Badal terms YAD as backbone of party

Terming Youth Akali Dal (YAD) as the "backbone" of SAD, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said that the party's youth wing should play a proactive role in weeding out various social maladies from the society.
Interacting with the YAD activists after launching the membership drive of Malwa zone here, the chief minister said that the youth wing was the nursery of Shiromani Akali Dal as today's youth activists would groom and become people's representatives tomorrow.
This way the YAD has a lot of responsibility. On one hand, it has to strengthen the party, and on the other it has the responsibility to propagate its pro-people and development oriented policies, he said.

"I hope this drive will further provide vigor to you and infuse a new zeal to serve the people with far more commitment and dedication," added Badal.
The chief minister said that India today was the youngest in the world with 65 per cent of its population below the age of 35 but unfortunately the country was confronting a number of problems.
He said that the youth of every country were its valuable human resource as the responsibility for change, progress and innovation lies on their shoulders.

Badal said that the youth have the zeal to initiate revolutions and the youth of our country has played a significant role in the freedom struggle.

The chief minister said that the supreme sacrifices of our national heroes like Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev, Kartar Singh Saraba were a reflection of this indomitable spirit of youth.
Therefore, he said, it was the need of the hour that our youth follow the footsteps of these icons to play a pro-active role in the overall development and prosperity of the country.
"You are brave, innovative and blessed with unbounded energy that can be aptly channelised for the welfare of the society," added Badal.