Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday asked the State Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh to stop “misleading” people with his “imaginative nine-point agenda”.
“There is not a single reminiscence of Amarinder's regime that was not marked by his inaccessibility and epicurean nature,” he alleged at his Sangat Darshan programme.
He said that Punjab had reached its “lowest ebb” during Amarinder's rule and now he is trying to “befool” people by such gimmicks. “People are wise and they can see that the Congress and the AAP are empty vessels against Punjab's unprecedented development in the past decade under SAD-BJP rule,” he added.
Chief Minister also asked Capt Amarinder to stop making frivolous complaints to the Election Commission by “distorting facts”. “The false complaints being made by the State Congress chief reflects his mounting frustration due to massive support for the alliance Government,” he said.
Hitting out at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Badal said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal before seeking support for his party in Punjab must explain why his Government took a stand against the State's interests on the Sutlej-Yamuna-link (SYl) canal issue in the Supreme Court.
“In SYl, Kejriwal was making every effort to benefit his native state, Haryana, at the cost of Punjab's interest,” he said, alleging that the AAP is anti-Punjab and anti-people.
Accusing the Congress and AAP for promoting “politics of opportunism by encouraging defections”, he said that if these parties form government then it will be disastrous for Punjab.
On Kejriwal, Badal said that he was having scant knowledge about state and could hardly differentiate between wheat and paddy crop. “Delhi Chief Minister is neither well versed with Punjab's geology and topography nor with state's polity,” he said while impressing upon the Punjabis to out rightly reject both the Congress and AAP which were envy of the development of the state and prosperity of its people.