Mumbai April 25:
Unlike the JD (U), which has sought a "secular" Prime Ministerial candidate, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) is willing to support whoever selects the BJP.
Speaking to the media Mumbai said Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, "BJP is the largest party in the NDA and it is your right to decide who is the candidate for prime minister should be. Why should interfere allies? "Describing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as "a man very well ... dynamic and decisive," Badal said, "We have sent our teams to Gujarat several times to learn the best practices of the state."
However, he said that "no one can replace" the former Prime Minister AB Vajpayee. "I think we need to preserve the qualities of the old address. Their commitment to the cause and the fight can not be found in the current leadership," he said. Seen as a reformist leader who speaks more government and less government, Badal spoke of a series of reforms adopted by the Punjab to reduce bureaucracy and corruption. Punjab has changed electronic tendering for each purchase of a single government, whether big or small, he said.
The decreased visibility of Punjab, Badal said: "Punjab had a very bad phase of slowdown coast by Pakistan and the troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir, which does not attract enough investors.". But he added that the debt-GSDP of Punjab has been reduced from 49-31 pc pc in the last five years.