Badal making good recovery, infection gradually decreasing

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, admitted to PGIMER following chest congestion and fever last week, was making good recovery and his infection too was gradually decreasing, an official said tonight.
"A team of doctors attending on Punjab Chief Minister has expressed complete satisfaction over the pace of recovery and further decided to keep him under observation in PGIMER for a day or so," a spokesperson of the Chief Minister's Office said here.
He said that the doctors have expressed complete satisfaction on his recovery as the chest infection was gradually decreasing.
"The doctors have also advised to dissuade the visitors not to meet Mr Badal in view of the chest infection so as to enable him to completely recover from it, at the earliest," he said.

Earlier, addressing the Sangat Darshan programme, Badal
sought cooperation from farmers to counter the probable white-fly attack on cotton by destroying weeds around their fields that serve as breeding grounds for the pest.

Last year, white-fly attacks destroyed most of the cotton in the state.
Badal accused Congress and AAP of "hatching a conspiracy to turn Punjab into a desert".
"Both these parties are inimical to the interests of the state's development," he alleged, adding Congress at different times "have entered into agreements to rob Punjab of its waters".
"Haryana, Rajasthan and other states have no rights to Punjab waters but are being given water illegally," he alleged.

Accusing AAP of being anti-Punjab, Chief Minister, said "the affidavit Delhi government has given on SYL issue in the Supreme Court has pulled the mask off its face."
"Since (Delhi CM and AAP leader) Arvind Kejriwal himself belonged to Haryana, he has more affiliation for his native state and one should not expect him to think in the larger interest of Punjab," Badal claimed.