Ours is most peaceful state, says Badal

Archit Watts

Tribune News Service

Lambi, May 28

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said that the state was the most peaceful and harmonious in the country. “Petty incidents can happen anytime in any part of the world,” he said on the sidelines of his sangat darshan programme in Lambi Assembly segment today.

The Congress was playing dirty politics on sensitive issues and advised its leadership to act responsibly for the betterment of the state, he said.

He dismissed the charges by the opposition on various issues and said he needed no certificate of the nine year rule of the SAD-BJP regime, but from the people of the state.

Earlier, Badal sought the support and cooperation from the farmers to counter the whitefly pest attack on cotton by destroying weeds around their fields that served as its breeding ground.

Help Badal village women, youth get jobs: Sukhbir

SAD chief and Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal today met a number of women from his native village at his residence here. He asked his personal staff to assist the women and youngsters in getting jobs, admission in schools and colleges. Sources said that Sukhbir later told his staff to get the details of all unemployed youth in the village, so that they can be adjusted somewhere.

Job scam: CM denies pressure on VB

Parkash Singh Badal dismissed the reports that there was pressure on the Vigilance Bureau (VB) to spare the guilty in the recruitment scam in the Local Government Department. Asked whether the VB could conduct a free and fair probe when the names of Akali leaders were cropping up in the scam, Badal said on Saturday on the sidelines of a sangat darshan programme in the Lambi assembly segment, “Had we decided to spare the culprits, why would I have marked the probe to the Vigilance? The law will take its own course and whosoever found guilty will be taken to task, whether he is a Congressman or an Akali.”