation in the country due to which the backbone of the common man has been broken.
He said that even the regressive policies of the UPA Government has also ruined the farming community of the State, which had made the country self reliant in food production. Badal said in such situation the formation of NDA Government was the need of the hour because the interests of the country were safe in the hands of NDA. Earlier addressing the gathering during the Sangat Darshan program at Qadian, Tugalwal and Jhinder, the Chief Minister said that in coming three years complete transformation of the Qadian assembly segment would take place.