Congress Deputy leader in the lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh on Sunday warned Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal against playing Khalistan agenda for partisan interests and own political survival.
“Please behave responsibly in the interest of Punjab as we cannot afford another dark era as we are yet to come out of the repercussions of the previous one,” he told Badal while addressing a public meeting organised by ex-MlA and senior party leader Rana KP Singh in Nangal.
“Badal had multiple reasons to fall back upon the panthic and Khalistan agenda…The Chief Minister has failed on all promises he had made in the manifesto and now he is resorting to emotive issue to divert public attention,” said Capt Amarinder.
“Show me a single thing, he had promised in his manifesto that he has doneIJ” he asked, while adding that besides, he was not feeling comfortable with the BJP and was now trying to resort to his old tactics of panthic blackmail.
The former Chief Minister said that the last nine years had proved to be disastrous for Punjab under Badal. “The industry is fleeing the State to other parts of the country as it did not have any confidence in this Government. With the result, there are no jobs in Punjab and unemployment is rising,” he said.
He said that Badal was only concerned about himself and his family. He wondered as why there was no end to his greed for accumulating wealth when he was at such an advanced age of his life. “Throughout his life, he has only thought of the Badal family and its members”, he observed, while pointing out how Punjab under Badal’s rule was getting poorer and poorer while Badal himself was getting richer and richer. He is opening five star hotels in every city in the country, he said.
Capt Amarinder promised that once Congress forms the Government in Punjab in 2017, he will ensure that industry and investments came to Punjab and jobs were generated.
He appealed to people to ensure that they voted very carefully in 2017 so that only a Government which works for the welfare and progress of Punjab and its people is formed in the State. “You have everything in front of you as how we governed and how they are governing and the choice is yours”, he said.
later Capt Amarinder went to the ancestral house of the great Dalit leader and BSP founder late Kanshi Ram, and paid floral tributes to his statue. He also met Kanshi Ram’s sister, and assured that he will do everything possible to prolong his memory and ensure his dream of happiness and prosperity to the dalits and downtrodden people.