Criticising the Congress national vice-president Rahul Gandhi for keeping mum on Satluj-Yamuna link (SYl) canal issue, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday termed it “double speak” of the Congress party.
AAP Campaign Committee head and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann, addressing mediapersons at Sangrur, asked Rahul to clear his stand whether he and Congress leadership is with Haryana or Punjab on the issue of SYl.
“Even if Rahul is not aware about the importance of this issue, so called ‘Paaniya Da Rakha’ Capt Amarinder Singh should have told him that construction of SYl will left Punjab waterless,” said Mann.
“Actually it was Indira Gandhi who initiated the process of SYl and Capt Amarinder started the construction work from Kapuri. How can they now run away from the history,” added Mann.
Commenting on the Prashant Kishor’s election campaign strategy to project Capt Amarinder as ‘Punjab Da Captain’ (Captain of Punjab), Mann said: “He is not even Congress’ Captain yet as Rahul Gandhi has said that it is not confirmed that Amarinder would be the CM candidate in Punjab.”
“Earlier Amarinder arm-twisted Rahul Gandhi and forced to declare him Congress chief in Punjab and now it is Rahul’s turn to pay in same currency,” Mann added.
Criticising Badal Government for Rs1,800 crore food scandal, Mann said that the clarification given by Food and Civil Supply Minister Adesh Partap Singh Kairon is “nothing but a bundle of lies”.
“How can you commit the crime and then give clean chit to yourself even without any inquiryIJ let the RBI investigation report come and then the people will come to know that how the government looted their money in the name of providing food to the residents of Punjab,” Mann said.
Mann said that he had long back written to the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitly about the financial indiscipline happening in Punjab and the funds of Centre’s schemes being wasted on sangat darshan and other useless programs of Punjab Government. Adesh Partap has himself admitted that Rs900 crore of ‘Aata-Dal’ Scheme were used on another scheme of Punjab Government, he said.