Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's approach towards SAD has not changed despite his party voting against the UPA government during the trust vote.
Badal said Singh "tries his best to accommodate Punjab." The chief minister was responding to a query whether the Prime Minister's stance and approach towards Akalis have changed after the party MPs voted against the Congress-led UPA during the July 22 trust vote.
"The PM is not at all affected by Akalis not voting in his favour," Badal told a press conference here. "When I approached him (Manmohan Singh) with certain demands of Punjab, the Prime Minister was very accommodating," Badal said.
Badal said that he had also extended an invitation to the Prime Minister to lay foundation stone of a medical college at Amritsar. He said the state government would lay the foundation stone of the first Sikh University at Fatehgarh Sahib on September one. On September two, the foundation stone of 1980 MW thermal power plant will be laid at Talwandi Sabo, he added.
Badal said the state Government had completed the process of land acquisition smoothly for these two projects. "No land of farmer or anyone else will be acquired by the Government forcibly," Badal said.
