Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday asked the Congress-led Punjab Government not to be fool and deceive Punjabis with fraudulent advertising and instead tell them if it has done a single thing for Punjab during the last three months.

Asking the Punjab Congress not to resort to old tricks by trying to sell dreams which would never see the light of day, SAD secretary general and Rajya Sabha MP Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa asked it to tell specifically if it had done anything till now.

“We don't want to listen to what you propose to do. You don't need to waste Government money to announce that. Just tell which election promise you have fulfilled till now,” said Dhindsa.

Dhindsa pointed that the Government is yet to waive off a single farmer's loan, it has still not come out with a list of drug lords arrested during the last three

years, it has not given employment to even one youth, and “whom are you trying to fool with these false advertisementsIJ”

It was also condemnable that the Congress advertisements, which did not list a single achievement, were also taking credit for work done by the previous SAD-BJP Government.

“A claim has been made that awareness is being given about drug abuse and rehabilitation programmes have been launched. Everyone knows that a comprehensive rehabilitation programme against drug abuse was launched by Parkash Singh Badal Government with the assistance of PGIMER. The Congress Government has not added to this programme,” he said.

Terming the tom-tomming being done vis-à-vis ‘Apni Gaddi, Apna Rozgar’ scheme as backstabbing of the Punjabi youth, he said that the Congress had promised to provide one job to each household.

“Now instead of fulfilling its demand, it is pushing Punjab youth to become taxi drivers for multinational companies. The youth wants Government jobs as well as skilled jobs in industrial houses,” he added.

Dhindsa said instead of claiming ‘vaade nibha rahi lagataar’ as was being done in the advertisements, it was more apt to describe recent actions of the Punjab Congress as “dhokha de rahi baar baaar”.

Dhindsa also asked the Congress Government to issue a two-line release disclosing from which date it would implement measures like power at Rs 5 per unit.