Opposition slams Sukhbir Badal for spitting lies in Punjab Progressive Investors summit

CHANDIGARH: The opposition parties have blasted Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal for spitting lies during the second Punjab Progressive Investors Summit and concealing the ground realities of Punjab. The opposition has accused Sukhbir Badal of using the opportunity to cover up failures of SAD=BJP government.
Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha and former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has questioned the misplaced hype created by the government over the promised investments during the last two days of the “Investors’ Meet”, asking as what was the status of the earlier commitments and incentives to the existing industry which is reeling under serious crisis.“Let the government give details about the Rs 65,000 crores investment commitments made during the previous investors’ summit, most of which remain unfulfilled”, Capt Amarinder said, while expressing serious doubts about the seriousness of these commitments and MOUs signed at the summit.
He observed that the very fact that the entire emphasis of the government was on encouraging youth to go abroad and that too for menial jobs like those of drivers and construction workers speaks volumes about its ability and confidence in generating jobs which the promised investment should otherwise have created in Punjab itself.
“You don’t need to announce that you are training construction labourers for Saudi Arabia in an Investors’ Meet, it simply betrays your weakness and lack of confidence”, he remarked, while adding, “when rest of the country was exporting trained scientists, doctors, engineers and IT professionals to countries like the US, Akalis have reduced Punjab to the level of exporting labourers and drivers to do petty and menial jobs in Saudi Arabia and they seem to be taking pride in it”.
PPCC President Partap Singh Bajwa said that the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal is trying to befool people by making them believe in the industrial mirage he is showing them in this virtually the last year of the term of the present government while masking the deteriorating situation that has resulted into the shutting down of more than 20,000 industrial units in the state during the present regime.