SAD asks Amarinder to tell how much investment he got for Punjab

CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today urged Amritsar MP Capt Amarinder Singh to explain how much investment he had got into Punjab during the previous Congress rule rather than trying to belittle the phenomenal Rs 43,000 crore investment which had occurred during the last two years of SAD- BJP government and mou’s worth Rs 1.15 lakh crore signed during the last two days.
In a statement here, SAD general secretary Maheshinder Singh Grewal said “the truth is often bitter. It is sometimes hard to face. Even you are finding it difficult to digest that compared to no investment coming in during your five year term, the SAD- BJP government has attracted an investment of Rs 43,000 crore in merely two years”. The SAD asked Amarinder to google his own attempts at attracting investment if he could not remember them due to wilful forgetfulness. “You announced few real estate investments with much fanfare during your tenure but none of them could fructify during Congress rule”, Mr Grewal said. The akali leader said even if one were to calculate the mou conversion rate of the SAD – BJP it was 70 per cent.
Accusing Amarinder of working against the interests of the State, Mr Grewal said the former had humiliated industrial icons and houses who had invested Rs 43,000 crore in the State since the last two years with his half baked statements. “You could have at least read the newspapers in between your pleasure sorties abroad or looked up the Internet or even collated figures from the Punjab Invest office to know about the investment attracted by Punjab”.