NDA should declare its PM candidate, says Akali Dal
7 Sept 2013 5:03 AM IST
Even as speculation over NDA’s Prime Ministerial candidate refuse to die down, a key constituent Shiromani Akali Dal has said it is time the alliance declares its candidate for country’s top post.
‘BJP (the main constituent) should declare the PM candidate... whosoever the person may be, we (SAD) are with the BJP’s choice,’ Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal said here at his residence.
Sukhbir said their should not be any confusion in the mind of voters and they should now know for whom they will vote in the next Lok Sabha polls.
‘People of the country are disillusioned. Its political and economic crisis in the country. The present government (UPA) has shaken the economy of the country,’ Sukhbir said. Sukhbir further said that whenever SAD contested any election, the party always made it clear in advance that Parkash Singh Badal was going to be their leader.
Meanwhile, when asked whether SAD will accept Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as NDA’s prime ministerial candidate, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal said his party was ready to support ‘any candidate’ for the post.
Badal, speaking at Una on the Punjab-Himachal border during a religious congregation, said that being a key ally of BJP, the SAD ‘will support any candidate’ for the PM post.
The chief minister expressed confidence that the NDA will form the next government at the Centre and show the door to Congress-led for its ‘misrule’ and ‘maladministration’.
He said people are fed up with ‘rampant corruption, unemployment, poverty and inflation during the UPA regime.’
‘UPA government has miserably failed to arrest the declining trend of rupee, which has touched the low several times recently,’ Badal said.
Referring to the food security legislation, the chief minister said that there was nothing new in it and the act was a ‘xerox copy’ of the ‘Atta-Dal Scheme’ of the state government.
‘At last, by implementing this importance piece of legislation, the Centre has realised that more than 80 per cent of people could not manage to get two square meals a day,’ he said.
‘BJP (the main constituent) should declare the PM candidate... whosoever the person may be, we (SAD) are with the BJP’s choice,’ Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal said here at his residence.
Sukhbir said their should not be any confusion in the mind of voters and they should now know for whom they will vote in the next Lok Sabha polls.
‘People of the country are disillusioned. Its political and economic crisis in the country. The present government (UPA) has shaken the economy of the country,’ Sukhbir said. Sukhbir further said that whenever SAD contested any election, the party always made it clear in advance that Parkash Singh Badal was going to be their leader.
Meanwhile, when asked whether SAD will accept Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as NDA’s prime ministerial candidate, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal said his party was ready to support ‘any candidate’ for the post.
Badal, speaking at Una on the Punjab-Himachal border during a religious congregation, said that being a key ally of BJP, the SAD ‘will support any candidate’ for the PM post.
The chief minister expressed confidence that the NDA will form the next government at the Centre and show the door to Congress-led for its ‘misrule’ and ‘maladministration’.
He said people are fed up with ‘rampant corruption, unemployment, poverty and inflation during the UPA regime.’
‘UPA government has miserably failed to arrest the declining trend of rupee, which has touched the low several times recently,’ Badal said.
Referring to the food security legislation, the chief minister said that there was nothing new in it and the act was a ‘xerox copy’ of the ‘Atta-Dal Scheme’ of the state government.
‘At last, by implementing this importance piece of legislation, the Centre has realised that more than 80 per cent of people could not manage to get two square meals a day,’ he said.
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