Stating that there was a palpable mood for a regime change in Punjab among the Punjabi NRIs, the State Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh said that he was overwhelmed with the support that he and the Congress party had received.
In los Angles, Capt Amarinder told a group of Punjabi newsmen from Canada and the US that during his various interactions with the diaspora in US, everyone had criticised the working of the Akali-BJP combine and batted for a progressive and visionary Congress Government in the State.
“Drug addiction, rampant corruption, unemployment, poor state of education and health and over-all lawlessness in Punjab are on the top of the minds of the Punjabis settled here,” he said.
“I have met a lot people here and not one had anything positive to say about the present situation in Punjab,” he said adding that the diaspora was very optimistic about a turnaround with a Congress Government at the helm.
On the prospects of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Capt Amarinder said that the party on its own has no chance but it could fragment the anti Akali-BJP vote.
“They can just harm us like the PPP did in the last assembly elections when it cornered 5.17 per cent votes,” he said adding that while the Congress, which lost the elections by just a 0.08 percent votes, had increased its vote share in 2012, the Akali-BJP’s share had gone down.