Deputy Chief Minister and SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on the second day of his two-day election tour to the Khadoor Sahib constituency addressed nine election rallies in various villages of the area, seeking support for party candidate Ravinder Singh Brahmpura.
Sukhbir said the victory of SAD in the bypoll would be victory of development and would lay the foundation for the SAD-BJP alliance win in the 2017 Assembly elections.
Addressing gatherings, Sukhbir urged the people to vote for Brahmpura to give a befitting answer to opposition parties, who had chosen to run away from the elections.
“Our victory besides being a referendum on the policies of the SAD-BJP government will be a lesson to both Congress and AAP who have disrespected the electorate by boycotting the bypoll,” he added.
Stating that the development in rural Punjab happened only during the SAD rule, Sukhbir said all facilities be it free power to the agriculture sector, old age pension, atta-dal scheme, shagun scheme and even the latest free-of-cost medical insurance scheme with a cover of Rs 50,000 per annum had been initiated during the SAD-BJP rule. He added that soon there would be influx of funds in rural areas with Rs 4,000 crore being earmarked for upgrading streets and drains in the state.
Sukhbir said in direct contrast to total ban on government recruitment during the previous Congress regime, one lakh youth had been given government jobs already by the SAD-BJP government and another 1.2 lakh would be recruited in six months.
Lashing out at the APP, he said AAP leaders were outsiders and rank opportunists who had created anarchy in Delhi.
The SAD president also urged the people to beware of the Congress and its former MLA Ramanjit Sikki, who had been playing politics over incidents of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib.
He announced that once voted to power, the SAD-BJP government would build concrete streets and drains in all 12,000 villages in the state.
