SAD-BJP govt has put development on fast track: Sukhbir

Bathinda, Feb 19 (PTI) Punjab''s Deputy Chief MinisterSukhbir Singh Badal today said that the SAD-BJP government hasput the development of the state on fast track by orderingtimely completion of various projects.

"The kind of development Punjab has witnessed duringthe last four years could not have been accomplished duringthe last 60 years," Badal said at a rally here.

On the power sector, the deputy chief minister saidthat Rs 80,000 crore investment had been made in this sectorduring the last four years.

Badal also criticised the Congress for "scuttling"justice to victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

"I was also shocked to know the massacre of 70 Sikhsduring ''84 riots in Hond village in (Haryana''s) Rewaridistrict that was suppressed by investigating agencies for 26long years," he alleged.

Badal said that he has constituted a seven-member factfinding committee of the Shiromani Akali Dal to get the firsthand information on reported "massacre" of the Sikhs in Rewaridistrict.