Moga: Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday said that Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal was spending most of his time knocking at the doors of the angry and upset Akali leaders and not among the people of Moga.

Taking a dig at Badal for going and staying overnight with dissident and alienated Akali leaders in Moga in order to bring them on board, Capt Amarinder advised him not to waste time and energy at this age and better take care of his health instead, lest he catches chest infection once more.

The former Chief Minister, addressing a public meeting at village Rattian, baited Badal for his desperate bid to convince senior Akali leaders like Tota Singh and the ex-DGP PS Gill to support the turncoat Joginder Pal Jain, whom they had opposed only in recent past.

‘SAD-BJP alliance symbol of Hindu-Sikh unity’

Moga: Punjab Chief Minister and Akali Dal patron Parkash Singh Badal said that the SAD-BJP were going to people on the plank of development, peace and communal harmony, whereas the Congress was still trying to employ its failed strategy of divide and rule. Badal, addressing a number of election rallies in favour of SAD-BJP candidate Joginder Pal Jain, said that SAD-BJP alliance was a symbol of Hindu-Sikh unity. “The divisive politics pursued by the Congress has adversely affected the traditional Hindu-Sikh unity. Congress survived only on the basis of divide and rule policy. Congress not only divided the people of the nation on religion and cast basis but also used the same policy to centralise the powers,” he added.

Terming Moga bypoll as historic occasion to teach Congress a lesson, Badal appealed the voters to vote for strengthening the communal harmony. He said that SAD-BJP alliance had remained a votary of communal harmony, due to which, people were reposing their unflinching faith in it.

ElECTION COMMISSION issues EPIC to 99.99 % voters

Chandigarh: Out of a total of 1,79,752 voters in Moga Assembly segment, the Election Commission of India has issued electors photo identity card (EPIC) to 99.99 percent voters. All the voters have been asked to produce their EPIC or voter slip for establishing their identity before casting their votes for identification in the polling stations, informed the spokesman of Punjab Chief Electoral Officer (CEO).

Releasing the list of alternative documents to be used for bypoll, the spokesman said that those electors whose photographs is either not available in the authenticated photo voter slip or the photo in the EPIC; or the Authenticated Photo Voter Slip does not match; they shall have to produce one of the accepted photo documents for establishing their identity.

Harsimrat badal slams upa govt for ‘unprecedented inflation’

Moga: Slamming the Congress-led UPA Government for unprecedented inflation in the

country, Bathinda MP Harsimrat Badal launched election campaign in favour of SAD-BJP

candidate Joginder Pal Jain on Monday, while at the same time, expressing surprise that how Punjab Congress leadership dared to face the people.

Predicting the upcoming political scenario of the country, Harsimrat said that the general public already reeling under the unprecedented burden of taxes, inflation and deceptive policies of UPA Government would brush aside the Congress and its allies in Parliament elections. She appealed the voters of Moga to be a part of this nationwide move to completely decimate the anti-people Congress party.