Be battle-ready, Capt tells Cong cadres in Amritsar
AJNALA ( AMRITSAR): Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday asked his party cadres to be battle-ready for the assembly elections as these could be announced anytime.
Addressing a public meeting at Chameari village in the Ajnala assembly segment, Captain said the two ruling families (the Badals and the Majithias) --- who have “looted and robbed Punjab for the past nine years”--- will be held accountable for each and every penny.
Amarinder said chief minister Parkash Singh Badal’s popularity was on the decline and to prevent a further erosion of his support base, he may go for snap polls.
“Badal knows that his popularity graph is going down and in order to salvage the situation, he might go for early elections”, he said.
“While they (Badals and Majithias) have amassed huge wealth and are growing richer by the day, Punjab is on the brink of going bankrupt”, Amarinder said.
Reiterating that the Congress would adopt “one family, one ticket’ policy for the upcoming elections, Amarinder said even his family was bound by the same rule. “The Congress is not like the Badals. They have seven ministers in the state cabinet besides one in the Union cabinet,” Amarinder said while alleging that Badal could never look beyond his family. “What to speak of Punjab, he is not prepared to share anything even with his senior party colleagues”, said Amarinder,
“We want to provide opportunities to those who have a potential to grow as good leaders but don’t have political connec- tions”, he said.
The for mer chief minister also announced that the Congress gover nment will ensure at least one job per family in Punjab after assuming power.
He told party workers that they will be given top priority in all welfare schemes of the government. “It will be your government”, he told the workers.
The Amritsar MP also lambasted Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and questioned the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader’s functioning.
“Vote for a party that has experience of governance and not for those leaders who lack the skills to pull Punjab out of the dungeons. Choose people who have the skill and ability to run a government and not those who have no knowledge of the problems afflicting the border state”, he added.
The public meeting was organised by former Ajnala MLA Harpartap Singh Ajnala.