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CHANDIGARH, December 10: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today issued a strict warning to all those Deputy Commissioners, District Transport Officers and police officials who were trying to harass the transporters providing busses for ferrying Congress workers for Bathinda rally on December 15.
“The Congress rally will be held in any case at any cost and people will certainly reach there in huge numbers, but imagine what will be your plight when we will form the government just over a year from now”, the PCC president warned all such officials.
He said, this reflected the panic and frustration the government, particularly the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal, has been gripped with over the massive and overwhelming response and enthusiasm shown by the people towards the proposed Congress rally at Bathinda on December 15.
In a statement issued here today, Capt Amarinder disclosed that he has been continuously receiving complaints from all over the state that some DTOs, DCs and police officials had started harassing and intimidating the transporters who had committed to provide buses for the Congress rally.
“The rally will be held in any way with record presence, but let me be frank with you that one year is not much long period of time to make me forget all those officials who tried to breach their brief and played second fiddle to Sukhbir”, he warned in no ambiguous terms, saying those officials, particularly the DTOs, who were doing Sukhbir’s bidding were only doing it at their own peril.
The PCC president said, “no matter how hard and ruthlessly Sukhbir might try to misuse his machinery to discourage people from attending the (Bathinda) rally, it will still be a grand and record breaking success as people will reach there of their own”.
Capt Amarinder said, knowing the Badals very well, he was very much expecting them to stoop to these levels. “They are still trying to behave as feudal lords without realising that it is a democracy”, he remarked, while warning, “moreover, the public anger and resentment against them is so deep and widespread that they run an imminent risk of being overrun without a trace and the Bathinda rally will mark the beginning towards that end”.
