Claiming the BJP-led NDA will form the
next government at the Centre, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said
people were fed up with the Congress-led UPA regime that had made their
lives “miserable”.
Badal was in the town today to attend a function to mark the death anniversary of local leader Maan Singh Manhera.
The Chief Minister said: “Rampant corruption coupled with an unprecedented hike in the prices of essential commodities has hit the common man. Now they (the people) are waiting to show them (the UPA government) the door.”
The NDA, of which the Shiromani Akali Dal was a key ally, would emerge as the ultimate choice of electorate in the next Lok Sabha elections, he claimed. On the claim of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Chandigarh, Badal said only Punjab had the legitimate right over the City Beautiful. “Only the parent state has claim over the capital. Any state that has been carved out from the parent state has to build its own capital,” he said.
He said Hooda must stop from making such “frivolous” statements about Chandigarh.
Taking a dig at the Centre’s food security ordinance, Badal said it was a replica the state government’s atta-dal scheme. “We have been providing food security to the poor through this scheme for the past several years,” the Chief Minister said, adding the government would not hesitate in implementing any scheme that was in the larger interest of the poor.
Badal was in the town today to attend a function to mark the death anniversary of local leader Maan Singh Manhera.
The Chief Minister said: “Rampant corruption coupled with an unprecedented hike in the prices of essential commodities has hit the common man. Now they (the people) are waiting to show them (the UPA government) the door.”
The NDA, of which the Shiromani Akali Dal was a key ally, would emerge as the ultimate choice of electorate in the next Lok Sabha elections, he claimed. On the claim of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Chandigarh, Badal said only Punjab had the legitimate right over the City Beautiful. “Only the parent state has claim over the capital. Any state that has been carved out from the parent state has to build its own capital,” he said.
He said Hooda must stop from making such “frivolous” statements about Chandigarh.
Taking a dig at the Centre’s food security ordinance, Badal said it was a replica the state government’s atta-dal scheme. “We have been providing food security to the poor through this scheme for the past several years,” the Chief Minister said, adding the government would not hesitate in implementing any scheme that was in the larger interest of the poor.
