Amarinder launches Statewide campaign from Raikot

Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh on Friday launched his Statewide party campaign for the Assembly elections from Raikot with a vow to wipe out the Badal-Majithia led drugs and other mafias from the state. At the same time, he dismissed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal as an outsider who was only interested in looting Punjab for his own vested interests. 

Capt Amarinder, addressing a public rally, also welcomed into the Congress fold AAP ticket aspirant Harnek Singh, an IT officer, who had decided to quit the party after being exposed to “Kejriwal’s double standards” and “AAP’s involvement in all kinds of corruption and sex scandals”. 

Dismissing Kejriwal as a Haryanvi with no links to Punjab and coming in Punjab only to mislead the people of the state, Capt Amarinder pointed out that Harnek himself had been asked to pay an exorbitant amount for AAP ticket. 

The former Chief Minister came down heavily on AAP for getting outsiders in large numbers to manage their electoral show in Punjab, saying that it showed that they have no support at all among the Punjabis. 

Capt Amarinder described AAP as a party of criminals, pointing out that more than a dozen of its MlAs in Delhi had been arrested for various crimes. “They are taking money for tickets and many have been caught molesting women of Punjab, exposing their true colours,” he said urging the people to beat Kejriwal’s nefarious designs for the state. 

Referring to Kejriwal’s claim of seeing huge support for his party in Patiala, Capt Amarinder asked why the AAP leader was not ready to fight the polls against him if he was so confidence of victory. 

lashing out at State Minister Bikram Singh Majithia and his ‘toli of goondas’ for the drug menace in the state, Capt Amarinder once again swore to finish off the drug trade, which had ruined the entire generation. 

The Congress candidate from Majitha, Sukhjinder Raj Singh lali Majithia, was giving the Akalis a hard run for their money, he said.