Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal claimed that Punjab would be the number one state not only in the country but across the globe, if SAD-BJP alliance was voted to power for another term.
 The Chief Minister stated this while addressing a rally organised by the SAD-BJP combine here. Mr Badal that the UPA led Congress government had miserably failed on all fronts including in controlling inflation, checking corruption and safeguarding the security and integrity of the country from the external and internal aggression.
 He said it was shameful on the part of the Congress probably which had ruled for a long time in the states as well as in the country as compared to any other party in the world but the net result was its utter failure of intelligence and national security. ''Unfortunately we have been led by Congress party which had exploited us despite the fact the countrymen knew neither they nor the nation was safe in its hands as the country was functioning at the mercy of God sans security, intelligence besides sheer exploitation of the common man due to uncontrollable inflation'', he lamented.
On the issue of corruption, Mr Badal said most of the senior most cabinet ministers and top bureaucrats of the present UPA government were behind bars and the needle of suspicion was also being pointed towards even the most powerful considered ministers in the council of ministers having portfolios of Home and External Affairs. He rued despite of Punjab’s tremendous contribution in the development of the country as well as its role in freedom struggle, Punjabis had been constantly meted out a step motherly treatment by the Centre in every field be it agriculture, industry and defence.
Mr Badal said the unforgettable events like Operation Blue Star and subsequent 1984 Sikh riots perpetrated by the Congress had even surpassed the oppression and tyranny inflicted upon the psyche of Sikhs than that even of the era of mughal emperors and British raj. He reiterated that the SAD-BJP alliance would contest the forthcoming assembly polls on the sole plank of development, peace and communal harmony to rule in Punjab for next 25 years because the politics of vendetta as started by the previous Congress regime had been totally rejected by the people and was now redundant because they believed in politics of positivism meaning thereby overall development and prosperity besides the welfare of all sections of the society.
 The Chief Minister said the SAD-BJP government had introduced several pro-poor schemes like Atta-Dal, Shagun, 5 marla free plots to SC/BC and free distribution of cycles of girl students under Mai Bhago Vidya scheme. He said Punjab was the only state which had given free power worth Rs 3800 crore to the farmers for tubewells. He blamed the Centre for its wrong policies in farm sector which had put an additional burden of debt worth Rs 32000 crore on the beleaguered peasantry of the state.
Speaking on the occasion, Shiromani Akali Dal President and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said that Mr Parkash Singh Badal, had a 60 years long political career full of personal and political sacrifices and this election would be perhaps his last election as MLA. ''Let us take a vow to make Mr Parkash Singh Badal for the 5th time that would be the perfect farewell gift for a statesman like Mr Badal'', he added. Listing out the development initiatives of tjhe SAD-BJP government, Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal said that Punjab had witnessed the kind of development during last five years that it had not witnessed in 60 years after independence.
 He said that massive development in the road infrastructure sector, government employment to 1.17 lakh youth in the most transparent manner, computerization of land record by setting up 156 Fard Kenders, enactment of Right to Service Act to make bureaucracy accountable to the people of Punjab were the landmark initiatives of the present state government making Congress panicky. Mr Badal reminded the people that Amarinder if elected to Power would withdraw all people friendly schemes besides stopping free power to farmers and poor people.
 Prominent among those who addressed the rally included Youth Akali Dal President Bikram Singh Majithia, SAD general secretaries Prem Singh Chandumajra and Balwinder Singh Bhunder, Punjab Assembly Speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon, BJP leader and cabinet minister Tikshan Sud and former Union Minister Balwant Singh Ramoowalia.