The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday called Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh a hypocrite for assuring to provide one job to every family in Punjab when his own Government had put a ban on Government recruitment and failed to create any jobs in either the public or private sector during the five year Congress rule in 2002-2007.
In a statement issued here, senior party MPs Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Balwinder Singh Bhundur said that it was mind-boggling that Amarinder had during an interaction with students of Panjab University even claimed that giving 1.13 lakh jobs to youth were not enough.
The senior leaders said that the 1.13 lakh jobs for which recruitment process had started now, were in addition to more than one lakh plus recruitment done in the SAD-BJP Government tenure.
Stating that a leopard cannot change its spots, the SAD leaders reminded Amarinder that he had not done any special allocation to any of the three medical colleges in Punjab during his tenure and that all three institutions were revived once the SAD-BJP government took over charge of the state.
“It is laughable that such a person, who even denied funds to the Patiala Medical College and hospital, is now telling students that health is very important for progress and that he will concentrate on this once voted to power. You should have also taken the time out to tell students your ‘achievements’ in this sector”, the leaders added.
Urging Amarinder not to misguide students by making tall promises, the leaders said it would have been better if the Congress leader had listed the achievements of his government. Stating that the Raja might be blind to the achievements of the SAD-BJP government, the leaders said it was unbecoming of the Congress leader to even lie to the students.
They said Amarinder rambled about his efforts to improve the power position (without any success) while trying to downgrade the achievement of the SAD-BJP government by claiming the state was not getting uninterrupted quality power. “At least do not lie. Call a spade a spade”, they said to the Congress leader.