Moga, Feb 13 : Punjabis should grab the opportunity offered in the present election to ensure prosperity of Punjabis and progress of state by electing SAD led government, said Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday. Addressing different election programmes in favour of party candidate Vardev Singh Noni Mann in Guruharsahai, Joginder Singh Jindu in Ferozepur Rural and Rohit Kumar Montu Vohra in Ferozepur urban, he said that Punjab has already lost precious five years during rule of Congress governments led by Capt Amarinder Singh and Charanjit Singh Channi.
He said they cannot afford to waste five more years by taking a wrong decision on election of government. He said that it is only time tested SAD-BSP alliance can ensure prosperity of Punjabis and progress of state as the people had earlier witnessed during earlier SAD led governments headed by Parkash Singh Badal.
Mr Badal said that instead of providing new facilities to people during last five years, it snatched away facilities which were already provided by governments led by Parkash Singh Badal. He said that old age pension, Shagun scheme, Atta Dal scheme, free power to farmers for agriculture and free bicycles to girl students- all these were started by SAD led government. He said that rather than increasing the share in these scheme, Congress government stopped all these in the state and also stalled development works initiated by the SAD government.
He said that the Congress government also stopped SC scholarship scheme and more than 4.5 lakh students were denied right to education.
