Badal asks ‘Sardar Modi’ not to limit himself to Gujarat anymore

Gandhinagar, 9 September 2013

Speaking at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Agriculture Summit today morning, Punjab Chief Minister Shri Parkash Singh Badal asked Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi not to limit himself to Gujarat.

“I am extremely thankful that Shri Modi has organized this global level conference here. We love Modiji ver much, but why this conference is titled as Vibrant Gujarat? It should be Vibrant India instead. Lots of farmers from other states including from Punjab. Why Modiji limits himself to Gujarat?”

Shri Badal asked Shri Modi to organize next agriculture summit in Delhi.

He called Modi as ‘Sardar Modi’.

He said, “Gujarat has given Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel and Sardar Modi.”

Shri Badal said Punjab will organize such summit in February next year.

In lighter tone he said, “Modiji has sent a Gir cow to me. I drink its milk when I visit my village. So I drink milk of Gujarat’s cow. But now that cow is old, so please send some young cow.”

Official release

Punjab Chief Minister at the 3rd Agritech Asia 2013 in Gujarat

Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal today asked his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi to think in terms of staging mega events like ‘Global Agricultural Summit’ mega event in New Delhi for the benefit of entire nation, on the lines of ‘Global Summits’ being staged in Gujarat for the last several years.

Speaking at the 3rd international agricultural conference and exhibition, Agritech Asia 2013, at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, he said it would be in the fitness of things that mega events like this be also held in each and every state in India. He described the global summit like this as a lighthouse and added that such summits should go a long way in diagnosing the problems of farmers and finding effective solutions.

He said that Mr. Modi is one person who has understood the farmers and their aspirations best. He has done yeoman’s service to the farmers of the country. After Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel, Mr. Modi is Gujarat’s gift to the people. He wished may the Almighty give Mr. Modi greater strength to serve the motherland.

Impressed by the scale of the events in Gujarat and its skill in event management, Mr. Badal announced that Punjab would host a similar global agricultural summit in his state during the coming harvest season in February.

He said in a lighter vein that Punjab is not as rich as Gujarat to have such a majestic complex like Mahatma Mandir, but perhaps Gujarat could help out Punjab in this regard, too.

Mr. Badal said that he has very cordial relations with Mr. Modi, who had gifted the former a famous Gir cow, and since this cow had grown old he wished he got a young cow now.