BSP Announces its Candidate for Ludhiana
Chandigarh: Bahujan Samaj Party on Sunday announced Davinder Singh Ramgarhia as its candidate from Ludhiana Lok Sabha seat. Punjab BSP president Jasvir Singh Garhi said that the selection of Ramgarhia was made in accordance with the directive of BSP national president Mayawati. Garhi said that Ramgarhia belongs to the OBC category and currently holds the position of president at the All India Vishwakarma Foundation, Punjab, and the Ramgarhia Board Punjab. He said that the BSP had already released names of candidates for Hoshiarpur, Ferozepur, Sangrur, Patiala, Jalandhar, Faridkot, Fatehgarh Sahib, Bathinda, and Gurdaspur parliamentary constituencies in the state.
BJP diverting people’s attention from real issues: Selja
Sirsa: All India Congress Committee’s general secretary and party’s Sirsa candidate Kumari Selja on Sunday alleged that BJP is diverting people’s attention from real issues. But the public knows everything and will hold the BJP accountable, she said, addressing a public meeting in Dabwali. “Today, we are fighting against forces that are against the truth. It’s not a personal fight…it’s a fight to save democracy, a fight to bring the labourer standing behind forward, a fight for the poor, farmers, and youth,” she said.
Selja said that the farmer is demanding only MSP, but the Government has created conditions like those on the India-Pakistan border between the farmer agitations in Dabwali, detaining people. “Today, we have to ensure justice for all. You are all soldiers of the common people. Congress is the party of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar,” she added.
Selja said that it hurts her a lot when comments are made about women's mangalsutras. “But Modi has never spoken about the rights of sisters and daughters. People are being defamed in the name of religion….Now is the time to fight peacefully. With your blessings, we will definitely get the opportunity to serve you and your area,” she said.
CM flop show in Ferozepur shows AAP’s pathetic condition: Bajwa
Chandigarh: After Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's roadshow in Ferozepur turned into a flop show, the Leader of Opposition in Vidhan Sabha Partap Singh Bajwa on Sunday said that AAP has all set to face a humiliating defeat in Punjab in this Lok Sabha election. Bajwa, citing a report, said that there were more security guards than AAP workers and general people in the roadshow held by the Chief Minister in the border district in favour of his party candidate Jagdeep Singh Kaka Brar. With the deployment of heavy security, shopkeepers and trades suffered a huge inconvenience, he added.
“CM Mann is the poster boy of the AAP across the country. If he has failed to pull the crowd in his roadshow, one can easily imagine AAP’s decreasing popularity in the state. One can easily assess AAP's pathetic condition in the rest of the state. The bubble of the AAP Government's hollow promises has already been burst,” he said, adding that people are fully aware of AAP’s deceptiveness and its slogan of ‘13-0’ in this election is going to be the other way around, which is 0-13.
BJP leaders facing people’s ire due to Centre’s faulty policies: Chaudhary
Panchkula: Congress candidate from Ambala Varun Chaudhary on Sunday alleged that BJP had not raised the demands and concerns of the people of Ambala constituency in the Parliament. “No one raised the people’s voice. But I will raise their matters as I have already done as an MLA in the legislative assembly, which brought a number of changes in the interest of people,” said Chaudhary, who was in Panchkula. He said that BJP is facing the people’s ire wherever they are going due to the Centre’s faulty policies.
Commenting on the BJP leaders’ allegations on the party’s manifesto over redistribution of assets and others, he said that such allegations were trifling. “I do not want to respond to them as one should not stoop down to such low levels of issuing statements. The important matter is to elect the people’s government, which the BJP is running from,” he said, adding that the Congress party will open its Panchkula office in a few days, and he will file nomination papers on May 2.
Governance in Punjab paralyzed because CM not signing files: Sukhbir
Mansa: SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday said that like in the case of Delhi, governance in Punjab had also come to a standstill because Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann was not signing any government file for months, resulting in a complete paralysis in government work. Meanwhile, Sukhbir promised that SAD was committed to establishing a Medical College in Mansa once it came into power in the State, while castigating the AAP government for promising to establish 16 medical colleges but not even starting work on one institution.
“While two lakh school students in Delhi had not got their school uniforms, books and stationary because Arvind Kejriwal has not resigned from the post of Chief Minister of Delhi even after being arrested in a corruption case, education and health services and even various projects had been affected in Punjab because Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann was not signing important files since months. NOCs for various projects are also awaiting the Chief Minister’s nod for months,” he said.
Urging the Punjabis to punish these power hungry politicians, Sukhbir said that the situation has become such in Punjab that it was for the first time that salaries of various departments including health department and Punjab Police were not released till around April 25. “AAP Government had squandered more than Rs 1000 crores on advertisements and had even spent hundreds of crores on hiring aircraft for the use of AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal as well as election campaigns of AAP across the country,” he said.
