Punjab Congress on Monday claimed that the party gained its lost political ground in 2013 and has high hopes on its performance in the lok Sabha elections in 2014.
In a statement here, Partap Singh Bajwa, president Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, (PPCC) thanked the Congress leaders and workers in the State for extending him cooperation in holding phase 1 and phase 2 of mass contact programme.
He admitted that when he took over in March 2013 the party workers were frustrated due to two successive defeats of party in assembly elections of 2007 and 2012. “Things have changed drastically in about 9 months and party workers were mobilised to launch an offensive against the ruling SAD-BJP alliance”, he claimed.
Bajwa said that in 2013 Congress contested elections of village Panchayats, block samiti and Zila Parishad and gave a tough fight to SAD-BJP alliance particularly when the whole election process was hijacked by ruling combine.
The PPCC President said that economic crisis in Punjab was man made and SAD-BJP Government was responsible for it. “Congress party has been doing its duty of watchdog being responsible Opposition. It is only in the coming lok Sabha elections that people of State would get an opportunity to show their anger against anti-people policies of SAD-BJP Government,” he said.