Country Aheads Mid-Term Poll  -- Badal

CM Terms Massive Response To The Bharat Bandh Call As A Testimony Of Public Resentment Against UPA

5 Dariya News

Chandigarh 20-Sep-2012

Apprehending a volatile situation for mid-term polls in the country, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said that the current political scenario was a possible outcome of the ongoing internal tussle and mistrust amongst the key allies of Congress led UPA government, which was bound to crumble under its own weight. Talking to the media persons on the sidelines of the first national conclave of the Principal Secretaries (Co-operation) of the states here today, the Chief Minister said that due to the rift amongst the UPA allies on key issues the political situation of the country was grim due to which there was every possibility that the Lok Sabha elections were held in advance. Badal categorically said that due to the instability of the UPA government at the Centre the governance at the national level had been adversely affected thereby severely hitting the common man. He said it was ironical that UPA government which came into power as claimed to be votary of common man (Aam aadmi) had now completely ignored this crucial section of the society for its anti-people stance.Replying to another query the Chief Minister said that the massive response given by the people for countrywide bandh given by the opposition parties reflected the simmering anger in the minds of the countrymen against the misrule of the UPA government. He said that recent hike in the price of diesel by the Union government coupled with the cap imposed on the supply of the domestic LPG cylinders has broken the backbone of the common man adding that decision of the UPA to allow Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail sector would ruin the small traders of the country. Terming these decisions of the UPA as anti-people, anti-farmers and anti-poor, Badal said that the countrymen are fed up from the incumbent Union government and they would show the door to them in the ensuing Lok Sabha polls.Training his guns against the Congress party, the Chief Minister reiterated that it had always meted out a step motherly treatment to the opposition ruled states in general and that of Punjab in particular. He said that the Union Ministers belonging to the Congress are acting arbitrarily by perting the Central grants and projects to their home states whereas the other states are being deprived of their legitimate share of the central funds. Badal blamed the Centre for its apathetic attitude due to which the state had been deprived of central grants due to which its development has suffered adversely. On the occasion the Chief Minister was accompanied by his Special Principal Secretary Gaggandip Singh Brar.