Bathinda Member Parliament Member Parliament Harsimrat Kaur Badal strongly lashed at the Congress led UPA government at the Centre for deliberately stalling the developmental projects in the state in order to pursue its vested political interests.
Interacting with the media-persons at Bhisiana village, She said a number of important projects of huge public importance were hanging in fire despite the completion of the entire work just because the Union government was not granting the permission to operationalise them.Citing an example she said the total civil work of the Bathinda Air port has been completed but the Union Civil Aviation Ministry was not granting the permission for starting the flights from it.Harsimrat said she along with Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal had personally taken up this matter with the top brass of the Union government but of no avail.The Bathinda civil airport has been built at a cost of Rs 25 crore with state government acquiring and providing 40 acre of land belonging to village Virk Kalan and surrounding villages.
She also blamed the UPA government for causing undue delay in setting up new projects in Punjab and laying down stringent conditions to deprive the Punjab from central grants. She said "This has vindicated our stand that the Congress has always adopted an anti-Punjab stance. There is an unending list of such instances which depicted the Congress party's step-motherly treatment meted out with the state". She further said it was a record that Congress party was jealous of the progress of the state due to which it has always made persistent efforts to derail its developmental process.The Congress leadership must desist from stooping too low because the wise people of Punjab will never spare them for these sinister activities," Bathinda MP added.She also addressed a series of Sangat Darshan programmes at Bhisiana, Virak Kalan, Jhumba and Baho Yatri villages of Bathinda Rural constituency and listened to the grievances of the people. She also disbursed grants worth lakhs in these villages.Prominent among those accompanied MP include Bathinda Rural MLA, Darshan Singh Kotfatta, Deputy CM’s Assistant Media Advisor, Harjinder Sidhu Deputy Commissioner, K.K.Yadav, SSP, Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, ADC, Sonali Giri, Youth leader Sukhman Sidhu among others.