With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh scheduled to lay the foundation of Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital at Mullanpur near Chandigarh on December 30, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday said that it was a result of persistent efforts made by the State Government.
Addressing a gathering after laying down the foundation stone of a Special School, Badal said that the Hospital would prove a big boon for the State’s cancer patients to avail quality cancer treatment facilities.
“We have been repeatedly pursuing this matter with the Central Government so as to ensure that this project is approved by it. Similarly, the State Government has also taken a number of other initiatives to facilitate the cancer patients in the State,” he said.
Exhorting the people to make up their mind for electing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister, the Chief Minister said that it was required for development of the country in general and State in particular.
Reiterating that Congress was not having any leader of Modi’s stature, he said that the Congress was afraid of NDA’s prime ministerial candidate due to which it was shying away from declaring its Prime Ministerial candidate. “Only few months are left for the voters to take a decisive decision, which would either make or mar the future of the nation,” he added.
lashing out at the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre, Badal said that there was hardly any Government in the country due to which the people’s woes have been accentuated.
Badal, earlier interacting with the media persons, said that the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) was open with the idea to contest elections on lok Sabha seats even outside the State. “SAD’s success rate outside the State has been very high as it has won majority of seats contested by it,” he said.
The Chief Minister said that the voters outside the State have reposed their faith time and again in SAD’s pro-people and development oriented policies therefore, they were not averse to the idea of contesting the lok Sabha seats even outside the state. “However, we will take the final call on this issue after thorough discussions with the BJP, our alliance partner at the national and State level,” he added.
later speaking at a rally in ludhiana, Badal said that the installation of NDA Government at the Centre was mandatory to maintain the tempo of overall growth and prosperity in the State.
Addressing a public gathering after laying the foundation stone of Government Residential School in the premises of local Government College for Boys, he said that the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre was deliberately discriminating against the Opposition
Governments in the State on the issue of disbursement of grants and were even stalling the process of development according to the felt needs of these State Governments.
Badal said that the countrymen could only get rid of mass employment and uncontrollable inflation only if NDA was voted to power at the Centre. “The recent elections have almost proved that Congress would be decimated from the country in the near future,” he added.