Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal described the sweeping victory of the alliance partners “as forceful mandate in favour of the positive work done at the ground level and for a responsive political culture represented by the SAD-BJP”.
“It is also an equally forceful rejection of needless confrontation and violent idiom indulged in by the Congress leaders. People have spoken forcefully to expose the politics of lies and false propaganda indulged in by our opponents,” said Badal.
Badal maintained that the workers of the SAD-BJP alliance “exercised great restraint facing grave provocations from the Congress who talked a language of violence all through the campaign”.
Badal regretted that all through the campaign, the Congress tried to whip up passions, gave open incitements to violence, and tried to play its old card of divide and rule for cheap electoral gains. “All of this has been decisively rejected by the people once again,” he added.
SAD president and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal thanked the SAD-BJP leadership, office bearers and workers for ensuring the success of the alliance candidates and for resisting all provocations from the Congress and ensuring a smooth, peaceful and free and fair election in the State.
“The results show that people has rejected the politics of empty sloganeering, high-voltage confrontation and cheap gimmicks. Congress resort to negative propaganda also seemed to have boom-ranged against that party. They tried to spoil State’s image by talking of widespread violence whereas independent reports have clearly established that the polling was peaceful,” he added.
Sukhbir hoped that the PPCC leadership would learn a lesson from this rout and “even though they have been wiped out from the political map of the State, they should still start behaving responsibly.”