Ludhiana, May 29 (FN Agency) Punjab has got investments worth Rs 56 thousand crores since the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government took over two years back and stopped the trend of industries leaving the state, AAP National Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday. “Before our government was formed, the condition of business and industry in Punjab was so bad that the industries here were leaving Punjab and going to Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and the surrounding states.
Within the last 2 years, the trend of industries leaving Punjab has stopped and new industries are coming to Punjab,” Kejriwal said here at a town hall meeting with traders. “Punjab, under the Mann government, got investments worth 56 thousand crores,” he said. Kejriwal said foreign companies are also now buying land for industries in the state. After Jamshedpur, Tata Steel’s biggest plant is now being set up in Punjab. He appealed to the gathering to strengthen the hands of the AAP government and “make us strong at the Centre”. He said if the AAP wins all 13 Lok Sabha seats from the state, then only the voice of Punjab will reverberate in the Lok Sabha. “All our MPs will raise the voice of the people of Punjab and get all the issues related to the Centre resolved”.