Speaking at the death anniversary of Akali salwart Gurcharan Singh Tohra at his native village today, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said the SAD would go with the NDA’s choice of prime ministerial candidate.
On the Supreme Court rejecting the District Magistrate's report on the Tarn Taran incident, he said his government had done its best in the case by suspending erring policemen and registering a case against them. Badal defended the decision to ban ‘Sadda Haq’, saying this had been done to maintain communal harmony.
Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal asked party leaders to stay united for the coming panchayat poll and “give up groupism.”
The Chief Minister said that by decontrolling the prices of sugar, the Congress-led government at the Centre had given a free hand to the sugar lobby. “The Congress is taking decisions that will create problems, both internal and external, for India”, he said.
Sukhbir claimed that by 2014, the state would overcome the problem of power shortage and be in a position to sell power to other states and earn money. The revenue thus earned would help bring down the power rates in the state.
The Chief Minister inaugurated a community centre constructed at a cost of Rs 45 lakh in memory of Bibi Joginder Kaur Tohra. Prominent among those present on the occasion were Speaker CS Atwal, minister SS Rakhra, MLA Justice (Retd) Nirmal Singh and former minister Harmail Singh Tohra.