After Bharatiya Janta Party coming to power projecting `Gujrat Model’ in the country in 2014, now the Congress would go with the revival plan projecting `Punjab model’ before the electorate.
"The Punjab government in just two months time had done what no one would have thought and in coming days, drug menace would be eradicated fully like we did the terrorism”, asserted Punjab Finance minister, Manpreet Singh Badal while claiming that Punjab Government would set a role model of how good governance and development could be delivered to the public. Badal made above claims while reacting that how the Congress would revive particularly in Uttar Pradesh were the performance went on declining with every election.
Punjab Miniser, who was here on Friday afternoon to highlight the failures of the three year of Narendra Modi government at the Centre claimed besides several new policies like banning of red beckon lights, VVIP culture they had adopted several means of good governance which were now followed by the even the Modi government at the Center. He said that the Congress government in Punjab would give such a government whose model would be adopted every where in the country and people will forget Gujarat Model, pampered by the BJP.
"We as an Opposition are trying our level best to aware the people about the lapses of the government as the country has already gone backward and now it will take 100 years for the country to reach its goal," he claimed while targeting Modi government. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Badal, who is the nephew of former Punjab chief minister Prakash Singh Badal, alleged that the BJP government at the centre as well as in other states, are destroying the secular fabric of the country as they are just interested in communal division and politics of hatred. "The issue of gau rakshak has dealt a big blow to the dairy industry in Punjab as now all the sale and purchase of cows have been stopped due to unnecessary harassment. Besides, Punjab which has developed a hybrid of cows giving 40-50 kgs of milk daily could not be sent to other parts of the country due to this new controversy," he said while targeting both Modi and UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
"Narendra Modi and his team is the weakest government in the country so far and failed in its foreign policy. It is a government of statements and warnings," remarked Badal. A country's fortune cannot be changed by just giving statements and warning. Our neighboring countries have gone more closer to China which shows government had failed on foreign matter. He claimed that the most harassed are the youths of the country as the Centre had ditched them. "Modi government had promised to provide 2 crore jobs every year but what happened in 2015 they could give just 1.35 lakh jobs. Unemployment is highest in the country this time and under employment is around 35 per cent," he claimed.
Alleging that the Modi government had not been successful in any of the sectors, Badal said that due to failed policy, the Kashmir issue has inflated besides, the naxalite movement has also increased in this regime. The Punjab minister also narrated in detail about the scams in the BJP states like Vyapam in MP, PDS scam in Chhattisgarh, lalitgate scam involving Rajasthan CM besides GSPC and land scams in Gujarat.
Meanwhile, talking about the Congress condition in UP, Badal claimed that much was needed for its revival. When asked about the Congress-SP alliance in the UP polls that failed, he said lesson should be learnt from such incidents and he think that the Party will reconsider it. About the lack of leadership within the Congress in UP, Badal said that leaders are not made but born. ``When the situation turned to worse, leaders are born to take out the public from that ordeal and he think that situation has arrived in UP when new leadership will emerge soon”, he claimed.
Meanwhile Youth Congress leaders also staged a protest to mark failure of Modi government to address the problems faced by the people. The activists, led by their state unit president Ankit Singh Parihar, started their march from the Party state office to gherao the Vidhan Bhawan but were stopped midway by police
armed with water cannons at the lal Bahadur Shastri Marg, general secretary of the wing, Akhilesh Verma claimed. Parihar alleged that farmers were committing suicides in the country and youth was going jobless, while the Modi-led
central government was busy making tall claims all through. "They are out to take credit by inaugurating the schemes started by the UPA-II," he said, adding similar is the case in Uttar Pradesh where people are forced to live in fear because of continued cases of loot, murder and rape."The state government has completely failed to control law and order situation," he added.