Sukhbir has admitted failure of his own development model: Bajwa
Thursday, 17/04/2014
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Amritsar: The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President, Partap Singh Bajwa, here said that Deputy Chief Minister and the Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal has admitted the utter failure of his own development model while projecting the Gujarat model for the entire country.
Bajwa while addressing a series of meeting in Nawan Shalla, Tibri Cantt, Chawa Chowk, Purana Shalla, Talibpur Pandori, Paniar Ghanaian, Dodwan, Behrampur, Dorangla villages of Dina Nagar constituency said that it was a well known fact that the Gujarat model of Narendra Modi amounted to favouring a microscopic minority that had collapsed on the human development scale and Sukhbir Singh Badal should just go through the statistic of that state on issues like student drop-out rate, malnutrition etc. He said Gujarat was a laggard state as compared to the national average on such indices.
The PPCC chief who was seeking re-election from Gurdaspur said that Congress Vice-President, Rahul Gandhi, had rightly punctured the Gujarat model by referring to the fact that Modi had only been trying to appease some selected industrialists in the state by offering them land for peanuts. He said now this crony capital was funding the campaign of the Bharatiya Janata Party at the national level. He said the BJP in general and Modi in particular must explain the source of money for heavy advertising in media. He said Punjab at one time had been the most developed state, but it had lagged behind in the wake of lack of vision of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son.
He said, “Akali Dal was trying to create a hype in the name of Modi as this government had failed to come up to the expectations of the people and implement the promises made in the manifesto due to the financial crisis in which the Badal government had landed the state in. Even such like the doubling of old age pensions had not been kept. Not only that, the beneficiaries were not getting such pensions on time and the state government was faltering time and again.
He said Sukhbir Badal should tell people as to why Modi ignored the three main issues raised by Badal at the Jagraon rally. He said Modi and the BJP manifesto were talking of inter-linking of rivers to which the Akali Dal opposed.