Punjab Congress will kick start the ‘pol khol’ campaign in Punjab to "expose the reality of Aam Aadmi Clinics” and how the ruling government is playing with the lives of the people and wasting taxpayers' money in the name of ‘fake development’.
Informing this, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring said that the Aam Aadmi Clinics is nothing but a scam to deceive the voters, rechristening the AAP led state government as ‘fokki mahshooriyan wali sarkar’.
Warring, addressing the media along with former Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, also dared the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to prove his allegations levelled against the senior Congress leader.
Calling the allegations levelled by Mann against Congress leader Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa “baseless”, Warring said that the Chief Minister just makes false allegations to distract the voters.
“Rs 50 lakh is wasted every time AAP leaders use helicopter for their fairy rides, AAP wasted more than Rs 900 crore on advertisement, and it is putting false allegation of Rs 55 lakh on the former deputy Chief Minister because AAP is only attempting to hide its own failures,” said Warring, adding that the party will expose Mann’s all blatant lies and he will have to face the consequences.
Alleging AAP of distracting Punjab’s residents, Warring said that instead of concentrating on the development and progress of the state and prosperity and well-being of its people, Mann and AAP leadership is busy shielding the corrupt and squandering the state exchequer for self-promotion.
In the last more than 15 months of its ‘misrule’, the “visionless” AAP leadership has only burdened the state and wasted Rs 900 crore of tax-payer’s money to spread fake lies and validate its false claims, he said.
Maintaining that Punjab’s health infrastructure has deteriorated since AAP came to power, Warring said: “Once Punjab had the most robust medical infrastructure in the country and several hospitals were even awarded by the central government for their outstanding services.”
“It is ironical to see that today, the government claims to have overhauled the entire system, but in reality, people are being deprived of basic healthcare services in the dispensaries and hospitals where medicines are not available and there is acute shortage of staff including doctors,” he said.
Lambasting the AAP leadership, Warring said that the Chief Minister and his leaders are trying all means to shield their corrupt Ministers, including Fauja Singh Sarari, Amit Rattan Kotfatta, Vijay Singla, and others. “Instead of ordering probe against the tainted leaders, AAP is diverting attention by levelling false allegations against Congress party leaders to hide its own failures. Mann made tall claims of corruption against former Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi but failed to prove any; and now he is using the same tactics against Randhawa Sahab, and he will fail again,” he added.
He alleged that Mann is using dictatorial means to stifle the voice of the opposition; and AAP is using the government machinery and force to suppress and intimidate anyone who questions the leadership or raises voice against the anti-people decision and policies of the government in Punjab.
“In the name of ‘badlaav’, AAP cancelled lakhs of ration cards, increased VAT on petrol and diesel, increased power tariff, levied Rs 200 Development Tax on the pensioners, but remained silent on Lawrence Bishnoi’s interview from jail, flourishing drug menace in Punjab, deteriorated law and order in the state, broad daylight murder of Sandeep Nangal Ambiyan, singer Sidhu Moosewala, and all other burning issues of the state,” he said.
Stating that Mann Government believes in building castles in the air to hoodwink the voters, Warring said that crores of rupees were wasted on self-promotion and other PR activities to make announcements but fails to fulfil the promises. “He staged a drama of being a teacher’s son and claimed that he understands their pain, but in reality, teachers, including women, were brutally lathicharged by the police outside his house recently,” he said.