Sangrur bypoll: Big guns bat for their party candidates
With just three days to go for the Sangrur bypoll, senior leaders of all the political parties in Punjab campaigned for their candidates on Sunday, hoping to sway the voters on their side.
Chief minister Bhagwant Mann held road shows in Malerkotla and Barnala districts in support of AAP candidate Gurmail Singh, while Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal addressed public gatherings at Pharwahi, Khudi Kalaan and other places for his party candidate Kamaldeep Kaur Rajoana.
Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring campaigned in various villages and other areas of Dhuri assembly constituency for his party candidate Dalvir Singh Goldy for the June 23 byelection.
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday said that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has taken historic decisions in just three months, which the previous governments failed to take in decades.
Mann said that corruption has now been stopped in government departments and action is being taken against the corrupt people. Holding road shows in Malerkotla and Mehal Kalan Assembly constituencies in support of party candidate Gurmail Singh, Mann urged people to ensure his record-victory in the Sangrur byelection.
There is total breakdown of the law and order machinery in the state under the AAP government. SUKHBIR SINGH BADAL, SAD president
AAP govt destroying Punjab: Sukhbir Badal
SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday said the threemonth period of the AAP government witnessed a complete paralysis in governance coupled with the breakdown of the law and order as well as communal harmony in the state.
The SAD president, who was addressing public gatherings at Pharwahi and Khudi Kalaan besides others places in favour of party candidate Kamaldeep
Kaur Rajoana, said the AAP government was destroying Punjab and that chief minister Bhagwant Mann was responsible for this.
From ‘Delhi Model’, AAP has tumbled down to ‘Sangrur Model’: Cong
Taking a dig at chief minister Bhagwant Mann over his announcement of making Sangrur a “model district”, Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring asked him what happened to his Delhi Model, which Aam Aadmi Party had been shouting about so loudly before elections.
“Such populist sloganeering has already outlived its utility as you can’t fool all the people all the time,” Warring said.
“What about the rest of Punjab, doesn’t this mean discrimination with other districts, if at all you are serious and sincere about what you say?” he asked.
Union minister Som Parkash inducted two councillors of municipal council Dhuri into the party in the presence of senior BJP leaders during a campaign event in Dhuri. The Union minister and other leaders were campaigning for party candidate Kewal Singh Dhillon.