Sukhbir Singh Badal today came down heavily on the Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi for having suddenly becoming the “well-wisher” of the poor people of India. “It seems the family is awakened after 64 years of deep sleep”, said Badal while addressing a massive gathering here today.Commenting on the congress leader’s remarks that “Poverty was a state of mind”, Badal said that it was not only unfortunate but sheer mockery with the poor people. Such statements proved that how much the Gandhi scion was cut off from the ground reality. "He comes from a billionaire family and many generations in the Gandhi Nehru family have not seen poverty even from a distance. So they cannot be blamed for their poor knowledge," he said.Referring to the ruthlessness of the Congress led UPA government at the centre shielding Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler, the main accused in 1984 Delhi Riots; Mr. Badal blamed the Congress for the murder of thousands of innocent Sikhs in 1984. "It is regrettable that today one of the Sikhs is the prime minister but he is unable to ensure justice to the Sikh community. Not a single guilty person has been punished," he said.
Replying to another query, the Deputy Chief Minister lambasted PPCC President Partap Singh Bajwa’s approach of meddling in others concern, the Deputy Chief Minister said that Congress has always been known for its conspiracies of dragging the leaders of its opponents into cobweb to meet its political interests He suggested Bajwa that he should stop thinking about others as it was he, who was all set to meet the fate of Captain Amarinder Singh after 2014 parliamentary elections.
On problems of water logging in the Malwa belt of Punjab, Mr. Badal said that the Prime Minister of India has been apprised of the losses incurred due to floods in the state but there was hardly any hope for them to come to the rescue of the flood affected. The state government was committed to help the people in this hour of crisis and every possible effort would be made to ensure relief and rehabilitation to the victims," he also said that Punjab would be made power surplus by end of this year. Prominent among others who addressed the rally included Mr. Balwinder Singh Bhundar, General Secretary Shiromani Akali Dal, Mr. Kamal Sharma President BJP, S. Balwant Singh Ramoowalia Senior Vice President, Bibi Paramjit Kaur Gulshan MP, S. Mantar Singh Brar, Chief Parliamnetary Secretary and Mr. Deep Malhotra MLA Faridkot.