Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa on Friday said the time bomb had started ticking which would wipe out the Akali Dal from the face of Punjab. He described the Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal as self-terminator.
Addressing a series of meetings in Qadian where he kickstarted his poll campaign, Bajwa reacted to what Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal said a day before, “Yes, I am a bomb, a time bomb. And this bomb will wipe out the Akali Dal from the face of Punjab in the lok Sabha elections. Sukhbir Singh Badal is like a genetically modified self-terminator seed which ends its own life cycle after a specified period of time and the political life cycle of the Akali Dal chief is nearing its end”.
Bajwa said Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal was aware of this self-terminator characteristic of his son and that was the reason he had not vacated his space in the Government for him despite Sukhbir Badal being desperate to take over.
The PCC chief alleged that Sukhbir Badal was a man with a bloated ego and arrogance, was too scared of the post-poll scenario as his Government was not just confronted with tsunami of anti-incumbency but also anger of the people at misrule, deteriorating law and order situation in the State and the menace of addiction which had gone viral due to easy availability of drugs being smuggled under the patronage of Akali leaders.
Referring to AAP, Bajwa described it as a failed party lacking capacity to govern as evident from the way the Delhi experience of the voters turned into a disaster. The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, and the AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal had the potential to inflict maximum damage to the social fabric of the country and governance.
He dubbed AAP candidate from Gurdaspur Sucha Singh Chhotepur as the biggest opportunist. Commenting upon the Aam Aadmi Party, he said its seriousness could be gauged from the fact that the party had fielded a rank opportunist like Chhotepur from Gurdaspur. Bajwa addressed series of meetings in Tugalwala, Bhattian, Nanuwal Jinder, Bhaini Mian Khan, Chakk Sharif, Gunnopur, Jogi Cheema, Dhariwal, Kahnuwan, Kahlwan, Qadian City.