Former Punjab Chief Minister and Akali supremo Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday described the first two months of the Congress Government in the Punjab as “the summer of broken promises, failures, lawlessness, sacrileges, murders and vendetta against political rivals.
“Three dozen suicides and a sacrilege every other day is the highlight of this period during which Government has already thrown all its promises into the dustbin,” said Badal,
He said no one expected them to perform miracles which they had promises to perform but no one expected them to fail so miserably so soon and with such admission of helplessness.
Badal, on completion of two months of Capt Amarinder Singh Government in Punjab, said: “They formed this Government with four main promises of stoppage of acts of sacrilege, drug eradication, loan waiver to farmers, jobs to every youth. They have done nothing so far except PR stunts on any of the four fronts,” he said.
“In fact, they give the impression of being the first Government which looks like throwing up in the first two months itself,” Badal added.
“Where is Karaza Kurki Khatam and Fasal di poori rakam, and where is “ik parivar, ik rozgarIJ Why are sacrileges on the increaseIJ Have they controlled drug menace beyond what we had doneIJ Can they name even one thing on which they have even tried to perform seriously to fulfil their promisesIJ In fact, they have even stopped talking about these now,” he said.
Condemning the wave of repression and vendetta let loose by the government machinery in connivance with the ruling party, Badal said that it was “jungle raj in Punjab now”.
“There is no rule of law and there is no law and order in the State. People have been forgotten and all promises made to them have been broken. Punjab already looks like an abandoned State where the rule of the jungle prevails,” he said.
“The only thing that people have seen in these two months is an ugly power struggle and a brazen war of succession in the ruling party...There is a Chief Minister and there are three de-facto Chief Ministers in this Government, each trying to prove that he is the real power centre. All their time is used up in this ugly race for the top post, that too when the incumbent is still in chair,” said Badal.
Badal said three sections feel most betrayed by this Government - the farmers, the youth and the poor section of society.
“They have let all three because apart from going back on their promise for an unconditional loan waiver, they have also forgotten about their promise of giving jobs one youth in every family in the state, which comes to roughly 60 lakh jobs. Despite tall talk, they have not been able to bring even a single rupee worth of investment promise in the state from any big business or industrial house,” he said.