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MUKTSAR, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today warned against pushing Punjab into another five years of chaos and uncertainty after ten years of Badals’ misrule. He said, Punjab needs an efficient and experienced government which can retrieve the state from the social, economic and political mess the Akalis have consigned it to.
Addressing a mammoth public rally organised to mark the martyrdom day of the 40 ‘muktas’ here today, Capt Amarinder appealed to Punjabis to choose their government cautiously and carefully and added that only the Congress can provide a stable, clean and efficient government. Barnala MLA Kewal Singh Dhillon was the incharge of the rally. While maintaining that the Akalis’ exit was imminent and a foregone conclusion, he cautioned people against the alluring promises made by the Aam Aadmi Party saying they had already failed in Delhi where they had not done anything and not fulfilled even a single election promise
so far.
The PCC president emphasised the need for reviving the agriculture, generating jobs, improving the atmosphere for investment and industrialisation, eradication of drugs and ending corruption in the state. “Punjab desperately needs all this and only an able and
efficient government can do it and that kind of government can be provided by the Congress only”, he said.
Lashing out at the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, he said, he (Badal) claims himself to be the representative of the farmers andduring his regime the farmers had suffered the worst. “While Badal is himself getting richer and richer and building seven star hotels in every city across India, the farmers are committing suicide”, he pointed out, while adding, “in order to save Punjab, we need to save its agriculture and its farmers”.
