Harsimrat Badal showers praises on NDA govt over Punjab's development

Sukhmeet Bhasin

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, October 12

Former Union minister and SAD MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal shared an online event with BJP leader and Union HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank during the virtual inauguration of the new building of Central University of Punjab (CUP), Bathinda, at Ghudda.

This was the first time after Harsimrat Badal tendered her resignation from the Union Cabinet and SAD pulled out of the NDA over the issue of farm-related bills that the SAD leader has shared an event with the BJP leader.

Addressing the function online, Harsimrat Badal showering praises on NDA said, “Whenever NDA government has come at the Centre and the state, Punjab has seen huge development.”

 “Our government has made the airport here, ran Shatabdi train, electrifying of railway lines has been done. At one time, there was no facility available here in Bathinda, but now it is one of the most developed areas of the Punjab,” said Harsimrat.

Badal also credited her father-in-law and former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal for developing this backward area of Punjab into an educational hub, where students from all across the country would come here and today his dream has been fulfilled.

She said, “In 2009, when I started my political career, at that time CUP also started its journey from Bathinda and the then chief minister Parkash Singh Badal provided 37 acre for its temporary site and he also acquired 500 acre land and gave for the CUP, Bathinda, at Ghudda. In 11 years, CUP has won many prestigious awards in the field of education.”

Harsimrat also thanked the HRD minister for making her join in this event and she also invited him to come and see the huge building of CUP, Bathinda, which has come up here.

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