Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab Chief Minister candidate Bhagwant Mann on Saturday campaigned in different villages of Anandpur Sahib Assembly Constituency under 'Mission Punjab 2022'. He visited Bharatgarh, Nangal Truck Union Chowk and Gohalani village of Anandpur Sahib Assembly constituency and interacted with the people there. Mann appealed to the people to support Aam Aadmi Party to bring political change in Punjab and promised that with AAP government’s formation in Punjab the problems of common people will be solved.
Talking to the reporters during his election campaign, Mann reacted on his refusal to extra security offered to him by the government and said that I am not worried about my security. We have to protect Punjab and the people of Punjab. I will not take any special protection until three crore people of Punjab and holy books of all religions are protected. I am common man. I have no need for high profile security. That's why I refused the added security. Mann said that today the people of Punjab are not feeling safe. Our priority is to make people feel safe by improving the condition of the security system. We have to secure Punjab and Punjabis.
In his address to the gathered public, Mann said that today there is a huge shortage of police personnel at the police stations and check points, but there is heavy deployment of police to protect the leaders and ministers. Police personnel are engaged in the protection of MLAs-Ministers, their houses, children and families. The leaders of the previous governments of Punjab have deployed a large number of police personnel for their own security by keeping the safety of the people at bay. In AAP government Police will do the police work only. They will be removed from the security of the leaders and deployed in the security of the people. AAP government will give freedom to the police to maintain law and order and unnecessary and political interference in the work of police administration will be stopped.
Speaking on the sacrilege issue, Mann said that due to the weak and incompetent Congress government, many incidents of sacrilege took place in Punjab in the past. The law and order situation in Punjab has completely collapsed due to the tussle among the Congress leaders for the power and the people of Punjab have to bear the brunt of it.
Mann said that today the people of Punjab are most troubled by corruption and mafia. The sand mafia, drugs mafia and cable mafia, patronized by the government, have ruined the lives of the people. In Badal and Congress governments, the mafia dominated and the mafia-leaders ran illegal businesses together. Leaders facing mafia allegations were part of cabinets. The government of AAP will completely eliminate corruption and all kinds of mafia in the governance system, save the people from mafia and corruption and will take Punjab on the path of development.