Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday asked people to teach Congress a lesson by routing it from the State in the next lok Sabha polls.
Addressing a gathering here, Badal said that Congress, which had ruled the country for over six decades, is “totally responsible for social maladies like poverty, inflation, corruption, illiteracy and other problems which were being faced by the country today”.
He said that people must use their ballots for changing the fate of the country by ousting Congress from power at the Centre, thereby paving way for formation of NDA Government.
later talking to the reporters, Badal alleged that “faulty” policies of the Union government were responsible for growth of Naxalism in the country which has turned into a major threat for the sovereignty of the country.
Terming Congress as a “spent force”, the Chief Minister said that the crushing defeat of the party in the recently held polls of Zila Parishad and Block Samitis in Punjab reflected that the people in the State have no faith in its policies and programmes.
He also blamed the Centre for its alleged failure to check the smuggling of drugs from across the borders.
On the possibility of Shiromani Akali Dal fielding its candidates for the lS polls outside the state with its alliance partner the BJP, he said that the SAD would discuss the issue with its ally.
Chief Minister further said that due to the constant endeavors of the state government every resident of villages in Punjab would soon get the facility of 70 litres of potable drinking water per person per day.
Besides, Badal said that efforts were afoot to provide all the basic civic amenities to the urban as well as rural areas of the State in the coming years, to change the fate of people living in villages who were bereft of these facilities. “In the first phase, all the cities and towns would be equipped with the world class basic civic amenities,” he added.