Driving Naari Programme launched in Chandigarh
Chandigarh, October 2: The Punjab Congress President Mr Partap Singh Bajwa today challenged the Chief Minister Mr Parkash Singh Badal to go in for mid-term poll and seek a fresh mandate in the wake of struggles launched by almost every section of society in the state, especially the farmers who have been hit hard.
He directly blamed him for the damage to the cotton crop and asked him to stop finding scapegoats in view of a very powerful officer in his own office figuring in the Rs 33 crore pesticide scam that had ruined the cotton farmers. He demanded the resignation of the agriculture minister S. Tota Singh for his negligence in multi crore pesticide scam.
He said Punjab was earlier notorious for drug and sand mafia and pesticide mafia under patronage of the Chief Minister’s Office was the latest addition.
Mr Bajwa announced his 3-day tour of the cotton belt beginning October 4 to meet the beleaguered farmers. He would visit Muktsar, Abohar, Balluana, Fazilka and Lambi on October 4, Talwandi Sabo & Maur on October 5 followed Mansa on October 6. He would meet the farmers during his tour.
A State level function was organized in Punjab Congress Bhawan today to commemorate Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shahstri. The Punjab Congress today took a pledge to unitedly confront political terror unleashed by the Akali Dal-BJP alliance government in the state and dislodge it in the February 2017 Assembly elections under the leadership of Shrimati Sonia Gandhi and Shri Rahul Gandhi.
The resolution to this effect was adopted by the PPCC at a function organised in the Congress Bhawan to pay tributes to Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi and Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri.
Mr Bajwa who presided over the meeting exhorted the partymen to leave no stone unturned to script change as the people were fed up with this totally corrupt regime which had failed on every front as evident from the struggles launched by various sections of Punjabi society.
It was further resolved to send the copy of this resolution to the Congress President and Vice-president for their information.
