SAD will declare candidates at appropriate time: Sukhbir

Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today said the Shiromani Akali Dal would declare its candidates for the next year's assembly election at an appropriate time.
We would declare candidates at an appropriate time and the main contest in the 2017 assembly elections would be between Shiromani Akali Dal and Congress party, Badal said addressing a press conference at Kharunj village during sangat darshan.
He said the Punjab government is mulling legal options over a recent judgement of the Supreme Court declaring as null and void the decision of the state government to give ownership rights of lands in the border areas around the riverbeds to the peasants ploughing them.

Badal claimed that his government has done a lot for the welfare of the farming community and given power worth Rs 5000 crore free of cost to the farmers.
On the law and order issue, the Deputy Chief Minister said the persons responsible for the Abohar incident would not be spared and would soon be brought to the book.
Earlier, he distributed development grants worth crores to the villages namely Chak Jandwala, Chak Panjkohi, Chak Kabarwala, Roranwala and Kharunj during Sangat Darshans.

He announced that the 'Phirnis ' of all the villages would be concretised and so would the streets and drains.

He also announced financial grants to build dharamshalas, sports grounds, anganwadi centers, boundary walls around the schools.
Badal said that if any village panchayat makes the panchayat land available then the people belonging to the poor sections of the society would be given 5-5 marla lands for dwelling houses.
He also disclosed that the state government has taken major policy initiatives like health and accidental insurance cards, tirath yatra scheme and advertising 1.5 lakh jobs for the youth.
He also said that the state government officers would visit all the villages and help the people in getting health insurance smart cards made.