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SAD to honour MP's who voted against UPA government |
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Punjab Newsline Network
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
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LUDHAINA: Shiromani Akali Dal would shortly honor those MPs of SAD, who in spite of the offer of huge consideration have voted against Confidence Motion in Parliament honoring the decision of party.
This was revealed by Bikram Singh Majithia Minister for Information and Public Relations, Water Supply and Sanitation, Science and Technology Punjab and Patter Youth Akali Dal, while addressing the well attended gathering after inaugurating a Blood Donation Camp part of " Jiwan Dan" Program organized by Youth Akali Dal Rural at Mullanpur 15 kms from here, today. In the Blood donation camp, 200 units of blood were donated by YAD workers belonging to Dakha Vidhan Sabha Constituency. Majithia denouncing the Nuclear deal which was still undisclosed to the country said that it smelt out to be a deep rooted conspiracy hatched by the congress government to sell out national interest. Strongly criticizing the sole MP, Sukhdev Singh Libra for violating the directive of the party for lofting consideration, Majithia said that the party had given honor of being MLAs, Member Rajya Sabha and two time MPs and he had betrayed the party at the crucial time and brought dishonor to the people of the stat. Majithia referring to the Jiwan Dan Campaign said that it had met the tremendous response from the youth and the series of Blood donation camp will be continue in different constituencies of the state. By Youth Akali Dal to exceed the fix target of 51000 blood units. He added that the YAD and SOI will also shortly launch an impressive drive against the female feticide menace in the state to ensure that not even a single female feticide was aborted.
Referring to the development plan of the government, the Minister said that after establishing full supremacy in elections to the PRIs and Municipal Councils of the state, the government. was all set to speed up the development process. He disclosed that a prestigious World Bank Assisted 'Punjab Water Supply and Sanitation Project' of Rs. 1280.30 Crore were being implemented in Punjab, which will finance new water supply schemes for 2124 villages and upgrade existing water supply schemes in 920 villages. He claimed that new power projects with cpacity of 6000 MW of power generation were also being commissioned in the coming four years. He said that the work on a Thermal Plant with 22200 MW capacity was being started shortly. He also added that Govt. was also going to implement Non Conventional Power project of 1000 MW capacity in the state. |
