The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday announced that it would make the Congress Government’s performance, including the deteriorating law and order situation, the main poll issue in the forthcoming elections to the municipal corporations in Punjab.
SAD would highlight the alleged “complete breakdown” of law and order in the state, said the former minister and party secretary Daljit Singh Cheema, while presiding over a meeting of councilors of Jalandhar at the party head office.
Cheema, who has been made in-charge of Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Nawanshahr districts to take feedback on formation of the new party organization, alleged that all development work had come to a halt in all cities in the state.
“The work which was in progress has been stalled with the government withdrawing money already released for it. New projects which were in the pipeline have also been stopped…Even water and sewerage projects have been affected by this anti-people decision,” said Cheema.
He said that the party would hold a meeting in Jalandhar on May 28 to take feedback from the councilors as well as party representatives about the new organizational structure in the district. “Committee members including me, Paramjit Sidhwan and Sant Singh Umaidpur will interact with party workers and cadre to take their suggestions on the issue. We are keen that the organizational structure, right up to the ward level, is formed at the earliest,” he added.