Terming the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as ‘two sides of a coin’, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday cautioned the people of the State to beware of the cheap political gimmickry of both these parties.
Addressing a massive gathering during party’s political conference to mark the Maghi festival, Badal categorically said: “The tactics being adopted by both these parties are detrimental for the people. Both these parties resort to such cheap tactics just only to befool the voters as all their promises prove mere lip service, later on.”
The Chief Minister said that since decades, the Congress leaders have befooled the public by raising hollow slogans and now AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal was walking on their footsteps.
Making a scathing attack on the AAP leadership, Badal said that they were entirely confused about their policies and programs adding that Delhi Chief Minister would prove to be a “flop show” after next two-three months. “Kejriwal has become Delhi Chief Minister by-chance due to which he was utterly confused about what to do,” he said. Taking a dig at Janta Darbar of Delhi Chief Minister, Badal said that darbar were being held by the monarchs whereas the representatives of the people hold Sangat Darshans, like one done by him since decades.
Coming down heavily on the Congress-led UPA Government at the Center, five-time Chief Minister said that the time has come when this “most corrupt and inefficient government” of the country must be shown the door. Exhorting the people to rout the Congress in the coming general elections, he said, “The need of the hour is to wage a second war of freedom to oust this government, which has made the life of every person miserable.”
Badal said that it was writing on the wall that the BJP-led NDA Government was all set to form its government at the Center as the people of the country were eagerly waiting for making Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of the country. Addressing the gathering, SAD president and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal came down heavily on the state Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa by terming him “the biggest smuggler” involved in a number of scams and frauds besides indulged in smuggling of narcotics and sex scandal.
Sukhbir, in an aggressive tenor, said: “Bajwa has been shielding smugglers and drug peddlers in the state. His close association with the terrorist outfits is no longer a secret now and his deceitful antecedents have also been exposed by party’s former president and former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh.”
Reiterating Punjab Government’s commitment to extensively check narcotics smuggling in the state, Sukhbir said that under the declared war against drugs, the state has nabbed 25,000 drug peddlers in the state for the last one and a half years and this campaign would be continued. “Nobody would be spared if found indulged in drug smuggling directly or indirectly,” he added.