As Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in ludhiana, Punjab Congress on Tuesday burnt a huge effigy of ‘chitta Ravana’ carrying pictures of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal and Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia, besides the Orbit bus permits.
State Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh virtually declared an all-out war against the “Badal-backed mafia” saying that with the burning of the
‘chitta Raavan’, the stage was set for the “total annihilation of all the criminal forces in the State”.
Taking his party's anti-drugs battle to the heart of ludhiana — the scene of the Dussehra eve attack on Congress workers allegedly by Akali Dal activists, Capt Amarinder hailed the blasting of the ‘chitta Ravana’.Capt Amarinder had invited the party workers injured in the Dussehra eve attack to set the ‘chitta Raavan’ on fire at the same place where the assault had taken place.
Accusing the Badals of “plunging the State into total anarchy”, with the “mafia ruling every part of life”, the state Congress chief said: “Badal has shrewdly used the last 10 years of his misrule in Punjab to drain the State of all its glory.”
“Do not go by his innocent face. He (Badal) is an extremely shrewd man who knows how to fill his own pockets at the cost of the people of Punjab,” he alleged. “Industries have fled the State, farmers are committing suicide, Dalits are being massacred, children and youth are falling prey to drugs,” Capt Amarinder said, adding, “No section of the society is insulated from the greed and wrath of the Badals.”