Terming Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as an inexperienced and immature political leader, Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today said that he was a complete ‘misfit’ for the coveted post of Prime Minister of the country.Interacting with the media persons after laying down the foundation stone of Punjab Institute of Technology here today, the Chief Minister said that Mr. Rahul Gandhi was incapable of running the affairs of the Union government adding that the country would be ruined if an inexperienced person like him becomes its Prime Minister. Equating Mr. Gandhi with a novice driver, he said that the country’s bus would certainly topple if a person like the ‘Nehru-Gandhi scion’ was driving it. Mr. Badal said that the national Vice President of Congress hardly has any administrative experience as he had been neither a minister nor held any other public office but unfortunately in dearth of any other capable leader, the sycophant Congress leaders were day dreaming to make him the Prime Minister of country. “How can a person who is not even aware of the basics of governance hold the coveted office of Prime Minister of the country”, he added.
The Chief Minister further said that it was writing on the wall that Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Narendra Modi would become the next Prime Minister of the country, as the countrymen were eagerly waiting to elect an able and efficient administrator like him for this coveted post. Terming that there was hardly any comparison between Mr. Modi and Mr. Rahul Gandhi, he said that both the leaders were poles apart from each other as the former was an experienced leader while the latter was totally ignorant of public life. Mr. Badal said that Modi wave was blowing across the country and the NDA would form government at the centre, with a thumping majority. Replying to another query, the Chief Minister said that in order to give a major push to education in this region, the Punjab Institute of Technology would be constructed by Punjab Technical University (PTU) here at a cost of Rs 30 crore. He said that this institute would be pivotal in imparting technical education to the students of this region thereby enabling to excel in life.
On another query, the Chief Minister said that the state government would minutely examine the matter of problems faced by the candidates appearing in the exam for the recruitment of the Food and Supply Inspectors on Sunday adding that any decision regarding it would be taken soon.The Chief Minister further said that the two days Sangat Darshan of Dharamkot assembly segment would act as a catalyst for giving further impetus to the ongoing development works in this assembly segment. He said that during the Sangat Darshan grants have been sanctioned for the development works in all the 150 villages of the constituency. Mr. Badal said that due care has been taken to ensure holistic and planned development of all the villages by covering every strata of the society.Later on addressing the gathering during Sangat Darshan program at Dharamkot, the Chief Minister said that the state government was committed to provide basic civic amenities in all the cities across the state for which a major scheme has already been embarked. He said that the SAD-BJP government was taking due care towards ensuring the well being of the disadvantaged sections of the society for which a number of welfare schemes like Atta-Dal, Mai Bhago Istri Vidya, Bhagat Puran Singh Sehat Bima Yojna and others have been launched. Likewise, Mr. Badal said that soon the beneficiaries of the Atta-Dal scheme would be doubled and they would be provided Atta @ of Re 1 by the state government.
Training his guns against the Congress, the Chief Minister said that while the state government has taken a number of initiatives to ensure the welfare of people but on the other hand the Congress led UPA government’s anti-people stance has broken the backbone of the common man. He said that due to the anti-farmer’s policies of the Union government the farmers of the state, who had played a vanguard role in making the country self reliant in food production, were on the verge of economic disaster adding that farming was no longer a profitable venture due to ever accelerating cost of agriculture inputs coupled with non remunerative MSP. “In such scenario if the SAD-BJP government had not extended a helping hand to the farmers by giving them free power worth Rs 6000 crore then they would have been completely ruined” added Mr. Badal.Earlier the Chief Minister also laid down the foundation stone of upcoming Tehsil complex to be constructed at a cost of Rs 7.19. The Chief Minister was accompanied by former Minister and local MLA Jathedar Tota Singh, Lok Sabha MP Mrs. Paramjeet Kaur Gulshan, former Chief Parliamentary Secretary Mr. Shital Singh, former MP Mr. Kewal Singh, his Special Principal Secretary Mr. Gurkirat Kirpal Singh, Deputy Commissioner Mr. Arshdeep Singh Thind and Dean (Planning and Development) PTU Mr. AP Singh.