With election campaign in Punjab entering its last leg, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday said that disintegration of Punjab Congress was only weeks away with all its three senior leaders set to lose at the hustings.
Asserting that all three senior Congress leaders would lose at the hustings, Badal claimed the contest in Gurdaspur had become one between the SAD-BJP candidate Vinod Khanna and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate. “Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa is not even in the race now”, he said, in a statement issued here.
Badal said, in Amritsar, Congress candidate Capt Amarinder Singh had refused to state what he had ever done for the constituency besides heaping scorn on the victims of the 1984 anti Sikh genocide and would pay for his arrogance. “People want to teach a lesson to the “arrogant rajah”.
He said similarly, Sunil Jakhar was all but lost in Ferozepur parliamentary constituency as his influence was limited to Abohar constituency alone. Badal said with all the “big guns” of the Congress failing in the elections, the party was destined to disintegrate. “A number of Congressmen, including legislators have joined the SAD during the last two years”, said he adding “once the election results are out, you will witness more Congressmen joining the SAD”.
He said the Congress failed to hold any big rally and even the rallies held by its central leaders including party president Sonia Gandhi looked like block level worker meetings.Badal asserted that the forthcoming elections were all about development and good governance.” We are for taking Punjab forward under Modi while the Punjab Congress under Partap Singh Bajwa wants to take you back and has nothing to offer except for negative propaganda.”
The Deputy Chief Minister also urged the people to punish the Congress party for discriminating against Punjab for the last ten years and assured them that Punjab’s time had finally come. “Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has held discussions with Narendra Modi and told him about the problems being faced by Punjab and the need to resolve them at the earliest”. Badal said once NDA Government was formed at the Centre, it would work for creation of colonies for the under privileged in both the rural and urban areas. “We will also give full insurance cover to farmers for their crops and ensure them a remunerative minimum support price (MSP). We will also get a special package for industry in Punjab to ensure its all round development,” he added.