Asserting that protecting hard-earned peace, communal harmony and national integration was the main agenda of his Government, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday claimed that certain forces, inimical to the State, were trying to disrupt the tranquility for political gains.
“The main agenda of the SAD-BJP Government is to safeguard the hard-earned peace, communal harmony and national integration,” he said, on the sidelines of his sangat darshan programme in Khanna Assembly segment.
In reply to a question related to desecration of holy books of different religions in State, Badal said that some anti-social elements are constantly on the lookout for disrupting peace and communal harmony in Punjab, but the state government would never let them succeed in their evil motives.
He also appealed to the people to remain vigilant from such anti-social elements of the society. As regards the SAD's announcement of candidates for the next year's Assembly election, he said that there was still a lot of time for the polls and it would be made at an appropriate time. Badal, addressing a Sangat Darshan programme, said that every region on the planet was gifted with one natural resource or the other and the inhabitants of a particular area had complete rights over the ones found there.
He said that nature has gifted water and fertile land to Punjab and also accused the Congress as well as the Aam Aadmi Party of constantly trying to rob the state of its waters.
Badal claimed that if these parties succeeded in achieving their objective, it would hit the state's economy, adding that not only farmers, but traders, labourers and all others would be affected as it was based on agriculture. Calling upon the people to be prepared to protect the state's waters at any cost, Badal claimed that only the SAD had fought for Punjab's rights and it would remain firm in its stance.
In a bid to increase the revenue of panchayats, he announced tubewell connections on priority basis for all lands owned by them. He also urged the village panchayats to get tubewell connections as per the requirement of their land, so that the income of panchayats increases and it is used for different development works.